The United States has destroyed at least 10 alleged drug boats off Venezuela and surged forces—an aircraft carrier and about 10,000 troops—prompting questions about plans to oust President Nicolás Maduro. A 60 Minutes report found hunger, blackouts and medicine shortages, with more than 70% in poverty; tallies showed the opposition...
President Donald Trump scrapped a planned Budapest meeting with Vladimir Putin and, aboard Air Force One in Malaysia, said he wouldn’t “be wasting my time.” He praised their past rapport but called the situation “very disappointing,” despite a campaign vow to secure a ceasefire within 24 hours—now 279 days unmet....
Nine months into his term, President Trump’s foreign policy is a mix of headline wins and volatile turns. European defense spending is rising; he secured a fragile Gaza cease-fire and the release of 20 hostages. Yet he slapped new tariffs on Canada over a TV ad, veered from fury to...
On Face the Nation, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blamed a “Trump, Republican shutdown” now in day 26, urging bipartisan talks while rejecting a GOP funding bill he says would gut health care. He warned premiums could spike without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, saying Congress could push back...
President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with a $300 million plan to build a White House ballroom, mounting a campaign-style fundraising drive led by his former campaign finance chief, Meredith O’Rourke. Her team is approaching executives, corporations, and Republican lobbyists who backed Trump’s 2024 campaign and inauguration, according to people...
At the ASEAN 2025 summit in Malaysia, Donald Trump brushed off a press conference with Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, quipping that reporters’ “boring” questions could wait; Lula urged postponing questions to save time. Their meeting centered on Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, including a 50% levy on Brazilian imports,...
Rep. Eric Swalwell escalated Democratic outrage over Trump’s White House renovations, challenging any 2028 hopeful to pledge to “take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom” on their first day. On X, he condemned what he called destructive excess, echoing broader criticism of demolition to the East Wing and the...
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly told ABC’s This Week he views the Trump administration’s dispatch of an aircraft carrier battle group to waters around Central and South America as legally “questionable,” saying the White House and Department of Defense couldn’t justify it. The move follows a 10th U.S. strike on an...
With early voting underway, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will rally at 13,000-seat Forest Hills Stadium for Zohran Mamdani, whose slogan — “New York Is Not for Sale” — targets wealthy opponents backing an Andrew Cuomo-aligned super PAC. Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl...
An ABC News excerpt from Jonathan Karl’s book Retribution cites Mike Pence’s notes on a Jan. 6, 2021 call in which Donald Trump warned he’d be a “wimp” if he certified Joe Biden’s win. Pence wrote that he invoked their oath—“It takes courage to uphold the law”—before certifying. Prosecutors later...
