President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country’s economy. Trump’s escalation comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off…
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president himself and blunt assessments about his administration’s shortcomings. The profile of Susie Wiles, Trump’s reserved, influential top aide since he resumed office, caused scandal in Washington and…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said early Tuesday it plans to fight back against President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit. The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a 2024 “Panorama” documentary about Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics claim…
President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to…
Gavin Newsom is off and running, eyeing the White House as he enters the far turn and his final year as California governor. The track record for California Democrats and the presidency is not a good one. In the nearly 250 years of these United States, not one Left Coast Democrat has ever been elected…
California’s potential to lead a national Democratic comeback was on full display as party leaders from across the country recently gathered in downtown Los Angeles. But is the party ready to bet on the Golden State? Appearances at the Democratic National Committee meeting by the state’s most prominent Democrats, former Vice President Kamala Harris and…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is facing sharp scrutiny this week over its approach to Venezuela after turning its focus to the beleaguered nation, weighing U.S. military strikes against a Latin American state for the first time in more than 35 years. President Trump scheduled a meeting with top generals and Cabinet officials on the matter at…
MEXICO CITY — Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who prosecutors said “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States, walked out of a West Virginia prison this week a free man. That was thanks to President Trump, who on Monday granted a full pardon to Hernández, the former right-wing leader of Honduras who was serving…
The battle between California and the White House escalated as President Trump signed an executive order to block state laws regulating artificial intelligence. The president’s power move to try to take over control of the regulation of the technology behind ChatGPT through an executive order Thursday was applauded by his allies in Silicon Valley, who…
Five months after joining the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff delivered a floor speech on what he called “the top 10 deals for Donald Trump and the worst deals for the American people.” Schiff spoke of Trump and his family getting rich off cryptocurrency and cutting new development deals across the Middle East, and of the…