American senators panned a U.S. peace proposal on Ukraine at an international security conference Saturday, with one calling it one of the most serious geopolitical mistakes of his lifetime.
President Donald Trump's pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear in the state's deeply-rooted immigrant community, along with doubts about whether the White House has the legal authority to enact the directive as described.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane on Tuesday slammed the Pentagon policy that restricts journalists from reporting on unauthorized material and prevents them from entering certain areas without an escort. “They want to spoon-feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That’s not journalism. Journalism is going out and finding the story...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted The Wall Street Journal over its coverage of U.S.-China trade relations and accused the newspaper of shilling for China. "I think this narrative ... just a terrible Wall Street Journal article today, just complete ... they're taking CCP [Chinese Communist Party] dictation," Bessent said shaking his head at a CNBC...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Wednesday that the U.S. will “impose costs” on Russia if there is “no path to peace in the short term” in Moscow's war with Ukraine. “If there is no path to peace in the short term, then the United States, along with our allies, will take the steps necessary to...
New York health officials on Tuesday confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in a person who fell ill in Nassau County on Long Island. The announcement marks the first locally acquired case reported in any U.S. state or territory since 2019, and the first reported in any U.S. state...
Former White House national security spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday pushed back on an argument from the Pentagon about press access, calling it “a little overdrawn.” "It makes very little sense to me," said Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Pentagon press secretary, of the new press rules on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360.”...
Vice President JD Vance said the violent text messages sent by Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones are “far worse” than the newly exposed Young Republicans’ chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and raping their enemies. “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy...
The images of people snatched off the street by masked armed men in plain clothes smack of the repressive tactics of authoritarian banana republic regimes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week that he's ready for a public debate with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid the government shutdown, now in its third week. "I look forward to that," Jeffries told a small group of reporters on Tuesday in his office in the Capitol. "We're going to try to...
President Trump’s adversaries battling criminal charges will face vastly different jury pools — if their cases ever get to trial. Two of the president’s most prominent foes, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), were hit with two federal counts each in recent weeks, and a third opponent, former...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Wednesday launched a U.S. Senate bid in Massachusetts, setting up a generational challenge as he looks to unseat incumbent progressive Sen. Ed Markey (D). Moulton, a moderate 46-year-old veteran, centered age in his announcement video, saying his party has “clung to the status quo, insisted on using the same old...
