President Donald Trump's special envoy to Belarus recently revealed that he helped ingratiate himself with the country's autocratic leader by echoing Alexander Lukashenko's disdain for Europe with vulgar language and by negotiating his way through a boozy lunch during their first meeting.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) is banning his staff from trading on prediction markets, which have recently come under congressional scrutiny. “Effective today, Congressman Moulton is instituting an office-wide policy prohibiting his congressional staff from participating in prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi,” Moulton’s press office said in a post on the social platform...
President Trump said Wednesday at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner that he avoids using the word “war” to describe the conflict in Iran. “I won’t use the word 'war' because they say if you use the word 'war,' that’s maybe not a good thing to do,” Trump told the crowd of...
Microsoft has filed an amicus brief in Anthropic's case against the Trump administration, urging the court to temporarily block the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
Almost half of American voters have a negative view of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new poll. In the NBC News poll released Tuesday, 46 percent of respondents said they had a “somewhat negative” or “very negative” view of AI. Twenty-seven percent said they were “neutral” towards the technology and 26 percent said they...
Half of California's registered voters say they would back a ballot initiative — championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — that would implement a one-time tax on the state's ultrawealthy residents, according to the UC Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research-POLITICO poll released Tuesday. The poll found...
Rep. Bennie Thompson is fighting to hang onto his seat in Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District as he battles with Evan Turnage, a former Senate aide, for the Democratic nod in Tuesday's primary race. Republican incumbents seeking reelection without any primary challengers include Reps. Trent Kelly of the 1st Congressional District and Michael Guest of the...
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is facing GOP primary challenger Sarah Adlakha in her quest to keep representing Mississippi in the Senate. Democratic challengers include Scott Colom, Albert Littell and Priscilla W. Till. Follow Decision Desk HQ’s live results here. "" ""
The U.S. military has not yet escorted any oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, contradicting a now-deleted post from Energy Secretary Chris Wright. “I was made aware of this post. I haven’t had a chance to talk to the Energy secretary about it directly, however, I...
Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American scholar who was imprisoned in Iran, said Monday that he does not see the regime’s leadership giving in to President Trump’s demands, even as the president vows to accept nothing less than “unconditional surrender” from Tehran to end the conflict. “When [the regime] says death to America, it’s sometimes referred...
President Trump's top federal prosecutor in Milwaukee will not have his temporary term extended by judges on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the court announced Tuesday. Brad Schimel, interim U.S. attorney for the district, will see the clock on his appointment run out on March 17. A majority of the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that strikes on Iranian oil depots causing "black rain" could lead to respiratory problems as toxic pollutants disperse through the air. "Black rain," also referred to as "acidic rain," falling over Tehran "is indeed a danger" to the city's inhabitants, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in...
President Trump on Monday described Vice President JD Vance as being “maybe less enthusiastic” at the start of the U.S. war in Iran. “We get along very well on this,” Trump told reporters in Miami when asked if there were any divides with Vance on the war. “He was, I would say, philosophically a little...
Americans are bracing for expected economic impacts of the Trump administration's military operations in the Middle East, with a majority in a new poll expressing pessimistic views about the future of gas prices. In the Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Monday, 67 percent of respondents said they anticipate gas prices to surge even higher in the U.S....
