Greene, long a staunch and outspoken ally of the president, announced on Friday evening that she will be resigning from Congress on Jan. 5, only halfway through her current term, citing her dissatisfaction with Trump's current term after her recent break from him on numerous issues. On Monday morning, a Punchbowl News report cited multiple anonymous GOP members of Congress with similar sentiments, with some predicting that more high-profile resignations are possible before the 2026 midterms. "More explosive early resignations are coming," one Republican told Punchbowl. "It's a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. [House Speaker] Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out."
President Donald Trump's pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear in the state's deeply rooted immigrant community, along with doubts about whether the White House has the legal authority to enact the directive as described. In a Truth Social post late Friday, Trump said he would "immediately" strip Somali residents in Minnesota of Temporary Protected Status, a legal safeguard against deportation for immigrants from certain countries. The announcement drew immediate pushback from some state leaders and immigration experts, who characterized Trump's declaration as a legally dubious effort to sow fear and suspicion toward Minnesota's Somali community, the largest in the nation. "There's no legal mechanism that allows the president to terminate protected status for a particular community or state that he has beef with," said Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center.
In July, Mr. Trump sent an angry letter to the current Brazilian president, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, demanding that the authorities drop charges that Mr. Bolsonaro had attempted a coup. Mr. Trump slapped 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian imports and imposed sanctions on a Brazilian Supreme Court justice to try to keep Mr. Bolsonaro " a right-wing politician sometimes called the Trump of the Tropics " out of prison." "Five months later, Mr. Trump has all but admitted defeat." "Mr. Bolsonaro, 70, is in a prison cell, starting a 27-year sentence. And Mr. Trump " after a chummy meeting with Mr. Lula " has just removed the most significant tariffs against Brazil."
The Pentagon on Monday said that it was reviewing what it called "serious allegations of misconduct" against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for making a video with five other Democratic lawmakers that urged members of the military to refuse to follow unlawful orders. Read more
Guardian editorial: The Kremlin has barely lifted a finger in recent days. It hasn't needed to. The 28-point US-Russia peace proposal, leaked to the media last week, has thrown Washington, Kyiv and European capitals into disarray, creating precisely the conditions Vladimir Putin has long sought: a negotiating table sharply tilted in the Russian president's favour, with Ukraine cornered into weighing terms it cannot accept and the threat of losing its most important ally hanging over its head. Read more
A wave of high-end residential burglaries across southeastern Wisconsin has prompted a coordinated law enforcement response and drawn political attention at both the local and national levels. The Mequon Police Department (MPD) says the burglaries share striking similarities, suggesting a professional operation.
Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81. Read more
Gavin Rivers Weisenburg (21) and Tanner Christopher Thomas (20) have been charged in relation to a plot that included invading an island off Haiti, murdering the men on the island, and using the women and children as sex slaves.
Under the vague category of "national security grounds," for four hours Canadian Border Security Agents (CBSA) detained Richard Falk, a 95-year-old Jewish professor emeritus of international law who has spent decades documenting violations against the Palestinian people.
A legal fight is brewing over a Maryland county board of elections' heavy redactions to the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who served as superintendent of Iowa's largest school system until he was arrested by federal authorities this year, Fox News Digital has learned. "This was shocking," Justin Riemer, CEO and president of the conservative legal group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Friday. "When I saw the news reporting, and they showed screenshots of the registration applications with all this information redacted, I was just shocked."
(CNN) -- A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian Andes has baffled researchers for nearly a century. But a fresh look at the site, called Monte Sierpe, or "serpent mountain," may help archaeologists to decipher why ancient people constructed it hundreds of years ago. The "band of holes," as it's informally called, first garnered attention when National Geographic published aerial photos of the site in 1933. But there are no written records relating to the formation, leaving its purpose open to interpretation " and there have been many. Hypotheses about the holes' use have included defense, accounting, storage, gardening, water collection, and fog capturing purposes. People who support ancient astronaut theory, a belief that aliens are real and shaped early civilizations on Earth, have also suggested extraterrestrial connections. Read more
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the US risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health risks to nearby communities, according to a new study.
President Donald Trump's administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria's government to counter violence against Christians, signaling a broader strategy since he ordered preparations for possible military action and warned that the United States could go in "guns-a-blazing" to wipe out Islamic militants.
One of Trump's biggest initiatives, establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency, has has ended in a spectacular failure with the Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor confirming that DOGE no longer exists. DOGE failed to deliver the cuts to government spending that Trump and Elon Musk promised. Governmental rules regarding hiring that were established by the department no longer exist. DOGE employees have been moved around to other departments with some high profile employees now working on non-essential tasks like trying to "beautify" government websites and promoting the scammy TrumpRx.
A local veterinarian has become the second Connecticut resident this year to get charged hundreds of dollars for interstate tolls that belonged to a member of the General Assembly whose legislative license plate was misunderstood by E-Z Pass photo technology.
President Donald Trump faces an unexpected rift in the MAGA movement as Republican officials from statehouses to Capitol Hill warn his full-throated embrace of the tech industry's artificial intelligence boom risks undermining Americans' economic security and exposing their children to new harms.
