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How Trump Is Pitching the Iran War to the American People

White House officials have finally gotten the message that maybe, just maybe, the administration needs to recalibrate its messaging strategy on the Iran war.

Fears spread about businesses implanting microchips in workers

Never mind microchipping your dog. Some companies are giving employees microchip implants that give them access to facilities, company accounts and vending machines with the wave of a hand.

Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic programs

President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.

Rahm Emanuel tests 2028 run, vows to fight Trump’s MAGA but also ‘weak and woke’ liberals

Rahm Emanuel has been telling audiences that plenty of rivals have learned the hard way what happens when they get in his way.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to crack down on ‘bad landlords.’ First he has to find them

On a recent weeknight, three tenants of an aging Bronx building were trading apartment horror stories inside a packed ballroom lined with city bureaucrats.

The US doesn’t need a surgeon general who is sideways on science 

Sadly, we know how the story is going to end when a vaccine skeptic in a doctor's clothing is given the bully pulpit.

Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases: Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said the Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases as strikes on Iran jolt the global market. “We knew that going in would be a factor, and so we have a program in place that will begin to be implemented by [Energy] Secretary [Chris] Wright, [Treasury]...

Saudi Arabia condemns drone strike against US Embassy

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Tehran's drone strikes against the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as conflict in the Middle East heats up following U.S. strikes on Iran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its rejection and condemnation in the strongest terms of the treacherous Iranian attack that targeted the building of the United States Embassy...

Trump’s 2-hour diatribe doesn’t address America’s true status 

The speech was too long, too garish, too exploitative, too vulgar and mostly uninformative.

Live updates: Trump to host German leader as US warns Americans to leave Mideast

President Trump on Tuesday will host German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, as the U.S. military operation in Iran is ongoing and Europe is mixed in its support. The State Department has warned U.S. citizens in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave immediately and has closed its embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,...

OpenAI adds protections to Pentagon deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company has added further protections to its agreement with the Pentagon to bring its AI models to the military’s classified network. The latest additions come as the ChatGPT maker faced pushback over the deal, which came on the heels of the Trump administration’s announcement Friday that it...

Trump: US has ‘unlimited’ munitions to fight wars ‘forever’

President Trump said late Monday that the U.S. has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight wars “forever," just days after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes in Iran. “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better — As was stated to me today, we have...

The Movement: Iran war confuses MAGA base, testing trust in Trump

President Trump’s attack on Iran is confusing the MAGA base that once bragged that he never started any wars, testing the limits of their trust in the president’s foreign policy judgement. There are, of course, many Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) who have long advocated for the U.S. to take decisive action in Iran and take out the...

Cubans are begging for the US to finish the job

Cuban prisoners are cheering the U.S. president. That tells you more about the state of U.S.-Cuba relations than a decade of think-tank white papers.

Watch live: Noem testifies before Senate on DHS oversight

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will face questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning on oversight of the department as its funding lapse nears the three-week mark. Democrats have largely maintained that they will not support a deal to reopen DHS without reforms to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics...

Trump’s war of choice in Iran

Early Saturday morning, wearing a white baseball cap, President Trump informed the American people, “A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.” That’s only part of the story. Trump did not tell the people that this war was unnecessary, was illegally begun without congressional authorization or even consultation and had...

GOP state lawmakers urge White House to halt efforts to block state AI laws

More than 50 Republican state lawmakers are calling on the White House to stop efforts to prevent the passage of state AI laws, as the Trump administration takes aim at a Utah measure. In a letter to President Trump on Tuesday, the lawmakers said they are “deeply concerned” by the push to pressure those in...

Texas Gov. Abbott warns Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ must be taken ‘seriously’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday warned that the possibility of Iranian “sleeper cells” is being “seriously” evaluated in the Lone Star state. Sleeper cells are foreign actors who live under the radar until called on to carry out a mission or attack. In Texas, federal authorities are investigating a Sunday shooting in Austin...

DC lifts recreational advisory for Potomac River

Washington, D.C., lifted its recreational advisory for the Potomac River on Monday after a large-scale sewage spill earlier this year. “Consistent water quality testing shows bacterial levels are now within safe ranges for recreation,” Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X. “Reminder: as always, swimming in rivers in DC...

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