Trump latest: Venezuela’s opposition leader meets with Trump at White House after she vowed to share Nobel Peace Prize – UK Times

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Homeland Security and officials to stop “unlawful” immigration stops that have led to the detention of a U.S. citizen in Minnesota, among others.

Among the plaintiffs is Mubashir Khalif Hussen, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen who was thrown into an ICE SUV and then shackled and fingerprinted inside a detention center in Minneapolis before agents looked at his passport and let him go.

“At no time did any officer ask me whether I was a citizen or if I had any immigration status,” he said in a statement. “They did not ask for any identifying information, nor did they ask about my ties to the community, how long I had lived in the Twin Cities, my family in Minnesota, or anything else about my circumstances.”

“I was in that interview, it was a closed door interivew,” Leavitt began.

“The president was simply joking. He was saying, ‘We’re doing such a great job. We’re doing everything. The American people thought’ Maybe we should just keep rolling,” Leavitt added.

“But he was speaking facetiously.”

Leavitt declined to give details about when or how President Donald Trump could utilize the Insurrection Act in Minnesota, claiming it was a question for him.

“That’s only a question frankly the president can answer,” Leavitt said in response to a question.

“The president’s post spoke loud and clear to Democrats across this country, elected officials who are using their platforms to encourage,” she added.

When asked about the government’s recent search and seizure of a Washington Post reporter’s home, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said anyone who leaks information that could put military personnel at risk will be held accountable – potentially including reporters.

“The administration is not going to tolerate leaks… that put the nation’s integrity and national security at risk,” Leavitt said.

When asked to clarify how the administration interprets the Pentagon Papers case, Leavitt declined.

The organizers of the Nobel Peace Prize have told winner María Corina Machado it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after she suggested giving Donald Trump her 2025 award.

The institute said in a statement the decision to award a Nobel Prize is “final and stands for all time”, citing the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which do not allow appeals.

Machado’s win in October was reported to have sparked resentment for Trump, who has long expressed interest in winning the prize and has at times linked it to diplomatic achievements, even though she has been effusive in her support and dedicated her win to him.

Of the potential offer, Trump said: “I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That could be a great honor.”

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has arrived at the White House for a closed-door lunch with President Donald Trump – the two’s first meeting.

In response to President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called on the president to “turn the temperature down” and for Minnesota protesters to continue peacefully.