Washington — On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions targeting five Iranian officials and 18 people or companies tied to a shadow-banking network, accusing them of orchestrating and financing a nationwide crackdown on protesters challenging Iran's theocratic government. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the Secretary of the Supreme...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Southern Command said U.S. forces apprehended Motor/Tanker Veronica in a pre-dawn Caribbean operation on Jan.15, marking the sixth sanctioned vessel seized under a Trump administration quarantine on Venezuela-linked tankers. Marines and sailors launched from USS Gerald R. Ford and a U.S. Coast Guard team conducted the boarding;...
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces to Minnesota after protests erupted over Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations following a fatal ICE shooting on Jan. 7 and a later wounding during a federal stop. Federal authorities increased deployments under Operation Metro...
Washington, President Donald Trump hosted Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House on Thursday to discuss Venezuela's political and economic future. The meeting followed a Jan. 3 U.S. special forces operation that removed Nicolás Maduro from power and Trump's call with interim president Delcy Rodríguez. Machado, a...
RICHMOND, Va. House Democrats advanced four constitutional amendments that would enshrine abortion protections, restore voting rights to people with felony convictions, remove a defunct ban on same-sex marriage and permit temporary mid-decade congressional redistricting pending voter approval. The measures passed the Democratic-controlled House after public testimony and await Senate consideration,...
ATLANTA, Governor Brian Kemp outlined priorities in his final State of the State address Thursday, urging lawmakers to approve multi billion dollar investments in transportation, affordability, energy and education. He previewed a plan to spend about $1.8 billion on highway congestion projects, citing a study that commuters lose roughly 75...
Minneapolis, federal and local authorities and lawmakers responded this week after a Jan. 7 federal agent fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother. Federal enforcement surged following a late-November operation that arrested about 2,400 individuals in Minnesota; officials reported roughly 2,000–3,000 agents deployed. Protests and confrontations followed, including property damage...
Washington — President Donald Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act Wednesday, allowing schools in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% milk alongside low‑fat and skim alternatives. Congress passed the bipartisan bill unanimously late last year; it affects about 30 million students. Administration officials,...
MINNEAPOLIS — A judge on Wednesday granted the Trump administration additional time to respond to a request to pause aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, while the Pentagon sought military lawyers to assist federal agents. Protesters confronted officers after the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Good; another federal officer shot...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department announced this week it will suspend processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, effective Jan. 21, citing concerns that new arrivals could become public charges. The pause excludes nonimmigrant tourist and business visas. Officials, including Tommy Pigott and Karoline Leavitt, said the...
