The two Republican senators who President Donald Trump considered “losers” for saying that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem needed to step down have hit back at the president. “I’m kind of excited to be called a ‘loser,’” said Senator Thom Tillis The Independentt. “Apparently that qualifies me to be DHS secretary AND senior adviser to … Read more
Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that you can’t have guns during protests. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images To be exact, he said, “You can’t have guns. You can’t come in with guns. You can’t come in with guns. You can’t do that. But it’s just a very unfortunate accident.” gang up/Twitter: @atrupar So, if you’ve been … Read more
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Funding for the Department of Homeland Security and several other US government agencies could expire this week if Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress do not resolve a dispute over the aggressive enforcement efforts of immigration agents. WHY IS ICE SOMETHING CONTROVERSIAL? President Donald Trump is … Read more
Donald Trump represents a greater threat to NATO than said Vladimir Putin, one of the former commanders of the alliance in a powerful attack on Washington’s foreign policy. The American President caused alarm after a series of aggressive moves this year including the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, threats to invade Greenland and the … Read more
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Family members of two men killed in a U.S. missile attack on a suspected drug boat near Venezuela filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging the pair were killed in a “manifestly illegal” military campaign targeting civilian vessels. Civil rights lawyers filed the lawsuit in federal court … Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request that Minnesota turn over sensitive voter registration records to the federal government amid tensions over ICE and immigration enforcement underscores the importance of the administration’s nationwide data collection that is facing resistance in several states and obstruction in the courts. The Justice Department has already subpoenaed Minnesota and 23 other … Read more
President Donald Trump tried to wash his hands of the “massive deficit” that is affecting the historical cultural institution that he tried to change its name. Trump, 79, has passed the blame for sagging sales at the Kennedy Center. “People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered huge deficits for many years and, like … Read more
President Donald Trump on Sunday railed against legal efforts to stop the construction of a huge ballroom on the grounds of the White House. “There is no practical or reasonable way to go back,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “THEY ARE TOO LATE!” The National Trust for Historic Preservation last month sued to … Read more
Aaron Schwatz/AP Images of the CIAs A number of congressional Republicans are demanding answers after the shooting of a 37-year-old man Alex Pretty by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday, even as they reflexively support the Trump administration The Trump administration came out reeling after the news broke that Pretti had succumbed to … Read more
LONDON (AP) – No more fawning praise. No more polite solutions and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump “daddy” now. The European leaders who took a year to figure out how to deal with an American President strengthened in his second term came closer to saying “no”, or something diplomatically like it, … Read more