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Elliot Abrams, President Donald Trump’s former special representative for Venezuela, “voiced incredulity” over the president’s Venezuela policy, NBC News reports.Trump earlier this month announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife at their home in Caracas by a

American hedge fund manager and billionaire Bill Ackman took to X on Saturday to comment on President Donald Trump's claim that he would cap all credit card interest rates at 10 percent as of Jan. 20, 2026. However, a former Ronald Reagan Cabinet secretary encouraged Ackman to stop sucking up to Trump. "I think President @realDonaldTrump’s goal of reducing credit card interest rates is a worthy and important one. My concern about capping rates at 10 percent is that doing so will inevitably cause millions of Americans to have their cards cancelled as credit card companies lose the ability to adequately price subprime credit risk," Ackman wrote. "Consumers denied credit cards will be forced to turn to loan sharks whose rates and terms will be vastly worse for borrowers. While 2

President Donald Trump threatened Cuba on Sunday morning via his Truth Social account and now Cuba is responding. In a post, he wrote, "Cuba lived, for my years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!""THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA — ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT," the president added.Reuters national security reporter Phil Stewart wrote on X that later Sunday morning, Cuba responded with its own statement on Trump's threat.Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel told Reute

A New York lawyer facing off against President Donald Trump's administration revealed that a judge he appeared before was not happy with the Justice Department's lawyers. In a video he posted to Instagram, Michael Foote said, "Even the judges are over ICE right now." Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are spread out across the U.S. as part of an operation to remove immigrants and children born to immigrants. "They were not having any of ICE's bulls—— in court this morning," Foote said. "Every one of my objections: sustained. Every time I subjected, overruled. All of my stipulations were accepted into the record. No ques

NBC News' Kristen Welker pressed Tom Homan on a $50,000 bribe he accepted in 2024 and what happened to the money he was given. Homan, President Donald Trump's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, was involved in a contracts-for-cash scheme that was part of a sting operation MSNBC reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian reported in September that Homan was part of an investigation into a private-prison contracts scheme involving his former I

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made news on Sunday after an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, who pulled frank answers from her that viewers found shocking or, at the very least, hypocritical.At one point, Tapper called out Noem for obfuscating after he asked about the investigation into last week's fatal shooting by an ICE agent. "I don't actually even know what you're talking about when I ask questions as if that's an assertion," Tapper said. It's a question: How can you make a conclusion before an investigation, and there really isn't an answer other than you saw the video."Tapper then played a clip of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and asked Noem about her claim that Pr

President Donald Trump is quickly losing support from those in his home state of Florida. Bloomberg opinion columnist Mary Ellen Klas penned a Sunday piece where she revealed that many of the people she knows who are supporters of Trump are privately uncomfortable with his actions in the first year. The Florida resident described the MAGA voters "queasy" over "brazen corruption" coming out of the second Trump administration. The invasion of Venezuela is the most recent example. While ousting former President Nicolás Maduro was supported overwhelmingly by both sides of t

President Donald Trump has managed to appoint judges to top courts that are now voting overwhelmingly to support his actions in office, whether or not they're legal. The New York Times reported Sunday that a review of the 2025 court records shows that appellate judges are voting 92 percent of the time in favor of Trump and his policies. They have reversed lower court rulings while "gradually eroding a perception early last year that the legal system was thwarting his efforts to amass presidential power," the report said. The Time

It has been a little over a week since President Donald Trump invaded Venezuela, captured one of its political leaders, and began an operation to seize its oil. One of Trump's former officials warned that the plot is backfiring. In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, cautioned that the president shouldn't let concerns about oil overshadow the toppling of Nicolás Maduro’s regime. While Maduro was seized and taken to the U.S., the rest of his government remains in charge of Venezuela. Maduro was voted out of office in 2024. The leading candidate, María Corina Machado, was blocked from running altogether. Trump completely dismissed the idea of w

U.K. officials met with their European counterparts from Germany and France to begin a mission deploying troops to the Arctic for President Donald Trump. The Telegraph reported Sunday that the military is "drawing up plans" now for a possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mission on the Danish island that the U.S. president has said he "needs" for national security purposes. While Trump has claimed that he would buy the island, his top aide, Stephen Miller, said that Greenland has only 30,000 people who live there, and claimed no one would fight the U.S. if it invaded.