Republican Matt Van Epps defeats Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's 7th district special election, keeping GOP seat in red district Trump won by 22 points.

Trump signals imminent land strikes in Venezuela, blaming a navy admiral for a deadly September attack

Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that any country he believes is making drugs destined illegally for the US is vulnerable to a military attack.

The US president’s comments came during a question-and-answer session at the White House at which he also said military strikes on land targets inside Venezuela, which he has accused of narco-terrorism, would “start very soon”.

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Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans’ slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.

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President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.

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Presidents of both major parties have used the device and experts called into question legality of Trump’s move

Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen – an unprecedented attempt to rollback a previous president’s actions using what legal thinkers view as a flimsy pretext.

The autopen is a device used to replicate a person’s signature with precision, typically for high-volume or ceremonial documents. It has been employed by presidents of both major parties to sign letters and proclamations.

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Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.

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The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

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The latest threat to SNAP funding came after weeks of confusion over the status of benefits during the government shutdown.

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Trump calls Twin Cities Somali community "garbage" during cabinet meeting as reports emerge of planned ICE enforcement sweep targeting Minneapolis area.

President Donald Trump said all "Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts" signed by former President Biden's autopen are "void," including pardons and commutations.

An expert warned that the U.S. immigration crisis in America will continue so long as the country’s elite reject the idea of the “Americanization" of immigrants.

President Trump's ultimatum to President Maduro escalates tensions as Venezuela struggles with economic collapse and mounting international isolation.

President Trump is growing frustrated as Americans struggle with higher prices and pessimism over the state of the economy.

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The defense secretary supported the admiral he said called for the second strike on Sept. 2 against a boat the administration says was smuggling drugs.

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Federal lawmakers have ample powers to uncover and end administration abuse.

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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is accused of killing a National Guard member and gravely wounding another, appeared in court remotely from a hospital bed.

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Exclusive: Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September

A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.

The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.

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American Bitcoin Corp’s shares fell from $2.39 to $1.90 after closing in what some are calling ‘crypto winter’

Shares in Eric Trump’s crypto mining business lost more than half their value in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday.

The nosedive of American Bitcoin Corp, which triggered repeated trading halts, followed the steep decline of many cryptocurrencies and crypto-linked companies into what some observers are calling the onset of a “crypto winter”. Bitcoin’s value has fallen sharply since the start of October and erased a year of large gains.

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