The U.S. will ‘very quickly’ reopen its embassy in Venezuela and establish a diplomatic presence on the ground, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ‘We have a team on the ground there assessing it, and we think very quickly we’ll be able to open a U.S. diplomatic presence on the ground,’ Rubio told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. The goal, he said, would be not just to interact with officials on...
The U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News Digital one person was arrested for disrupting Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. The individual was escorted from the hearing room at the Dirksen Senate Office Building as Rubio was about to deliver his opening statement about U.S. policy towards Venezuela. ‘All right, here we go … you know the drill, off to jail,’ Sen. Jim...
The U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News Digital that one person was arrested for disrupting Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. The individual was escorted away from the hearing room at the Dirksen Senate Office Building as Rubio was set to deliver his opening statement about U.S. policy towards Venezuela. ‘All right, here we go… you know the drill, off to jail,’ Sen....
President Donald Trump celebrated the launch of Trump Accounts and issued a challenge to employers across the country to help their workers’ children’s accounts grow. The event on Wednesday featured a star-studded lineup that included Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary and rapper Nicki Minaj, as well as several CEOs. While speaking at an event celebrating Trump Accounts on Wednesday, the president invited Invest America founder Brad Gerstner and Dell CEO Michael Dell on stage to highlight...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he relayed to NATO allies that the U.S. ‘may be the richest country in the world, but we don’t have unlimited resources.’ Rubio made the remark at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy toward Venezuela, during which he spoke about the American military operation to capture former dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. ‘One of the things we’ve explained to our allies in...
The U.S. is not preparing to utilize additional military force in Venezuela, but won’t hesitate to employ such force in the event of an ‘imminent threat,’ according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ‘The president never rules out his options as commander-in-chief to protect the national interest of the United States,’ Rubio told lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. ‘I can tell you right now with full certainty, we are not postured to,...
A new report is warning that the combined war casualties in the nearly four-year Russia-Ukraine war could hit 2 million by spring 2026. The number includes soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of the conflict. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report on Tuesday predicting the grim milestone. CSIS states that Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025. It estimates that...
China’s expanding push into the Pacific Islands is raising alarms among experts, who warn that Beijing is quietly working to establish a foothold in territory long viewed as vital to American defense. Rather than deploying troops or building overt military bases, experts say China is using infrastructure projects, political influence and economic leverage to gain access to strategically sensitive areas across Micronesia, a region tied to the United States through decades-old security agreements. Fox News...
The government will create a new cross-department Future of Work Unit, expand its ambition to upskill 10 million workers in AI by 2030, and invest £27 million in a new TechLocal programme aimed at entry-level tech roles, the Science and Technology Secretary has announced. Delivering her first major speech on artificial intelligence at Bloomberg on Wednesday, Liz Kendall set out how the government intends to position Britain to “win for Britain on AI”, while supporting...
House Republicans are coalescing around progressive ‘Squad’ member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after she was attacked during a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday night. ‘This is totally unacceptable. I am glad Rep. Omar is okay,’ Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., wrote on X in response to a video of the incident. It’s a rare show of bipartisanship in the face of political violence that has become common in recent years amid increasingly volatile rhetoric on...
