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Trump says US military killed Tren de Aragua leader in 'swift and lethal' strike

The U.S. launched a military strike against the leader of a Venezuelan prison gang, Trump announced in a Truth Social post.

"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua," Trump wrote.

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World Cup watchers loudly boo US during National Anthem

World Cup audiences showed their anger with the United States by booing renditions of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Canadian spectators at a watch party jeered nonstop during the U.S. National Anthem at the opening of the U.S. versus Paraguay match in Los Angeles, according to a social media video.

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'I fear she's no longer alive': Woman missing 11 years surfaces in Epstein files

A young woman missing for nearly 11 years has resurfaced in Jeffrey Epstein's files, her name pitched to the convicted sex offender by an alleged recruiter now under investigation in France for human trafficking.

A Der Spiegel and ZDF investigation published Friday identifies the woman only as Michele — her last name withheld at her family's request — who was 22 when she walked out of her mother's home in September 2015 and never came back. Her parents only learned her name was in the Epstein documents when reporters told them.

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Furious Trump fans freak out over latest Iran backtrack: 'Let them die screaming in fire'

An announcement by Donald Trump that he is on the verge of a peace deal with Iran that preempted what was expected to be a major bombing campaign was not greeted with universal approval by members of his MAGA base.

Late Thursday, the president took to his Truth Social platform to write, “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening.”

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'Utter humiliation' awaits Trump as details of latest Iran deal leak: expert

Should a desperate Donald Trump sign off on the latest deal with Iran that led him to call off a major attack late Thursday, he would suffer a “major humiliation” based on leaked details.

That is according to Insider editor Michael Weiss, who appeared on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning and claimed that the president has come to the realization that he was duped into the whole endeavor.

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Trump threatens to snatch city if mayoral candidate wins: 'We won’t put up with it'

President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed he would take over Washington, D.C. if the mayoral candidate he doesn't want to win gets elected, according to The Washington Post.

Trump made it clear for the first time that he was opposed to democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George winning the Democratic primary next week.

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​'Highly emotional man': CNBC's Jim Cramer rips Trump as Iran war drives up prices

CNBC's Jim Cramer had strong words for President Donald Trump while talking about the economic pressures brought on by the Iran war.

"Is the president stepping it up in order to end the war? Or is he just stepping it out because he's had it?" Cramer asked during an appearance on "Squawk on the Street," where he spoke about inflation from the conflict. "That's the question, because he is a highly emotional man that's running a military."

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'But — but Iran!' Trump's rigged-election rant hijacks Fox News war interview

Asked Thursday about bombing Iran's civilian water supply on Fox News, Donald Trump launched into a minutes-long rant about rigged elections instead.

Brian Kilmeade, the Fox News host who fielded Trump's call-in, had framed the water strike in approving terms — describing the U.S. campaign as an "Anaconda" strategy squeezing Iran into submission. But when he pointed out that American strikes had hit a water facility serving a population already running out of water, Trump changed the subject.

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'They're tired of this': Fox & Friends host delivers blunt warning about MAGA and Trump

A loyal Fox News booster of President Donald Trump told the network's own war correspondent Thursday that MAGA viewers were done with his war of choice.

Ainsley Earhardt raised the alarm during a live Fox & Friends update from chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, who had just gotten off a phone call with President Donald Trump — placed from the Situation Room as U.S. strikes on Iran were still underway.

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Trump mocked on CNN for 'flat-out untrue' claim about 'secret' oil movements in Iran

President Donald Trump proclaimed on Wednesday that he executed a "secret mission" in the Strait of Hormuz that saw 100 million barrels of oil make safe passage through the crucial shipping artery — but ranking House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) cried foul on this on CNN, saying none of it made any sense.

Following the clip, anchor Erin Burnett appeared genuinely confused about exactly what Trump was trying to say.

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WSJ warns Trump he's 'dancing to Iran's tune' and needs a strategy shakeup

President Donald Trump has put himself in a "weak" position in his war against Iran, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in an analysis published on Wednesday.

"For nine weeks, the cease-fire has let Iran dictate events in the Gulf," wrote the board. The way things have progressed, they argued, Iran itself "gets to start each 'skirmish' — shooting at U.S. forces, U.S. allies, or commercial ships — and then decide when the exchange ends," all while attacking Israel through its Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon and using the conflict there as "an excuse to stall talks with the U.S."

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Trump wishes 'peace for the world' for his birthday minutes after vow to blow up Iran

In four minutes on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump promised to bomb Iran and wished for world peace.

At 11:50, gathered in the Oval Office for the signing of a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, President Donald Trump turned to reporters with a warning about Iran. "We hit them hard yesterday, and we're gonna hit them again hard today — in case you miss it, in case you don't turn on your television set," he said.

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Trump drops ominous threat as Iran talks fail: 'Now they will have to pay the price!'

President Donald Trump boasted that Iran has been "completely defeated" as the U.S. trades strikes with the Middle Eastern nation.

U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday evening that it had conducted "self-defense strikes" in response to the downing of an Army helicopter the previous day, which prompted Trump to threaten a response, and he rejected Iran's claims that the strikes had disputed the diplomatic process by violating the ceasefire.

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