Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday declined to commit to releasing video of a controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. “We're reviewing it right now to make sure sources, methods, I mean, it's an ongoing operation, [tactics, techniques and procedures], we've got operators out there doing this right now,” Hegseth...
To justify his policies, Trump is relying on a variant of an old fallacy. Instead of punishing individuals because they are members of certain organizations or nationalities, Trump’s rendition of guilt by association punishes an entire group of people because of the behavior of one of its members.
A new study from MoneyGeek researched health care across the U.S. and with one of their variables being the average life expectancy for every state in the country.
President Trump on Sunday took a swing at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over comments the governor made in which he pressed the president to “release the MRI results.” “Governor Walz asked you to release the MRI records,” a reporter on Air Force One noted to Trump. “Governor Walz? You mean, the incompetent governor? So,...
GOP strategist Karl Rove said Republicans need to have a health care agenda ahead of the midterm elections or they’ll be in “deep trouble” with their voters. In an interview Saturday on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report,” Rove said Republicans need to have a health care plan to share with voters next year, along with...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said on Sunday he thinks the White House lacks “moral clarity” on the issue of Ukraine and called on the administration to be a more forceful advocate of the democratic nation amid ongoing peace talks to end the war with Russia. “I would like to see the president be a stronger...
Several lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration for answers after multiple outlets reported Friday that the U.S. conducted a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in September. CNN and The Washington Post reported that on Sept. 2, the U.S. struck a vessel it accused of trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela a second...
National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday touted the market response to a Bloomberg report last week suggesting Hassett is broadly considered the frontrunner among candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president’s top economic adviser, in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” called the Bloomberg report a “rumor”...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) married his fiancée, Alexis Lewis, in two separate ceremonies in his home state and Washington, D.C., the senator said Sunday. “Overflowing with gratitude. We said ‘I do’ in two places that shaped us—Cory’s beloved Newark and Alexis’s hometown of Washington, D.C.—first at the courthouse, then with our families. Hearts full and...
For Republicans, it’s crunch time on ObamaCare. GOP leaders return to Capitol Hill this week facing a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies without a unified plan for how — or even whether — to extend the expiring benefits for millions of Americans. The debate is pitting Republicans concerned with delivering on "affordability"...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said on Sunday he plans to refile a war powers resolution requiring congressional approval for any military action taken in Venezuela. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the senator said he is optimistic that his resolution would get more support from Republicans in Congress this time around, noting...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Sunday that President Trump is “demonizing” Somali migrants in his state. “As far as demonizing our Somali community, maybe, he could help us on some things,” Walz told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Demonizing an entire community, folks who are in the professions, educators, artists, doctors,...
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the White House “should be very concerned” after a call featuring special envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior Russian official was leaked. “I think you can't take just one slice of someone's conversation during long, stretched-out aspects of negotiations as reflective, but I think it's certainly important that...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that the body will put military officials “under oath” regarding reported follow-up strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. “We're going to have an investigation,” Kelly told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We're going to have a...
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Sunday said if the U.S. military ordered a second strike targeting survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, as reported by The Washington Post on Friday, it would constitute an “illegal act.” In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Turner stressed that...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he thinks it’s “very possible” that a reported follow-up strike on two survivors of an initial U.S. attack in the Caribbean in September could constitute a war crime. “I think it's very possible there was a war crime committed,” Van Hollen said in an interview on ABC News’s “This...
At the U.S.-Central Asia Summit, the U.S. and Kazakhstan announced initiatives to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and high-performance computing, including the establishment of a $2 billion regional AI Compute Hub in Kazakhstan, to address the growing demand for energy and critical minerals for AI systems.
