THE IRAN TALKS: HOW THE ADMINISTRATION SEES THINGS NOW. In the last couple of days the Iran war has been going through another one of the up-and-down news cycles — in which some sort of resolution seems imminent and then not so imminent — that have become a familiar story. In this case, President Trump, who […]
A former adviser to President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic said Sunday that the U.S. is equipped to handle an Ebola outbreak. “The U.S. right now does not have a confirmed head of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], it does not have a confirmed head of the [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)],...
Secret Service Director Sean Curran said Sunday that his thoughts were with the bystander shot amid an exchange of gunfire between officers and a gunman near the White House on Saturday. "I want to recognize the quick and decisive response demonstrated by our Secret Service police officers last night in confronting an armed gunman. Their...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Trump was not an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case, after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) last week suggested he may have been. “I can affirm that is not true," Leavitt said in response to a question about Johnson's comments. "I think the Speaker was referring...
The Department of Health and Human Services's Make America Healthy Again Commission released its strategy aimed at the nation's children on Tuesday afternoon. The highly anticipated report lays out the Trump administration’s planned health strategy around priorities including vaccines, childhood nutrition, water fluoridation and exposure to chemicals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Tuesday...
Charges against 15 defendants in Michigan were dismissed on Tuesday after a judge determined they did not act unlawfully by signing papers falsifying their status as electors. District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons said the individuals indicted “believe they were executing their constitutional right to seek redress” after attempting to overturn former President Biden’s 2020...
The White House on Tuesday said President Trump “feels very bad” about the location of Israel’s Tuesday strike in Qatar that targeted Palestinian militant group Hamas’s senior officials in Doha. “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and close ally of the United States that is working very hard and greatly taking risks with us...
The Missouri state House has approved a new congressional district map designed to give Republicans an additional seat in its U.S. House delegation, sending the plan to the state Senate for approval. The proposal passed in a mostly party-line vote with some defections, 90 to 65, after Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) called for a special...
The highly anticipated second report by the Make America Healthy Again Commission lays out the Trump administration's planned health strategy around priorities including vaccines, childhood nutrition, water fluoridation and exposure to chemicals. The report, which tracks with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stated priorities, sets in motion various initiatives but lacks substantial findings or...
MAHA/MAGA moms are being called out for their anti-vaxx rhetoric, which is putting children's lives at risk, and politicians need to take a stand and call them out for being bad mothers.
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration's military approach to address drug trafficking on Monday, days after the U.S. military deployed several warships and fighter planes to the Caribbean in a warning to drug cartels. “I support it. There's a reason the president designated terrorist organizations," Homan told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer on...
The Trump administration forbid any U.S. funds from being used to provide legal counsel to hundreds of Venezuelans sent to the notorious El Salvador megaprison known as CECOT, according to a newly-revealed deal between the U.S. and El Salvador. The five-page agreement between the countries, secured by Democracy Forward in a lawsuit, placed no conditions on...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) wrote to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday urging him to address the recent rise in unemployment among Black women under the Trump administration. August data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed unemployment among Black women at 2.4 percentage points higher than the national average. “Black women unemployment...
Zohran Mamdani's campaign is offering a rich response to a news story detailing how the very wealthy feel about the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, tapping a star of "The Gilded Age" to perform a "dramatic reading" of the article. In a video posted by Mamdani on Monday, Morgan Spector is seen dressed as his railroad...
