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A House Republican is seeking to tighten the screws on the U.S. immigration system in the wake of multiple investigations into alleged fraud within Minnesota’s social services system. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Somalia. Immigrants from those countries currently in the U.S. on refugee status would be forced to self-deport within 180 days of the bill’s...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in an address before Republican lawmakers that first lady Melania Trump is no fan of when he dances in public, calling it ‘not presidential.’ ‘My wife hates when I do this,’ Trump said Tuesday at the Kennedy Center during an address at the House GOP Member Retreat.  ‘She’s a very classy person, right? She said, ‘It’s so unpresidential.’ I said, ‘but I did become president.’ … She hates when I...

Hope Walz, daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, shared why her father decided to drop out of the 2026 gubernatorial race in a wide-ranging podcast interview on Monday. Speaking to ‘One Hour Detours’ host John O’Sullivan just hours after her father announced that he would not seek a third term, Walz said the decision had been made over the winter holidays. ‘I think just with things rapidly changing in the past, you know, month or...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said that President Donald Trump is under the ‘thrall of Lindsey Graham’ following the U.S. operation in Venezuela, according to audio of the remarks by the lawmaker that MeidasTouch’s Acyn Torabi posted on X. Paul said that after the first presidential debate in 2016, the Trump family told him that they liked him and the ‘idea of not being involved in foreign wars.’  ‘It was something I liked about Donald Trump,’...

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, has pledged his ‘unconditional support’ to the newly sworn-in interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, who served as his father’s vice president. ‘My unconditional support for the very hard task you’ve been given,’ Maduro Guerra, often called ‘Nicolasito,’ said, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). ‘Count on me, count on my family, count on our firmness in taking the right steps at the forefront of...

A Miami-area congressman whose district is home to a significant number of Venezuelan refugees says the failed communist state should hold new elections sooner rather than later. ‘It can’t be years, I’ll tell you that right now,’ said Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. ‘This is what these regimes do, they just negotiate for time, try to wait you out, so you weaken your will. So it can’t be — I’m talking months, I am not talking...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday warned about the implications of President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, saying it could be the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 in an interview that Trump’s threats about Greenland should be taken seriously. ‘But I also want to make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops. Including our NATO and...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s wife arrived to court in New York City wearing bandages on her face and complaining of bruises on her ribs, according to her lawyer. Her attorney, veteran prosecutor Mark Donnelly, told the court that Cilia Flores suffered ‘significant injuries’ when U.S. forces raided the couple’s compound in Caracas on Saturday. Donnelly requested that Flores receive a full X-ray to determine whether she fractured a rib in the incident. Flores was already...