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Demonstrators convened in Minneapolis, New York City and Chicago to speak out against the violence by ICE on Wednesday.

Americans are divided on the Trump administration’s operation on Saturday that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll released Monday. Pollsters found that 36 percent of Americans “strongly or somewhat support” Maduro’s ousting, while 39 percent “strongly or somewhat oppose” it. Twenty-five percent said they were not sure. Democrats were…

Trump said in the wake of the U.S. operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend that “Colombia is very sick too.”

President Trump on Wednesday spoke on the phone with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, days after issuing threats toward the South American country in the wake of U.S. strikes on Venezuela that ended with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. A White House official confirmed the call with White House correspondent Kellie Meyer at NewsNation….

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who shot and killed a Minneapolis woman was hit by her car in the episode. “The officer was hit by the vehicle. She hit him,” Noem said. “He went to the hospital. A doctor did treat him. He has been released,…

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday disagreed with President Trump and the White House’s assessment of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, which the commentator said was a moment that “should never happen again.” “Look, I have a point of view on this that’s somewhat different than the president’s and, look, I also don’t treat…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis. “There’s no evidence that has been presented to justify the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis. The so-called Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi…

“The worry that we all have … is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia of some sort,” said a former senior CIA executive.

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it has paused all U.S. assistance to the Somali government, citing an alleged incident where officials in the country destroyed a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse and seized 76 metric tons of food aid meant for vulnerable Somalis. “The Trump Administration has a zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft,…

Video of the deadly Minneapolis shooting does not align with the president’s claims.

Democratic strategist James Carville poked fun at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday, calling him “always good for a good laugh” when weighing in on Graham’s changing political views. Carville appeared Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” and watched clips of Graham criticizing Trump’s foreign policy proposals during the 2016 Republican primary…

President Trump called on Congress to increase to the U.S. defense budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, arguing it will allow the country to build its “dream military.”  “After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent a letter to President Trump on Wednesday inviting him to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 24. This will be Trump’s first time delivering a State of the Union address in his second term. He delivered remarks to a joint session of Congress in March…

The Homeland Security Secretary claimed that “the fraud that we have in our public programs” is “absolutely” tied to California.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said that he has issued a “warning order” to prepare the Minnesota National Guard after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.  “[President] Donald Trump and his administration may not care much about Minnesota — that’s been pretty evident…

President Trump on Wednesday said he “will not permit” defense companies to issue dividends or buy back their own stock until they invest more in military equipment production and address several other of his complaints. In a lengthy post to Truth Social, Trump said that “massive” shareholder dividends and buybacks were taking place “at the…
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David Axelrod on Wednesday said the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan regime leader Nicolás Maduro was about oil and not to crack down on the transnational sale of drugs. “Now, this was about oil. and I think, you know, we‘re going to continue to see this Friday. He’s meeting with the oil executives. This is…

Democrats are slamming Trump administration officials after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. “My office is monitoring reports of an ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis today. Reports are still coming in, but [it] has been reported that a woman was killed. My heart goes out to…

The U.S. military’s seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic is ratcheting up tensions between Washington and Moscow as President Trump seeks to take control of Venezuela, in part through a targeted oil embargo. The vessel, called the Bella 1, was boarded by U.S. forces in a joint operation with the United…

The Trump administration defended a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot and killed a Minnesota woman inside her vehicle on Wednesday. “It was an act of domestic terrorism,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a Wednesday press conference, claiming the woman “attacked” agents with her vehicle, trying to “run them over…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Wednesday that “ideally” the United States would purchase Greenland to acquire the Arctic territory. “America is not a bully. Ideally, we purchase it—similar to our purchases of Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase,”  Fetterman wrote in a statement on the social platform X. “Acquiring Greenland is a many decades old conversation,”…

The “Morning Joe” host delivered an expletive-laden rant about the president’s ongoing threat to annex Greenland, by force if necessary.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joked about a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by the U.S. flying a Russian flag, calling it a birthday present for his GOP colleague Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). “To Senator @RandPaul, Happy Birthday!” Graham said in a post on the social platform X. “I hope today is full of family,…

President Trump on Wednesday ordered flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who died Tuesday at the age of 65. “In honor of the late, GREAT, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a true American Patriot and fantastic Representative of Northern California, yesterday I ordered all American Flags throughout the United…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got into a tense exchange with a CNN reporter Wednesday over the cost of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, accusing the outlet of being “disingenuous” in its coverage of last week’s military operation. “The question’s never asked [of] how much does it cost when they’re in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea…