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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday the U.S. will not be "exporting enrichment capacity to" Saudi Arabia under the new nuclear deal announced last week. Waltz appeared on the Sunday morning shows to clarify aspects of the deal, which would eventually allow the Saudis to enrich uranium, raising fears the Persian...

Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) are holding a forum on Monday afternoon examining President Trump's cryptocurrency investments. It comes after Trump's financial disclosure report for last year revealed he brought in more than $2 billion via various channels.  The report, released earlier this month by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics,...

Americans’ economic pessimism has eased slightly this month, according to a new poll from Gallup. In the poll, 22 percent of respondents said the U.S.’s economic conditions are “excellent” or “good,” while 32 percent said they were “only fair” and 44 percent said they were “poor.” A month ago, 19 percent said the U.S.’s economic...

Funding for the global HIV response plunged in 2025, entirely due to a steep decline in U.S. support, according to reports from KFF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Taken together, the reports, released at the International AIDS Conference, show decades of progress to combat HIV is at risk. The current HIV...

Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC "dysfunctional." Carville, who explained he was recovering from hernia surgery, said in a video posted to YouTube that he wanted to weigh in on The New York Times's reporting...

According to The New York Times, the DNC is $2 million dollars in debt, while President Trump controls a $400 million super PAC and the Republican National Committee has nearly $130 million in cash on hand.   

The U.S. pulled back on its daily strikes on Iran over the weekend to both give more time for negotiations and conserve munitions. President Trump is "giving it a little bit of room,” Mike Waltz, United Nations ambassador, said Sunday. On Monday, the president told reporters on Air Force One that Iran had requested a meeting....

Fauci comes off as extremely smug and convinced of his own greatness.

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A real Congress would have challenged the president on the War Powers Act.

The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was shot Sunday at their home in the Northern Virginia suburb of Ashburn, police said. The shooting, which was first reported by ESPN, occurred on the 20000 block of Northpark Drive, where police said they were called just after 7:30 p.m. ESPN reported that Mia...

Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci was keenly aware of the media's interest in him early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, and considered some of the attention "flattering," according to diary entries released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Over the weekend, Paul published more than a thousand pages of Fauci's diary entries as...

And in doing so, they are reclaiming the values of patriotism and love of country. 

Analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Americans may be “moving on” from President Trump amid rocky political territory for the president and his party. “It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA),...