Trump Gives Maduro Ultimatum: Resign and Leave Venezuela or Face U.S. Action, Report Says

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President Donald Trump reportedly delivered a stark ultimatum to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro during a tense phone call, warning the longtime socialist ruler to resign and leave the country or face consequences, according to a report from the Miami Herald.

Sources cited in the reporting say Maduro demanded key conditions in exchange for stepping aside — including global amnesty for crimes he is accused of and the ability to retain control of Venezuela’s military while allowing free elections. The United States rejected both proposals immediately.

Instead, Trump is said to have offered a narrow path: Maduro, along with his wife and son, would be permitted safe passage out of Venezuela — but would need to depart immediately. Amnesty would also be extended to top Maduro allies, the report states.

The failed phone call reportedly took place late in the week of Nov. 16, just days after Trump publicly signaled he was open to speaking directly with Maduro. The discussion included what a formal surrender might look like, given that the U.S. State Department has a $50 million bounty on the Venezuelan leader.

After the call broke down, Trump intensified military and diplomatic pressure on Caracas. The president declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” and warned that U.S. operations inside the country could begin “very soon.”

The directive came as the USS Gerald R. Ford — America’s largest aircraft carrier — and a Marine Expeditionary Unit remained positioned offshore, capable of amphibious deployment.

Trump later acknowledged the conversation to reporters, saying only: “I wouldn’t say it went well or badly.”

U.S. leaders have tied the escalation to Venezuelan drug-trafficking networks, which Trump has increasingly blamed on Maduro’s government.

As pressure mounts and diplomatic options narrow, concerns rise over a possible U.S. military intervention in the country of 28 million.

Trump has repeatedly hinted that additional action — including strikes “by land” — may be imminent.

Country’s President Declares Security Emergency Amid Slaughter Of Christians

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Nigerian President Bola Tinubu declared a nationwide security emergency Wednesday after President Donald Trump put pressure on Tinubu due to the mass kidnappings and murders of Christians in the region.

The declaration also included an order for the country’s armed forces to increase recruitment numbers, and it called on police to recruit 20,000 more officers, making the total 50,000.

“My fellow Nigerians, this is a national emergency, and we are responding by deploying more boots on the ground, especially in security-challenged areas,” the order said. “The times require all hands on deck. As Nigerians, we should all get involved in securing our nation.”

This will be accomplished by utilizing the National Youth Service Corps as training depots, and the order directs officers away from VIP guard duties so they can focus on “security-challenged areas.” Nigeria’s government is also deploying trained forest guard members to “flush out the terrorists and bandits lurking in our forests.”

“There will be no more hiding places for agents of evil,” the declaration continued. (Read more from “Country’s President Declares Security Emergency Amid Slaughter Of Christians” HERE)

Washington D.C. National Guard Shootings: Did the CIA Import Its Own Assassin?

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What is publicly known today is already unsettling enough. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan who allegedly murdered one National Guard soldier and critically wounded another two blocks from the White House, spent roughly a decade inside one of the CIA’s most secretive Afghan paramilitary programs — the Kandahar Strike Force (NDS-03), commonly referred to inside the Agency as a “Zero Unit.”

These units were not regular Afghan army. They were trained, equipped, paid, and often directly tasked by the CIA, operating with far fewer rules than even U.S. Special Forces. Multiple human-rights reports accused Zero Units of extrajudicial killings, torture, and night raids that sometimes killed entire families.

When Kabul fell in August 2021, Lakanwal was not processed through the normal refugee pipeline. He was evacuated on a CIA-coordinated flight and granted humanitarian parole under Operation Allies Welcome — a status normally reserved for interpreters and others with documented U.S. government service.

His parole expired in 2023–2024, making him technically removable, yet no deportation case was ever opened against him. In April 2025 he was granted asylum in a closed immigration hearing and remained legally in the country with a pending green-card application.

On 26 November 2025 he drove approximately 2,700 miles from Washington State to Washington, D.C., purchased ammunition en route, and allegedly carried out a deliberate ambush on uniformed National Guard troops while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

The foregoing timeline is not from some conspiracy theorist’s vivid imagination — it is derived from the undisputed public record. Yet these known facts leave a series of questions that no official has yet answered satisfactorily: why was an individual who spent ten years in one of the CIA’s most deniable, violent units fast-tracked into the United States while tens of thousands of other Afghan allies with cleaner records languished for years — or were denied entirely?

