Sending Ukraine offensive weapons could push Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander, said on Monday. Speaking ahead of the announcement of the U.S.-NATO weapons deal for Ukraine, Stavridis said he was hoping the deal would “move beyond strictly defensive weapons, such as the...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday pushed back on a new report from NBC News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees are going hungry and being fed spoiled food. “FAKE NEWS! Any claim that there is a lack of food or subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are FALSE,” DHS said in...
Plus: Dem seeks to force vote on release of Epstein files {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP on Monday pivoted in favor of Ukraine, arranging for U.S. weapons to be delivered to Kyiv and threatening new sanctions on Moscow if Russia's war stretches later in the year. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte,...
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to resume efforts to dismantle the Department of Education in an apparent 6-3 vote along ideological lines, lifting a judge’s order to reinstate hundreds of employees terminated in mass layoffs. The administration’s victory enables the president to move closer to fulfilling of one of his major campaign promises to oversee the...
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has scored a contract for up to $200 million with the Department of Defense alongside three other major tech firms, the Pentagon announced Monday. xAI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI all received contracts with the same ceiling from the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to help boost the...
Senators considering Carey’s nomination must ask some fundamental questions about whether she believes in the mission, independence and very existence of the agency she seeks to lead.
Members of the conservative Republican Study Committee are slated to hold a news conference Monday afternoon marking the first anniversary of the assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa. Sunday marked one year since Trump was bloodied in the assassination attempt, which served as a turning point for Trump both politically and...
The Democratic Party’s approval rating is underwater at 40 percent, according to a new poll, the latest troubling sign for a party still grappling with its losses from November. A Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll released on Monday found that only 4 in 10 respondents approved of the job that the Democratic Party is doing, a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will hold a news conference Monday afternoon. Earlier this month, Jeffries commandeered the chamber floor to deliver a marathon speech hammering away at the GOP’s tax and spending cut bill. He stalled passage of the sprawling package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities for several hours. The Jeffries news...
A majority of voters gave President Trump’s immigration policies high marks, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday. Sixty percent of voters surveyed said they support Trump’s efforts to close the border, including 89 percent of Republicans, 55 percent of independents and 34 percent of Democrats. Seventy-five percent of respondents also said they support...
Conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said Monday he is trusting the Trump administration to handle the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein,” Kirk said on his show on Real America’s Voice, referring to last weekend’s Turning Point USA conference in Tampa. ...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen criticized the State Department's decision to lay off 1,300 employees as it is seen as a retreat from global commitments and a victory for adversaries such as China and Russia.
President Trump on Monday said he had brokered a deal to send more weapons to Ukraine without burdening the U.S., while threatening Russian President Vladimir Putin with new sanctions if there is no deal to end the war in 50 days. Trump’s announcement marks a potential turning point for a president who had wanted to...
