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Oklahoma Governor Appoints Energy Exec Alan Armstrong to Markwayne Mullin’s Senate Seat

Armstrong is expected to serve out the rest of Mullin’s term but must agree to not run for another full term, according to Oklahoma law.

Why Are We Lifting Sanctions on Iranian Oil During a War with the Mullahs?

A deep dive into the Trump administration’s decision to lift sanctions on 140 million...

New Guttmacher Data Shows Slight Abortion Increase in 2025

This new Guttmacher report provides further evidence that stopping telehealth abortions needs to be...

First lady Melania Trump launches summit on children, online skills and AI

First lady Melania Trump kicked off the inaugural meeting of her "Fostering the Future" coalition Tuesday by challenging leaders to leverage artificial intelligence to help children while preventing any harm from emerging technologies.

Imprisoned MS-13 gang member sues Trump administration to get sex-change treatment

An incarcerated MS-13 gang member wants to join a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union to prevent the Trump administration from prohibiting access to sex-change treatments while behind bars.

JetBlue flights briefly grounded

All JetBlue flights were temporarily grounded early Tuesday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  Reports on the FAA’s website show the ground stop was enacted at 5:22 a.m. and canceled around forty minutes later at the request of the airline. In a statement provided to The Associated Press on Tuesday, a JetBlue spokesperson...

Watch live: Hegseth, Caine give remarks as Trump suggests Iran war could end soon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will speak with the media Tuesday morning as tensions with Iran persist following U.S. strikes on the Middle Eastern nation earlier this month. The Pentagon and President Trump have given conflicting accounts on how long the U.S. conflict with Iran will last in...

Javier Milei’s fiscal shock has changed Argentina’s destiny

The central question is no longer whether stabilization was necessary, but whether radical fiscal reform can consolidate political legitimacy and endure.

Here’s the real state of the union

President Trump addressed the nation the evening of February 24 to discuss the State of the Union. His record long speech understandably focused on the positive achievements during his Administration, but it failed to help unite the country or address several key sustainability challenges, including how we are going to defuse our nation’s ticking debt...

Kaine: Trump calling Iran war an ‘excursion’ is ‘deeply disrespectful’ to service members

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an “excursion” on Monday. “You can’t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,” Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source,” after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington at...

Paul hopes for Mullin’s DHS confirmation hearing next week

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Monday he hopes to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “We’re shooting for a week from Wednesday,” Paul told reporters as he stepped...

Trump says he’ll strike Iran ‘20 times harder’ than before if oil flow halted in Strait of Hormuz

President Trump on Monday threatened the Iranian regime against halting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as gas prices back home rise amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of...

Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC continues to fall 

Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon}   Health Care Health Care The Big Story Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC continues to fall New polling released last week found that public trust in federal agencies and authorities regarding health information has continued to fall over the past year, even as Health and...

5 takeaways from Trump’s Iran presser at Doral

President Trump suggested the war with Iran could be coming to a close during a press conference at his Miami resort on Monday, which immediately followed his address to House Republicans at their annual retreat. “Very soon,” Trump said when asked when the war would end. “Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership.”...

Rubio designates Afghanistan as ‘state sponsor of wrongful detention’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday designated Afghanistan as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” and urged the ruling Taliban to release two U.S. citizens he said are “unjustly detained.” “Today, I am designating Afghanistan as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention. The Taliban continues to use terrorist tactics, kidnapping individuals for ransom or...

Trump tells Republicans the SAVE America Act will ‘guarantee the midterms’

DORAL, Fla. - President Trump on Monday pushed for the passage of a GOP voting requirements bill, telling House Republicans that enacting the legislation will “guarantee the midterms” and reiterating that he won’t sign any other bills until it gets passed. “It will guarantee the midterms. If you don’t get it, big trouble,” Trump said...

Democrats vow to shut down Senate over Iran conflict

A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior officials testify before key committees under oath on the military conflict with Iran. “We have collectively agreed that...

Trump calls Iran war ‘excursion’ that will be done ‘very soon’ 

President Trump on Monday described the war against Iran as an “excursion” that would be over soon, as the president contends with spiking oil prices, troop casualties, allies under attack and low support among the American public.  “This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We're getting very close to finishing...

Trump, Pentagon give conflicting signals on end to Iran war

President Trump and the Pentagon are offering conflicting signals on how long the U.S. war with Iran will last, as officials in Tehran prepare to dig in for a longer fight and with the economic fallout from the clash hurting the U.S. and global economy. Trump on Monday suggested victory is in sight but with...

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