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February 22, 2026
JD or Marco? Trump asking advisers about 2028
President Trump has a new parlor game he's springing on advisers and confidants: JD Vance or Marco Rubio?That is, do people favor the vice president or secretary of state to sit atop the GOP ticket...
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February 18, 2026
Exclusive: Rubio's secret squeeze on Raul Castro's Cuba
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been holding secret talks with the grandson and caretaker of Cuba's aging de facto dictator, Raul Castro, as the U.S. puts unprecedented pressure on Havana's regi...
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February 15, 2026
Rubio outlines MAGA's foreign policy doctrine in Munich
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the future of MAGA's foreign policy clear in a speech Saturday: In Germany, he warned the Munich Security Conference of the dangers of mass migration, while emph...
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February 13, 2026
Scoop: Cuba hardliners ask Trump's DOJ to indict Raul Castro
Four Cuban American members of Congress on Friday wrote to President Trump calling for the indictment of Cuba's de facto dictator, Raul Castro, for allegedly ordering the 1996 downing of a plane th...
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February 11, 2026
El Paso airspace shutdown sparked by "military activity" near border
The sudden, unexplained closure of the airspace around El Paso, Texas, was ordered after the Federal Aviation Administration grew concerned that military activity near the border could threaten civ...
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February 5, 2026
Trump to launch TrumpRx drug discount site. Here's when
President Trump will announce the launch of the TrumpRx website Thursday night, a Trump adviser told Axios, moving ahead with a plan to offer discounted drug prices through special agreements with ...
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February 5, 2026
Scoop: FBI chief ready to head to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Savannah Guthrie's mom
FBI Director Kash Patel is planning a trip to Tucson, Arizona, as President Trump deploys federal resources to find "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, two sources tell Axios. The big p...
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January 29, 2026
Scoop: Trump expecting favorable Panama Canal ruling to further "Donroe Doctrine"
The White House expects Panama's Supreme Court on Thursday to cancel a crucial Panama Canal ports contract operated by a firm with ties to China's government, two sources tell Axios.Why it matters:...
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January 27, 2026
Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wante...
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January 27, 2026
"It was a mess": Inside Trump's pivot on Minnesota
President Trump surged immigration forces into Minnesota earlier this month promising "reckoning and retribution."Now he's sounding a rhetorical retreat.Why it matters: The Saturday killing of prot...
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January 23, 2026
Lewandowski back for another year as DHS's part-time power broker
The most powerful man in the Department of Homeland Security, Corey Lewandowski, was supposed to work just 130 days last year because he was classified as a temporary government employee.But thanks...
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January 21, 2026
Vance's Minnesota trip to show "unwavering support" for ICE
Vice President Vance is heading to Minnesota on Thursday, and he's not planning any peace offerings to Twin Cities officials and protesters opposed to the Trump administration's aggressive immigrat...
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January 14, 2026
Trump, Rubio to attend national college football title game in Miami
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio plan to attend Monday's college football championship game in Miami.Why it matters: Rubio is one of Trump's favorite Cabinet members, and the two ...
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January 14, 2026
Inside Trump's $11 billion health plan to replace "neo-colonial" USAID
The Trump administration is launching an unprecedented, $11 billion soft-power effort to remake foreign health assistance after its controversial decision to gut USAID.Why it matters: Called the Am...
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January 12, 2026
Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a "mess"
A perturbed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told President Trump late Sunday that the federal investigation into the Federal Reserve chair "made a mess" and could be bad for financial markets, two...
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January 7, 2026
Trump's Venezuela oil strategy comes into focus
Forget talk about elections and democracy in Venezuela. The Trump administration has a simple goal there: Back a pro-U.S. government — and prop it up with millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil.Why ...
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January 6, 2026
The "Donroe Doctrine" and the war for minerals, oil and AI
President Trump has offered a variety of reasons for his intense, pugilistic ambitions in Venezuela, Greenland and other hemispheric players.But one tie binds them all: They hold many of the critic...
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January 4, 2026
Rubio faces ghosts of American interventions after spearheading Maduro takedown
Marco Rubio is suddenly facing his most daunting puzzle in his 28 years in politics.The U.S. secretary of state didn't just help mastermind the ouster of Venezuela's dictator on Saturday. Rubio is ...
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December 24, 2025
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The Trump administration estimates it has about one week to go — and as many as 700,000 more pages to review — before it finishes releasing all the Jeffrey Epstein files.Meanwhile, they'll lose the...
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December 23, 2025
Trump on seized Venezuelan oil: "We're gonna keep it"
The U.S. now controls about 3.7 million barrels of Venezuelan crude from two interdicted oil tankers. And President Trump doesn't want to give it up."We're gonna keep it," Trump said Monday night w...
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December 21, 2025
U.S. intercepting third oil tanker as Venezuela hostilities intensify
The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a third tanker Sunday as part of President Trump's military campaign against oil ships servicing Venezuela, two sources tell Axios.Why it matters: The planned seizu...
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December 20, 2025
U.S. boards un-sanctioned tanker with Venezuelan oil to tighten blockade
The U.S. military early Saturday boarded a tanker that is not under U.S. sanctions as it shipped Venezuelan oil in hopes of escaping a blockade imposed by President Trump, according to two sources ...
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December 20, 2025
Maduro tests Trump with "Plan B" oil tanker strategy
Venezuela is testing President Trump's blockade of sanctioned oil tankers by letting two crude-laden vessels motor out from the South American nation's ports — including one with a military escort....
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December 17, 2025
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
President Trump designated Venezuela a "foreign terrorist organization" Tuesday and formally ordered a blockade of all U.S. sanctioned oil tankers servicing the country.Why it matters: Trump's newe...
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December 16, 2025
"Quite a buffet": U.S. ready to seize more tankers with Venezuelan oil
The U.S. is preparing to seize more sanctioned oil-filled tankers off Venezuela as the Trump administration opens a new phase of its pressure campaign on Nicolas Maduro's regime, officials tell Axi...
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December 15, 2025
Trump's article of faith: Economy will soar in '26
President Trump and his advisers have an almost messianic belief the economy will take off in the first quarter of next year, based largely on stimulus from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" he signed i...
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December 11, 2025
Scoop: Trump sanctions Maduro's nephews, 6 ships carrying Venezuela oil
The Trump administration Thursday imposed new sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, a businessman close to his regime and six companies shipping its oil, Axios has learn...
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December 10, 2025
U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Cuba in latest escalation
The Trump Administration dramatically escalated its standoff with Venezuela on Wednesday by seizing a large tanker loaded with crude oil bound for Cuba.Why it matters: President Trump's pressure ca...
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December 2, 2025
Scoop: The letter behind Trump's pardon of Honduras' ex-president for drug trafficking
From a U.S. prison cell, Honduras' ex-president secured a likely pardon for drug trafficking thanks to a letter he penned praising President Trump — whom he called "Your Excellency" — and a persist...
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November 27, 2025
Scoop: Inside the White House meeting that launched the new Ukraine peace talks
President Trump kickstarted the latest peace talks in Ukraine last week after Vice President Vance, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, made the case that a new 28-point plan could bring a breakt...
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