Trump says he’ll overhaul FEMA or perhaps eliminate it
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President Donald Trump fired again at Colombia with “emergency 25 percent tariffs” and various “decisive retaliatory measures” after the nation’s president, Gustavo Petro, blocked two repatriation flights from touchdown.
He added {that a} journey ban and visa revocations might be imposed on Colombian authorities officers, in addition to “all allies and supporters.”
This comes after Petro stated in a sequence of posts on X that Colombia wouldn’t settle for army deportation flights from the U.S. till the Trump White Home units up a course of to deal with Colombian migrants with “dignity and respect.”
“I do not authorize the entry of North American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory,” Petro stated on X. “The U.S. must establish a protocol of dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them.”
In the meantime, the fallout of Trump’s actions towards any range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) efforts inside the federal authorities continues.
The Air Power is eradicating coaching programs that included movies of its Tuskegee Airmen and the Ladies Airforce Service Pilots, the feminine World Conflict II pilots who ferried warplanes for the army. This comes as companies and departments scramble to adjust to Trump’s crackdown on DEI efforts.
Zelensky’s man in DC: Ukraine president’s plan to persuade Trump to assist the struggle towards Russia
Issues that Donald Trump could also be ready to ditch America’s assist for Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky are incorrect, insiders have claimed.
Individuals working with the newly put in White Home administration level to the presence of one among Zelensky’s key allies at a spot of honour at President Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
David Arakhamia, the Ukrainian parliamentary group chief of Zelensky’s Servant of the Individuals Social gathering, was afforded a uncommon place within the Capitol rotunda to witness the inauguration on Monday. He has since advised Ukrainian media that he now expects a proper Ukrainian delegation to fulfill with the US president subsequent month.
David Maddox26 January 2025 21:00
Trump says he needs to ‘clean out’ Gaza as he restarts coverage to provide Israel new bombs
President Donald Trump stated he want to see Gaza “just cleaned out,” permitting a clear slate for the war-torn area on the again of the ceasefire deal.
Trump referred to as for Jordan, Egypt and different Arab nations to extend the variety of Palestinian refugees they’re accepting. His hope is that they take sufficient to permit the world to begin anew.
Trump has constructed his political profession round being unapologetically pro-Israel. On his bigger imaginative and prescient for Gaza, Trump advised reporters on Air Power One he had name earlier within the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would communicate Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump stated in a Saturday assembly with reporters. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’”
Alex Lang, Zeke Miller, Will Weissert26 January 2025 20:30
Even Republicans are questioning Trump’s ‘illegal’ midnight purge of inspector generals
Congressional Democrats have been fast to slam the firings, with Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer saying that the motion got here within the “dark of night” and that it was a “chilling” indication of what the following 4 years would seem like.
Gustaf Kilander26 January 2025 20:00
‘Trump is cool now’: Invoice Maher eviscerates Democrats for permitting Trump’s recognition rise
“I mean, rappers like him, the athletes are doing…” Maher added as he gestured Trump’s well-known rally dance.
Gustaf Kilander26 January 2025 19:30
Trump threatens Colombia with ‘decisive retaliatory measures’ for turning away deportation flights
President Donald Trump has threatened Colombia with “decisive retaliatory measures” after two “repatriation flights” weren’t allowed to land within the nation, the commander-in-chief wrote on Fact Social on Sunday.
“I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia,” Trump wrote on the social media platform. “This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people.”
He added: “Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take … urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.”
Trump went on to say that the U.S. authorities would impose 25 p.c tariffs on Colombia on “all goods” going to the U.S. In every week, these tariffs can be raised to 50 p.c, the president claimed.
Gustaf Kilander26 January 2025 19:09
After years of struggle, they have been lastly about to begin their American life — till Trump
Batool’s 9-year-old sister not attracts footage of a united household.
That’s as a result of her older sisters are within the U.S. whereas she stays in Afghanistan, hiding together with her mother and father and two brothers.
It’s been almost a decade because the household has been collectively.
Batool, who lives within the U.S., and her little sister hundreds of miles away are simply a few of the a number of thousand individuals impacted by President Donald Trump’s government order suspending the admission of refugees into the U.S.
On Monday, Trump signed the order titled “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program,” successfully shutting down refugee resettlement instantly.
Michelle Del Rey26 January 2025 19:00
Alaskans say Trump can change the identify of Denali however cannot make individuals name it Mount McKinley
North America’s tallest peak is a focus of Jeff King’s life.
The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Path Sled Canine Race operates his kennel and mushing tourism enterprise simply 8 miles (12.87 kilometers) from Denali Nationwide Park and Protect’s entrance, and the 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain looms massive as he trains his canines on close by trails.
King and lots of others who dwell within the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans won’t ever cease calling the height Denali, its Alaska Native identify, regardless of President Donald Trump’s government order that the identify revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier impressed by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and by no means set foot in Alaska.
Mark Thiessen26 January 2025 18:30
Elon Musk makes shock look throughout Germany’s AfD election marketing campaign occasion
The world’s richest particular person tuned in dwell through video hyperlink to a corridor of 4,500 individuals in Halle in japanese Germany on Saturday, talking publicly in assist of the far-right get together for the second time in as many weeks.
Tara Cobham26 January 2025 18:00
The tech bros ruined America’s coolest metropolis and they’re about to damage the nation too
Elon Musk seemed like he’d bought his seat with the identical informal largesse he applies to purchasing social media platforms. Sundar Pichai of Google appeared calculated, a company chess piece positioning himself for the following transfer. Jeff Bezos was busy smizing, barely concealing his ambition to safe authorities contracts for his house firm, Blue Origin.
After which there was Mark Zuckerberg – nerdy, innocent ol’ Zuck, like a graduate pupil who’d wandered into the incorrect room, however whose embracing of Trump appears, in some way, essentially the most egregious. Maybe we thought higher of him?
Alex Hannaford26 January 2025 17:30
SNL comic makes use of 5 phrases to clarify why ‘Elon Musk is not a Nazi’
Through the 26 January episode of SNL, Weekend Replace host Michael Che mocked Musk for the salute, as soon as once more drawing comparisons to the Nazis and Musk’s personal Tesla model.
Greg Evans26 January 2025 17:00
