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.
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of President Trump's ability to strip many federal employees of their collective bargaining rights, erasing a lower court injunction.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is meeting with President Trump in Washington Thursday after making an unannounced trip, according to multiple reports.
Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday told Wisconsin voters that congressional Democrats "don't answer to you," pointing to their actions at the State of the Union Address as a reason for voters to support Republicans in November.
A Brazilian migrant in the country without firm legal status had to leave the State of the Union address this week after Homeland Security posted to social media saying it was looking to arrest "aliens like him."
The White House has struck a deal on a new federal district judge in Tennessee and also appears to have a leading candidate for the new vacancy on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
U.S. women's ice hockey captain Hilary Knight is pushing back against a widely circulated joke made by President Trump about the women's team -- and social media is rallying around the players after images of their Milan dinner with actor Stanley Tucci drew a sharp contrast to the men's team's White House meal.
Trump backers met secretly last year to lay the groundwork for a major push to combat election fraud -- but they feel they're being stymied by people in the president's orbit.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group's request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a House panel she knows nothing about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking crimes and accused the GOP of conducting a cover-up for others who may have been involved, including President Trump.
