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After days of sometimes violent protests in Minneapolis, including a shooting Wednesday involving Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), President Trump on Thursday morning threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. That would allow him to send the military to quell unrest. “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and…

The troop movements are intended to portray unity among Europeans and send a signal to Trump that a U.S. takeover is not necessary, due to NATO.

President Trump early Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act following another shooting involving a federal agent overnight in Minnesota. “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the…

Protests in Minneapolis escalated Wednesday night after a federal officer shot and injured a Venezuelan migrant after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle — a week after a resident was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in the same city. The latest shooting, which was not fatal, further inflamed tensions…

Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against ICE persist in Minneapolis.

After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.

It’s apparently going to be a hell of a year.

It’s “not normal,” said Jonathan Reiner.

The MS NOW anchor needled the president over one of his most sensitive insecurities.

The late night host thinks he’s figured out what’s really going on.

“I’m sitting here. Alone,” began the president’s message that critics mockingly ripped as “incredibly bleak” and “creepy.”

The president milked laughter from an Oval Office audience with the line.

The Texas senator, in the heat of his 2016 presidential campaign, put Trump on blast over his ability to “keep this country safe.”

The “Late Show” host also had a blunt question for the president.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed it was the result of “over a thousand simulations.”

President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is slowing down a peace deal for the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters. “I think he’s ready to make a deal,” Trump said during a Reuters interview, talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal.” When Reuters pressed the…

Social media users tossed a “real question” to the president following his cognitive comments in the Oval Office.

France is set to conduct military drills in Greenland in the wake of tensions between the U.S. and Denmark over the territory. “At the request of Denmark, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark in Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance. The first French military elements are already on their…

The network’s data chief said this voting bloc has shifted “very much away” from the president since his return to office.

Maligned as “wine moms,” Minnesota mothers speaking out on TikTok say they’ve seen ICE at school drop-offs and grocery stores.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Wednesday he believes in a “correlation between” President Trump’s approval rating falling and “his increasing authoritarian behavior.” “I do think there’s a correlation between the two things that you’re opening this hour talking about: his declining approval, the unpopularity of his policies and his increasing authoritarian behavior,” Murphy told MS…

Several GOP senators backed down from limiting the president’s war powers after he threatened them with electoral consequences.

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) has been contacted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) over his appearance in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers released last fall. The video, in which lawmakers told members of the military they can refuse illegal orders, followed President Trump’s decision to carry out deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean….

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the U.S. was sending the “first humanitarian shipment” to Cuba to help residents recovering from Hurricane Melissa. “We are working with the Catholic Church and partners to ensure aid reaches the Cuban people directly – not the illegitimate regime,” Rubio wrote on the social platform X. “The…

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee praised Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid the investigation into his handling of the central bank’s renovation. “I consider Chair Powell to be a first-ballot hall of fame Fed chair,” Goolsbee told NPR in an interview published Wednesday. “And if we’re going to get into a circumstance where…