Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) endorsed state Rep. Micah Lasher (D), his former aide, in the Democratic primary in the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District. “We face extraordinary challenges both at home and abroad,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday on the social platform X. “At a moment like this, New Yorkers need representatives with...
Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) twin brother slammed the White House on Thursday over a video it sent out on the social platform X depicting the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. “American service members are dead and you think this is all some big f---ing joke,” Scott Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy...
The business of war has always been lucrative. But when the people making money are tied directly to the people making policy, it raises questions Americans should be asking.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will speak Thursday at the 2026 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture at the Library of Congress. Barrett, appointed to the high court by President Trump in 2020 during his first term, has been a key swing vote in consequential rulings. Barrett sided with the majority in the Supreme...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Thursday that a recent trip to rescue a South Carolina family who was stranded in the Middle East amid the war with Iran turned into a “full scale evacuation” of hundreds of Americans from the region. Mace, who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor in her home state, wrote...
President Trump is insisting the Iranian men's soccer team is welcome to travel to the United States for this summer's World Cup, though he acknowledged safety risks the players could face as U.S. military operation in the Middle East continues this week. "The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I...
Former national security adviser John Bolton urged the U.S. on Wednesday to seek out defectors in Iran as President Trump continues to push for regime change nearly two weeks into the conflict. “They need to look for defectors. People who, at this very fractured time at the top of the regime, are willing to consider...
In his first statement, Iran's new supreme leader said Thursday morning, "The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed. American bases in the Middle East must be closed. Iran's other military and regional capabilities will be activated if necessary." The Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's statement was read on Iranian state media. Oil prices seesawed overnight on fears...
Congress has attempted to terminate the U.S. military involvement in Iran by passing a concurrent resolution, but the president has opposed it and the Congress's only real power is in exercising its power of the purse.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed former Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe’s run for Congress in the state’s 7th Congressional District. McAuliffe, the wife of former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and a State Department official during the Biden administration, launched her campaign on Wednesday. ”Dorothy McAuliffe has spent her life fighting for children...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday said Israel should kill Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader. Mojtaba Khamenei was named to lead Iran on Monday after his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. “Well, they should kill him, too…hopefully he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I...
Millions of Iranians have been at least temporarily displaced amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country, according to a new estimate from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The UNHCR said Thursday that 3.2 million people in the country have been forced to leave their homes because of the ongoing military operations. This number...
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), a Democratic titan of the House, announced Thursday that he will seek reelection this year for an 18th term, ending the speculation that he was ready to retire at the end of this Congress. Speaking to reporters in South Carolina, Clyburn, 85, said he will file the paperwork to run again...
Republicans need to show that their immigration enforcement measures are not motivated by animosity toward immigrants. A bill to update the registry provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) would be a good first step.
