Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) was ousted by a primary challenger who successfully cast the four-term incumbent as anti-Trump and capitalized on a redrawn district.
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Top Democrats argued Tuesday against applying a 25-year-old AUMF on the strikes against Iran while simultaneously suggesting the U.S. has been at war with the Islamic republic for decades.
More and more states are examining plans to cut property taxes during what's an election year for governors and legislators in most states. But some states' tax-cutting zeal is hitting political resistance to slashing local government and public school funding.
Voters in two major Texas counties were turned away at polling locations and directed to different precincts Tuesday, after a recent change in how the primary is conducted created confusion and frustration.
The rate of colorectal cancer is increasing among younger Americans and is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in adults under the age of 50, according to research published by the American Cancer Society on Monday. Researchers found that 45 percent of new colorectal cancer diagnoses are occurring in individuals younger than 65, a...
The House Oversight Committee released more than eight hours of testimony yesterday that depicts Bill and Hillary Clinton testifying as to their relationship, or lack there of, with Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) went after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) over comments he made about the U.S. operation against Iran, asking the senator “what the actual f---" he was "talking about." During a Monday appearance on Fox News's "America Reports," Mullin said, “The loss of life, when the president first came out and he talked...
President Trump on Tuesday said there was no evacuation plan for Americans in the Middle East because the joint strikes launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel “happened very quickly.” “We thought and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask [Secretary of State Marco Rubio], but I thought we were going...
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Trump, is describing his "utterly surreal" escape from the Middle East amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Bruesewitz was in Doha, Qatar, "just as the Iranian attacks erupted, leaving me stranded amid the chaos," he wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X that included video...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) will speak with reporters Tuesday as Democrats feel pressure from Republicans to support legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the U.S. strikes in Iran over the weekend. Democrats have thus far held firm to their demands for reforms within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said the Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases as strikes on Iran jolt the global market. “We knew that going in would be a factor, and so we have a program in place that will begin to be implemented by [Energy] Secretary [Chris] Wright, [Treasury]...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Tehran's drone strikes against the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as conflict in the Middle East heats up following U.S. strikes on Iran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its rejection and condemnation in the strongest terms of the treacherous Iranian attack that targeted the building of the United States Embassy...
President Trump on Tuesday will host German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, as the U.S. military operation in Iran is ongoing and Europe is mixed in its support. The State Department has warned U.S. citizens in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave immediately and has closed its embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company has added further protections to its agreement with the Pentagon to bring its AI models to the military’s classified network. The latest additions come as the ChatGPT maker faced pushback over the deal, which came on the heels of the Trump administration’s announcement Friday that it...
President Trump said late Monday that the U.S. has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight wars “forever," just days after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes in Iran. “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better — As was stated to me today, we have...
