U.S. seizes Venezuela-linked tanker as Trump’s strategy draws scrutiny from Congress

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Ahead of a Senate briefing on the operation to capture Maduro, Democratic lawmakers questioned the Trump administration’s Venezuela strategy on Tuesday and pressed for more details, while most Republicans lauded the operation. Some Senate Democrats have indicated they plan to press for a war powers vote as early as this week to block further military

CEQ Fixes Decades-Long Permitting Failure Through Deregulation

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President Trump’s deregulation effort has already delivered permitting reform. Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the final administrative action to complete one of the Trump Administration’s most significant deregulatory efforts, affirming the removal of CEQ’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations. CEQ rescinded these regulations last year; this final rule reaffirms that

Judge orders Lindsey Halligan to explain why she keeps using U.S. attorney title

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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to identify herself as a U.S. attorney despite a different judge finding her appointment as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia was invalid. U.S. District Judge David Novak, who sits in Richmond, gave Halligan seven days to provide the

U.S. carrying out operation to seize Venezuela-linked oil tanker, sources say

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The U.S. is carrying out an operation to seize the Marinera, a Venezuela-linked oil tanker formerly known as Bella-1, sources told CBS News on Wednesday. The U.S. has been following the tanker since last month, CBS News first reported on Monday. The pursuit began during a pressure campaign on former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was

House committee to hold hearing on Minnesota fraud

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Washington — The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday on a series of multimillion-dollar pandemic fraud schemes in Minnesota, with testimony from state lawmakers who House Republicans say “sounded the alarm.” Republican officials have argued for years that Minnesota was slow to act in what federal prosecutors described as the “largest pandemic fraud