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Opening summary: Trump says more oil tankers will be seized near Venezuela
Good morning, US President Donald Trump said he abandoned this possibility. war with venezuela It’s on the table, according to an interview with NBC News published Friday. “I’m not ruling it out, no,” he told NBC News in a phone interview.
Trump used social media to publicly accuse Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government of using “stolen” oil to “fund themselves” as well as for “Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder and Kidnapping.” Maduro vehemently denied all these accusations. Here are other developments in the USA throughout the night:
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Trump also told NBC that he does not believe it is necessary to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. In November, Trump proposed repealing Obamacare and redirecting federal money used to subsidize health insurance costs under the Act into direct payments to individuals.
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TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDanceOn Thursday, it signed binding agreements that will transfer control of the short-video app’s U.S. operations to a group of investors including Oracle; Thus, a major step was taken towards avoiding the US ban and ending years of uncertainty.
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A Wisconsin judge was convicted Thursday of helping an immigrant escape a planned attack. immigration detention A U.S. Department of Justice official said outside the courtroom. The decision is a victory for the Trump administration’s effort to deter interference with its hard-line immigration tactics.
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Trump also touted the U.S. goal of returning humans to the moon by 2028 and protecting space from weapons threats in his first major executive order issued Thursday. space policy move in the second term of his administration.
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Donald Trump declined to say in the NBC interview whether his ultimate goal is to eliminate Maduro, telling NBC News: “He knows exactly what I want.”
“He knows better than anyone,” the US President added, referring to Maduro. No details were included in the report.
Maduro claimed that the US action was aimed at overthrowing him and seizing control of the OPEC nation’s oil resources, the world’s largest crude reserves.
Trump elaborated on claims that other oil tankers would be seized near Venezuelan waters, adding: “If they’re stupid enough to sail, they’ll end up back in one of our ports.”
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would suspend the green card lottery that allowed a person believed to be behind both the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in the US.
Portuguese citizen Claudio Neves Valente, 48, is accused of entering a building at the Ivy League school on Saturday and opening fire on students, killing two and wounding nine.
He is also accused of killing a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) two days later.
Homeland security chief Kristi Noem wrote on social media Thursday that Neves Valente “entered the United States in 2017 through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) and was issued a green card.”
The U.S. green card lottery awards up to 55,000 permanent resident visas a year to people “from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States,” according to the State Department.
Trump promises additional seizures of oil tankers near Venezuela
US President Donald Trump says more seizures will occur Oil tankers near VenezuelaIn an interview with NBC News.
The Trump administration has repeatedly accused Venezuela of facilitating the drug trade. The US military has killed at least 90 people since September in attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean that Washington claims are carrying illegal drugs to the US.
But the Trump White House has provided no public evidence that these ships were carrying fentanyl, mostly produced in Mexico, or cocaine, often produced in neighboring Colombia and shipped to the United States via various routes.
Opening summary: Trump says more oil tankers will be seized near Venezuela
Good morning, US President Donald Trump said he abandoned this possibility. war with venezuela It’s on the table, according to an interview with NBC News published Friday. “I’m not ruling it out, no,” he told NBC News in a phone interview.
Trump used social media to publicly accuse Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government of using “stolen” oil to “fund themselves” as well as for “Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder and Kidnapping.” Maduro vehemently denied all these accusations. Here are other developments in the USA throughout the night:
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Trump also told NBC that he does not believe it is necessary to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. In November, Trump proposed repealing Obamacare and redirecting federal money used to subsidize health insurance costs under the Act into direct payments to individuals.
-
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDanceOn Thursday, it signed binding agreements that will transfer control of the short-video app’s U.S. operations to a group of investors including Oracle; Thus, a major step was taken towards avoiding the US ban and ending years of uncertainty.
-
A Wisconsin judge was convicted Thursday of helping an immigrant escape a planned attack. immigration detention A U.S. Department of Justice official said outside the courtroom. The decision is a victory for the Trump administration’s effort to deter interference with its hard-line immigration tactics.
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Trump also touted the U.S. goal of returning humans to the moon by 2028 and protecting space from weapons threats in his first major executive order issued Thursday. space policy move in the second term of his administration.
