Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) said Tuesday he doesn’t support President Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die tonight” ahead of his 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to strike a peace deal. “Let me be clear: I do not support the destruction of a ‘whole civilization.’ That is not who we are, and it is...
President Trump hit back at conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who on Monday blasted the president over a social media post in which he used an expletive and threatened Iran ahead of a ceasefire deadline Tuesday evening. “Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said during an interview...
U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was released Tuesday afternoon a week after she was abducted in Baghdad at the end of March, an Iraqi official told The Associated Press. Iraqi militia group Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement earlier Tuesday that it would free Kittleson but mandated that she “leave the country immediately” after her release,...
A Bahrain-led resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz failed at the United Nations on Tuesday, unable to withstand opposition from Russia and China despite attempts to weaken its provisions to win their support. Nearly a dozen countries — Bahrain, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, Somalia, United Kingdom and...
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday mocked President Trump's latest threat toward Iran, saying his "civilized" country will win over "brute force." Trump has set a deadline for Iran to submit a peace proposal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz at 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, he reiterated his existential...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday characterized President Trump as someone who is “undisciplined, immature and narcissistic” but not “stupid.” “He knows he is in trouble. When that happens, he flails and that is what he is doing now. He is flailing. That is the way to explain what you see now....
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called on Republican members of Congress to "stop the madness" after President Trump delivered an ominous threat toward Iran. Jeffries responded to Trump's Truth Social post from earlier in the day, when he wrote that unless Iran does "something revolutionarily wonderful," then a "whole civilization will die...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called on Republican members of Congress to "stop the madness" after President Trump delivered an ominous threat toward Iran. Jeffries responded to Trump's Truth Social post from earlier in the day, when he wrote that unless Iran does "something revolutionarily wonderful," then a "whole civilization will die...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into law Monday that grants him and other state officials authority over the designation of domestic terror organizations and the removal of public university students accused of supporting them. “To uphold the rule of law, our state must operate under one legal system, the Constitution must remain...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into law Monday that grants him and other state officials authority over the designation of domestic terror organizations and the removal of public university students accused of supporting them. “To uphold the rule of law, our state must operate under one legal system, the Constitution must remain...
