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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Friday against the Trump administration, accusing federal agencies of using racial profiling to conduct illegal stops in Minnesota.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are named among the agencies in the complaint. The North Star State has been home to…

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said people should take President Trump seriously when he talks about invoking the Insurrection Act, this time in response to unrest in Minnesota following two separate shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. “The president has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act before. Do you think he’s…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will speak with reporters Friday morning, a day after meeting with President Trump at the White House. Machado, following the visit, said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. The meeting came more than a week after the U.S. ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and vowed to run…

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith warned Thursday that the Trump administration’s policies could cause Republicans to lose this year’s midterms.  “To all the Republicans out there, to all the conservatives out there: You’re about to lose the midterms,” Smith said during an episode of his SiriusXM show. “You’re going to lose, and you might lose…

Trump’s secondhand Nobel Peace Prize, Pamela Anderson’s awkward encounter & Harry Styles has been hit with disco fever — just some of the stories HuffPost is following.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that all options are on the table regarding Iran, including military intervention. “Colleagues, let me be clear: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations,” Waltz said while speaking at the…

Almost 2 in 3 Americans say President Trump has not done enough to lower prices on everyday goods in a new survey.  The CNN poll, released Friday and conducted by SRSS, found 64 percent of respondents believe Trump has “not gone far enough” to alleviate affordability concerns in the U.S. Additionally, 42 percent of those…

President Trump will host a roundtable at the White House on Friday morning centered on investments in rural health care. Beginning this month, states are expected to receive funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program averaging around $200 million and ranging between $145 million to $281 million. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet…

This is getting ridiculous. 

It’s a quiet day on Capitol Hill, but the fight over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is escalating after two officer-involved shootings in Minneapolis have sparked tense protests in recent days. Democratic lawmakers are threatening to withhold support for an appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE. That could derail funding…

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says that President Trump is “being an idiot” by making forceful demands of Denmark, a NATO ally, to cede its control of Greenland to the United States, something Danish leaders have repeatedly shot down. “This has nothing to do with actual security concerns. This is the president being an idiot, and…

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Wednesday said he’d consider impeaching President Trump if the U.S. decides to invade Greenland, which he described as “utter buffoonery.” “It’s ridiculous that this has to even be done,” Bacon told The Omaha World-Herald. “But when the president talks about taking Greenland one way or the other way every day…

More than half of Americans in a new survey rated President Trump’s first year in office as a “failure.” The CNN/SRSS survey, published Friday, found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year was a “success,” and about…

A Ford employee was suspended after heckling Trump during a visit of a Michigan auto plant.

It’s a caricature of femininity, and a must for any woman who wants to climb the ranks in MAGA world. But there are deeper reasons the look is so in demand, experts say.

Republican senators are trying to put the brakes on talk of invoking the Insurrection Act to quell angry protests against immigration officers in Minneapolis after one fatally shot a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good. Invoking the law, which was last updated in 1874, would allow President Trump to mobilize active-duty troops or federalized National…

President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday, amid continued tension in Minneapolis in the days following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot and killed on Jan. 7. Another person was shot and injured Wednesday evening in Minneapolis as…

The White House press secretary was reminded of something that only happened this week.

Charlie Sykes took the shine off the Trump administration’s “Golden Age” messaging.

The “Late Show” host said the event was like “smoking peyote in a PetSmart.”

Critics blasted the proposal as authoritarian.

The late night host also made an offer to the president.

The “Tonight Show” host absolutely finished the president with a dig at his recent spree of threats and attacks.

“Cheat at golf — cheat at life,” Rick Reilly said.

The former transportation secretary stressed that the president’s reaction to the heckling was totally “in character.”