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'Conspicuously absent': JD Vance reportedly waiting for MAGA reaction to latest Trump move

Vice President JD Vance has been noticeably quiet about the United States attack on Venezuela and capture of its leader Nicolás Maduro, and that could point to something else at play, according to an analyst.

Vance has released only commented once since the "military incursion in Venezuela" and it could have to do with interest in a 2028 presidential run, Salon's Heather Digby Parton wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday.

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FBI investigating ICE protest organizers after Minneapolis shooting: Kash Patel

FBI Director Kash Patel told Real America's Voice host John Solomon that his agency was targeting organizations exercising their free speech rights by funding protests following Wednesday's killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

"Just talked a little bit ago to the FBI," Solomon told MAGA influencer Steve Bannon on Thursday. "I got a statement directly from Kash Patel, the FBI director."

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'Because they're stupid': Trump admin called out for 'screwing' GOP lawmakers on childcare

Donald Trump’s decision to withhold childhood care funds from the multiple jurisdictions, which will hurt his own supporters, was pilloried by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul during an appearance on MS NOW Thursday morning.

Brought on to discuss her proposal to expand free and subsidized child care in her state, the governor was asked about her dealings with the Trump administration and gave the relationship a thumbs down.

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Conservative former judge admits ICE agent 'should be' charged with the killing of woman

Conservative former Judge Andrew Napolitano argued that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent should be charged after shooting Renee Nicole Good to death in Minneapolis.

In a Thursday interview on Newsmax, Napolitano pointed out that Good appeared to be trying to steer away from the agent when he shot her through the windshield of her vehicle.

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Trump stumbles over his words when cornered by reporters on false ICE shooting claims

An evasive Trump told reporters on Thursday that the American citizen shot and killed by ICE "behaved horribly," but stumbled when reporters pressed him harder.

As news of the fatal shooting of an observer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis began to spark outrage and protests, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to defend the officers' actions and falsely claim that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, was driving toward officers or even that an officer was hospitalized, none of which appears to be true from reporting or video footage.

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Woman shot by ICE was 'leading an insurrection': MAGA host

Pro-MAGA host Steve Gruber argued that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis to death because she was "leading an insurrection."

During an appearance on Real America's Voice, Gruber reflected on Wednesday's killing of Renee Nicole Good.

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'Stood out to me': Reporter flags 'significant' answer from new Trump interview

CNN's Alayna Treene highlighted a "significant" comment made by President Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times about his administration's plans for Venezuela.

The 79-year-old president told the New York Times during a nearly two-hour interview he expected the U.S. to run Venezuela for the foreseeable future and praised the interim government, which is made up of loyalists of ousted leader Nicolás Maduro, for so far “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”

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Ex-Border Patrol official hammers Kristi Noem and her team for 'cruelty' after ICE killing

A former Border Patrol commissioner laid into the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday morning, claiming the shooting death of an innocent 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis by an ICE agent should never have happened.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Gil Kerlikowske lamented the “level of cruelty,” that has risen dramatically under Donald Trump’s administration and pointed the finger at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski among others.

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'Trump has scrambled' health care talks as his abortion stance backfires: reporter

President Donald Trump has "scrambled" the bipartisan congressional talks on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reported on Thursday — by pushing Republicans to make a concession many of them aren't willing to make.

For over a month now, Democrats and Republicans have both agreed to the broad outlines of a deal on the subsidies, which expired at the end of last year after a dramatic shutdown standoff and have resulted in millions of people facing higher health care premiums across the country, particularly in a handful of Republican-controlled states. The idea is to extend the subsidies for two years, but put stricter limits on income, and get rid of $0 premium plans the GOP believes invite a risk of fraud.

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'Protection money': Nobel Prize winner says Trump's new moves are 'enriching his clique'

Donald Trump has been accused of "enriching his clique" by a Nobel Prize winner who says recent administration actions are attempts at "glorifying" the president.

Paul Krugman suggested Trump is using Venezuela and Greenland as a chance to bolster not the country, but himself and his inner circle. Writing in his Substack, the award-winning economist claimed, "Add in the cost of munitions expended during the Maduro abduction, and the whole adventure has surely cost more than a billion dollars."

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This action before ICE killing blows apart key claim by Trump and Noem: journalist

A fuming Jonathan Lemire thoroughly dismantled what he determined to be lies by Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi about the point-blank killing of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday by an ICE agent, an incident which has set off a national outcry.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” the panel repeatedly showed the clip of the killing of Good by an agent who did not appear to be in danger, which also led Noem to call the victim a “domestic terrorist.”

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'Not happening': GOP lawmakers balk at Trump's start-of-year policy demands

President Donald Trump has dived headlong into the new year with a list of policy demands — but it's already apparent at least some of them are going to be rejected by House Republicans, even as the chamber has shown him a great deal of loyalty up to this point.

According to Politico, Trump "fired off a flurry of ultimatums and declarations on Wednesday, first calling for Congress to ban large investors from acquiring single-family homes, a proposal expected to be included in an upcoming executive order addressing affordability" — then demanded that defense contractors be prohibited from issuing stock buybacks and dividends and have their executive pay capped at $5 million, in response to delays in contracts, and called in Congress to increase the defense budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.

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Trump overseeing 'rogue state' that 'demands compliance' from the world: columnist

Donald Trump is overseeing a "rogue state" administration which "demands compliance" from countries all over the world, a political analyst has suggested.

The president's desire to take over Greenland and run the oil refineries in Venezuela has prompted columnist Aditya Chakrabortty to suggest Trump is making theatrics the aim of his second term in office. Writing in The Guardian, Chakrabortty called on political parties the world over to condemn the administration as "a rogue state".

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