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“I don’t think having troops on the ground in Venezuela is a good idea,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said as President Donald Trump threatens more military action.

We knew it would be bad. We didn’t know it would happen so fast.

The Trump administration on Friday announced a fresh batch of sanctions targeting extended family members of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid an ongoing pressure campaign against the embattled leader. The Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on several relatives of Maduro’s nephew, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, and family members of Panamanian businessman Ramon Carretero….

The White House announced Friday that nine additional pharmaceutical companies have agreed to follow President Trump’s “most favored nation” (MFN) drug pricing policy, with some of the companies throwing in several months’ worth of emergency drug supplies. According to a senior administration official, the following companies will abide by Trump’s MFN pricing policy: Amgen, Boehringer…

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Friday that would allow Congress to block exports of advanced AI chips to U.S. foreign adversaries such as China and Russia. The Artificial Intelligence Oversight of Verified Exports and Restrictions on Weaponizable Advanced Technology to Covered High-Risk Actors (AI Overwatch) Act seeks to create a review process…

“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?”

“I’m crying already. I’m sorry,” the comedian said while delivering his heartfelt remarks.

Two top House Democrats said they were “examining all legal options” after the No. 2 Justice Department official said the department would release only a portion of the Jeffrey Epstein files Friday under a new law requiring their public disclosure. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would release “several hundred…

While Trump might not seem like an appreciator of the performing arts, he once performed a skit opposite Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag.

President Trump will make an announcement Friday afternoon related to lowering drug prices — an effort he has leaned into ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In recent months, Trump has struck deals with several drug manufacturers — including Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca — as part of his most favored nation executive…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday boasted of Russian military advances in Ukraine and ruled out any compromises with Kyiv ahead of meetings with U.S. officials in Miami this weekend aimed at agreeing to terms to end Moscow’s nearly four-year war. Putin was speaking at his annual, end-of-year press conference, taking questions from journalists for…

The Kennedy Center began updating its signage Friday, a day after the institution’s board voted to update the name to include President Trump. One image showed a sign outside the building including part of Trump’s name. Images shared online showed a blue tarp draped over the front of the building, where the sign was apparently…

Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and if there is any chance at all that he is suffering from dementia, it’s everyone’s business.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will speak with reporters Friday about the Trump administration’s foreign policy and national security agenda as President Trump’s first year back in office nears its end. From the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development to implementing stricter limits on visas amid Trump’s crackdown on immigration to aiding in…

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, the suspected gunman in the recent Brown University and MIT shootings, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility Thursday night. Authorities told reporters that Neves Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident at Brown University on Saturday left two students dead and several others injured. He has…

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Friday while he’d like to see the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) analysis of 2024 losses, the focus of the party should be forward-looking.  “I‘m always in favor of transparency … and greater knowledge about mistakes that may have been made,” Blumenthal told CNN. “Frankly, my focus is on the future.”…
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The governor even squeezed in an “Office” reference to put the president in his place.

Federal prosecutors attempted to persuade a grand jury to tack a third felony charge onto a failed indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) last week but fell short, court filings show. The sought charge was making a false statement to a financial institution, adding to another such charge and one count of…

Brown shooting suspect is dead, Kennedy family up in arms over new renaming of beloved arts center and Trump’s Hunger Games dream — just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

A Reddit post from an unidentified user led police to the suspect in the Brown University shooting, which left two dead. An individual, who has been referenced as “John” on Providence police affidavits, reported seeing alleged gunman Claudio Neves Valente ahead of Saturday’s attack. Neves Valente posted about the encounter on the social media site…

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not be releasing the full Epstein files on Friday as required under new legislation, instead sending over a partial batch. Blanche told Fox News the Justice Department would release “several hundred thousand” documents on Friday, “and then over the next couple weeks, I…

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith criticized President Trump on Thursday for prolonging the release of files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting the president was seeking to protect “very influential people.” “I think that exists on both sides of the aisle, where there are some notable people that may have been aware of…

President Trump said Thursday he was not ruling out the possibility of war with Venezuela amid his administration’s escalating pressure campaign against the country and its leader, President Nicolás Maduro. “I don’t rule it out, no,” Trump told NBC News in an interview. “I don’t discuss it,” he added, when asked whether his administration’s recent…

TikTok on Thursday signed a deal to sell U.S. assets to three U.S. investors: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX. Nearly 50 percent of the assets — or 15 percent each — will be held by the three American companies. The rest will remain in the hands of affiliates of existing investors of TikTok’s parent company,…

President Trump on Thursday suspended a green card lottery program used by the suspected gunman in the Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shootings to enter the U.S. The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, entered the country in 2017 through the diversity visa (DV) program, which makes up to 55,000 immigrant visas…