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ICE Detainee Back in Custody After Judge Orders Release

Judge said ICE agents did not have a judicial warrant when they broke down his door

(Newser) - A Liberian man in Minnesota is back in custody Friday, his lawyer said, a day after a judge ordered him released because federal agents broke down his door to arrest him without a judicial warrant. US District Judge Jeffrey Bryan ruled the arrest unlawful, the AP reports, but Gibson was...

Norwegians Blast 'Absurd' Nobel Medal Handover

'This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away'

(Newser) - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump on Thursday, a move Norwegians called "absurd" and "pathetic." "This is completely unheard of," Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor at the University of Oslo, told public broadcaster NRK. She...

Trump Warns World: OK My Greenland Push or Face Tariffs

US president threatens to lay down tariffs hammer on countries that don't go along with his plans

(Newser) - President Trump suggested on Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don't back the United States controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital. Trump for months has insisted that the US should control Greenland,...

GOP Rep Threatens Trump Impeachment Over Greenland

Congressman Don Bacon blasts annexation talk, says White House is bullying US allies

(Newser) - A Republican lawmaker is warning that any move to seize Greenland by force could put President Trump on a collision course with impeachment. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who's retiring at the end of his current term, said he'd consider supporting Trump's removal from office if the...

Leavitt: Trump Remarks About Canceling Midterms 'Facetious'

POTUS has made such comments at least twice recently

(Newser) - President Trump wasn't floating a constitutional crisis—he was cracking a joke, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Pressed Thursday on why the president has recently mused multiple times about scrapping this year's midterm elections, Leavitt told reporters Trump's comments were not serious, Mediaite reports....

Machado Says She Presented Trump With Nobel Medal

Trump says it was a 'wonderful gesture of mutual respect'

(Newser) - President Trump sat down Thursday with the Venezuelan opposition leader he no longer seems to want in charge. María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner once seen as Venezuela's president-in-waiting, spent about 2.5 hours with Trump at the White House in a closed-door meeting that came...

Cubans Mourn After Remains Are Returned From Venezuela

Crowds wait in rain to pay their respects

(Newser) - Cuba on Thursday publicly received the remains of 32 citizens killed in the US military operation that toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, turning Havana's main airport into a stage for grief and political messaging. State television carried live images of small flag-draped boxes arriving from Venezuela on Thursday,...

Report: US Pushing to Have Troops in Mexico

Sheinbaum resists Trump's push for joint raids on fentanyl labs

(Newser) - Washington is leaning hard on Mexico to let American forces cross the border to hit fentanyl labs—despite President Claudia Sheinbaum's repeated refusals, reports the New York Times . US officials are pushing a plan that would send either Special Operations troops or CIA officers out on raids alongside Mexican...

Ford Worker Who Heckled Trump Halts Donations

Donors gave TJ Sabula more than $800K on GoFundMe pages

(Newser) - Ford's most talked-about employee this week says he's had enough financial help. TJ Sabula, the Ford worker suspended after heckling President Trump , has asked GoFundMe to stop taking donations on two fundraisers set up in his name, reports the Detroit Free Press . The campaigns, verified by GoFundMe as...

Trump Unveils Outline of Health Care Plan

'The government is going to pay the money directly to you,' he says

(Newser) - President Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up. The move comes as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire, the AP reports. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to...

Does Trump Have a Joe Rogan Problem?
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Does Trump Have a Joe Rogan Problem?

After podcaster likens ICE tactics to 'gestapo,' pundits weigh in

(Newser) - Joe Rogan has been critical of ICE tactics on American streets, but his most recent comments have caused quite a stir. "Are we really going to be the Gestapo?" he asked in an interview with Sen. Rand Paul. "Where's your papers? Is that what we've come...

The Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine? Not Putin, Trump Says

Kremlin backs the view that Zelensky is the hurdle, which reportedly runs counter to US intel agencies

(Newser) - Blame for the stalled Ukraine peace talks, President Trump says, lies in Kyiv—not Moscow. In an Oval Office interview with Reuters , Trump asserted that Vladimir Putin is "ready to make a deal" to end Russia's nearly four-year invasion, and that it is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who...

Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act in Minneapolis

Move would mean US troops on the streets

(Newser) - President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to tamp down the growing unrest in Minneapolis—a move that would allow him to deploy military troops on the city's streets, per the AP .
  • "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop
...

CBO: Pentagon Rebrand to 'War' Department Could Cost $125M

Democrats call Trump's push for renaming a costly 'vanity project'

(Newser) - Taxpayers could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to swap out one word on the Pentagon's letterhead. A new Congressional Budget Office analysis estimates that officially rebranding the Department of Defense as the "Department of War"—a change championed by Defense Secretary Pete...

Trump Says He Was Told Iran's Executions Are Off

Urging talks, foreign minister calls diplomacy 'much better than war'

(Newser) - President Trump told reporters Wednesday that he's been informed that lethal repression of anti-government protests in Iran has halted and that planned executions will not go forward. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said he was briefed by "very important sources on the other side," who told...

Trump Overturns Obama-Era Limits on Whole Milk

'Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, whole milk is a great thing'

(Newser) - Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options. Nondairy drinks such as fortified soy milk may also be on the menu in the coming months following adoption of the Whole Milk for Healthy...

More Than $430K Raised for Worker Flipped Off by Trump

Union says it is standing by Ford worker TJ Sabula

(Newser) - The Ford truck plant worker in Michigan who insulted President Trump on Tuesday and apparently got flipped off in response tells the Washington Post he has been suspended from his job pending an investigation. The heckler identified himself as TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker....

Trump, Mamdani Are Apparently Texting Buddies

Private messages are said to show transactional ties between GOP president, democratic socialist mayor

(Newser) - Texting pals probably wasn't what anyone expected the relationship between Zohran Mamdani and President Trump to evolve into. However, the Republican president and the democratic socialist New York City mayor have been trading messages at least twice a week since their cordial Oval Office sit-down in November, according to...

Trump Warns Iran: Execute People and We'll Take Action

As relatives say 26-year-old Erfan Soltani is due to be put to death

(Newser) - President Trump is warning Tehran of consequences as fears mount of fast-tracked executions tied to Iran's protest crackdown. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Trump said the US would take "very strong action" if Iran begins hanging detained demonstrators. His comments come amid the case of...

Mulling Iran Strikes, US Makes a Precautionary Move

Some Americans told to leave Qatar base Iran previously hit in retaliation

(Newser) - Some Americans are being quietly pulled from a key US air base in Qatar as the White House weighs whether to launch strikes at Iran. The US military has begun evacuating personnel from Al Udeid Air Base as a precaution, a US official and a second person familiar with the...

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