The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger should not be harder to resolve than the Middle East conflict. Yet California Attorney General Rob Bonta pulled out of talks at the last...
Sailors and crew members on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which recently departed the Middle East after it was stationed in the region as part of the U.S. conflict with Iran, have a port call scheduled after 250 days at sea, USA Today reported Monday, citing family members. Texts to the outlet said the Lincoln planned...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that if Iran attacks Israel directly or indirectly, it will make for a "terrible mistake." "I should say it very, very clearly," Netanyahu told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo in a "Sunday Morning Futures" interview. "If Iran attacks Israel — either directly or through proxies, either with ballistic missiles...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday said that President Trump ending the Iran war soon is something that "seems unlikely," suggesting the president go to Congress to find a path toward peace. "At this point, I do think there needs to be a fuller national discussion as to how we go forward," Cassidy said on...
White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said he did not "know specifically" the status of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers involved in two recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine. "I don't know specifically," Homan said on "State of the Union" to CNN's Dana Bash. "I haven't been involved in the...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said President Trump hit Saudi Arabia with a "bait and switch" by changing the terms of a nuclear deal to tie it to building Saudi relations with Israel. "As you well know, the Saudis have been very clear that they will normalize relations with Israel when we're on...
"If the long-term drought is as bad as it could be, and you are starting off already with severe drought, this raises the real possibility of a 'mini-Dust Bowl.'"
The November midterm elections are shaping up to be a tense and tight battle for control of Congress after Maine Democrats chose their nominee to face off against vulnerable incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). Former state Senate President Troy Jackson on Saturday formally clinched the Democratic nod to take on Collins, giving the party just 100 days to quickly turn...
President Trump late Saturday night once again urged Republican senators to "terminate the filibuster" in an effort to pass his oft-championed voting bill and other legislation "before it's too late." "The all Republican Senators! Terminate the Filibuster, which the Dumocrats will do as soon as they get the chance, and PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,...
U.S. policymakers would do well to ask whether upping the ante with bombs is likely to end this conflict, or deepen it by dragging in other countries in the Middle East and dragging down the global economy.
