The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran was met with praise from some lawmakers and world leaders, and left others condemning the Trump administration and declaring its actions illegal. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the only Iranian American member of Congress, called Khamenei the "epitome of evil" and said,...
Iran now stands without its supreme leader for 36 years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after joint strikes from the U.S. and Israel on Saturday killed him and attacked military command posts and missile sites across the country. President Trump announced the strikes at 2:30 a.m. EST in a video shared on Truth Social. The mission, dubbed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late on Saturday broke his silence about the U.S. strikes on Iran, which he described as the "most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history." "The Iranian regime had their chance, yet refused to make a deal — and now they are suffering the consequences," Hegseth said in a...
Tuesday is one of the most consequential days of the year in Texas politics. Voters will decide who appears on the November ballot - or in many cases, who advances to a May runoff.
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well-suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore. Case in point, one of the most successful public policies in […]
Billionaire and noted climate activist Bill Gates made headlines last month when he released a piece seemingly rejecting his prior stances on global warming. In the memo, which was titled “Three tough truths about climate,” Gates declared that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that “the doomsday outlook is causing much of the […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to set himself up for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, embracing every left-wing activist issue he thinks will play well. That includes climate change, no matter how contradictory or pointless his climate grandstanding really is. Newsom jetted down to Brazil for a climate conference that is more than 5,000 […]
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