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Closing Soon: The Trump Store
Trump Store Is
Closing Its Doors
Jan 7, 2026 7:19 AM CST

Trump Store Is Closing Its Doors

Shop in suburban Philadelphia has 'kind of run its course'

(Newser) - A suburban Philadelphia shop selling President Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it's closing its doors, six years after opening. The Trump Store, which sells hats, flags, T-shirts, and other items in hotly politically contested Bucks County, posted on social media that its storefront will...

DeSantis Mulls State Charges Against Maduro

Fla. governor backs seeking separate state case over Venezuela leader's alleged drug crimes

(Newser) - Florida could try to pile on Nicolas Maduro's legal troubles. Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that the attorney general's office in Florida is "looking very seriously" at bringing state charges against the Venezuelan leader, days after Maduro was brought to the US and pleaded not guilty...

New White House Site Blames Dems, Police for Capitol Riot

It claims Democrats staged 'real insurrection' on Jan. 6

(Newser) - A new official website from President Trump's White House is marking the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack by flipping the script on who was to blame. The site, launched Tuesday, accuses Democrats—and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in particular—of engineering what it calls...

Report: House Republicans Will Help Override Trump Vetoes

A rare break is expected Thursday

(Newser) - House Republicans are preparing an unusual break with President Trump, lining up votes to override two of his vetoes in what would be a rare act of open defiance, per Politico and Axios . According to both outlets, the House is expected to vote Thursday to overturn Trump's rejection of...

Trump Quotes Melania: 'Could You Imagine FDR Dancing?'

'There's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know,' adds the president

(Newser) - During his speech to a GOP retreat in DC on Tuesday, President Trump segued into jokey territory: The first lady, he informed his audience, hates when he dances at public events, reports the Hill . "She's a very classy person, right? She said it's so unpresidential," Trump...

GOP Indiana Rep, Wife Hospitalized After Car Crash

Trump says accident was 'pretty bad,' but 'they're going to be okay'

(Newser) - President Trump said Tuesday that Indiana US Rep. Jim Baird, a Republican, and his wife are recovering in the hospital following a car accident. "They're going to be okay, but they had a pretty bad accident, and we're praying that they get out of that hospital very...

Trump: US Could Pay Back Big Oil's Venezuela Investment

He suggests the idea ahead of administration's meetings with wary oil execs

(Newser) - President Trump is dangling a major incentive to US oil companies if they help remake Venezuela's battered energy sector: the prospect that Washington might pay them back. Analysts say the effort is likely to take years and billions of dollars, per the Guardian . In an interview with NBC News...

Polls Reveal Huge Split on US Actions in Venezuela

Partisan divides revealed along with little overall support

(Newser) - Americans are backing the surprise US assault on Venezuela in only limited numbers, with far more worried about what comes next. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that about one-third of Americans approve of the military operation that removed President Nicolás Maduro, while 72% fear the US will get drawn...

Machado Courts Trump— by Offering Him Her Nobel

Venezuelan opposition leader says her movement ought to be in power

(Newser) - Venezuela's most prominent opposition figure used a friendly US TV forum to court the one man now standing between her movement and power: President Trump. In a 10-minute interview on Fox News , María Corina Machado repeatedly praised the president, appealed for his backing, and even offered to hand...

Trump Gets Tiny Islands to Agree to Take Asylum-Seekers

Administration has reached deals with a few new places

(Newser) - The United States on Monday reached a deal with Dominica to start sending foreigners seeking US asylum to the small Caribbean nation, the AP reports. Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit described the deal as "one of the primary areas of collaboration" after the country was recently hit with...

US Move on Venezuela's Oil Faces Obstacles, Analysts Say

Low prices, political instability, and legal disputes deter foreign investment

(Newser) - President Trump is pitching regime change in Venezuela as an energy opportunity, but the path from military operation to meaningful oil production is anything but straightforward, the Wall Street Journal reports. At a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump said the ouster of Nicolás Maduro would clear the way for "...

House Funding Bill Leaves 'Trump' Off Kennedy Center

Johnson's office releases bipartisan measure

(Newser) - President Trump may have put his name on the building, but it's still the Kennedy Center to Congress. A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through Sept. 30, 2027,...

Trump: Greenland Security 'Added One More Dog Sled'

He claims US 'needs' the Arctic territory, and Denmark can't defend it

(Newser) - President Trump has repeated his claims that the US "needs" Greenland , an autonomous territory of Denmark, while ridiculing Denmark's security presence there. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump was asked about possible US moves involving Greenland following his administration's capture of Venezuelan leader...

Pete Hegseth Censures Mark Kelly


Pete Hegseth
Censures
Mark Kelly
Jan 5, 2026 10:14 AM CST

Pete Hegseth Censures Mark Kelly

Could result in a demotion for retired Navy captain for telling troops they can disobey illegal orders

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he is issuing a letter of censure to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the lawmaker's participation in a video telling troops they have a right to resist unlawful orders. Hegseth said that the censure was "a necessary process step"...

Monroe Doctrine Gives Way to 'Trump Corollary'
Monroe Doctrine Gives
Way to 'Trump Corollary'
the rundown
Jan 5, 2026 9:58 AM CST

Monroe Doctrine Gives Way to 'Trump Corollary'

President cites 'Donroe doctrine' to explain aggressive the US approach in Latin America

(Newser) - In discussing the US seizure of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, President Trump has resurrected talk about the Monroe Doctrine—the idea espoused by the nation's fifth president in 1823 that Europe should butt out of Latin America. Trump, however, is pushing a more aggressive version, which he referred to...

Cuba Lost 32 Officers in US Strike on Venezuela

Military was on an undisclosed mission in Caracas when US attacked

(Newser) - The American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday. The Cuban military and police officers were on a mission its military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela's government, according to a statement read on Cuban state TV. What...

Rubio Backs Off Claim US Is Running Venezuela

Secretary of state backs away from Trump's assertion while not committing on what's ahead

(Newser) - Although he was vague about what's next for Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed away from President Trump's claim that the US is running the country after removing President Nicolas Maduro. "What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward,...

Legal or Not, Overthrow in Venezuela Was the Easy Part

Now, Trump will have to make the Venezuelan regime change work, editorials say

(Newser) - Commentary differed Saturday on whether the US attack on Venezuela and accompanying removal of its president from power was legal—or even a good idea. There was more agreement that the overnight military operation did not solve all the issues involved. The editorial board of the New York Times is...

'We Are Going to Run' Venezuela, Trump Says

President plans for US companies to rebuild nation's oil infrastructure

(Newser) - Speaking hours after the military struck Caracas and seized President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump announced the US will take control of Venezuela. "We are going to run the country. But till such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition," Trump said Saturday at...

Wicked Composer Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Appearance

Stephen Schwartz joins wave of artists protesting the newly Trump-branded venue

(Newser) - Stephen Schwartz has taken his "Defying Gravity" ethos offstage and into Washington. The Wicked composer says he will not appear at the Kennedy Center after its board voted to add President Trump's name to the building, arguing the venue has abandoned the political neutrality it was created to...

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