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MINNEAPOLIS — A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman in her vehicle Wednesday morning during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, authorities said. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated the woman allegedly used her car in an attempt to strike law enforcement officers, prompting the agent to fire … Read more
US oil companies are responding cautiously to President Donald Trump’s push to re-enter Venezuela’s oil sector following the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro. Weighing political instability, sanctions uncertainty and the high cost of rebuilding one of the world’s most degraded energy industries. KEY POINTS President Donald Trump has framed recent US actions in Venezuela … Read more
North Atlantic — US authorities launched an operation Wednesday to seize a Russian flagged oil tanker connected to Venezuela following a more than two week chase across the Atlantic Ocean, officials said. The vessel, originally named Bella‑1 and now sailing as the Marinera, had evaded US Coast Guard boarding attempts while being monitored near Iceland’s … Read more
WASHINGTON — Aldrich Hazen Ames, the former CIA officer whose decades long espionage for the Soviet Union and later Russia is considered. One of the most destructive breaches in US intelligence history, died Jan. 5 while serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Maryland. He was 84. A spokesperson for the US Bureau … Read more
The Trump administration said Tuesday night it is freezing $10 billion in federal child care and family assistance funding for five states. Citing what it described as serious concerns about widespread fraud in state administered programs overseen by the US Department of Health and Human Services. KEY POINTS The decision to halt funding represents one … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dedicated his speech before House Republicans on Tuesday to the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., who died suddenly earlier in the day. The announcement came at the Trump Kennedy Center, where Trump had been scheduled to address GOP lawmakers, highlighting LaMalfa’s long standing support for the former president. Trump said … Read more
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican with deep roots in agriculture and a national profile on water and forestry policy, died at age sixty five. GOP officials said Tuesday, abruptly ending the seventh term lawmaker’s tenure and further tightening Republicans’ already slim majority in the US House. KEY POINTS The death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa … Read more
George Conway, a former Republican lawyer and prominent critic of President Donald Trump, announced January six that he is running as a Democrat for Congress in New York’s Twelfth District. Entering a crowded primary race with a campaign centered almost exclusively on confronting the president and restoring what he describes as constitutional accountability. KEY POINTS … Read more
CARACAS/NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to Venezuela’s interim government, stating that the United States could launch a second military operation. If acting President Delcy Rodríguez refuses to cooperate with US plans to stabilize the country. The warning follows a high profile US military raid that captured former Venezuelan President … Read more
NUUK, Greenland — Greenland’s prime minister on Monday downplayed concerns over a possible US takeover of the Arctic island, following renewed interest from President Donald Trump. The remarks came amid heightened attention after Washington’s recent military operation in Venezuela. Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen stressed that Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, is “not comparable … Read more
