The White House says it is working with the FBI to review cases of American scientists who have gone missing or died in recent years in a growing list.
A federal appeals court on Friday erased a lower court ruling that had barred the administration from keeping transgender female prisoners in men's prisons.
Former diplomat Richard Haass on Saturday said that tensions between the U.S. and the Vatican have reached a 23 out of a 1-to-10 scale. "Morning Joe Weekend" co-host Willie Geist asked Haass how unusual a reported threat from the Pentagon to the Vatican's former diplomat was during a meeting in January. "On a scale of...
Democrats’ push to redistrict in Virginia is entering the home stretch as the party seeks to solidify an advantage in four more House districts ahead of the November midterms. Heavyweight donors have poured millions of dollars into the April 21 contest, which asks Virginians to consider a constitutional amendment that would redraw the Old Dominion’s...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office on Saturday said it is investigating Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the front-runner in the crowded California gubernatorial race, in connection with a sexual assault allegation from a former staffer, multiple outlets reported. The former staffer alleged that after a night of drinking with Swalwell in New York City in...
Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane urged President Trump to take action to break Tehran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. In a Friday interview on the “Cats & Cosby” radio show, Keane told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby that the U.S. should stop Iran’s oil-carrying ships from reaching their destinations in places like China,...
The United Kingdom on Saturday paused its transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after President Trump recently withdrew his cooperation for the 2024 agreement. The U.K. and the U.S. have shared a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos, since the 1970s. The agreement to transfer the islands to Mauritius,...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Saturday criticized the involvement of special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Middle East diplomacy, as the two sit down with Iranian officials for trilateral talks on bringing the six-week conflict with Iran to an end. “You can’t send the two real estate developers to negotiate...
The US launched a large-scale, multi-level, and expensive operation to rescue two airmen stranded in Iran, which was followed closely by Russian citizens, and highlighted the stark contrast between the US and Russian military attitudes towards their subordinates.
The U.S. military has launched operations to begin de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday. Centcom said in a social media post highlighted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that two Navy guided-missile destroyers began “setting conditions” for this mission on Saturday morning. The USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael...
The negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, on ending the six-week conflict are the first face-to-face talks between the two nations since 1979, the White House confirmed on Saturday. U.S. and Iranian officials arrived in the Pakistani capital on Friday for a high-stakes trilateral meeting regarding the fragile two-week ceasefire reached on...
Conservative media can pound on George Soros all they want — often with very good reason — but might be better served if it turned its anger and frustration upon the literally thousands of Republican, conservative and faith-based billionaires and multi-millionaires who choose to sit on the sidelines while whining about the “far left.”
If Democrat Analilia Mejia wins next week’s election to fill New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) former House seat, it will offer just the latest boost for progressives, who have notched a number of wins as the party debates its direction heading into the midterms. Mejia, a top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020...
Comedian Bill Maher accused President Trump of agreeing to a two-week ceasefire with Iran to “save face.” In his Friday evening monologue on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the late night host ridiculed Trump’s claim that the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil trading corridor, had been reopened during the temporary halt in fighting. “Apparently,...
The Trump administration has revoked green cards for three more Iranian immigrants with alleged ties to the regime, a week after arresting two relatives of slain Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. The State Department said in a statement that Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi and their son were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody,...
