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The Trump administration is reportedly planning to hire private military contractors—including possibly the notorious mercenary Erik Prince—to provide security as the US works to secure Venezuela’s massive oil reserves.

CNN reported Thursday that “multiple private security companies are already jockeying to get involved in the US presence in Venezuela” as American oil giants push for physical security guarantees before they back President Donald Trump’s push for $100 billion in investment in the country.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed President Donald Trump's nominee for commander of the U.S. Southern Command after he struggled not to contradict Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about whether it was proper to question the legality of orders.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, Warren sought to clarify why Hegseth has censured Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a retired captain, for "conduct [that] was seditious in nature" after he and other Democrats encouraged troops not to follow illegal orders.

President Donald Trump’s shuttering of USAID last year will have a long-term negative impact on children throughout the world, according to a report released on Thursday by Oxfam.

In its analysis, Oxfam estimates that a child under the age of five could die every 40 seconds by 2030 thanks to the Trump administration’s dismantling of American foreign aid programs.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota because "they hate white people" in the state.

After Trump threatened to use the law to send troops to Minnesota, Bannon opened his Thursday War Room show with a full-throated endorsement of the idea.

Critical comments about Donald Trump that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made in secret grand jury testimony reflect a general belief among GOP lawmakers that the president is delusional to the point that Graham asserted was “unnerving," according to an insider.

Appearing on MS NOW on Thursday morning, ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was asked about the New York Times report that made it clear that supporters of the president also have a surprisingly low opinion of him.

Pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn argued that President Donald Trump's invocation of the Insurrection Act would likely not be enough to end the violence sparked after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were involved in multiple shootings in Minneapolis.

Flynn spoke to Real America's Voice on Thursday, just hours after Trump threatened to deploy troops under the Insurrection Act.

An attempt to make a point about how Donald Trump’s administration is dealing with crime in the cities, which has become a pretext for invading Minnesota with ICE agents, earned Axios founder Jim VandeHei an abrupt interruption from MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday morning.

Discussing the heightened tensions in Minneapolis–St Paul that now have the president threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, the “Morning Joe” co-host turned to VandeHei, who attempted a nuanced answer that did not sit well with Brzezinski.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly laid out why he's so obsessed with buying or even annexing Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark: he wants to fully secure U.S. military bases there — something NATO already allows — he wants access to the island's mineral resources, and he is fixated on the idea Russia or China could take over the island.

But even if, somehow, Denmark had a change of heart and made a deal, or if Trump broke apart the NATO alliance to seize Greenland by force, there's something he hasn't considered, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote: how expensive it would be to have Greenland as a U.S. holding.