1552 articles in the US News category.
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. forces operating with Ecuador near the eastern Pacific shipping lanes intercepted and destroyed commercial vessels the Pentagon says were being used as floating gas stations for boats moving narcotics toward the United States, U.S. Southern Command and officials familiar...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Central Command said Saturday that American forces struck three Iranian crude oil tankers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters. A U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday for more than three hours, then stayed for dinner, in the first Moscow stop of a weekend push Trump said was built around “an idea for peace” in...
By Tommy Flynn
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday that President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces not to strike Kyiv for three days as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow and prepared to travel to the Ukrainian capital. “Putin has ordered that no...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Friday the United States may strike Iran’s underground complex known as Pickaxe Mountain “very soon” if activity is detected there. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after this week’s renewed strikes and his comments on U.S. control of the...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Friday he dispatched special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The pair arrived in Moscow on Saturday and were met at Vnukovo Airport by Kirill Dmitriev, a special representative of...
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President Donald Trump said Friday that MAGA Inc. will allocate about $400 million to $500 million to Republican House and Senate candidates with 60 days remaining before the Nov. 3 midterms. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said, “I think I have like close to a...
By Tommy Flynn
The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in August, far above the 53,000 to 56,000 range that Wall Street surveys had expected. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the August gain was the...
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FBI agents arrested Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, at his apartment in Los Angeles’s Westlake neighborhood Thursday on a federal indictment charging him with threatening to kill President Donald Trump and with cyberstalking and harassing the president’s personal lawyer, Jay...
By Tommy Flynn
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that ICE arrested 50,925 illegal aliens in August, a new monthly high. That figure passed July’s 50,208 and June’s 43,900. It is the third straight month in which ICE set a record and the second month in a row above 50,000....
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said on the Lt. Dan Podcast on Wednesday that if the Senate does not pass the SAVE America Act before the midterms, he will be the last Republican president. “I’ll be the last — think of it, I will be the last Republican president if that happens,” he told Texas...
By Tommy Flynn
Vice President JD Vance took the White House briefing-room lectern Thursday for the first regular press briefing since Karoline Leavitt left the job Aug. 27. No permanent press secretary has been named. Leavitt stepped down to spend more time with her two young children and will...