The U.S. military conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Friday that killed an Al-Qaeda leader with ties to an alleged ISIS gunman who killed three Americans in an ambush last month, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). CENTCOM on Saturday identified the deceased leader as Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, an “experienced terrorist leader” with “direct...
President Trump is facing scrutiny over his increasing demands for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, facing pushback from Danish and Greenlandic leaders, some Republican lawmakers and a majority of Americans. The president has frequently said the U.S. needs the island territory for national security purposes, citing the threat of Russia and China having access to...
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) called for unity and pledged to “work tirelessly” for Virginians as she was sworn in as the Commonwealth’s first female governor on Saturday. “It is the honor of my life to stand before you and take the oath today,” Spanberger said as she stood on the steps of the Virginia Capitol,...
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance will lead an American delegation to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy and attend the opening ceremony, the White House said Saturday.
President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," which was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, is taking shape with ambitions to have a far broader mandate of other global crises, potentially rivaling the United Nations in what would be a major upheaval to the post-World War II international order.
President Trump’s power over the Federal Reserve will be front and center at the Supreme Court next week. The justices on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over accusations of mortgage fraud. Looming over it all is the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair,...
President Trump has invited the presidents of Egypt, Turkey and Argentina to join his newly created “Gaza Board of Peace.” The White House announced the board’s creation on Friday as part of the Trump administration's efforts to advance its 20-point peace plan for the region. Argentinian President Javier Milei announced that he’d accepted his position...
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Saturday slammed President Trump's new 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and European allies, saying the tariffs will hurt the U.S. and divide NATO if the president takes Greenland by military force. "This response to our own allies for sending a small number of troops to Greenland...
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville predicted Saturday that the 2026 midterm elections will be a “wipeout” for Republicans, with Democrats picking up 25 seats “at a minimum.” “Frankly, it’s going to be a wipeout,” Carville told host Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News’s “Saturday in America.” “Your viewers need to know that the Democrats are going...