During her 2022 campaign against GOP opponent Lee Zeldin, Hochul, in what had started as a routine public appearance, suddenly demanded that Republicans “just jump on a bus and...
A group of preschoolers in the Bronx received a visit from former President Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday, the first meeting between the two men coming just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office. The pair read to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center...
Vice President JD Vance thanked Pope Leo XIV on Saturday after the pontiff sought to downplay a days-long clash with President Trump and said he didn't want to engage in a public debate with the president. The pope said earlier on Saturday that some of the coverage of his comments throughout his papal visit to...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday urged President Trump to consider removing U.S. military bases from countries “who won’t let us fly from them,” again lashing out at European allies over their refusal to assist the U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran. Graham reupped the suggestion after Trump told reporters earlier on Friday that the senator...
Children still account for the most deaths on the waitlist — an unnecessary result of complex guidelines that disadvantage the youngest candidates and a dearth of policy to regulate technological advances that can save more lives.
Joe Kent’s resignation from a key Trump administration intelligence post has put the spotlight on a small but vocal segment of right-wing figures who believe Israel has pulled President Trump into a war with Iran. Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center before his resignation this past week, asserted that Iran posed “no imminent...
DORAL, Fla. — Taiwan’s representative to the U.S. is trying to keep China front of mind in MAGA foreign policy, sounding warnings that Beijing's "threat is active" at the Heritage Foundation's Miami Security Forum this week. America’s intelligence agencies recently assessed that Beijing is not planning a military invasion in 2027. Ambassador Alexander Tah-Ray Yui...
Strikes on infrastructure amid the Iran conflict are worsening a global energy crisis. Energy supplies were already tight and prices were soaring due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping channel through which about a fifth of the world’s oil typically flows. But recent strikes on oil and gas infrastructure are...
Iran launched two ballistic missiles toward a joint U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The strikes did not hit the base on Diego Garcia, a small island in the Chagos Archipelago, officials told the Journal. One missile failed in flight and a U.S. warship reportedly...
FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday that Russia's intelligence services have targeted Americans of “high intelligence value” on private messaging apps in an ongoing phishing campaign. Patel said the targets of Russian hackers include U.S. government officials, military officials, politicians and journalists. “Globally, this effort has resulted in unauthorized access to thousands of individual...
The Trump administration lifted sanctions on Iranian oil stuck at sea on Friday evening as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran continues to hike up global energy costs. “Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea,” Treasury Secretary Scott...
Fox News’s Martha MacCallum pressed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Friday afternoon about growing concerns about rising gas prices amid the U.S. war on Iran. “I think that this is a situation where people have to understand that this is temporary, this is not permanent,” Burgum said. MacCallum asked Burgum to respond to a clip...
Republicans are bracing for President Trump to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in Iran as the conflict in the Middle East crosses into its third week with no signs of slowing down. The administration is reportedly weighing missions to secure a safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and overtake Iran’s...
The leader of North Carolina’s upper Legislature is requesting another recount after a machine tally showed him losing a contested Republican primary for his state Senate seat by 23 votes. North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) asked the state’s Board of Elections in a letter Friday to grant a hand recount at a sample...
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DORAL, Fla. — Tensions over President Trump’s war in Iran within the GOP and Make America Great Again movement are “good,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told The Hill on Thursday at the group’s inaugural security conference. The head of the influential conservative think tank said it support Trump’s decision to launch the war on Iran....
