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Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who has found himself at the center of a MAGA civil war in recent months, attended a meeting at the White House with oil and gas company executives about the Trump administration’s invasion of Venezuela and seizure of its oil reserves.
Trump also disclosed that he plans on renovating Lafayette Park, located north of the White House, by ripping up the brick walkways and replacing them with granite. He said the move is partly to prevent protesters from grabbing bricks and throwing them — given it serves as a historic site for demonstrations.
The webpage, featured under the official whitehouse.gov domain, says Democrats framed "the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump."
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday he was not involved in conversations with the Justice Department about its probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and did not know whether President Donald Trump had approved it.
The White House presented the latest plans for the East Wing renovation project in a public meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission.
The White House said Thursday that it was not feasible to save the building's East Wing because of structural issues, past decay and other major concerns, as officials shared details of President Trump's planned ballroom at a public meeting of the planning commission charged with approving it.
Immigration tensions . Two American cities are on edge after separate shootings involving federal immigration agents this week. In Minneapolis, demonstrations are flaring
Monica Lewinsky says Bill Clinton "escaped" consequences of their affair more easily than she did, calling it a "gross abuse of power" nearly 30 years later.