President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday blocking courts and creditors from seizing Venezuelan oil revenue that is currently being held in U.S. Treasury accounts.The order, titled “Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People,” states that the oil money belongs to the...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested on Saturday that the United States would intervene to protect protesters in Iran as the death toll from demonstrations in the country has only increased.Protests have engulfed Iran for nearly two weeks, with demonstrators taking to the streets of at least 100 cities, including Tehran....
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The Department of Agriculture is nixing any federal awards to Minnesota as the state endures a reckoning with fraud and the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.Secretary Brooke Rollins said aid, around $130 million, will be withheld “until sufficient proof has been provided that the fraud has stopped.” TRUMP FIRST YEAR REPORT...
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President Donald Trump’s capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas last weekend may have earned him praise from Republican hawks, but it has also exposed fissures in the GOP.Five Republican senators on Thursday voted with Democrats to proceed with a resolution restricting Trump’s war powers regarding Venezuela, as...
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The Washington National Opera announced on Friday that it is ending its decadeslong partnership with the Trump-Kennedy Center, which has become the subject of sweeping controversy following President Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution.Unlike a stream of other leading artists and groups that have cut ties with the country’s leading cultural...
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President Donald Trump has called up several Republican senators to berate them over a recent vote the upper chamber held seeking to restrict his executive powers. The president privately unloaded on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who was viewed as one of the more surprising Republican...
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Demonstrators filled the streets of the nation’s capital for a second consecutive night this week, protesting the fatal shooting of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis and demanding an end to federal immigration enforcement in Washington, D.C.Protesters marched from the 14th Street and U...
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President Donald Trump gave a soft endorsement of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Friday, telling reporters that former dictator Nicolas Maduro’s replacement appears to be an “ally” of the United States after years of hostility from Venezuela’s government.Many have criticized Trump’s decision to allow Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, to...
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President Donald Trump gave a soft endorsement of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Friday, telling reporters that former dictator Nicolas Maduro’s replacement appears to be an “ally” of the United States after years of hostility from Venezuela’s government.Many have criticized Trump’s decision to allow Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, to...
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun reexamining the refugee status of thousands of Minnesota residents, launching a sweeping review that subjects already-approved refugees to new background checks and interviews amid an expanded federal enforcement operation in the state.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the effort began in...
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President Donald Trump will be leading a meeting with oil executives on Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the White House to discuss their operations in Venezuela. Following the Trump administration’s capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump called on American oil companies to expand their operations into the South...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that Minnesota is just the beginning of the federal government’s efforts to combat fraud, confirming that other states will eventually fall under a similar investigation.“President Trump wants accountability. I want accountability. The American people want accountability, and they will get accountability,” Bessent told...
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