Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive.
President Trump on Thursday said the U.S. could profit from high oil prices but that stopping the "evil" Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon was far more important to him.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt labeled ABC News' Wednesday report about Iran planning a drone strike against the West Coast "false information to intentionally alarm the American people."
In the week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the central bank head called 13 lawmakers. The calls, listed on Powell’s public calendar for January, were all 10 to 15 minutes in length. The Fed chair spoke with lawmakers from both chambers of Congress and...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is warning the Trump administration against drawing down hundreds of U.S. troops serving as peacekeeping forces in Kosovo as tensions rise in the region, according to a letter exclusively obtained by The Hill. The letter, sent Thursday, represents a rare moment of unity among Democrats and Republicans serving on key...
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FBI Director Kash Patel said the Thursday shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., is being investigated as “an act of terrorism.” The FBI responded alongside local law enforcement agencies to a shooting at the Virginia institution on Thursday morning. One person was killed and two people were injured during the attack, officials confirmed....
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that an “international coalition” could escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. “Are you starting to think, if this does keep persisting as it is, that the Navy has to go into the Strait of Hormuz to — to help ships get through, which would have a big effect...
Democratic lawmakers ripped Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on Thursday after he made a post connecting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) Ramadan iftar at City Hall with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote on the social platform X, quoting a post from an account labeled “End...
A Republican-backed voter requirements bill that recently passed in the House –– and has become President Trump's top legislative priority –– faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act would require Americans to show proof of citizenship to register to vote and a valid ID in order to...
High fuel prices caused by the conflict in Iran threaten to worsen affordability issues that ordinary Americans face — and some economists are warning that a prolonged conflict could pull the U.S. into a recession. Oil prices have jumped in the wake of U.S. attacks on Iran. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at about $101 dollars...
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) endorsed state Rep. Micah Lasher (D), his former aide, in the Democratic primary in the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District. “We face extraordinary challenges both at home and abroad,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday on the social platform X. “At a moment like this, New Yorkers need representatives with...
Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) twin brother slammed the White House on Thursday over a video it sent out on the social platform X depicting the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. “American service members are dead and you think this is all some big f---ing joke,” Scott Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy...
Michael Allen, a GOP attorney general candidate, said he was “shocked" by a Democratic proposal to legalize prostitution, saying it would “open the floodgates" to human trafficking.
