President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that unless Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. on Tuesday, he will order the bombing of Iran’s critical infrastructure. As the president put it, “Tuesday will be power plant day, and bridge day, all wrapped up in one, Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open […]
Colorado has quietly become the most authoritarian state in the country, being dragged in front of the Supreme Court again and again over its repeated violations of the Constitution. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for gender-confused children. What that means, in practice, is that Colorado banned […]
A group of OPEC+ members met on Sunday and agreed to increase their oil output once the Strait of Hormuz is reopened. The plan is set to be implemented in May and the countries said they would plan to produce 206 thousand barrels per day, upon the waterway reopening, according to a press release. Eight...
The Senate Leadership Fund, a big-dollar fundraising group affiliated with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), announced Monday a whopping $342 million investment across eight high-stakes midterm Senate races. In its largest-ever ad buy, the Republican-led group is making an aggressive push to take the Democratic-held Senate seats in Michigan, Georgia and New Hampshire, according to...
The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said Monday it would rescind Title IX agreements that six schools made with the federal government under past administrations over gender identity. The department said the previous administrations' enforcement of Title IX was “illegal and burdensome" over “improper use of preferred pronouns” and “asking questions about a student’s preferred ‘gender.’” Title IX is...
President Trump suggested Monday that the U.S. could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the Strait of Hormuz — a strategy employed by Iran as it continues to control the key energy shipping choke point. During a White House press conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would end the war...
President Trump on Monday brushed off questions from reporters about whether strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran would constitute war crimes. When asked by a New York Times reporter at the White House press briefing if he was concerned that bombing power plants and bridges, as he had threatened to do, constituted war crimes, Trump...
President Trump on Monday doubled down on his deadline for Iran to make a deal with the United States by Tuesday evening, or else face destroyed infrastructure. "We're giving them until tomorrow at 8 o'clock. And after that, they're going to have no bridges, no power plants,” Trump told reporters at a White House news...
President Trump and his top national security officials on Monday offered details on the harrowing rescue of a U.S. service member from Iran after a fighter jet was downed inside the country on Friday. Trump authorized the U.S. forces to start the search-and-rescue operation and within hours, the U.S. military deployed 21 aircraft into Iranian airspace. “You...
Far-right media figure Laura Loomer took credit on Saturday for the arrests of the niece and grandniece of former Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. strike on Iraq during President Trump’s first term in 2020. Loomer said in a social media post that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Soleimani’s...