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Iran’s fans, pro and con

LOS ANGELES — Moments after Iran and Belgium battled to a scoreless draw at SoFi Stadium, the Belgian players beat a hasty retreat to the locker room. Not the...

Vancouver learned to stop worrying and love mega-events

VANCOUVER — On the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, protesters marched to...

What Jordan’s ambassador wants you to think about while watching Messi

Jordan is among the teams making its first-ever appearance at a World Cup, and...

Sports is the Gulf’s favorite soft power play. The World Cup is a hard test.

ATLANTA — Gulf countries have plowed billions of dollars into domestic soccer, led by...

Bernie Sanders’ call to seize the AI industry has damning lessons about politics today

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ latest communist fever dream — nationalize half the AI industry —...

Trump touts ‘BEST ECONOMY EVER’ in Father’s Day message

President Trump on Sunday celebrated Father's Day with a social media post touting that the U.S. has the "BEST ECONOMY EVER." "Happy Father’s Day!" the president wrote on Truth Social. "Our Country is doing GREAT. Record Jobs Numbers and Stock Market, BEST ECONOMY EVER! Greatest Military in the World, by far. We are WINNING on...

Democratic socialists roar back into spotlight with LA, DC races

Democratic socialists are back in the spotlight after notching two high-profile mayoral primary victories in major cities this month. In Washington, D.C., this past week, progressive Democrat Janeese Lewis George outperformed moderate Kenyan McDuffie, all but assuring she’ll succeed Mayor Muriel Bowser. The week before in Los Angeles, fellow Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Nithya...

Mace on Trump endorsing both GOP runoff candidates in South Carolina: ‘LMAO’

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) joked about President Trump backing both Republican runoff candidates to be her state’s governor. Mace — who made her own bid for South Carolina governor this year — on Saturday took to social media to respond to Trump's TruthSocial post backing both candidates. "LMAO," she wrote on the social platform X,...

Former Trump Defense secretary: ‘I don’t see that the president is always getting good advice’

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said he doesn't think “that the president is always getting good advice” from his advisers. “Do you trust that the president is being given advice by people who think their loyalty is to the Constitution?” NBC News’s Garrett Haake asked Esper — who served in President Trump's first...

House Republican acknowledges Iran deal concessions: ‘A work in progress’

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) on Sunday acknowledged that there were concessions in the Iran deal as critics continue to raise concerns with the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last week. “There are a lot of concessions, but let's keep in mind that this is a work in progress. And keep in mind that this memorandum...

Mike Lee: Senate GOP must do ‘hard work’ to pass SAVE America Act 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Sunday said Senate Republicans must do the "hard work" to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a voter ID bill touted by President Trump as his legislative priority. Lee told "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream that the SAVE America Act makes "it easy to vote, hard...

Graham asks Trump to move forward with Clayton’s DNI nomination

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he asked President Trump to proceed with U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton as his pick to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) after he said he would delay his nomination. Graham told CBS News's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan...

Booker says ‘Iran gets all of the benefits’ in Trump deal 

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday said that Tehran is receiving “all of the benefits” from the deal to end the war in Iran. “When you have Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives, all coming out talking about capitulation, surrender, catastrophe, you know how bad this deal is,” Booker told NBC News’s Garrett Haake on...

House Democrat on Iran school bombing: ‘We’re going to push hard to get answers’

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday said lawmakers will "push hard" for answers behind the bombing that destroyed an Iranian girls school on the day U.S. and Israeli airstrikes first fell on the Middle Eastern country earlier this year. Crow accused the Trump administration of "slow rolling" answers about what happened at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary...

Xi meets Kim: China reaffirms support for North Korea’s nukes   

China has been supporting the North Korean nuclear program all along because that program gives it leverage over Washington.

Susan Rice slams ‘flimsy’ Trump Iran MOU amid ‘stupid war’: ‘This is a very bad outcome’

Former national security adviser Susan Rice railed against President Trump's memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, ripping the 14-point agreement as "flimsy." "It's egregious, Jon," Rice told ABC News's Jonathan Karl on Sunday, "because so many concessions were granted up front in this flimsy two-page memorandum of understanding that wouldn't normally and shouldn't have been...

Graham on Iran deal: ‘I think it’s going to fail’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he thinks the tentative deal between the U.S. and Iran will fail. "If you don't have a diplomatic path through the MOU, then you have to go to war, or some other form of coercion," Graham told CBS News's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan, referring to the...

Protecting children is our common ground: Why we need the PLAN Act 

The PLAN for School Safety Act is a bipartisan bill that provides targeted grants to establish or strengthen expert-led, state-based School Safety Centers, which will provide customized consulting services to help local schools design, improve, and execute evidence-based safety plans tailored to their community's unique environment.

Mamdani looks to flex political muscle in key New York House primaries 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is looking to use his political power to reshape New York’s congressional delegation less than six months after taking office. The popular mayor has made endorsements in multiple contests ahead of Tuesday’s House primaries in New York, including for progressive challengers to two sitting Democratic congressmen. One of these picks...

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