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The Trump administration reportedly aided Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in her secret travel from Venezuela to Norway for the award ceremony in Oslo. Venezuela’s opposition leader has been in hiding since Jan. 9, shortly after President Nicolás Maduro started his third term following a disputed election. Leaving her location on Monday, she first managed to get…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after President Trump confirmed the U.S. seized an oil tanker near Venezuela. The move marks the latest escalation between the two countries amid the Trump administration‘s self-declared war on drug cartels and as tensions rise with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. It also…

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday declined to comment on New York City Comptroller Brad Lander’s (D) decision to challenge him in the party primary, instead homing in on legislative tasks to complete before the year ends. “I’m not really thinking about this right now. I’m in Washington, really focused on making sure that health…

LIVE coverage: Senate votes on second health care proposal, defense funding A Republican-drafted proposal to set up health savings accounts for people who buy their health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace failed to advance on a largely party-line vote Thursday, leaving Congress no closer to addressing the substantial rise in health care…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday that of the top contenders to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, she is most concerned with National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett. “I am most worried about Kevin Hassett. … He has made clear that he will do whatever the president wants done,” Warren said on CNBC….

Retired Adm. James Stavridis, former NATO allied supreme commander, touted the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as a “legal” operation that was perfectly executed. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” Stavridis praised the Coast Guard for conducting the operation without a single casualty and said the seizure was…

The Trump administration will add a militarized zone in California along its border with Mexico as part of President Trump’s crackdown on unlawful migrant crossings, the Department of the Interior stated Wednesday. The department will transfer the jurisdiction of about 760 acres of public land in San Diego and Imperial Counties to the U.S. Navy,…

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration’s escalations in Venezuela after the U.S. seized an oil tanker from the country. Schiff also mentioned the series of strikes on smaller boats allegedly running drugs to the United States, which have increasingly come under scrutiny from lawmakers in both parties — particularly after reports…

Democrats on the bicameral Joint Economic Committee (JEC) estimate that, on average, U.S. households have paid nearly $1,200 in additional costs in connection to President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. In a report released Thursday, the committee found that consumers paid more than $158 billion as a result of the additional levies from February to November. That…

Mike Lindell, the fervent supporter of President Donald Trump known to TV viewers as the “MyPillow Guy,” says he’s running for Minnesota governor in 2026.

“The Source” host Kaitlan Collins said the president spoke for more than an hour Tuesday and still didn’t provide what many Americans are waiting for.

President Trump’s approval rating on the economy reached its lowest point in recent days, according to a new poll. The latest AP-NORC survey, released Thursday, found that just 31 percent of respondents said they approve of the president’s handling of the economy. That marks a 2 percentage point decrease relative to last month, a 9…

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he can’t think of anything “more American” than informing migrants of their rights in this country. In an interview with MS NOW, Mamdani defended his video advising migrants on what to do if approached by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…

The judge overseeing the case said Abrego Garcia was held at a notorious El Salvador prison without “lawful authority.”

President Trump late Wednesday renewed a threat to primary Republican lawmakers who oppose the GOP’s push to change Indiana’s congressional map, ramping up pressure on holdouts in the Hoosier State. The Indiana state Senate is set to vote on the new Republican-proposed map Thursday after it passed the state House last week. Under the redrawn…

The Senate Armed Services Committee is convening Thursday morning to hear testimony from military leaders on the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops across the U.S. President Trump ramped up his immigration crackdown last month after two National Guard soldiers were shot not far from the White House — with one dying as a…

The president said during a rally Tuesday that Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen since 2000, is in the country illegally and “should get the hell out.”

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will testify before the House on Thursday about threats to national security. Noem last week said the Trump administration is looking to expand its travel ban to more than 30 countries in the wake of a shooting last month in Washington. One National Guard soldier was killed…
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President Trump on Thursday pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the chamber’s blue slip tradition, which Trump complained has gotten in the way of confirming many of his judge and attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, bemoaned that blue slips were making it “impossible” to get “well qualified Republican”…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday called President Trump’s positive grade for the state of the U.S. economy “insulting” and a “poor reflection” on the commander in chief. “Look, electric bills have gone up,” Greene told CBS News. “Everyone’s bills have either stayed the same or are going higher. Grocery prices have not gone…

President Trump confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in the latest escalation of tension with the Latin American country and its President Nicolas Maduro. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. A large tanker, very large,” Trump told reporters. “And other things are happening.”…

Senators will go on record Thursday on competing health care plans that try to address enhanced ObamaCare tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. A vote on the Democrats’ three-year extension was promised as part of the end of the government shutdown. The GOP’s plan converts health insurance premium subsidies enacted…

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

Sharon Osbourne sat down for an interview for the first time since her iconic rock ‘n’ roll husband died in July.

The talk show host wasn’t having one of Trump’s fantasies, so he gave him a fiercely funny new moniker.