President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had rescinded his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R-CO) and would instead by backing his primary opponent, Hope Scheppelman, in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. The decision follows Hurd’s vote against aspects of Trump’s tariff policies.
A federal jury in Dallas on Friday convicted Keith J. Gray, a 39-year-old former University of Connecticut football player and NFL veteran who later owned clinical laboratories in Texas, in connection with a large-scale medicare fraud scheme.
JPMorgan Chase confirmed in a recent legal filing that it did indeed shut down President Donald Trump’s bank accounts following the January 6 Capitol protests. The president has long accused the financial institution of doing so and has taken legal action, which led to the admission.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday an increase in the global tariff rate on imports from 10 percent to 15 percent. The change — which comes just a day after the administration was forced to restructure due to a controversial Supreme Court ruling — took effect immediately and applies to goods imported from most countries.
The Detroit Police Department has suspended two officers without pay for 30 days after they contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during separate traffic stops. This, the department found, violates the Democrat-controlled city’s “sanctuary” policies, which bar police and city organizations from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement officers.
The CIA announced Friday that it would be revising or outright retracting 19 intelligence assessments issued over the last decade, including the Biden Administration’s controversial guidelines on “white” extremism.
Director John Ratcliffe had ordered the official retraction or substantive revision of 19 intelligence products produced over the past decade. These documents, spanning multiple administrations, were found after reviews to fall short of the agency’s analytic tradecraft standards and to lack independence from political considerations.
Conservative political commentator Scott Jennings could not get an answer when he repeatedly asked Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson, a Democrat, whether any illegal aliens should be deported from the United States.
The exchange occurred during a panel discussion on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip, in which Pearson called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to be abolished. Pearson — who generated national headlines when he and two of his colleagues were briefly expelled from the Tennessee state house for inviting gun control protesters to storm the floor — is currently challenging U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) in the Volunteer State’s 9th Congressional District.
An outdoor ice rink at the Trump-Kennedy Center For Performing Arts was vandalized when a toxic chemical substance was poured across its surface on Friday morning.
Officials described the act as a “targeted” attack that caused severe damage to the rink and forced the cancellation of a scheduled performance that evening. The incident took place on the center’s plaza, where a temporary ice rink had been installed for winter programming.
President Donald Trump on Friday escalated his criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court following its decision to strike down most of his sweeping global tariffs, suggesting that “foreign interests” may have influenced the justices who ruled against him.
President Donald Trump said Friday he will sign an executive order creating a new 10% “global tariff,” moving swiftly after the Supreme Court struck down his broad “reciprocal” import duties in a stinging setback for a cornerstone of his trade agenda.
President Trump said Friday he has a contingency strategy ready after the Supreme Court blocked his use of emergency powers to impose sweeping global tariffs.
“President Trump commented on the Supreme Court ruling striking down his tariffs while inside the White House breakfast with governors this morning, calling it a ‘disgrace,’ I’m told,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins wrote on X. “He told those gathered that he has a backup plan.”
NORAD scrambled U.S. fighter jets Thursday after tracking Russian military aircraft operating inside the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, a strategically sensitive buffer area off the U.S. coast.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it launched two F-16s, two F-35s, one E-3 and four KC-135s “to intercept, positively identify, and escort the aircraft until they departed the Alaskan ADIZ.”
