Trump Slammed For ‘Shameful’ Response After Ilhan Omar Was Attacked — And Experts Have Thoughts
People online criticized the president for his baffling remarks about the attack on the Minnesota representative. Experts in political science weigh in.
Duckworth fires back at Vance over Forrest Gump quip
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) fired back at Vice President Vance on Wednesday after he criticized her line of questioning at a Senate hearing, comparing her to the fictional character Forrest Gump, who is portrayed in the film as having a physical and intellectual disability. Duckworth — a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, who lost both…
Kid Rock calls for price cap on resale tickets to protect against gouging
Kid Rock on Wednesday called for a price cap on resale tickets for live music and sporting events, arguing that fans and artists have been “getting screwed” by a system that drives up prices and offers little benefit to performers. “I’m here because hardworking Americans who love live music deserve better, and artists deserve…
Joaquin Castro shares Texas detention visit with 5-year-old boy, father captured in Minnesota
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) visited a 5-year-old and his father at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, where they are both being held following their arrests in Minnesota. “I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him,” Castro wrote…
Democratic senator calls on Trump to approve FEMA aid for Palisades fire recovery
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday called on President Trump to authorize $34 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) aid to help the California communities ravaged by the Palisades fire recover more than one year after the disaster struck. Blumenthal, a ranking member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,…
Slovakia’s PM rails against Politico report he was ‘shocked’ by Trump’s psychological state
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fiercely denied a Politico report that he was “shocked” by President Trump’s state of mind during his visit to Mar-a-Lago this month. Politico, citing five unnamed European diplomats, reported that Fico told EU leaders at a summit in Brussels last week that his meeting with the U.S. president left him…
Erika Kirk pledges Turning Point will match $1,000 government deposits in ‘Trump Accounts’
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk said her organization will match the federal government’s $1,000 deposits in new “Trump Accounts” for the children of its employees. Kirk wrote Wednesday on social platform X that her husband, the late conservative activist and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, “spoke so often about the importance of young families…
Trump Hung Up A Picture Of Vladimir Putin In The White House
Things that make you go, “hmmm.”
Watch live: Omar gives remarks after spraying incident in Minnesota
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will speak to reporters Wednesday evening, a day after she was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall in her home district. Omar has taken a defiant tone against the Trump administration’s surge in federal agents to Minnesota in the wake of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving immigration…
Evidence Contradicts Trump Immigration Officials’ Accounts Of Violent Encounters
In response to a Reuters request for comment, DHS pointed to previous statements about the incidents involving their officers.
Maine mayor: ‘This is not the America I grew up in’
The mayor of Portland, Maine, said he wants to personally speak with the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the agency expands operations in his city and state. “That’s a person just like me, nothing special, but we took an oath to be responsible,” Mark Dion, a former county sheriff, told MS…
Trump PAC Threatens To Have ICE ‘Track Down’ MAGA Donors Who Don’t Answer Survey
“Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?” the email said.
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio clash over whether Maduro capture ‘an act of war’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assertion that the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was not an act of war. During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio reiterated the Trump administration’s position that the mission to capture Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores,…
FBI taking over Omar attack investigation
The FBI is taking over the investigation into the attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at her town hall event on Tuesday, the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed Wednesday. A spokesperson for the department confirmed the FBI would be taking over but did not provide further comment. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request…
Retiring GOP Senator Has Brash Response To Trump Calling Him A ‘Loser’
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) drew the president’s ire after calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be fired.
Molly Ringwald: ‘ICE is brutalizing people’
Actor Molly Ringwald condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for “brutalizing people” after the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. “There’s something horrible, horrible going on in our country right now. And we have one of the greatest countries — had one of the greatest countries in the world, and I’ve always been so proud…
Trump’s deployment of National Guard costs taxpayers nearly $500 million, CBO says
President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops across major U.S. cities has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars through the end of 2025, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Since June, the administration has deployed the National Guard personnel to six cities — Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis,…
Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has released an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) song in the wake of weeks of tension in Minnesota over President Trump’s immigration agenda and two shooting deaths involving federal law enforcement. “I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state…
‘Fox & Friends’ Gives Trump Radical Advice In ‘Late Show’ Tomfoolery
Stephen Colbert’s crew mocked the suspect coincidence of Fox News telling Trump to send Tom Homan to Minneapolis, only for the president to do so a short time later.
Rubio raises potential for preemptive strikes against Iran: ‘I hope it doesn’t come to that’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised the potential for the U.S. forces to conduct preemptive strikes against Iran and emphasized that the country’s regime is at its weakest point in decades during a Wednesday hearing in the Senate. Rubio told senators that the Trump administration’s buildup of U.S. assets in the Middle East, which was…
Agents in Pretti shooting on administrative leave
The federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti were placed on administrative leave Saturday, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told NewsNation, the Hill’s sister network. A Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer shot and killed Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. He was the second person killed by federal…
Barron Trump’s Call To London Police Leads To Russian Man’s Conviction
Barron Trump’s intervention more than a year ago resulted in an assault conviction of Matvei Rumiantsev on Wednesday, who admitted he was jealous of his girlfriend’s friendship with the president’s youngest son.
Maine governor on ICE surge: ‘We will not be intimidated’
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that the state “will not be intimidated” by the administration’s surge in federal immigration enforcement. “Today, I say to the people of Maine: We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced,” Mills said during her final State of the State address. “And…
Alleged Omar attacker has criminal history, supported Trump online
The man accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with an unknown substance during a town hall in her district on Tuesday has a lengthy criminal history and appeared to show support for President Trump on social media. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was tackled to the ground after police said he used a syringe spray an…
Picture of Putin hangs in renovated room of White House
A framed photograph of President Donald Trump standing with Russian President Vladimir Putin is hanging on display in the White House, photographs taken inside a newly renovated room show.