Vice President Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet brief reporters as Venezuela tensions flare and a Russia-linked tanker dispute raises stakes over oil enforcement.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are joining a White House briefing Wednesday.

Denmark and its NATO allies pushed back Tuesday after Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller claimed the U.S. has a right to Greenland and did not rule out use of American military force to seize it.

The vice president told reporters the new position will also be involved in addressing “the people who are defrauding the United States by inciting violence against our law enforcement officers” after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Vice President JD Vance are scheduled to brief the media on Thursday at 1 p.m. EST.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Friday that she is pregnant with her second child. "The greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for - a baby girl coming in May 2026," Leavitt wrote in a post to Instagram.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday announced that she's expecting a second child with her husband, due in May. "The greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for — a baby girl coming in May 2026," Leavitt, 28, wrote on Instagram Friday alongside photos of herself and an ultrasound next to a Christmas tree.

Karoline Leavitt and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, welcomed their first child, also named Nicholas, in July 2024.

Trump is encouraging U.S. oil executives to invest $100 billion in Venezuela to help rebuild that country after removing its leader, Nicolas Maduro.