President Donald Trump's special envoy to Belarus recently revealed that he helped ingratiate himself with the country's autocratic leader by echoing Alexander Lukashenko's disdain for Europe with vulgar language and by negotiating his way through a boozy lunch during their first meeting.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) is banning his staff from trading on prediction markets, which have recently come under congressional scrutiny. “Effective today, Congressman Moulton is instituting an office-wide policy prohibiting his congressional staff from participating in prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi,” Moulton’s press office said in a post on the social platform...
President Trump said Wednesday at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner that he avoids using the word “war” to describe the conflict in Iran. “I won’t use the word 'war' because they say if you use the word 'war,' that’s maybe not a good thing to do,” Trump told the crowd of...
More than half of Americans are against the use of their country’s military force for regime change in Cuba, with President Trump recently making threats of taking over the island nation. In The Economist/YouGov poll, 53 percent of respondents said they “somewhat oppose” or “strongly oppose” American military force for a regime change in Cuba. ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned recent Israeli strikes that killed several Iranian leaders on Wednesday. "What is unfolding before our eyes is not hypocrisy,” the Iranian official wrote in a statement posted on the social platform X. “Hypocrisy implies shame,” he continued. “This is something colder: a calculated moral collapse—where rules exist only for...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe dodged questions about President Trump’s planning for the war with Iran and to what extent the president was briefed on the possible scenarios in the lead-up to the airstrikes against Tehran. Lawmakers attempted to utilize the rare hearing to extract answers from senior Trump...
Regular gas prices are at their highest since 2023 amid the U.S. and Israeli conflict against Iran, according to AAA, The Associated Press reported. On Wednesday, according to AAA, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline nationally hit over $3.84, with gas prices not being this high since September 2023, the AP reported....
The Iranian government threatened to strike oil and gas facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday, in response to an attack on its South Pars natural gas field. Iranian state media warned the country would target Saudi Arabia’s Samref Refiney and its Jubail Petrochemical Complex, as well as the...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) flexed his political muscle in the Illinois Senate primary to propel Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton to victory, as chatter builds about his larger political ambitions. The billionaire and possible 2028 presidential contender’s endorsement and financial support for his second-in-command buoyed Stratton to defeat Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly in Tuesday's primary. She is all but certain to succeed retiring...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday agreed to meet with members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee behind closed doors after a dustup with leadership from both parties over him largely declining to answer questions about past trips overseas, saying that information was classified. After much wrangling and initial pushback from Mullin, he agreed to...
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday dismissed any suggestion victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been ignored by the Justice Department (DOJ), again offering a full-throated defense of the Trump administration’s handling of the investigation. “When I hear this narrative that we are letting down victims or that we are failing victims,...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will give remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation's central bank decided to hold interest rates steady amid evolving impacts on the economy sparked by President Trump's military operation in Iran. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the panel of bank officials responsible for setting borrowing costs, maintained its baseline interest...
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard deflected criticism Wednesday about her presence at an FBI raid at a Georgia election office earlier this year. Gabbard was pressed by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) during questioning from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Gabbard was photographed outside of the facility in Fulton County, Ga., next to...
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith said that both political parties carry the blame for the government shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Legislators in Congress are struggling to negotiate a funding package for the department, which has been shut down fore more than four weeks. “The shutdown is just egregious, and I think both...
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday applauded the resignation of Joe Kent, one of the nation’s top counterterrorism officials, who stepped down in opposition of the ongoing U.S. military operation in Iran. Bolton then suggested that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard should follow her former top aide's lead. “I’m glad he resigned....
Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will officially both be in the ballot for the May 26 GOP runoff, as Tuesday's deadline came and went without an endorsement in the race by President Trump. Trump, who said days after the two men advanced to a runoff that he would endorse...