And once his humanitarian parole expired, why was no removal proceeding ever initiated, even though ICE routinely deports far less controversial cases? Was someone inside the government still protecting him?

Zero Units were not only fought the Taliban; in their final years they were increasingly used for domestic political missions inside Afghanistan (intimidation, disappearances, election interference on behalf of CIA-favored governors). When those networks collapsed in 2021, many members had enemies on all sides. Bringing such individuals to the United States has always carried obvious risks. Who made the risk-acceptance decision, and on what basis?

CIA Director Ratcliffe’s own words — “This individual — and so many others — should have never been allowed to come here” — imply that even the current leadership believes the original vetting decision was catastrophically wrong. If the Director of Central Intelligence now says the man should never have been admitted, who overruled standard procedures to bring him in 2021 and then kept him here after his legal status lapsed?

Finally, and most uncomfortably: paramilitary assets trained for a decade to conduct covert killings do not usually “go rogue” without some triggering event. Was Lakanwal radicalized after arrival (the official line), or had he always carried divided loyalties that his CIA handlers either missed or chose to ignore?

None of this proves a deliberate plot.

But when an agency that specializes in plausible deniability evacuates one of its own long-term killers, places him on American soil, shields him from normal immigration enforcement for years, and then watches him travel unimpeded across the continent to murder U.S. troops in the nation’s capital, it is not irrational to ask whether something far darker than simple incompetence is at work.

The American public has been told this was a “vetting failure.”

The known facts, however, raise the legitimate — and deeply disturbing — possibility that it was something else entirely.

We recognize that the investigations are only beginning. But the country deserves answers that go beyond press-release assurances, all the way to who exactly decided Rahmanullah Lakanwal belonged on American streets in the first place, to why no one ever reversed that terrible decision.

Hong Kong’s Wong Fuk Skyscrapers May Have Just Torched the Official WTC 7 Narrative

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For almost a full day, the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district burned out of control. The eight-tower estate, home to around 2,000 apartments and built in the 1980s, was undergoing renovations at the time, wrapped in highly flammable bamboo scaffolding and green netting that fueled the rapid spread of flames. The blaze erupted around 2:50 p.m. on November 26, 2025, starting on the external scaffolding of one 32-story block and quickly leaping to adjacent towers amid gusty winds. At this point, some investigators believe the fire was caused by a welding accident during the construction work. Once it ignited, the blaze raced vertically through open construction voids and horizontally between buildings, producing temperatures that melted glass and turned structural elements red-hot. By hour 20, the towers were glowing skeletons, with thick smoke billowing from upper floors. But at no point did they collapse, not even partially, despite the inferno engulfing seven of the eight blocks.

The disaster has claimed at least 94 lives so far, with dozens more reported missing as rescue operations continue amid collapsed scaffolding and intense heat that hampered efforts. Over 800 firefighters, backed by 128 fire engines and 57 ambulances, battled the flames for more than 24 hours, finally containing most of the blaze by early November 27. One firefighter perished in the line of duty, and at least 70 others, including residents, suffered injuries from burns and smoke inhalation. A 71-year-old resident named Wong was photographed in tears outside the complex, pleading that his wife remained trapped inside. In a rare glimmer of hope, rescuers pulled a male survivor from the 16th floor of one tower late on November 27. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has pledged comprehensive support, including a “one social worker per household” initiative for displaced residents now sheltering in nearby malls and community centers. Three executives from the construction firm overseeing the renovations were arrested on charges of gross negligence, as authorities probe why evacuation protocols faltered and why the highly combustible bamboo—despite government plans to phase it out in favor of fire-resistant metal—was still in use.

Compare that to World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. A 47-story steel-framed skyscraper, never struck by an aircraft, WTC 7 fell at 5:20 p.m. in 6.5 seconds, roughly 2.25 seconds of that in pure gravitational free-fall, after roughly seven hours of localized office fires. The official NIST report concluded that fire alone caused the complete, symmetrical progressive collapse, the first and only time in history a steel-framed high-rise has fallen solely from fire.

