Whatever Trump’s goal in Venezuela, US military action is unlikely to achieve it
CNN
The looming possibility of military action against Venezuela puts the White House squarely in opposition to the lessons of decades of US endeavors overseas.
US Rep. Jasmine Crockett filed Monday to run for US Senate from Texas in 2026, according to a list posted by the state Democratic Party, entering the race on the same day that a potential rival, Colin Allred, ended his bid.
Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared with his old colleagues on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” to brag about the precision of the operation.
At least 13 inmates were found dead Sunday at a southern Ecuadorian prison ravaged by violence in recent months, the country’s prison service SNAI announced on Monday.
Bruna Ferreira, a woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, is being released on bond from ICE custody after being arrested earlier this month near Boston, according to her lawyer.
A group of former FBI agents are suing the agency and Director Kash Patel for allegedly violating their constitutional rights by firing them for kneeling during a 2020 protest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.
The man accused of turning some angry words into another stabbing incident on the light rail service of Charlotte, North Carolina is due to make his first court appearance Monday, as city leaders give more assurances that their community is safe.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a $12 billion farm aid package at a roundtable on Monday, a White House official told CNN.
Attorney General Pam Bondi denounced federal judges in Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday, saying that they had launched an “unconscionable campaign of bias and hostility” against Lindsey Halligan, who was recently stripped of her US attorney title.
Former Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred announced Monday that he was ending his Senate campaign and would instead run to once again represent the Lone Star State in Congress.
Top lawmakers who were briefed last week on the September “double-tap” strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean say they would support the release of video from the attack, with Democrats actively calling for it to be made public.
In most ways, New Orleans and Minneapolis couldn’t be more different.
In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said would be illegal — Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.
The Supreme Court on Monday will grapple with President Donald Trump’s power to capture control of independent agencies in an important case that could reshape large swaths of the federal government and unwind a precedent that has been on the books since Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.