President Donald Trump's emerging deal to end the Iran war is drawing heavy criticism from some fellow Republicans who favor a harder line against the government in Tehran and fear a lost opportunity to finally rein in a longtime Mideast nemesis.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio shot back at Republican criticism of a possible deal with Iran as “absurd,” adding that “our preference is to address this through a diplomatic means.” “The idea that somehow this president, given everything he’s already proven he’s willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately...
The Ebola outbreak spreading throughout Central Africa is the first major outbreak since the Trump administration demolished its global health programs and largely withdrew from the world stage last year. Experts say the absence is palpable. While the U.S. is sending resources and teams of experts overseas, public health and infectious disease experts say President...
President Trump said Sunday that if his administration reaches a deal with Iran, it will be a “good and proper one,” as the two sides reportedly near an agreement to end hostilities. “If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Sunday defended the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” saying, “everybody’s losing their minds.” “This is not new. It happened to — the — under the Obama administration after the [Internal Revenue Service (IRS)] had been sued multiple times, and they settled with groups. This has occurred before....
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin should have released the party's long-withheld autopsy report of the party's defeat in the 2024 presidential election sooner. Van Hollen told "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream that the report was "incredibly shoddy and incomplete, I can understand why Ken...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his primary to Ed Gallrein earlier this week because he pushed the Trump administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein and opposed the wan Iran. “Sadness, disappointment,” Khanna told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when she asked what his...
Rep. Thomas Massie has no regrets about breaking with President Trump on key issues and losing Kentucky's Republican primary to the president's hand-picked challenger.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has a greater than 95 percent chance of defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Lone Star State’s Senate GOP runoff, according to the prediction market Kalshi. As of Sunday afternoon, Paxton had a 95.6 percent chance of winning the runoff, which will be decided on Tuesday after...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin said Sunday that the Trump administration is providing “flexibility” to businesses by loosening restrictions on the use of super-polluting greenhouse gases in commercial refrigeration. Under the new EPA rule unveiled on Wednesday, supermarkets can use hydrofluorocarbons that are up to 1,400 times as potent as carbon dioxide until 2032....
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei on Sunday interpreted history in suggesting Iran is winning the negotiations with President Trump to end the near three-month conflict. Baqaei, whose country has been battered by the nearly three-month war, posted on the social platform X an image depicting an Iranian archaeological site that shows the Roman emperor...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he supports President Trump on a memorandum of understanding with Iran but asserted that the final deal must also cover Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu said he spoke with Trump on Saturday about the emerging peace deal, which would extend the ceasefire for 60 days and reopen the...
