The U.S. Senate has advanced a war powers resolution limiting President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further strikes in Venezuela. Five Republicans voted with Democrats to advance the resolution, with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, Todd Young, R-Ind., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., crossing the aisle. The legislation would require Trump to gain approval from Congress before conducting any strikes on Venezuela.
Trump ally Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) made a stunning declaration when he told Newsmax that only by obeying commands from federal agents do you "get to keep your life."
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized defense contractor Raytheon (RTX.N) , opens new tab on Wednesday for what he called the company's slow response to the demands of the U.S. military and threatened to cut its government contracts if the firm did not restrict stock buybacks. "Also, if Raytheon wants further business with the United States Government, under no circumstances will they be allowed to do any additional Stock Buybacks, where they have spent Tens of Billions of Dollars, until they are able to get their act together," Trump wrote on social media.
Minnesota leaders are calling on the federal government to allow state investigators to probe the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis, after the FBI took sole ownership of the probe. "The FBI informed the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] that the U.S. Attorney's Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI," said the state's top investigative agency. Gov. Tim Walz pushed back on the federal government on Jan. 8, saying, "Minnesota must be part of this investigation." State Attorney General Keith Ellison also addressed federal authorities during a CNN interview: "My question is, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of an independent investigation for?"
The top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI have shown themselves again and again to be beholden to the president, spending most of their days fawning over him and trying to stay in the good graces of his White House. They have demonstrated no independence of thought or action from this president. They do not have their employees' backs. They have eviscerated the expertise within their ranks, decimating crucial units like the Civil Rights Division. The aftermath of yesterday's shooting only reinforced how dire the situation is. Trump didn't just comment on the evidence. He and his administration lied about it, twisted it, and propagandized about it. They publicly reached ultimate conclusions about guilt and innocence. They repeatedly savaged the woman killed, calling her a "domestic terrorist":
A federal judge on Thursday disqualified the Trump loyalist top prosecutor in upstate New York and tossed subpoenas his office has issued to state Attorney General Letitia James. It's the latest in a wave of rulings that have rejected the administration's effort to install U.S. attorneys while sidestepping the Senate confirmation process.
The Senate dealt a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump in a Thursday vote to advance legislation opposing further military action in Venezuela, demonstrating formidable political opposition to a foreign intervention that has yet to cost the life of a single US service member. Five Republicans crossed party lines to join with all Democrats on the procedural vote to rein in Trump, after senators in both parties complained about a lack of consultation with Congress before Trump ordered the military to seize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage from Minneapolis raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem. Read more
A state-by-state health report card, out today from the United Health Foundation, finds an array of encouraging signs for America: Rates for premature death, drug deaths, firearm deaths and homicides all fell. Rates of cancer screenings, physical activity and volunteerism all increased.
But rates of e-cigarette use and multiple chronic conditions increased. Homelessness and unemployment " socioeconomic factors that help determine the nation's health " rose.
Why it matters: America's Health Rankings " from the United Health Foundation, established by UnitedHealth Group " synthesize 99 measures of health and well-being, drawn from 31 data sources, to produce a "comprehensive portrait of health at both the national and state levels."
More Canadians are considering selling their Florida homes and fewer of them are looking to buy property in the US.
The first definitive evidence of poisoned arrowheads came from the mid-Holocene, in an Egyptian tomb dated to about 4,400 years ago and in a South African cave dating to about 6,700 years ago. In both cases, the arrows had been tipped with toxic plant compounds in what's considered by the study authors "a hallmark of advanced hunter-gatherer technology." But now, researchers from the University of Stockholm and the University of Johannesburg have detected traces of natural poison on five of 10 arrow tips collected from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the first direct evidence of poison applied to Pleistocene hunting weapons, the discovery backs up the timing of human use of poisoned arrows by orders of magnitude, to about 60,000 years ago. Read more
Governor Tim Walz (D): "To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough ... I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary."
The victim of a fatal ICE shooting has been identified as a 37-year-old mother with a now-orphaned 6-year-old son. Renee Nicole Good was identified by her mother, Donna Ganger, in an interview with the Star Tribune as the woman killed on a residential Minneapolis street on Wednesday. "She was probably terrified," Ganger told the outlet, before insisting her daughter is "not part of anything like that at all," referring to protesters confronting ICE agents. Officials have not identified the ICE agent who fired three shots into her vehicle, killing her. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as President Donald Trump, accused Good of trying to run over multiple ICE agents before she was gunned down"but video disputes their account.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. should bar large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, arguing that corporate ownership has helped push housing further out of reach for everyday Americans. "For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans," Trump said in a Truth Social post Wednesday.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington state law to prohibit defendants who represent themselves from directly questioning their accusers. Redwolf Pope, who had apartments in Seattle and Santa Fe, New Mexico, was arrested in 2018 after guests at his Seattle apartment gave police videos from his iPad that showed him raping several women who appeared to be unconscious, court documents said. Police also found a secret camera in Pope's bathroom that was used to capture video of women in the shower. Read more
