Tag: Donald Trump

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, right, shakes hands with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, during a meeting at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Russia and Venezuela agreed to broaden their oil production cooperation, Russia's Lavrov said from Caracas. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Venezuela raid is about the oil — keeping it from Russia and China

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 9, 2026 5:15 am

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, left, and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez hold up vote tally sheets from the top of a truck during a protest against the official presidential election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, two days after the election. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

Maduro operation shows Trump administration wasn’t planning wholesale regime change

Mike Brest · January 9, 2026 5:00 am

New construction homes are seen on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Happy Valley, Ore.

Trump plan to bar institutional investors from homebuying faces free-market skepticism

Zach Halaschak · January 9, 2026 5:00 am

This combination of pictures created on January 06, 2026 shows Greenland's Head of Government Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 8, 2025) and US President Donald Trump (at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025). Greenland's prime minister on January 5, 2026 called for renewed talks with the US after President Donald Trump repeated that he wanted to annex the mineral-rich Arctic territory. "The situation is not such that the United States can conquer Greenland. That is not the case. Therefore, we must not panic. We must restore the good cooperation we once had," Jens-Frederik Nielsen said, adding "we must try to re-establish contact". (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN and ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s Caligulan grab for Greenland

Dan Hannan · January 9, 2026 4:57 am

Nasrulah Mohamed, the manager of the daycare, speaks during a press conference at Nokomis Daycare Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. The daycare was broken into and vandalized around 3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. The burglar stole sensitive employee and client documents as well. The break-in comes several days after a YouTube video by right-wing influencer Nick Shirley went viral; the video alleged that a group of day care centers operated by Somalis in Minneapolis has misappropriated “upwards of $100 million.” (Photo by Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Grifters and grafters

Dominic Green · January 9, 2026 4:44 am

María Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela on Jan. 9, 2025, a day ahead of Maduro’s inauguration. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

María Corina Machado beat out Trump for the Nobel, but may have lost the bigger prize

Jamie McIntyre · January 9, 2026 4:27 am

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (second from right) repeats the oath of office at his fourth inauguration on the rear porch of the White House on Jan. 20, 1945. (AP Photo)

Trump’s grudging acknowledgment of the presidential two-term limit still raises concerns

Frederic J. Frommer · January 9, 2026 4:18 am

Education Secretary Linda McMahon meets with students and staff as she begins her 50-state “History Rocks!” initiative.(Courtesy of Linda Mcmahon staff)

Linda McMahon hits the road: Promoting patriotism and dismantling the Education Department

Salena Zito · January 9, 2026 4:09 am

President Donald Trump speaks to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat.

Trump says US will start ‘hitting land’ in pursuit of drug cartels

Washington Examiner Staff · January 9, 2026 4:07 am

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Molly Riley/The White House/AP)

Why Trump trained his sights on Venezuela

Sean Durns · January 9, 2026 4:05 am

At left, a detail from an engraving of the beheading of France’s King Louis XVI during the Terror of 1793; at right, a Ukrainian soldier checks the skies for Russian drones in the heavily damaged Donetsk town of Kostyantynivka, Nov. 12, 2025. (left, Roger-Viollet/Getty; right, Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade/AP)

Washington’s echo: America and Europe at a crossroads once more

Daniel Ross Goodman · January 9, 2026 4:02 am

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks

Trump says only his ‘own morality’ limits presidential powers, dismissing international law

Ross O'Keefe · January 8, 2026 11:25 pm