President Trump threatened a U.S. military attack against Oman Wednesday, warning against the possibility of the Middle Eastern country controlling the Strait of Hormuz jointly with Iran through tolls.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's routing of Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday's Republican Senate primary runoff is reverberating far beyond the Lone Star State, crystallizing a realignment within the GOP that rewards personal loyalty to President Trump above legislative record, institutional seniority or electoral pragmatism.
President Trump on Wednesday said Iran is running on "fumes" and will be forced to make a peace deal with the U.S. before its economy completely crumbles.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Trump removed her from her post at the Justice Department last month and has since been appointed to an AI panel.
President Trump on Tuesday formally raised the refugee cap to allow the admittance of another 10,000 individuals — slots he said must be given to white Afrikaners in South Africa. In doing so, Trump declared an emergency over a matter the South African government has long denied — that the country’s white minority is facing “racially motivated...
South Carolina state senators voted Tuesday against a plan to advance a new congressional map, putting a pin in the state's GOP-led redistricting push amid the national back-and-forth ahead of the midterms. “I can no longer support the passage of this bill for one simple reason: South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today,”...
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said energy prices are going to fall “like nothing you’ve ever seen before” once Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. “Well, you know, I can't really talk about the ongoing negotiations and the strikes, but what I can say is that as soon as the straits are open, then...
Multiple people were injured in a “major” chemical incident in Washington state, according to a local fire department. Posts Tuesday morning from Washington’s Longview Fire Department indicated that it was responding following “an implosion involving a vat of chemical treatment product” at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility. “Multiple people” suffered injuries including chemical burns, but the extent...
Vice President Vance will speak with a group of state attorneys general Tuesday afternoon as part of a roundtable focused on the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts. President Trump said last month that Vance's new role as "fraud czar" will mainly focus on Democratic-run states, including Minnesota, which is currently under investigation over allegations of fraud...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed back on criticism from some "Make America Healthy Again" activists after he extended liability protections for drugmakers working to develop treatments for the Andes hantavirus strain. The HHS late last week extended legal protections through July 18 to manufacturers and distributors of the experimental antiviral drug favipiravir as a potential treatment. Kennedy signed a Public Readiness...
UFC President and CEO Dana White says he does not consider taking his sport to the South Lawn of the White House a political decision but a patriotic one instead. "You can make anything political if you want to,” White said as part of a wide-ranging interview with Time published this week. “I love this...
The criminal trial of former FBI director James Comey over allegedly threatening to kill President Trump in a social media post that consisted of a photo of seashells spelling out "86 47" is set to begin in October. U.S. District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan on Tuesday granted Comey's request to delay the trial, which is...
Construction began this week on a temporary octagon on the White House grounds in preparation to host several UFC fights on Flag Day, which is also President Trump’s 80th birthday. Photos taken by The Associated Press showed workers building pieces of the red and blue UFC fighting ring for the “UFC Freedom 250” event on...
The U.S. embargo against Cuba has been a disaster for both countries, and the answer to the problem is ending the embargo and letting capitalism grow in Cuba, rather than military intervention.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) on Monday said President Trump's withdrawal from former President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran left the country "weeks from nuclear breakout." Wasserman-Schultz blasted the reported memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, which would include unfreezing Iranian assets and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. She argued that President Trump leaving...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the Iranian government is alone in pushing for itself to control passage through the Strait of Hormuz via a tolling system. “The Russians are not in favor of a tolling system, the Chinese are not in favor of a tolling system,” Rubio told reporters on board his...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling as a reptile wrangler, sharing a video showing him grabbing hold of a pair of mating snakes with his bare hands. The Health and Human Services secretary is seen trying to capture the slithering duo in a video posted on his X account on Tuesday. The snake showdown — captured on...
President Trump is set to make a rare appearance at Camp David on Wednesday to conduct a Cabinet meeting, just hours after U.S. strikes on Iran left a peace deal hanging in the balance. Every member of the Cabinet will be in attendance, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation last...
