Noem forcefully defended DHS's actions at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, squaring off with lawmakers on immigration enforcement, the DHS shutdown, and more.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison faced intense Republican grilling over the state's major fraud scandal during a House Oversight hearing Wednesday.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, Texas Republican, publicly confessed Wednesday to having an affair with one of his employees who later died by self-immolation but said he had nothing to do with her tragic suicide.
The ongoing U.S. strikes on Iran could have a ripple effect across the region, triggering a barrage of attacks from Tehran’s proxy groups on American troops, allies and interests. The likes of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and various Shiite militias in Iraq could be called on to target U.S. service members, civilians,...
House Republicans won a political victory this week in hauling former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to testify in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. But Democrats are already warning that the extraordinary development will boomerang on the GOP whenever Democrats win back the House...
Several Democratic primaries in Texas and North Carolina are teeing up generational battles in the party. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), 78, is facing a challenge from newly-elected 37-year-old Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) in Texas’s redrawn 18th Congressional District in the Houston area. Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.), 69, is fending off a primary challenge from 32-year-old...
The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran was met with praise from some lawmakers and world leaders, and left others condemning the Trump administration and declaring its actions illegal. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the only Iranian American member of Congress, called Khamenei the "epitome of evil" and said,...
Iran now stands without its supreme leader for 36 years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after joint strikes from the U.S. and Israel on Saturday killed him and attacked military command posts and missile sites across the country. President Trump announced the strikes at 2:30 a.m. EST in a video shared on Truth Social. The mission, dubbed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late on Saturday broke his silence about the U.S. strikes on Iran, which he described as the "most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history." "The Iranian regime had their chance, yet refused to make a deal — and now they are suffering the consequences," Hegseth said in a...
Tuesday is one of the most consequential days of the year in Texas politics. Voters will decide who appears on the November ballot - or in many cases, who advances to a May runoff.
American and Iranian representatives had a terse exchange Saturday at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, hours after the U.S. and Israel attacked the Middle Eastern country with a barrage of missile strikes. "I advise to the representative of the United States to be polite," Iranian Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani...
The U.S. strikes on Iran early Saturday has become the latest major issue addressed by candidates running in some of the more competitive Senate races. Reactions came after the U.S. and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran overnight, attacking military command and control facilities, ballistic missile and drone launch sites, military airfields and Iranian...
President Trump on Saturday said he will offer immunity to members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with its military and police forces, after the U.S. and Israel attacked the country earlier in the day. "We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want...
President Trump on Saturday said the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran could stretch over the course of the next week or last as long as "necessary." "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED,...
Young voters are turning away from President Trump more sharply than any other major voting bloc. In 2024, Trump narrowed Democrats’ longstanding advantage with voters under 30, outperforming recent Republican presidential nominees and prompting talk of a generational shift for the GOP. But that same group now appears to be pulling back, with some questioning whether...
President Trump on Saturday afternoon said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that the White House intended to lead to regime change for Tehran. Trump said the longtime U.S. enemy was dead about an hour after multiple news outlets reported that U.S. and Israel believed he...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Saturday ripped into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Democratic lawmakers pushing for a war powers resolution to rein in President Trump after the U.S. and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran. Lawler said the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops or carrying out an attack,...
