The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
The pardons from President Trump continue a trend in which he has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to reward allies and those who have paid his associates or donated to his political operation.
Co-hosts of "The View" call for former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton to comply with subpoenas on Jeffrey Epstein case, citing importance of congressional oversight.
White House communications director Steven Cheung called Jimmy Kimmel a "no-talent loser" on Friday after the host offered Trump his Emmy in exchange for removing ICE from Minneapolis.
President Donald Trump is delaying military action in Iran after claiming execution cancellations amid ongoing protests that have reportedly killed over 2,000 people.
President Donald Trump announced a $50 billion increase in rural healthcare funding, claiming savings from cutting Medicaid waste will revitalize hospitals.
Venezuelan opposition leader warns Trump administration that interim president Rodriguez represents U.S. adversaries rather than the Venezuelan people.
Democrats are speaking out Friday against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota following the shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
The US president wants Americans to believe they are facing an emergency. The real danger is from his administration
In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going door to door seeking undocumented migrants and breaking car windows to drag people out. Last Wednesday an officer shot dead Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American citizen. Her killing is a tragedy for all who loved her, and most of all for the three children left motherless. It also marks her country’s crossing of a Rubicon.
Where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) once preferred to keep a low profile, it now seeks publicity and confrontation – pumped up on billions of dollars in funding, the aggression and brazenness of the administration and the licensing of bigotry.
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John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessor
The CIA chief whose agents reputedly played a key role in abducting Nicolás Maduro has flown to Venezuela to meet his successor as the sidelined opposition leader, María Corina Machado, vowed she would become the country’s first elected female president.
Machado’s comments were broadcast on Friday, a day after she handed her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump in recognition of what she called a principled and decisive move against Maduro, whom US special forces snatched on 3 January.
Officials denounced the Trump immigration crackdown in Minneapolis at an unofficial congressional hearing, while the president said he no longer saw a need to send in military forces.
Three congressional representatives from Minnesota tried to inspect immigration facilities at a federal building in Minneapolis last week. From left, Kelly Morrison, Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig were turned away after briefly being allowed inside.
Six mois après l’ouverture des précommandes, le Trump Phone n’a toujours pas été expédié. Saisie par Elizabeth Warren et dix autres élus démocrates, la Federal Trade Commission est appelée à enquêter sur les promesses de fabrication américaine et les retards répétés de Trump Mobile.
President Donald Trump recounted threatening President Emmanuel Macron with 25% tariffs on French goods to raise European drug prices during a White House roundtable.
“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
Trump continues to claim, baselessly, that people protesting against federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis are ‘highly paid professionals’
Trump began his remarks today by undermining the Affordable Care Act, and touted his newly unveiled “Great Healthcare Plan”.
A reminder that Affordable Care Act subsidies, that were extended during the Covid pandemic, expired at the end of last year, and legislation to revive them has stalled in Congress.
The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.
Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.
Six mois après l’ouverture des précommandes, le Trump Phone n’a toujours pas été expédié. Saisie par Elizabeth Warren et dix autres élus démocrates, la Federal Trade Commission est appelée à enquêter sur les promesses de fabrication américaine et les retards répétés de Trump Mobile.
The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has presented her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House, saying it was a recognition of his commitment to Venezuela’s freedom.
The gesture came after Machado was unexpectedly sidelined by Trump after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro.
Lucy Hough speaks to the US live news editor, Chris Michael
Republican lawmakers push back against Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis amid protests over fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
The overwhelming defense of Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is the product of something President Trump may have underestimated: Mr. Powell’s popularity.
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