Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday sharply criticized President Trump for authorizing strikes against Iran, warning that it risks dragging the U.S. into yet another conflict in the Middle East. “There was simply no basis to go in with this massive military campaign, with the goal of regime change. And the concern here is that...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that a democracy will not arise from the conflict in Iran, adding that “an even worse Iranian leadership” is going to come out of the fighting. “Now, the president has said that the goal is regime change, and the goal is to eliminate Iran's missile program and their nuclear...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday his country will do “whatever it takes” to defend itself amid a series of U.S. and Israeli strikes. “We are defending ourselves whatever it takes, and we see no limit for ourselves to defend our people, to protect our people,” Araghchi told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’s...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Sunday said the Trump administration launched an “illegal war” with strikes on Iran. Kaine is sponsoring a war powers resolution vote seeking to block further attacks against Iran. “This is an illegal war. I have a war powers resolution queued up for vote this week, and I'm encouraging my colleagues...
Trump vows to 'avenge' deaths of three U.S. service members killed in Middle East conflict, promises continued military strikes against Iranian forces.
President Trump threatened Sunday to hit Iran with the kind of force it "has never seen before" as Iran retaliated against joint, U.S.-Israel military strikes that killed its supreme leader.
A heated U.S. Senate race in Texas entered its final stretch on Sunday with candidates on both sides of the aisle making final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary, the nation's first big contest of the 2026 midterm elections.
Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is standing firm in his support for President Trump's decision to approve a military operation against Iran, but said his support is "not limitless."
Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday that President Trump's decision to greenlight the joint U.S.-Israel military strike against Iran has been welcome news in his home state of Arkansas.
The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2036, and once again, CBO and the media are blaming the nation’s deficit problem on Republican tax cuts. However, the 172-page report shows very clearly that higher spending, and not lower taxes, is the main reason for the rising deficits and […]
President Donald Trump’s statement explaining the military strikes he ordered on Iran detailed how the Iranian regime has “waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the United States” for 47 years. Forty-seven years. That is a long time. But why strike now? The answer is not nuclear weapons. Trump destroyed their nuclear […]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the so-called supreme leader of Iran, is dead. So too are at least 40 senior Iranian regime officials, all of whom were killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. It was a deserved and nearly inevitable end to a regime that created the greatest terrorist state on the planet. […]
