A group of 46 mostly Democratic senators on Wednesday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking answers on the bombing of a school in Iran. An Iranian school for girls near a naval base in Minab was hit on Feb. 28 in the first wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. More...
American voters’ confidence in the Supreme Court has hit a record low, according to a new poll. In the NBC News survey, 22 percent of respondents said they either had “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the court. That is down from 29 percent who said the same in July 2024...
The State Department said Wednesday that more than 43,000 Americans have safely returned home from the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran on Feb. 28. The department added that it has completed more than three dozen charter flights and has specifically evacuated thousands of Americans from the region. It also noted...
Senate Democrats on Wednesday seemingly sought to turn the tables on Republicans, asking for unanimous consent to pass a bill to fund agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that do not conduct immigration enforcement. Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, asked for unanimous consent for a measure...
President Trump said the U.S. needs to do “more of the same” when asked on Wednesday what he needs militarily for the operation in Iran to end. “Right now, they’ve lost their navy. They’ve lost their air force. They have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all. They have no radar. Their leaders are gone, and we...
If Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz are serious about restoring fiscal credibility to entitlement programs, Medicaid is where reform must begin.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is in the middle of a heated GOP runoff race, threw his support behind changing the Senate filibuster rule to advance the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. “After careful consideration, I support whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary for us to get the SAVE America...
Lawyers for Anthropic warned a judge Tuesday that the Pentagon’s decision to label its products a supply chain risk could cost the artificial intelligence (AI) firm billions of dollars in revenue. Michael Mongan, an attorney for Anthropic, said during Tuesday’s status conference that the company is suffering an "irreparable injury” as a result of the...
Abby Phillip, one of CNN's prime-time hosts, corrected comments she made on the air Tuesday night about what police say was an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in New York City earlier this week. As the host teased a segment going into a commercial break, Phillip said "Two [elected] Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an...
President Trump on Wednesday hits the road, heading to Kentucky to visit the district of one of few GOP foes: Rep. Thomas Massie. After a stop in Cincinnati, Trump will cross the Ohio River to visit a packaging plant in Hebron, Ky., in Massie’s 4th Congressional District. The president has endorsed the incumbent's primary opponent,...
Lebanon's government has taken symbolic steps to ban Hezbollah's military and security activities, but without dismantling its financial and organizational core, these measures will not be effective in restoring Lebanese sovereignty.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Tuesday said he "was wrong" about past comments he made suggesting that it would take Iran years before it could restart its nuclear program, prior to the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes that hit the country late last month. Marshall previously said it will "take them years" to restart their program. CNN's...
