The US Senate has delivered a stunning political shock, advancing a resolution that would restrict Donald Trump from launching further military action against Venezuela without explicit congressional approval. In a rare bipartisan move, five Republican senators joined Democrats, signaling deep cracks inside Trump’s own party after the dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

A political firestorm is ripping through Minnesota as federal scrutiny tightens over alleged childcare and nutrition-fund fraud. Trump’s team has frozen Minnesota’s childcare payments, citing what they call a massive and long-ignored pattern of misuse. The controversy accelerated after commentator Nick Shirley released videos showing allegedly empty, subsidized Somali-run childcare centers, clips that triggered a fresh wave of national debate and intensified public pressure on the Biden administration. In response, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) halted federal payments pending verification of how funds were being spent. WATCH