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The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier.

Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will.

Impeachment: President Trump told House Republicans at a party retreat that they must retain control of the chamber in the midterm elections, saying he expected to face a third impeachment if Democrats retake the majority. “They’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ll get impeached.” He warned about the history of midterms going against the party that holds the White House and said trumpeting his administration’s policies was a “road map to victory.”

President Trump has said since his first term that he wants to acquire Greenland, and he asked aides for an updated plan on Monday. European leaders rejected the president’s assertions.

The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

In a CNN interview, the Trump aide also echoed the president’s intent to run Venezuela as he laid out a case for the United States to control weaker states by flexing its military might.

Nazi wants lebensraum

This is likely to kill far more than the 80 who died in the kidnapping of Maduro

The Trump administration has made no secret that it covets Venezuela’s oil reserves. What happens next could have serious implications for the planet.

Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it.

Last year, before capturing President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it.

A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.

The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations.

Worth noting: those other countries have universal health care, so its possible to do decent screening for risk, and provide necessary care for the kids who do get sick. The US doesn't, so this is a decision to kill a lot of kids.

The Danish prime minister told President Trump to back down after he repeated his threat to acquire Greenland in the wake of the U.S. military raid in Venezuela.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blasted the senator for “seditious” remarks. Mr. Kelly said he had done nothing wrong and cited similar comments by Mr. Hegseth.

The official said the dead included civilians and military personnel. At least one of the civilians was killed in a U.S. airstrike outside of Caracas, according to her family.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration would work with Venezuela’s acting leader, Delcy Rodríguez, a Maduro ally, to get foreign investment into the oil industry.