American national interests will be well served if the two Asian giants can “bury the hatchet” on their decades-long border dispute, embrace compromise and return to more pragmatic bilateral relations.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Sunday that while the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s slaying came from a conservative-leaning household, “his ideology was very different than his family.” The alleged gunman, Tyler Robinson, was taken into custody by the FBI late Thursday evening. Robinson, 22, implicated himself in the shooting to...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said Sunday that conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated Wednesday, “said some very inflammatory things” but “also said some other things about forgiveness.” “Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and some — in some corners of the web that’s all people have heard,” Cox told CNN’s Dana Bash on...
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) will not run for re-election in 2026, he told ABC News on Sunday. McCaul, 63, has represented Texas’ 10th Congressional District, which spans from the Houston suburbs to Austin, since 2005. He also chaired the House Homeland Security and House Foreign Affairs Committees from January 2013 to January 2019 and from...
An infectious disease — one that rejects scientific expertise, metastasizes conspiracy theories and contaminates programs that track and treat illnesses — has entered the body politic of America’s public health agencies.
Missouri Republicans advanced a new set of congressional lines this month that look to add one pickup opportunity for them in the House ahead of 2026, making them the third state poised to tee up a new House map before the midterms. Legislators in the Show Me State convened for a special session over several...
An effort by President Trump's administration to curb advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television is posing a potential marketing hurdle for some of the country's largest drugmakers while threatening a key revenue stream for media companies. Advertising and pharmaceutical industry experts say an executive order Trump signed this week could pose an existential threat to...
President Trump was meeting with architects about plans for a White House ballroom when staff interrupted to inform him that Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative activist, had been killed. "I didn't know what they meant. I said, 'What do you mean, dead?'" Trump recounted Friday, two days after the shooting. “‘Charlie Kirk was shot.’ They thought...
President Trump’s Vatican envoy delivered a special birthday gift to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the pontiff’s 70th celebration on Sunday. Brian Burch brought a cake from Portillo’s, a popular Chicago food chain, to commemorate the U.S.-born pope’s first birthday as head of the Catholic Church, according to Reuters. Burch told the pope, "Portillo's sent...
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Friday said President Trump and his surrounding staff are “struggling” after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “So many people around President Trump are very close to Charlie Kirk. President Trump was very close to Charlie Kirk. And President Trump faced two assassination attempts, one...
President Trump, in a Saturday interview, said he hopes the nation heals after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but blamed the “radical left” for being an obstacle in that healing. “I’d like to see it [the nation] heal,” the president said in a brief telephone interview with NBC News. “But we’re dealing with a...
The Charlie Kirk fatal shooting investigation has unveiled the alleged gunman’s ties to the internet and gaming culture amid a national uptick in political violence. The suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, is currently being held in a Utah jail as the person responsible for Kirk’s death. Police said Robinson, 22, confessed to killing Kirk in private...
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday said both political parties need to tone down the political temperature after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. “The only way this starts to get better is if both sides admit, ‘Okay, let’s not have this debate about who started it. Let’s not debate about who’s worse because, plainly, both...
