The United States has seized another sanctioned tanker in an effort to control the flow of oil in and out of Venezuela. The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the Olina tanker, the fifth vessel to be seized in recent days. The operation, part of Joint Task Force Southern Spear, was conducted early Friday in the Caribbean […]

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has declared a “Day of Unity” in Minnesota on Friday to remember Renee Good, the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. Walz’s announcement came just after he authorized the National Guard to assist law enforcement if needed, as demonstrators took to the streets in the […]

The number of employees on the federal government’s payroll has dropped by 277,000 since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.  The agency said in its monthly jobs report that federal employment was 2.738 million in November, adjusted for seasonal variations, down from 3.015 million in […]

President Donald Trump has confirmed he will welcome Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to the White House next week after U.S. forces captured the South American country’s authoritarian leader and brought him to New York to face trial on federal charges. “I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to […]