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Tax day is next week: Avoid these 5 common mistakes that can cost you money

Tax experts revealed five expensive filing errors that could cost you money this season, from choosing the wrong filing status to missing the April 15 payment deadline.

Trump admin urges restoring ballroom construction in emergency motion: ‘Time is of the essence’

Trump administration files emergency motion to overturn a judge's ruling halting White House ballroom construction, citing security and safety concerns.

Why Markwayne Mullin must prioritize the trade engine of Homeland Security

Homeland Security isn't just about securing the border. It's also about economic security.

Democrats’ new AIPAC obsession shows exactly why it’s needed

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC,...

The ongoing war with Iran: Letters to the Editor — April 6, 2026

The Issue: The United States’ war with Iran entering into its second month with...

Supreme Court turns away ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic’s appeal of murder-for-hire conviction

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider throwing out the 2019 conviction of Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix's "Tiger King," for his role in a murder-for-hire plot against rival animal rights activist Carole Baskin. The former zookeeper, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is serving a 21-year prison sentence after a federal jury...

Burchett: ‘A lot of Republicans don’t support’ Iran ground invasion 

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he does not believe “there’s a will for a ground conflict” in Iran among lawmakers during a Sunday interview with NewsNation.  “I know a lot of Republicans don’t support that, and I know all the Democrats don’t support it, so I firmly...

Chris Christie pushes back on calls to rein in sports gambling

Chirs Christie chuckled recalling how quickly signing New Jersey’s first legalized sports gambling law in 2012 sparked a lawsuit from the NCAA and the nation’s largest professional sports leagues against his state. The Republican governor’s goal at the time was to reassert Atlantic City as an East Coast gambling destination and drive tourism to a shoreline in need of an economic boost. After years of legal fights sparked in part by that...

Trump says it’s ‘possible’ Means will be withdrawn as surgeon general nominee

President Trump on Sunday indicated he was open to withdrawing his nomination of Casey Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, to be U.S. surgeon general, as reports indicate she does not have the necessary Republican support. While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump was asked if he was considering withdrawing...

Democrats press Trump administration on insider trading in prediction markets

More than 40 Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to provide guidance underscoring that federal employees cannot use nonpublic information to trade on prediction markets. Led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the group in a Sunday letter raised concerns to the heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Office of Government...

Rubio: Iran officials’ remarks don’t ‘necessarily reflect’ conversations

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday signaled progress in talks with Iran, saying Iranian officials are saying the right things in private despite their defiant public stance.  “You have people over there that are saying some of the right things privately,” Rubio, who also serves as acting national security adviser, said in an interview...

Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit challenging in-state tuition for undocumented students in Minnesota

United States District Judge Katherine Menendez has dismissed the Trump administration’s challenge to Minnesota law that allows in-state tuition for undocumented students.   The federal government sued Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and other state officials over a law that allows undocumented students in-state tuition for college if they went to a Minnesota high school for three...

Most say Trump administration has not done enough to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Survey

Most Americans say the Trump administration has not done enough to “Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA), according to a Monday poll. In the Politico poll, 52 percent of respondents said the administration “has not done enough to Make America Healthy Again,” while 26 percent said the opposite. Twenty-two percent of respondents said they were unsure...

ICE violence, Iran war show just how little Trump cares about human lives 

It seems that life is cheap and killing is good politics in the Trump administration.

Oil prices jump as Trump threatens escalation in Iran

Oil prices have jumped up again as the war in Iran rages on and President Trump threatens escalations. On Monday morning, international benchmark Brent crude was trading at about $114 per barrel, up significantly from last week, when prices were floating closer to $100 or $105 per barrel. Prices have been elevated since the war began...

Foreign policy — and Iran — will define Trump’s presidency

Ultimately, whatever one thinks of Trump’s foreign policy generally, or this war specifically, the stakes could not be higher.

Trump threatens Iran energy infrastructure despite ‘great progress’ in talks

President Trump threatened Iran’s energy infrastructure on Monday in spite of what he said was “great progress” in talks with officials in Tehran. “The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” Trump said in a Monday morning post on Truth...

Trump says Gabbard ‘a little bit softer’ on Iran obtaining nuclear weapon

President Trump on Sunday acknowledged that Tulsi Gabbard has a “softer” stance than he does on Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, adding that he still has confidence in his director of national intelligence.  “I would say that I am very strong on the fact that I don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon because if...

A ground invasion of Iran would be a huge mistake

An American invasion of Iran would be a strategic catastrophe, a moral failure and a self-inflicted wound from which the United States might never fully recover.  

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