Author: Ryan Mancini

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery revealed President Trump’s new photographic portrait, but also removed most of the adjoining text that mentions his two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The White House shared a photo of the updated “America’s Presidents” exhibit across its social media accounts on…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday said it’s no “problem” for the U.S. to pay off tariff refunds if the Supreme Court rules against President Trump’s tariffs. “It won’t be a problem if we have to do it, but I can tell you that if it happens — which I don’t think it’s going to…

Thousands of protesters rallied across the country on Saturday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after an officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Minneapolis saw tens of thousands of people march the city streets, Time reported. Protests and vigils have been ongoing since Wednesday night. Minneapolis police said 30 people who were protesting Friday night were detained. Over 100 people protested outside Austin City Hall in Texas, CBS Austin reported. Protester Linda Miller held a sign that called on ICE to be defunded. “This is like 1930s Germany, and it’s only going to get worse,”…

President Trump on Saturday said he hopes political prisoners released in Venezuela “remember how lucky they got” in the week after U.S. strikes ousted President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S. to face charges. “Venezuela has started the process, in a BIG WAY, of releasing their political prisoners,” Trump wrote on Truth Social….

Hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis earlier this week. The anger among demonstrators grew even more Thursday, after reports emerged of a separate shooting involving Border Patrol in Portland, Ore., which left…

President Trump on Wednesday spoke on the phone with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, days after issuing threats toward the South American country in the wake of U.S. strikes on Venezuela that ended with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. A White House official confirmed the call with White House correspondent Kellie Meyer at NewsNation….

Americans are divided on the Trump administration’s operation on Saturday that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll released Monday. Pollsters found that 36 percent of Americans “strongly or somewhat support” Maduro’s ousting, while 39 percent “strongly or somewhat oppose” it. Twenty-five percent said they were not sure. Democrats were…

President Trump on Saturday said the operation in Venezuela, which culminated with strikes on the capital and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, were part of what he coined the “Don-roe Doctrine.” Trump said under Maduro, Venezuela hosted “foreign adversaries in our region and acquiring menacing offensive weapons that could threaten U.S. interests and…

President Trump on Friday shared an AI-generated image mocking Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), the latest in his feud with the governor since his return to the White House almost one year ago. The image shared on Truth Social depicts Pritzker in a city, surrounded by flames and homeless encampments around him, with people lying…

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said congressional lawmakers are retiring because “nothing is happening” on Capitol Hill. “If nothing’s being accomplished — because they are making a sacrifice, they’re being away from their family, sometimes it’s a long travel, you get harassed, you get death threats, all the different things — but you’re…