For months, many Canadians hoped Donald Trump had lost interest in making their country the 51st U.S. state — his plate full with turning Washington and the global trading system upside down.

Those hopes are fading.

The shock capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s ramped-up talk of seizing Greenland have rattled Canada...Read more

President Donald Trump’s demand that credit card lenders cap interest rates at 10% for a year takes aim at one of the banking industry’s crown jewels — a business line they guard doggedly.

After a week of jarring markets with announcements aimed at making homes more affordable, the president swiveled to another consumer burden: the cost ...Read more

While the world has been consumed by the geopolitical ramifications of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a struggle is playing out over who will represent the ousted leader in his criminal case in New York.

When Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty in the narco-terrorism case during a brief court appearance Monday, he ...Read more

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Giancarlo Brugnolo moved to Cherry Hill’s Woodcrest neighborhood in 2014, but it wasn’t until last year that he heard about the centuries-old cemetery just a stone’s throw away from his house. When friends first mentioned it, he assumed they were joking.

“I was like, ‘What are you talking about? What graveyard?�...Read more

In explaining the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump accused Maduro and his wife of conducting a "campaign of deadly narco-terrorism against the United States and its citizens," and Maduro of being "the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Federal judges in Philadelphia have ruled dozens of times against a Trump administration policy that mandates detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants — joining a nationwide wave of decisions criticizing the government for applying the policy in unlawful ways.

In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, effective Jan. 20, without specifying details.

“Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be “ripped off” by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Major U.S. oil executives expressed caution about President Donald Trump’s push for them to spend at least $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela, with the head of Exxon Mobil Corp. calling the nation currently “uninvestable.”

Trump convened nearly 20 industry representatives in the East Room of the White House on Friday and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A U.S. judge said the federal murder trial of Luigi Mangione may begin later this year, but the date will depend on whether she allows prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against him for the killing of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson.

U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett said Friday during a hearing in ...Read more

In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Donald Trump's remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera's board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971.

"Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel selected Christopher Raia, a career counterterrorism official who led the investigation into the 2025 New Orleans New Year’s attack, as co-deputy director of the bureau.

Raia most recently served as assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office, one of the bureau’s most prominent ...Read more

Nick Reiner, accused in the brutal slayings of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner, allegedly believes he’s the victim of a “conspiracy,” according to a new documentary.

In TMZ’s “The Reiner Murders: What Really Happened,” airing Friday night on Fox and streaming Saturday on Hulu, sources say the 32-year-old knows he killed his ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Federal prosecutors want disgraced former GOP state Rep. RJ May to spend 20 years in prison for distributing child porn on the internet, according to filings made ahead of his Jan. 14 sentencing.

Twenty years is near the maximum May could get based on the charges against him and federal prison sentencing guidelines. The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Good on a south Minneapolis street served in a multitude of law enforcement roles during a two-decade career that also included military service.

Federal court records show Jonathan Ross’ career includes U.S. military experience and mostly high-level ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Parents, neighbors and school staffers are ramping up mobilization efforts to stand guard outside schools as thousands of federal immigration agents descend on the Twin Cities.

While parent-teacher organizations have organized watches outside schools during pick-up and drop-off times for months, the ICE killing of Renee Nicole ...Read more

DETROIT — Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday evening to passionately and peacefully protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to mourn a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent.

Assembled at Clark Park in southwest Detroit, protesters carried signs and chanted slogans critical of President Donald Trump and his aggressive ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Opening arguments in a Stanford felony vandalism case began Friday amid sharp disputes over whether political views tied to Israel’s war in Gaza should factor into the trial — an issue that has shaped the case from its earliest stages.

Almost two years after 13 people were arrested for allegedly damaging Stanford ...Read more

SpaceX knocked out Friday the first of a series of afternoon launches in the coming week with another Starlink mission from Florida's Cape Canaveral.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-96 mission with 29 more of the internet satellites lifted off at 4:41 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

This was ...Read more