Rep. Tony Gonzales survived Tuesday's GOP primary -- but just barely. Now, with a runoff looming, a congressional ethics investigation underway and mounting calls from members of his own party to resign, the embattled West Texas congressman faces an increasingly uncertain political future.
Former national security adviser John Bolton defended the Trump administration's decision to launch preemptive strikes on Iran over its continued nuclear program. “Trump has every right to eliminate threats from the ayatollahs, the IRGC, and Iran’s nuclear-weapons program,” Bolton wrote Saturday in a post on social platform X. “This mission is completely justifiable and necessary,”...
Gulf countries expressed outrage on Saturday in the face of military attacks from the Islamic Republic of Iran, a rare show of unity in pushing back against Tehran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes against the country. Iran is retaliating in the face of President Trump’s early Saturday decision to launch a major...
So many on the left live in elite-entrenched bubbles floating high above the working classes they purport to lead and lecture. They have absolutely no idea what actually resonates with the people.
NEW YORK — When he was campaigning to be mayor of the nation’s largest city, Zohran Mamdani liked to say he was President Trump’s “worst nightmare.” In his victory speech in November, Mamdani took it a step further — calling Trump a “despot” and declaring that if anyone could show how to defeat him, “it’s...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Friday leaked a photo of former President Clinton as he was being deposed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Boebert posted an image of a smiling Clinton on social platform X, a day after being reprimanded for leaking a...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that the country’s president and supreme leader were alive “as far as I know” after overnight U.S.-Israeli strikes included targets near government compounds. “As far as I know, yes they are alive and the head of judiciary as well, the speaker of parliament as well. All high-ranking officials...
Reactions from world leaders poured out early Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The initiation of “Operation Epic Fury," which came after weeks of threats from President Trump over the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear program, sparked support from allies but also stoked fear in many countries in the region about the...
Democrats reacting to the U.S. air strikes on Iran are calling on President Trump to provide further information to Congress while warning the White House it could be dragging the U.S. into a wider war in the Middle East. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned the need for...
Lawmakers are calling on Congress to convene earlier than planned next week to vote on a war powers resolution in light of widespread U.S. attacks on Iran. “Donald Trump has launched a war on Iran and Congress must convene on Monday to vote on [Rep.] Thomas Massie’s [R-Ky.] and my war powers resolution to stop...
For months, voter identification and proof of citizenship have been debated not only as policy proposals but as constitutional questions. Republicans argue that verifying voter eligibility is essential to election integrity. Democrats respond that such requirements risk disenfranchising voters. The SAVE Act represents the most direct federal effort to address that debate, by requiring documentary proof...
Oman Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who had been a key player in talks aimed at preventing a war between the U.S. and Iran, expressed dismay at the Saturday morning strikes by the U.S. and Israel. “I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined,” he wrote on X. “Neither the interests of...
President Trump on Saturday expressed that he wants “freedom” for the Iranian people after the U.S. and Israel carried out strikes against Tehran. “All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told the Washington Post in a phone interview. “I want a safe nation, and that’s what we’re going to have," he added. In a video...
The U.S. and Israel early Saturday morning launched strikes against Iran, while President Trump called on the Iranian people to seize the chance to topple their government. “A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran,” he said in a video posted to Truth Social at 2:30 a.m. EST. “Our objective is...
