Rep. Thomas Massie has no regrets about breaking with President Trump on key issues and losing Kentucky's Republican primary to the president's hand-picked challenger.
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...
Vice President Vance will host the "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Monday, sitting in for his friend who was fatally shot on Wednesday. He announced the gig Sunday night on social platform X, along with a photo of his desk, a microphone and a china cup and saucer. The show starts at noon EDT on...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Sunday formally endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in the general election this November. She announced her endorsement in a New York Times op-ed Sunday evening, stressing the importance of working together with the city’s mayor. “The question of who will be the...
President Trump said in a weekend interview that the White House ballroom will be a “little bigger” than initially planned. In a telephone interview Saturday with NBC News, Trump said the ballroom will have a capacity of 900 people, nearly 40 percent larger than the estimates provided in late July by the White House. “We’re...
The White House is continuing its push to remove Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook, filing a response in federal appeals court ahead of a 3 p.m. deadline on Sunday. The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, argues that it is within President Trump's discretion to...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk had “every right” to be speaking on the Utah Valley University campus when he was assassinated on Wednesday. “Charlie Kirk and I didn't agree on much politically. I'm a Democrat. He's clearly a Republican. He was one of my constituents,” Kelly said in...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) criticized technology companies as “conflict entrepreneurs” that have turned Americans against each other, suggesting the public needs to reclaim its agency. “I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits. These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most...
A public memorial for Charlie Kirk will take place Sept. 21 in Glendale, Ariz., Turning Point USA announced Saturday. It will occur inside State Farm Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, which can hold more than 63,000 people. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during an event on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday....
An ObamaCare deadline has collided with a fight over government funding, as Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the law's expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open. Without action, enhanced tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford coverage will expire at the end...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is "ready" to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face to negotiate an end to the war between their countries. "Sometimes we need it. Even if we don't love faces," Zelensky told CNN's Fareed Zakaria to laughter at the Yalta European Strategy Conference on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. The interview...
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is provoking NATO with his recent actions. “We're seeing incursions, possibly in Poland and Romania. He is sticking his thumb in the eye of NATO,” Crawford told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.” “I don't know if he is trying to invoke an...
Lawmakers, Trump administration officials and other dignitaries will honor the memory of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk at a vigil on Sunday evening. The Kennedy Center will host the D.C. vigil at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Those attending include House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Health...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday pushed back on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) characterization of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk as someone who did not embrace civic debate to the extent people have suggested since he was assassinated. Omar, who said she was "mortified" by Kirk’s murder in an interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza. Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in...
