At a White House meeting of petroleum industry executives, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told Donald Trump that Venezuela is "uninvestable" after he was asked how long it would take his multibillion dollar corporation to restart operations there.
Vice President JD Vance announced that ICE will expand enforcement by conducting doortodoor deportations, hiring thousands of new agents and private "skip tracers," and building large detention facilities. Democrats and recent polls criticize the strategy as excessive and potentially unconstitutional.
President Trump on Thursday laid into Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) with a "profanity-laced" phone call after she supported a Democratic-led war powers resolution over his actions in Venezuela. According to two sources familiar, a fuming Trump dialed up Collins, the foremost Senate GOP centrist, during the vote aimed at blocking the White House from using military force against Venezuela. "He called her and then basically read her the riot act," one Senate GOP member told The Hill, describing it as a "profanity-laced rant" on Trump's end.
US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the USDA will suspend millions of dollars in financial awards to the State of Minnesota and City of Minneapolis in response to fraud investigations in the state.
Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to acquire Greenland, saying the US is "going to do something [there] whether they like it or not".
Speaking at a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House, the US president justified his comments by saying: "If we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor."
He added: "So we're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way."
Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Symbols of the state have been defaced or set on fire, and it feels now that many are no longer afraid of the regime. Read more
Now, Mr. Brin and Mr. Page are cutting some ties with the state where they made their fortunes. In the 10 days before Christmas, an entity connected to Mr. Brin, 52, terminated or moved 15 California limited liability companies that oversee some of his business interests and investments out of the state, according to documents seen by The New York Times. Seven of the companies " including those that appear to manage one of Mr. Brin's superyachts and his interest in a private air terminal at San Jose's international airport " were converted into Nevada entities. Read more
Sweet child in time
You'll see the line The line that's drawn between Good and bad
See the blind man Shooting at the world
Bullets flying, Ohh taking toll
If you've been bad Oh Lord I bet you have And you've not been hit Oh by flying lead You'd better close your eyes Ooohhhh bow your head Wait for the ricochet
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Tucker Carlson has joined the multitude of conservatives with commentary on the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed on Wednesday in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. However, the former Fox News host had a starkly different reaction than many of his peers.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The killing of a US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis was a five-alarm fire for the Trump administration. But a torrent of untruths, half-truths, smears and innuendo has been unleashed by the White House, and amplified by its social media and cable television acolytes, in an attempt to douse the flames.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, called the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, a "stone cold liar" on Thursday for her efforts to falsely portray the victim, Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and award-winning poet, as a "domestic terrorist".
The Kennedy Center will host the Jan. 29 premiere of "Melania," the eponymous documentary focused on First Lady Melania Trump, making it the latest event linked to the president's interests to make its way to the newly Trump-branded performing arts center. The announcement was made by Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell in an X post on Thursday. President Donald Trump and the first lady will attend the premiere, according to Fox News. The Jan. 29 event will be one of 20 pre-release screenings that day for the Brett Ratner documentary, before its Jan. 30 wide release. The film will then stream on Prime Video as part of Amazon's reportedly $40 million deal for the doc and a follow-up docuseries. Melania unveiled the film's trailer last month.
Again, this is awful, but it is disingenuous at best to frame what happened simply as though Good was a mother killed by an ICE officer as she was out for a leisurely Sunday drive. Good was directly interfering with federal law enforcement operations and posed a threat, namely because she was driving a massive vehicle. This does not mean that she "deserved" to die or that the ICE agent should have employed lethal force. It just means I can see how the agent fired upon her car, and I am struggling to understand why Good was interfering with ICE agents.
Incredible news for California's water supply entering the new year - not a single square mile of California is categorized as dry for the first time in 25 years, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption. ICE, said Ellison, is all but telling people, "You want to defend your neighbors, you're going to do it at the risk of your own life.' I think that's the unmistakable message. Just looking at the tape, they could have said, You get out of here,' right? And then she gets out of there. They didn't want her to get out of there. They wanted to either drag her out of that car or do what they did. And it was all about teaching lessons."
Kentucky Republican legislator Shane Baker (R-Somerset) wants to limit eligibility for almost all elected offices in Kentucky to only natural-born US citizens.
