On Jan. 6, 2021, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared to a raucous crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters, many of whom were moments away from storming the U.S....
If the United States and Israel’s joint military campaign against the Islamic Republic succeeds, it could forever end the threat Iran poses to the U.S. and its allies. But another possible benefit awaits. Operation Epic Fury could lead to an expansion of the Abraham Accords, and with it, a more peaceful Middle East. The Islamic […]
President Trump pitched his vision of a “golden age of America” in record-length remarks to Congress on Tuesday, touting his administration's wins and attacking rival Democrats as he weathers poor approval numbers and frustrations over the economy. The president declared the country “bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before” in a wide-ranging speech that...
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ripped President Trump over issues around affordability and immigration as she delivered the Democratic response to the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Spanberger, a former CIA officer and House lawmaker elected governor of Old Dominion in November, criticized the president for the administration’s use of the U.S. Immigration...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said Democrats who heckled and shouted at President Trump during the State of the Union "brought shame upon their party and upon themselves." Trump's address was marked by clashes with Democrats over race, crime, immigration and other topics. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) repeatedly yelled back...
President Trump touted the successes of his second administration while lambasting Democrats on a plethora of issues during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. Trump notably broke the record for the longest State of the Union address ever given, clocking in at one hour and forty-seven minutes. He began his addresses by...
President Trump issued several awards during his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday evening. The honorees included two military pilots, an Olympic athlete, a Coast Guard petty officer and two National Guard members. The president also noted his continued interest in receiving the Medal of Honor himself. “I’ve always wanted the congressional...
President Trump stormed into the Capitol on Tuesday night to extol the first-year performance of his return to power, bash the Democrats as feckless rivals, and make the case for keeping Republicans in control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The marathon State of the Union address had all the signature pugnacity of the speech...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) bashed President Trump's immigration policies and accused the administration of seeking to interfere in the next election in the Democrat's Spanish-language rebuttal to the State of the Union address. The speech from California’s first Latino senator was just as focused on threats facing democracy as the immigrant story in shaping America,...
President Trump said Tuesday night that Iran is developing long-range missiles that can reach U.S. territory. “They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” the president said during his first State of the Union address of...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Monday lawsuit against New Jersey and its Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), over a recent executive order that bans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from state property without a judicial warrant. The government wrote that Sherrill is aiming to “intentionally obstruct” federal law enforcement and thwart federal immigration law....
The Pentagon has threatened to cancel Anthropic’s contract by Friday if the company does not agree to the department’s terms for the use of its AI model, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday at the Pentagon amid a dispute over...
The Mexican Embassy in the U.S. said Tuesday the security situation in Mexico has “stabilized,” two days after a prominent cartel leader was killed by the Mexican army. “The security situation has now stabilized following targeted operations in Jalisco,” the embassy wrote on social platform X, referencing the killing of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, or...
