White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said he did not "know specifically" the status of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers involved in two recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine. "I don't know specifically," Homan said on "State of the Union" to CNN's Dana Bash. "I haven't been involved in the...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said President Trump hit Saudi Arabia with a "bait and switch" by changing the terms of a nuclear deal to tie it to building Saudi relations with Israel. "As you well know, the Saudis have been very clear that they will normalize relations with Israel when we're on...
"If the long-term drought is as bad as it could be, and you are starting off already with severe drought, this raises the real possibility of a 'mini-Dust Bowl.'"
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States is in “deep trouble” with the Iran war, comparing it to the U.S.’s drawn-out conflict in Vietnam. Panetta, who also led the CIA during the Obama administration, told CNN in an interview that "history tells us that forever wars do not end well," when asked which...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday during a press conference that Canada is prepared to respond to President Trump’s threat of 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods if intensified negotiations for a comprehensive trade agreement fall through. “We’re ready because we have been focusing on what we can control,” Carney said. “If these tariffs,...
House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle landed in Washington this week, arriving just as the United Kingdom cycled through yet another prime minister. "We're overachieving on Prime Ministers," he said during an interview at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C., comparing the churn to London buses: "They all come at once." Though the...
Paramount Skydance said Friday that it has agreed to delay the company’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery amid a pending lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general to block the merger. The company and the attorneys general said in a court filing that both sides have agreed to halt the merger until a judge’s...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) made a surprise, last-minute endorsement for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) over progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the open Michigan Senate race on Friday — highlighting Democratic angst over the possibility of a far-left victory in the Aug. 4 primary. “As governor, I've had one strategy: Get things done. And that strategy informs...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fears on what's next for AI Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File The...
Morris Katz, the Democratic strategist who helped recruit Graham Platner to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine, reflected on the string of controversies that led up to Platner’s decision to exit the race. In a podcast interview with The New York Times’s Ezra Klein released Friday, Katz addressed resurfaced Reddit posts the Democratic candidate...
A panel of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday chose South Carolina to lead the 2028 primary calendar. Nevada came in second, and New Hampshire, which had long served as the first-in-the-nation primary state, came in third, when it came down to a vote. President Trump's 10 percent tariffs are set to expire Friday,...
Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann called House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) recommendation of criminal charges for former special counsel Jack Smith “preposterous.” In an interview on MSNOW with Jen Psaki, Weissmann added, “You cannot read this letter and in any way view this as perjury.” He is referring to Jordan’s accusation that Smith made...
Federal health officials have linked cyclospora outbreaks in four additional states to the same iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico that has sickened thousands of people in the Midwest. The new states are Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. They join Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia as part of the country’s largest known cyclosporiasis...
President Trump on Friday pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to immediately take up a House-passed budget resolution to advance critical funding for the Iran war despite Thune’s statement on Thursday that the measure doesn’t have 50 votes to pass the Senate. Trump turned the screws on the Senate GOP leader to act on...
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is pushing back on the idea that he supports the "far right," quipping in a recent interview that he backs "normal people" and slamming the media for its coverage of conservatives. In an interview published by The Economist Thursday, editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes suggested Musk "supports not just the...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) tally of 2026 measles cases has officially surpassed the annual total of last year, with more then 2,300 cases reported from across most of the country. As of July 23, the CDC has confirmed 2,318 new measles cases in 2026, compared with 2,289 total cases detected in...
