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Unsurprisingly, that mountain of crispy roast potatoes is going to be disastrous for your waistline. Awful, too, is the overly generous serving of pigs in blankets – you know, the ones you snuck onto ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., criticizes the green-card lottery program in light of the Brown and MIT murders suspect's immigration status on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ Donald Trump's approval rating on ...

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary ...

Law enforcement officers search the area for the Brown University shooting suspect, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha) (Reba Saldanha) WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump ...

President Trump on Thursday suspended the green-card lottery program, which was used by the suspected gunman in the Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shootings to enter the ...

The frantic search for the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and MIT ended at a storage facility in New Hampshire. Early on Friday morning, the Trump administration announced a pause in the ...

President Donald Trump is suspending the green card lottery program that allowed the man responsible for the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor to enter the country. In a ...