Trump Administration Continues Its Hardline Immigration Policy, Terminates TPS for Hundreds of Thousands of Haitians

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, effective February 3, 2026, impacting an estimated 353,000 Haitian nationals currently residing in the United States. The decision, signed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, aligns with President Donald Trump’s broader immigration enforcement agenda, which has prioritized revoking humanitarian protections amid concerns over national security and public safety.

TPS, a program established by Congress in 1990, allows nationals of designated countries facing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions to remain in the U.S. temporarily, shielded from deportation and eligible for work authorization. Haiti’s designation originated after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010, that killed over 200,000 people and displaced 1.5 million. Subsequent extensions were granted due to ongoing political instability, gang violence, and natural disasters, including the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that month.

In a Federal Register notice published November 27, 2025, DHS stated that Secretary Noem, after consulting interagency partners including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the State Department, determined Haiti “no longer meets the statutory requirements for TPS.” The notice acknowledged “certain conditions in Haiti remain concerning,” such as widespread gang violence, mass displacement affecting over 1.4 million people, and spillover effects threatening regional stability in the Caribbean.

However, it concluded that “permitting Haitian nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to the U.S. national interest,” citing risks including immigration fraud and inadequate vetting capabilities.

The termination affects approximately 353,000 TPS beneficiaries, a figure based on DHS estimates from July 2024, when eligibility had expanded under the Biden administration to include those arriving after August 2021 amid escalating crises.

USCIS has automatically extended work authorization documents (EADs) for these individuals through February 3, 2026, to allow time for orderly departure or pursuit of alternative legal status, such as asylum or adjustment of status.

This marks the second attempt by the Trump administration to end Haiti’s TPS designation. In February 2025, Noem partially vacated a Biden-era 18-month extension, shortening it to expire on September 2, 2025. That move was blocked by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in the Eastern District of New York on July 15, 2025, in the case Haitian Evangelical Clergy Ass’n v. Trump (No. 25-cv-1464), who ruled that DHS lacked authority to accelerate the end date beyond the congressionally mandated review process. The court’s order set the minimum termination date as February 3, 2026—the end of the prior extension—allowing the current notice to proceed without violating judicial constraints.

The announcement comes amid Trump’s hardline immigration push, including mass deportation operations and the revocation of TPS for other countries such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Syria, Nepal, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Burma, Somalia, and Myanmar—potentially affecting millions.

During his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly targeted Haitian migrants, claiming they were consuming pets in Springfield, Ohio, a narrative amplified by allies like Vice President JD Vance.

The administration has linked the policy to recent attacks, including a high-profile ambush in Washington, D.C., involving an Afghan migrant, as justification for heightened scrutiny of humanitarian programs.

DHS outlined options for affected individuals, including voluntary departure via the CBP One mobile app, which offers a complimentary one-way flight to Haiti, a $1,000 cash stipend, and no penalties for future visa applications, all a part of a self-deportation initiative launched in May 2025.

Those without other legal bases must prepare to leave, or risk deportation proceedings and a lifetime reentry ban.

Legal challenges are expected, potentially delaying implementation as in prior cases. The White House framed the termination as restoring “integrity to the TPS system,” which it claims has been “exploited and abused” for decades, acting as a magnet for illegal immigration. President Trump reiterated on Truth Social: “Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave. America First.”

Ukraine Agrees to US-Backed Peace Deal to End Russia War, US Official Says

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Ukraine has agreed to a peace deal that would see an end to the war with Russia, a U.S. official told Fox News.

Some minor details of the agreement are still to be sorted out, the official said.

Lt. Col. Jeff Tolbert, a spokesman for U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, had told Fox News that Driscoll and his team met with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the framework for a Ukraine peace deal.

“The talks are going well and we remain optimistic. Secretary Driscoll is closely synchronized with the White House and the U.S. interagency as these talks progress,” said Tolbert.

A U.S. official told Fox News that the Ukrainian delegation was also in Abu Dhabi and was in contact with Driscoll and his team.

The diplomatic flurry over the weekend followed the leak of the 28-point peace plan to Axios, which many European leaders and U.S. lawmakers viewed as largely favorable to Russia. (Read more from “Ukraine Agrees to US-Backed Peace Deal to End Russia War, US Official Says” HERE)

Former Zelensky Spox: Ukraine Must Sign Peace Deal To Avoid Even Greater Losses

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Things are very bad in Ukraine right now. The former spokeswoman for Ukraine’s clearly overmatched comedian leader says things could get a lot worse if Ukraine’s government walks away from peace this time.

