Iran’s representative denied the country had killed protesters, as the U.S. ambassador said President Trump had made clear “all options are on the table” to stop the killing.

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Nestor Gregorio Vera urges rival factions to unite against US intervention after Venezuela strongman's capture

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump, crediting him for liberating Venezuela from Maduro's regime.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.

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Protests continue across state as governor urges peace a week after ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good

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Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to protests in Minneapolis against federal immigration enforcement operations, as Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, overnight urged demonstrators in Minneapolis to be peaceful amid escalating tensions.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would use the Insurrection Act and “quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place” if the “corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE”.

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Wharton graduate Arynne Wexler warned President Donald Trump's proposed 10% credit card interest cap could backfire, making credit harder to get and pushing borrowers to payday lenders.

The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.

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In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.

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The Supreme Court is poised to rule soon on President Donald Trump’s use of a 1977 emergency wartime law to impose sweeping tariffs on most U.S. countries.

The agency’s chief spokesman outlined plans to intervene in the previously independent newspaper’s coverage.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.

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In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.

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The Pentagon will be implementing reforms at the long-running military newspaper Stars and Stripes, vowing to eliminate "woke distractions" from its pages.

Donald Trump accepted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize medal at a White House meeting on Thursday in a bid to win over the U.S. president who had sidelined her since overthrowing Nicolas Maduro. Read More

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected at the CFP championship game in Miami on Monday. Trump's growing sports involvement takes center stage again.

US needs 50-100 more gigawatts of coal power to compete with China in AI race, energy secretary Chris Wright says as coal council returns after 4-year hiatus.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump, comparing the gesture to Lafayette's gift to Bolívar.

Setback for president, who has called windfarms ‘losers’, as Empire Wind project allowed to move forward

A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it would probably kill the project in a matter of days.

District judge Carl J Nichols, an appointee of Donald Trump, ruled construction on the Empire Wind project could go forward while he considers the merits of the government’s order to suspend the project. He faulted the government for not responding to key points in Empire Wind’s court filings, including the contention that the administration violated proper procedure.

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US to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods to 15% as chip and tech businesses pledge $250bn spending in US operations

The US said on Thursday that it had signed a deal with Taiwan to reduce tariffs on goods from the democratic island, while increasing Taiwanese semiconductor and tech companies’ investments in America.

The agreement, the US commerce department said, “will drive a massive reshoring of America’s semiconductor sector”.

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Trump heaped praise on the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting him with ‘her Nobel peace prize for the work I have done’

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has presented her gold Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump after meeting him in the White House, nearly a fortnight after he ordered the abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

Machado, who received the award last year for her struggle against Maduro’s “brutal, authoritarian state”, told reporters on Thursday she had done so “in recognition [of] his unique commitment [to] our freedom”.

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Months after Trump spoke of ‘concepts of a plan’, framework offers few specifics – and could stall in Congress

Donald Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited framework for healthcare affordability, almost a year and a half after announcing during a pre-election presidential debate that he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform.

The short document, titled the Great Healthcare Plan, provides four headline objectives, but few specific details as to how they will be achieved.

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The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.

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