The Trump administration is blocking Venezuela’s government from paying for the cost of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s defense against drug trafficking charges in New York, a move that potentially interferes with his constitutional right to counsel, his lawyer says. Attorney Barry Pollack told a Manhattan federal judge in an email dated Feb. 20 that
The Trump administration blocked Venezuela from paying Nicolas Maduro's legal fees, according to Maduro's attorney, sparking Sixth Amendment concerns in federal drug trafficking case.
At least 10 FBI employees who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, multiple sources told CBS News. The firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed records of phone calls made by FBI Director
They face questions about what, if anything, they knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s illegal activities.
Baltimore — Walk a few blocks in Baltimore with Mayor Brandon Scott, and there’s no missing the problem: The city has thousands of broken-down, boarded-up row houses, the result of a long civic spiral, with people and businesses leaving and blight and crime moving in. “When it looks like someone doesn’t care, right, people who
State of the Union guests included Erika Kirk, widow of activist Charlie Kirk, media mogul David Ellison, and Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary at Trump's address on Tuesday.
Vice President JD Vance speaks at a press conference in the Library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Feb. 25, 2026. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance announced new efforts to combat fraud nationwide during a press conference on Feb. 25 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Dr. Mehmet