Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she was troubled by social media posts that the leading Democrat in Maine’s Senate race made more than a decade ago about sexual assault. Last year, The Washington Post uncovered online comments that Graham Platner posted in 2013, in which the Democratic candidate downplayed the difficulties service members face when...
President Trump said on Saturday that he might pull even more U.S. military troops out of Germany, a threat that came one day after he ordered the Pentagon to withdraw approximately 5,000 service members from the country. “We are going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” Trump told reporters...
An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court Friday evening that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts the agency did not renew in January, reversing a controversial decision that prompted a coalition of labor unions, scientific groups and local governments to sue the administration.
The leader of the Czech Republic pushed back this week against President Trump’s accusations that Europe has failed to do its part to support the U.S.’s ongoing military operations against Iran. “I believe that Europe could do much more, but we are not part of it,” Czech President Petr Pavel told CNN’s Christine Amanpour at...
An Alaska man charged with threatening to torture and assassinate six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has reached a plea deal, according to a new court filing on Tuesday. Panos Anastasiou, 77, had pleaded not guilty when he was first charged in 2024. On Tuesday, he filed a notice that he...
Democratic strategist James Carville on Monday said President Trump is deteriorating at a “rapid rate” as he weighs options regarding Iran and works on messaging to the American people. Trump, who announced Tuesday evening a two-week pause in striking Iran amid a developing ceasefire, addressed the nation last week and again on Monday to outline...
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday called President Trump’s latest threat against Iran “unacceptable.” “Today, as we all know, there was this threat against the entire people of Iran, and this is truly unacceptable,” the first American pontiff told reporters outside of his residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, according to Reuters. Earlier Tuesday, Trump warned that...
President Trump said Tuesday that he would “suspend” an escalation of attacks on Iran for two weeks as long as Iran agrees to open the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth Social post less than two hours before his 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to make a deal to open the strait, the president...
Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) said Tuesday he doesn’t support President Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die tonight” ahead of his 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to strike a peace deal. “Let me be clear: I do not support the destruction of a ‘whole civilization.’ That is not who we are, and it is...
President Trump hit back at conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who on Monday blasted the president over a social media post in which he used an expletive and threatened Iran ahead of a ceasefire deadline Tuesday evening. “Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said during an interview...
U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was released Tuesday afternoon a week after she was abducted in Baghdad at the end of March, an Iraqi official told The Associated Press. Iraqi militia group Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement earlier Tuesday that it would free Kittleson but mandated that she “leave the country immediately” after her release,...
A Bahrain-led resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz failed at the United Nations on Tuesday, unable to withstand opposition from Russia and China despite attempts to weaken its provisions to win their support. Nearly a dozen countries — Bahrain, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, Somalia, United Kingdom and...
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday mocked President Trump's latest threat toward Iran, saying his "civilized" country will win over "brute force." Trump has set a deadline for Iran to submit a peace proposal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz at 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, he reiterated his existential...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday characterized President Trump as someone who is “undisciplined, immature and narcissistic” but not “stupid.” “He knows he is in trouble. When that happens, he flails and that is what he is doing now. He is flailing. That is the way to explain what you see now....
