President Trump said Sunday that if his administration reaches a deal with Iran, it will be a “good and proper one,” as the two sides reportedly near an agreement to end hostilities. “If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Sunday defended the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” saying, “everybody’s losing their minds.” “This is not new. It happened to — the — under the Obama administration after the [Internal Revenue Service (IRS)] had been sued multiple times, and they settled with groups. This has occurred before....
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin should have released the party's long-withheld autopsy report of the party's defeat in the 2024 presidential election sooner. Van Hollen told "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream that the report was "incredibly shoddy and incomplete, I can understand why Ken...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his primary to Ed Gallrein earlier this week because he pushed the Trump administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein and opposed the wan Iran. “Sadness, disappointment,” Khanna told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when she asked what his...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has a greater than 95 percent chance of defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Lone Star State’s Senate GOP runoff, according to the prediction market Kalshi. As of Sunday afternoon, Paxton had a 95.6 percent chance of winning the runoff, which will be decided on Tuesday after...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin said Sunday that the Trump administration is providing “flexibility” to businesses by loosening restrictions on the use of super-polluting greenhouse gases in commercial refrigeration. Under the new EPA rule unveiled on Wednesday, supermarkets can use hydrofluorocarbons that are up to 1,400 times as potent as carbon dioxide until 2032....
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei on Sunday interpreted history in suggesting Iran is winning the negotiations with President Trump to end the near three-month conflict. Baqaei, whose country has been battered by the nearly three-month war, posted on the social platform X an image depicting an Iranian archaeological site that shows the Roman emperor...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he supports President Trump on a memorandum of understanding with Iran but asserted that the final deal must also cover Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu said he spoke with Trump on Saturday about the emerging peace deal, which would extend the ceasefire for 60 days and reopen the...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Sunday said his relationship with President Trump is different from the "Cassidy and Massie situation," referring to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who both lost Republican primaries to Trump-endorsed candidates. Cornyn told NewsNation's Chris Stirewalt that he does not think Trump's endorsement of Texas Attorney General...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) said Sunday that his party “desperately needs new leadership,” with the midterms less than six months away. “We need to focus on the people, and the Democratic Party desperately needs new leadership, and that's what's exciting me about this cycle. It's not only new leaders emerging, but a new vision...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday defended the Trump administration's tentative deal with Iran, parts of which Iranian officials have disputed. President Trump previously said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and a 60-day extension to the ceasefire were "largely negotiated." No mention was made of the fate of Iran’s nuclear program...
President Trump on Sunday said negotiations with Iran were proceeding in “an orderly and constructive” manner, and that he had told U.S. officials “not to rush into a deal.” The remarks follow intense criticism of reports on an emerging deal from several conservative Republican senators, including Trump ally and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). It was...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), whom President Trump endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Senate GOP runoff in the Lone Star State. “He is a failure. He doesn't deserve to be in the U.S. Senate,” Tillis told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of...
