Month: January 2026

President Trump on Tuesday morning will meet with House Republicans at the Kennedy Center as part of the GOP retreat. His remarks come just days after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been indicted on narco-terrorism charges. Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday during his first court appearance in…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe, the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado…

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Monday criticized White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for musing about seizing Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. “This is really dumb. Greenland and Denmark are our allies. There is no up side to demeaning our friends. But, it is causing wounds that will take time to heal,”…

The Trump administration’s military action in Venezuela on Saturday continues to roil the government, and as Congress rolls back into town, the operation is drawing support, opposition and opinions in between. Some Republicans have expressed wariness over the Trump administration’s nation-building, and MAGA is on edge. A classified briefing on Monday night did little to…

President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to keep the seized oil. “The difference between Iraq and this is that [former President George W. Bush] didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who’s been in hiding for more than 16 months, said Monday that she plans to return home “as soon as possible.” In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner told host Sean Hannity that she plans to continue serving her cause of fighting for…

He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.

President Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is giving him an opportunity to redefine “America First” as pro-intervention — but risks fracturing the MAGA coalition. There was some predictable pushback to the strikes from some of the biggest isolationist voices in the Republican Party who have turned into Trump antagonists. Now-former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene…
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Consumers will feel it in two ways: higher costs and fewer choices.

Households earning more than $150,000 now buy 43% of the new cars sold in the U.S., up from 30% in 2019.

The “Late Night” host made an example out of the president’s insistence that he was against foreign wars and regime changes.

The “Daily Show” host joked that Americans “can’t even be conspiracy theorists now” after Trump and friends shared the casus belli behind the strikes.

The upcoming meetings will be crucial to the administration’s hopes to boost crude oil production and exports from Venezuela.

The “Late Show” host teased how he would “go out on top” if he inhabited the president’s body.

The network’s data chief argued that interest in the U.S. military operation in Venezuela was fleeting.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller backed President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will govern Venezuela in the wake of the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. “What the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that’s true,” Miller told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The…

“It’s all unknowable. I have no idea,” one GOP senator said of President Donald Trump’s plan for Venezuela after U.S. forces captured its president.

Two high-profile Republican senators on Monday warned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth against reducing Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) military rank or pension as punishment for filming a video with several other Democratic lawmakers urging service members not to follow unlawful orders. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has jurisdiction over the Pentagon’s budget as chair of…

President Trump’s decision to leave the door open to putting boots on the ground and regime change in Venezuela is getting a frosty reception from conservatives, who are warning that he is risking a key campaign pledge to end “forever wars” and keep out of foreign conflicts.  The president for years railed against Bush-era policies…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Monday for this weekend’s U.S. attack on Venezuela, saying the raid was an “unprecedented” exercise lacking both a legal authorization and a practical justification. Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries said the Jan. 2 incursion, which led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás…

Most Americans say they worry the U.S. will become too involved in Venezuela, according to a survey conducted just after the operation that ousted President Nicolás Maduro from power. In the two-day Reuters/Ipsos survey that concluded Monday, 72 percent of Americans said they are concerned the U.S. might get too involved in Venezuela, while 25…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Cuba’s communist regime may be on the way out. “There’s no way that the communist dictatorship in Cuba survives after the takedown of Maduro. It is over, it’s just a matter of time,” Graham told host Trey Gowdy on Fox…

Cubans lowered flags before dawn Monday to mourn 32 officers who died in the weekend strike against the president of Venezuela.

“‘Veep’ was a documentary,” one social media user cracked of photos that were taken during the attack on Venezuela.

In the wake of U.S. forces capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, has taken over the South American country. Rodríguez, a longtime Maduro ally, led her first council of ministers meeting as acting president on Sunday. The 56-year-old said in an address to Venezuelans on Saturday — after Maduro…