Republican lawmakers, conservative leaders and Trump administration officials plan to attend a memorial service and prayer vigil Sunday evening for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the Kennedy Center.
Eric Trump says the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has awoken a "sleeping giant" that spans generations and could prove to be the "greatest mistake" ever made by the "intolerant left."
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An ObamaCare deadline has collided with a fight over government funding, as Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the law's expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open. Without action, enhanced tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford coverage will expire at the end...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is "ready" to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face to negotiate an end to the war between their countries. "Sometimes we need it. Even if we don't love faces," Zelensky told CNN's Fareed Zakaria to laughter at the Yalta European Strategy Conference on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. The interview...
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is provoking NATO with his recent actions. “We're seeing incursions, possibly in Poland and Romania. He is sticking his thumb in the eye of NATO,” Crawford told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.” “I don't know if he is trying to invoke an...
Lawmakers, Trump administration officials and other dignitaries will honor the memory of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk at a vigil on Sunday evening. The Kennedy Center will host the D.C. vigil at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Those attending include House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Health...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday pushed back on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) characterization of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk as someone who did not embrace civic debate to the extent people have suggested since he was assassinated. Omar, who said she was "mortified" by Kirk’s murder in an interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza. Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in...