“Every subsequent deal for Ukraine will only be worse — because we are losing. We are losing people, territory, and the economy,” Iuliia Mendel, press secretary for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from 2019 to 2021, wrote in an X post this weekend as negotiators went back and forth in marathon peace talks.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday told multiple news outlets that he was pleased with the “tremendous amount of progress” toward finalizing a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but more needed to be done to get there.

As the Trump-hating BBC reported, Ukraine and its friends in Europe weren’t happy with previously leaked proposals, “seen as favouring Russia and welcomed by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin as ‘the basis’ for settlement.” Zelensky earlier said his bomb-battered country and his fellow citizens “might face a very difficult choice: either losing dignity, or risk losing a key partner” — President Donald Trump.

The Washington Post reported the leaked draft would force Ukraine to reduce its army and turn over land that Russia has not taken. That proposal also would prohibit NATO troops. U.S. officials said the draft has been updated, with Zelensky sounding more confident that “President Trump’s team is hearing us.” (Read more from “Former Zelensky Spox: Ukraine Must Sign Peace Deal To Avoid Even Greater Losses” HERE)

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Kremlin Sinks Trump’s Hope of Peace Deal by Thanksgiving

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Russia has sunk Donald Trump’s hope that a peace deal in Ukraine can be achieved by Thanksgiving after the Kremlin said Europe’s counterproposal was not constructive and did not work for Moscow.

In a sign that both sides remain far apart, the Kremlin said that Europe’s demands for Ukraine would not be accepted by Vladimir Putin but said that an earlier proposal by the US seemed “quite acceptable to us”.

Trump claimed on Monday that progress was being made in peace talks in Geneva between US and Ukrainian officials. Washington and Kyiv said in a joint statement that they were working to narrow the gaps in the 28-point peace plan revealed by the US last week.

The US president had given Ukraine until Thanksgiving, this Thursday, to agree to the plan – but US officials later indicated the deadline could change.

Some EU leaders met to discuss Ukraine on the sidelines of an EU-African Union summit in Luanda on Monday, with others dialling in via video conference. (Read more from “Kremlin Sinks Trump’s Hope of Peace Deal by Thanksgiving” HERE)

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Abducted Catholic Schoolchildren In Nigeria Escape Captivity

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Fifty schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria escaped captivity and returned to their families, school authorities announced Sunday.

The students, aged 10 to 18, fled individually between Friday and Saturday after gunmen seized 303 people from St. Mary’s School in Niger state’s remote Papiri community, according to The Associated Press. A total of 253 students and 12 teachers remain in captivity, according to Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Niger state and the school’s proprietor.

“We were able to ascertain this when we decided to contact and visit some parents,” Yohanna said in a statement.

Authorities have not disclosed where the captives are being held or how the 50 children managed to escape. No group has claimed responsibility for the Friday attack.

Pope Leo XIV called for the immediate release of the remaining hostages during a mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. (Read more from “Abducted Catholic Schoolchildren In Nigeria Escape Captivity” HERE)

US Peace Plan Asks Almost Nothing of Russia, Leaving Some American Officials Questioning Why Kyiv Would Accept It

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The US peace plan to end the war in Ukraine contains almost no concessions from Russia aside from it abandoning its vow to take over the entire country — and American officials say they can’t see why Kyiv would accept the proposal.

The plan, devised by President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, after consultations with both Ukrainian and Russian officials, would see Kyiv surrendering the entirety of its Donbas region.

The handed-over area would include territory that the Kremlin hasn’t even been able to secure for more than a decade, since it made a separate land grab for it in 2014.

The proposed pact also calls for Ukraine to pledge to never join NATO, shrink its armed forces from its current estimated 900,000 to 600,000 personnel — and grant amnesty for all parties involved in wartime actions, eliminating any future legal claims over Russian war crimes.

Some US officials and experts characterized the plan as a no-win for Kyiv. (Read more from “US Peace Plan Asks Almost Nothing of Russia, Leaving Some American Officials Questioning Why Kyiv Would Accept It” HERE)