Politics

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday the Trump administration will oversee the sale of Venezuelan oil and control the proceeds under a new export plan designed to get crude flowing again and stabilize production."Yes, we are trying something radically different," Wright told an audience at Goldman Sachs' annual energy conference in Miami. "Instead of the oil being blockaded as it is right now, we are going to let the […]

Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., will introduce a bill to honor independent journalist Nick Shirley and his work in exposing alleged fraud schemes involving members of the Somali community in Minnesota."I want to thank and acknowledge the independent reporters Nick Shirley and Dave Hock, who broke this story wide open," Crane said at an Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday."I'm introducing a bill to award Nick Shirley with the Congressional Medal for […]

Minnesota’s junior senator sounded off Wednesday after an ICE-involved shooting in South Minneapolis, leading to one woman reportedly being fatally injured by gunfire.The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the shooting around midday, saying in a statement that agents were conducting targeted immigration enforcement operations when "rioters" blocked officers, and one "rioter weaponized her vehicle… in an attempt to kill them; an act of domestic terrorism."After news of the shooting broke, […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Tano Tijerina in Texas’ 28th Congressional District race after criticizing Rep. Henry Cuellar for running again as a Democrat following a presidential pardon."I don’t know why, but the fact that Henry Cuellar would be running against Donald J. Trump, and the Republican Party, seems to be a great act of disloyalty and, perhaps more importantly, the act of a fool who would immediately go […]

The city of San Diego sued the federal government to stop the construction of razor wire fencing on city-owned land near the U.S.-Mexico border, accusing federal agencies of trespassing and causing environmental damage.The city filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for Southern California on Monday. The complaint named Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth among the defendants.The city accused the federal […]

The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a pair of laws restricting abortion access violate the state constitution, including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.The court, in a 4-1 ruling, sided with the state’s only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the abortion bans passed since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, which returned the power to make laws on abortion […]

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding a policy requiring some foreign travelers to post bonds of up to $15,000 before entering the United States.The State Department on Tuesday added 25 countries to its visa bond list, nearly tripling the total shortly after adding seven more as part of the Trump administration's moves to tighten immigration enforcement.There are now 38 countries subject to the requirement, most of them in Africa with […]

Vice President JD Vance shared a meme of congressional Democrats attending a candlelight vigil Tuesday marking the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6, reposting content that added sombreros to images of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as they held candles on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.Vance posted the image from his verified X account without commentary, showing Democratic leaders, including Schumer and […]

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that one of the Qurans he used to be sworn in as the city’s first Muslim leader will be kept on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library.In an X post, Mamdani wrote the Quran belonged to an 18th-century Black scholar and revolutionary activist named Arturo Schomburg.  "When I swore in at midnight at the old City Hall subway station last […]