Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after Paxton’s primary defeat of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Tuesday. In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, Thune said maintaining the Republican Senate majority is paramount, and that Paxton’s general election opponent, Democrat James Talarico, is a...

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg said on Wednesday that President Trump was in the “heads” of Iranian theocratic rulers, arguing that the fractured state of Tehran’s inner circle was the Trump administration’s biggest obstacle to finalizing a peace deal. “I think the president’s in their head. They know it. They’re on the losing side right...

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to investigate the cause of its Starship booster losing control and crashing into the Gulf of Mexico during a test flight last week, the agency announced on Wednesday. Following an assessment of the Starship Flight 12 launch, the FAA determined the launch "resulted in a mishap" failed operation...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Donald Trump Jr. traded barbs Wednesday after the former questioned President Trump’s allegiances to the NBA Finals-bound New York Knicks.  When a reporter asked Hochul about the president’s Knicks fandom, she responded that she would “ask him to name the starting lineup of the 1993 championship team and...

The Trump administration plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola to a quarantine and treatment facility being constructed in Kenya, an administration official said Wednesday.  Sources said public health service officers are preparing to be quickly deployed to the region to staff the new facility. The “state-of-the-art facility” is primarily intended for Americans who were exposed to the Ebola virus, or are at high risk of exposure, amid an ever-widening...

Former first lady Jill Biden says in a new interview she believed that her husband was “having a stroke” during his famously poor performance in the 2024 CNN debate against President Trump.  The former first lady was asked by CBS News’s Rita Braver in a new interview clip released Wednesday if she was “horrified” when...

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday predicted that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will beat state Rep. James Talarico (D-Texas) in the race to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) but that the contest will be an uphill battle for the GOP nominee. “I just don't know if Texas is ready to vote...

GOP lawmaker Paul Kanitra rips Democrats for demanding what he calls five-star accommodations for illegal immigrants at Newark's Delaney Hall.

Republican and Democratic strategists say Maureen Galindo's Texas congressional runoff defeat was not the course correction some Democrats hoped for.