For over 40 years, Congress has known that the Social Security Trust Fund would eventually run out of money, causing an immediate payment cut. Every year, the Social Security trustees issue a report estimating when that bankruptcy date will come and call on Congress to reform the program to make it sustainable. And every year, […]

Two days after ordering the U.S. military to bomb Iran's nuclear sites, President Trump celebrated a strategic and political victory, announcing a "complete and total ceasefire" between Iran and Israel.

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran said he was shocked to see a video on social media of his father, a landscaper in Southern California, being beaten by masked U.S. Border Patrol officers as he was pinned to the ground during an immigration arrest.

President Trump said Israel and Iran came to him and said “PEACE!” after he stated earlier that the two countries had “fully agreed” on “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE.” “Israel & Iran came to me, almost simultaneously, and said, ‘PEACE!’ I knew the time was NOW. The World, and the Middle East, are the real...

Vice President Vance said Monday that President Trump wants “to build a long-term settlement” to ensure Iran does not rebuild its nuclear program. “While we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, our hope and our expectation is that they're not gonna try to rebuild that program,” Vance told Fox News’s Bret Baier on “Special Report.”...

Iran said it paused attacks on Israel Monday, but also stated it had not come to a “final decision” on a ceasefire. “As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on the social platform X Monday evening. ”As...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called for the delay of this week's meeting of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, citing concerns about members' lack of experience and potential bias towards vaccines. "Wednesday's meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director...

A key Democratic committee voted Monday night to recommend Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) to lead the party on the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, lending a good deal of momentum to the second-term Californian heading into a vote of the full caucus on Tuesday. Huddled in the basement of the Capitol, the Democratic...

After Iran and Israel reached a ceasefire following US strikes on nuclear sites, Republican lawmakers were quick to praise Trump's approach while Democrats largely stayed mum.