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Why even the mayor’s not safe in San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie just found himself at the center of a quickly-escalating street altercation in the Tenderloin district.

Why doesn’t Mayor Mamdani care about NYCHA affordable housing?

We're starting to wonder if Mayor Zohran Mamdani has any real interest in promoting...

The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China

Critics who call Operation Epic Fury folly or a distraction are missing the point:...

Trump calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at bolstering college sports

President Trump on Friday called on Congress to establish a national framework to stabilize college sports amid court rulings, image and likeness deals and recruiting changes have put the multibillion-dollar collegiate NCAA system under siege.

US military carries out operation against ‘narco-terrorist’ supply complex in Ecuador

The U.S. military carried out a “successful” operation against a “narco-terrorist” supply complex in Ecuador as part of the Trump administration’s push to dismantle drug-trafficking networks in the Western Hemisphere, according to defense officials. At the request of Ecuador, a U.S. military joint force executed the targeted action against a suspected drug-smuggling facility inside Ecuador...

Democrat mocks Mullin for remarks on ‘smell’ and ‘taste’ of war: ‘Call of Duty doesn’t count’

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) went after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) over comments he made about the U.S. operation against Iran, asking the senator “what the actual f---" he was "talking about." During a Monday appearance on Fox News's "America Reports," Mullin said, “The loss of life, when the president first came out and he talked...

Trump on lack of Middle East evacuation plan: ‘It happened all very quickly’

President Trump on Tuesday said there was no evacuation plan for Americans in the Middle East because the joint strikes launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel “happened very quickly.” “We thought and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask [Secretary of State Marco Rubio], but I thought we were going...

MAGA strategist details ‘utterly surreal’ escape from Middle East

Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Trump, is describing his "utterly surreal" escape from the Middle East amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Bruesewitz was in Doha, Qatar, "just as the Iranian attacks erupted, leaving me stranded amid the chaos," he wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X that included video...

Watch live: Jeffries speaks amid DHS funding fight, Iran strike fallout

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) will speak with reporters Tuesday as Democrats feel pressure from Republicans to support legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the U.S. strikes in Iran over the weekend. Democrats have thus far held firm to their demands for reforms within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

The US doesn’t need a surgeon general who is sideways on science 

Sadly, we know how the story is going to end when a vaccine skeptic in a doctor's clothing is given the bully pulpit.

Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases: Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said the Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases as strikes on Iran jolt the global market. “We knew that going in would be a factor, and so we have a program in place that will begin to be implemented by [Energy] Secretary [Chris] Wright, [Treasury]...

Saudi Arabia condemns drone strike against US Embassy

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Tehran's drone strikes against the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as conflict in the Middle East heats up following U.S. strikes on Iran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its rejection and condemnation in the strongest terms of the treacherous Iranian attack that targeted the building of the United States Embassy...

Trump’s 2-hour diatribe doesn’t address America’s true status 

The speech was too long, too garish, too exploitative, too vulgar and mostly uninformative.

Live updates: Trump to host German leader as US warns Americans to leave Mideast

President Trump on Tuesday will host German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, as the U.S. military operation in Iran is ongoing and Europe is mixed in its support. The State Department has warned U.S. citizens in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave immediately and has closed its embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,...

OpenAI adds protections to Pentagon deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company has added further protections to its agreement with the Pentagon to bring its AI models to the military’s classified network. The latest additions come as the ChatGPT maker faced pushback over the deal, which came on the heels of the Trump administration’s announcement Friday that it...

Trump: US has ‘unlimited’ munitions to fight wars ‘forever’

President Trump said late Monday that the U.S. has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight wars “forever," just days after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes in Iran. “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better — As was stated to me today, we have...

The Movement: Iran war confuses MAGA base, testing trust in Trump

President Trump’s attack on Iran is confusing the MAGA base that once bragged that he never started any wars, testing the limits of their trust in the president’s foreign policy judgement. There are, of course, many Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) who have long advocated for the U.S. to take decisive action in Iran and take out the...

Cubans are begging for the US to finish the job

Cuban prisoners are cheering the U.S. president. That tells you more about the state of U.S.-Cuba relations than a decade of think-tank white papers.

Watch live: Noem testifies before Senate on DHS oversight

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will face questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning on oversight of the department as its funding lapse nears the three-week mark. Democrats have largely maintained that they will not support a deal to reopen DHS without reforms to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics...

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