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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country's economy. Trump's escalation comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region. In a post on social media Tuesday night announcing the blockade, Trump alleged Venezuela was using oil to fund drug traffi

Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship

Last US cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny

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Maryland to consider slavery reparations after Gov. Wes Moore's veto is overridden

Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation's only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats. Moore said in his veto letter in May that it was a difficult decision to veto the bill, which was a priority of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. But he wrote there has been enough study of the legacy of slavery, and it was now time to “focus on the work itself" to address it. But Democrats who control both chambers of the

Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts

Federal judge says he's inclined to deny preservationists' request to halt Trump's ballroom project

Federal judge indicates he won’t halt the White House ballroom project

A federal judge indicated Tuesday that he won’t order President Donald Trump to immediately stop work on the massive new White House ballroom.But US District Judge Richard Leon left open the possibility that he could intervene in the high-stakes legal fight over the project at a later time.For now, Leon said, the nation’s top historic preservation group that sued over the project hadn’t shown how it was being irreparably harmed by the construction in a way that required immediate court intervention.But Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, warned that underground work se

Pentagon launches new phase of probe into Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero

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Trump says Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’ after Berlin talks, but is it? Here are the key sticking points

The United States just wrapped up two days of talks with Ukrainian and European negotiators in Berlin, followed by more discussions among leaders in Europe – all of which ended with positive signals about a future peace agreement.The talks focused on security guarantees for Ukraine to deter potential Russian aggression in the future, the issue of which – despite the positive statements – remains a key sticking point in the negotiations with Moscow. The other major stumbling block is the future of Ukraine’s Donbas region, which Russia is demanding Kyiv cedes control of as a condition of

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Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says president ‘has an alcoholic’s personality’ and much more in candid interviews

The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler. She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution. Wiles su

An aspiring neurosurgeon and a ‘faithful bright light:’ What we know about the two students killed in the Brown mass shooting

Vance acknowledges Americans’ economic pain in speech that contrasts with Trump’s tone on affordability

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Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a U.S. military strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean, as questions mounted in Congress about the incident and the overall buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela. Hegseth said members of the Armed Services Committee in the House and Senate would have an opportunity this week to review the video, but did not say whether all members of Congress would be allowed to see it as well. “Of cours

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Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged to pro-Trump pundit

Retiring Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Monday her engagement to Brian Glenn, a pro-Trump pundit who works for the far-right news network Real America’s Voice.“Happily ever after!!!” Greene posted on X. Glenn, who is chief White House correspondent for the MAGA-aligned network, also shared the engagement on social media with a photo of him embracing Greene while she shows off her engagement ring.The announcement comes weeks after Greene had a public falling out with President Donald Trump and said she would resign from office in January, noting that she wanted to avoid

Unemployment rate hit a four-year high last month

Prosecutors charge Rob Reiner’s son Nick with 2 counts of murder in killing of his parents

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Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, criticizes Bondi and opines on Trump in Vanity Fair

Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair that sent the West Wing into damage control. The startlingly candid remarks from Wiles, the first woman to ever hold her current post, included describing the president as someone with “an alcoholic’s personality,” and Vice President JD Vance as a calculating “conspiracy theorist.” The observatio

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South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship

The South African government briefly held, then released, two US government employees on assignment in South Africa as part of the Trump administration’s bid to admit Afrikaners to the United States, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.The incident appeared to mark an escalation in the already-tenuous relationship between the United States and South Africa, which has rejected the premise of the Trump administration’s push to admit White South Africans as refugees. It also revealed some of the hiccups and hurdles US personnel have faced in the administration’s unprec

Federal judge indicates he won’t halt the White House ballroom project

FIFA slashes price of some World Cup tickets to $60 after global fan backlash

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A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday. The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, exper

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Football fans slam "disgraceful" ticket prices for next year's World Cup

Organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Summer Olympics have promised that there will be affordable tickets for the Games that start in less than three years time.On Monday, LA28 announced fans would be able to register for tickets from January 14, 2026 and that at least one million would be priced at $28, according to Reuters.“Every sport starts at $28 and that’s not just lip service to a couple tickets in the corner of some venue, but a meaningful number of tickets,” said Allison Katz-Mayfield, LA28’s senior vice president of Games delivery revenue, per Reuters.“We’re looking a