CIA director meets Venezuela’s acting president in Caracas
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe has traveled to Venezuela to meet with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, becoming the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit the South American country after the U.S. raid that captured former
Trump plans to pardon ex-Puerto Rico Gov. Vázquez in campaign finance violation case, official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said Friday. Vázquez pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities
A Liberian man released after his battering-ram arrest in Minneapolis is back in custody again
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — A Liberian man in Minnesota is back in custody Friday, his lawyer said, a day after a judge ordered him released because federal agents broke down his door to arrest him without a
Trump to pardon former Puerto Rico governor Vazquez, CBS News reports
Jan 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is issuing a pardon to Puerto Rico’s former Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced, who was previously indicted in a federal corruption case, CBS News reported on Friday, citing multiple sources.
Mexican president highlights ‘compelling results’ in crackdown of cartels in face of Trump threats
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that efforts to crack down on Mexican cartels and slow migration north were showing “compelling results” in an effort to head off intervention talk by the Trump
A mistakenly deported Babson student’s lawyer wants a judge to order her return
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge should order the Trump administration to come up with a plan to return a Babson College student mistakenly deported to Honduras just before Thanksgiving, her lawyer said in a court document
Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower
Trump tells Hassett he may want to keep him at White House
WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday praised economic adviser Kevin Hassett at a White House event and said he may want to keep him in his current role, as the president considers his
Cuba launches mass demonstration to decry US attack on Venezuela and demand Maduro’s release
HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former Venezuelan President Nicolás
When Texas Republican John Cornyn became a senator, Bush was president. Will he survive Trump’s GOP?
Sen. John Cornyn stood in the shadow of the U.S.-Mexico border wall for a campaign event, but the Texas Republican didn’t offer the kind of diatribe about illegal immigration that stokes his party’s core and fueled Donald
