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President Trump on Friday touted a targeted $50 billion rural health fund as evidence of his administration’s commitment to helping rural communities improve health care costs and access, part of a White House push to focus on affordability ahead of November’s midterm elections.  The fund was added as a last-minute sweetener to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and as a backstop for…

As anti-ICE protests erupt, the new requirement shows how rapidly the mission is changing at an agency traditionally focused on terrorism, drug smuggling and border security.

Wanda Vázquez, an attorney, was the U.S. territory’s first former governor to plead guilty to a crime.

President Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (R), a White House official confirmed to The Hill.  Vázquez Garced, who was governor of the U.S. territory from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020 campaign.  In August, Vázquez Garced pleaded guilty to accepting a…

Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what’s happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It’s a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions.   Gov. Tim Walz tried to lower the temperature as tensions escalated in Minneapolis, urging protesters to remain…
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President Trump’s economic adviser said Friday that the administration has been in touch with major banks regarding the administration’s proposal to temporarily cap credit card interest rates amid concerns about its long-term economic impact. Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration expects banks to voluntarily provide “Trump cards” to…

President Trump said Friday he was hesitant to nominate his top White House economic adviser to chair the Federal Reserve, suggesting he might be going in a different direction. During remarks at a White House health care event, Trump praised Kevin Hassett — director of the National Economic Council and a finalist for the Fed…

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric in Iran, on Friday called for the execution of protesters across Tehran as the government seeks to stifle demonstrations in the capital. “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!” Khatami said in a sermon carried across state radio, according to The Associated Press. Khatami also offered pointed words for…

President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs. “I went through country after country,” Trump said at…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House.  Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Special Forces captured Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin American country at…

He had not previously mentioned using tariffs to try to force the issue.

Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was shot, according to The Associated…

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…