Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Thursday he's expecting to add provisions to penalize Iran to a Russia sanctions bill under consideration in the upper chamber. President Trump said on social media over the weekend that he wanted Iran sanctions added to the bipartisan Russia-related legislation. "I think everybody's fine with it because...
A majority of Americans don't approve of President Trump’s renovation efforts in the U.S.’s capital city, according to a new survey. The president has undertaken a series of controversial beautification projects around Washington, D.C., including updating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, replacing the East Wing of the White House with a multimillion-dollar ballroom and constructing...
Houthi strikes on a pair of Saudi oil tankers have created an explosive situation in the Red Sea, threatening to open a new front in the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran and further roil the global energy market. The Yemen-based militant group said Thursday it struck the Encelia and Layla tankers with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles...
The man accused of killing former Minnesota state House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life terms, plus 40 years in prison. Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars more than a year after his fatal shooting of Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman....
The entire congressional Democratic caucus filed an amicus brief urging a federal appeals court to retain the Food and Drug Administration’s current rules for prescribing abortion pills. Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit not to reinstate an in-person requirement to obtain mifepristone, which has...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) went after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Thursday, saying the Big Apple's mayor is going to do something “stupid” enough to "send him to Gitmo," a nickname for Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. “For some reason, we have enough people in New York that would vote for this guy...
A plurality of respondents to a recent survey believe China is further along than the U.S. on developing artificial intelligence, as Trump administration officials accuse a Chinese startup of stealing intellectual property. Thirty-six percent of respondents to the Pew Research Center poll think China is more advanced on AI than the U.S., while just 12...
President Trump on Thursday expanded his pledge that aims to have data centers "pay their own way" for the electricity they use, but he took the opportunity to defend data centers at the same time. Trump announced that entities ranging from utilities to state governments are joining the pledge, which was already signed by major tech companies. The...
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper spent more than a quarter-million-dollars this election cycle on private security, leading to calls of hypocrisy from critics citing his "soft-on-crime" record.