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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Saturday ripped into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Democratic lawmakers pushing for a war powers resolution to rein in President Trump after the U.S. and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran. Lawler said the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops or carrying out an attack,…

President Donald Trump told Axios it will take Iranians “several years to recover from this attack.”

The launch of strikes on Iran early Saturday morning sent shockwaves across the globe. The joint operation from the U.S. and Israel follows weeks of negotiations between Iranian and American officials over the terms of a new nuclear deal. President Trump issued a stark warning to the Iranian regime in a video posted on Truth…

Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday said she is against “regime change” in Iran and accused President Trump of “dragging the United States into a war the American people don’t want.” “Let me be clear,” Harris wrote in a statement shared on the social platform X. “I am opposed to a regime-change war in…

The longtime anchor delivered a blunt assessment in the hours after President Donald Trump announced U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“It seems that the only person that Trump cares about getting permission from is Benjamin Netanyahu. He hasn’t asked the American people. He hasn’t asked the U.S. Congress,” Rep. Seth Moulton said.

“We voted for America First and ZERO wars,” former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said.

Former national security adviser John Bolton defended the Trump administration’s decision to launch preemptive strikes on Iran over its continued nuclear program. “Trump has every right to eliminate threats from the ayatollahs, the IRGC, and Iran’s nuclear-weapons program,” Bolton wrote Saturday in a post on social platform X. “This mission is completely justifiable and necessary,”…

NEW YORK — When he was campaigning to be mayor of the nation’s largest city, Zohran  Mamdani liked to say he was President Trump’s “worst nightmare.”  In his victory speech in November, Mamdani took it a step further — calling Trump a “despot” and declaring that if anyone could show how to defeat him, “it’s…

The Pentagon has reached a deal with OpenAI to use its AI models on the military’s classified network, after the Trump administration ordered all agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that the Defense Department (DOD) agreed to prohibitions on using its AI for domestic mass surveillance…

Democrats reacting to U.S. strikes early Saturday morning on Iran criticized President Trump, saying he has failed to learn from multiple failed U.S. interventions in the Middle East and accusing the president of sidestepping Congress in launching the attacks. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned the need for…
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One of President Trump’s former senior artificial intelligence advisers is sharply criticizing the Defense Department’s ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic.  In a post on social media platform X, Dean Ball said companies like Nvidia, Amazon and Google “will have to divest from Anthropic” if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “gets his way.” “This is simply…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken a courageous and successful campaign against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), with the help of U.S. authorities, resulting in the killing of its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, and the extradition of senior cartel figures to U.S. courts.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) asked whether President Trump was “too mentally incapacitated” to realize he set the stage for the growth of Iran’s nuclear program during his first term. “Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East?” Kaine asked. “Is he too mentally incapacitated…

Following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran early Saturday, the leaders of Germany, France and the United Kingdom pressed the Trump administration to return to the negotiating table with Tehran. “France, Germany and the United Kingdom have consistently urged the Iranian regime to end Iran’s nuclear program, curb its ballistic missile program, refrain from its destabilizing…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) pledged that House Democrats will force a vote on limiting President Trump’s war powers in Iran as he criticized the president for striking the country without explicit congressional authorization. “The framers of the United States Constitution gave Congress the sole power to declare war as the branch of government…

The White House called reports that President Trump will address the nation on Saturday following the U.S. strikes on Iran “inaccurate.” “This reporting was inaccurate, the White House has not given any guidance on an address or remarks today,” the White House said in a statement to the press pool traveling with Trump. The push…

In an extraordinary call for regime change, President Donald Trump urged Iranians to seize the opportunity to “take over your government” in wake of U.S. airstrikes on the Islamic Republic.

In an extraordinary call for regime change, President Donald Trump urged Iranians to seize the opportunity to “take over your government” in wake of U.S. airstrikes on the Islamic Republic.

Republicans on Capitol Hill were quick to rally behind President Trump after he announced the U.S. military and Israeli forces launched joint strikes on Iran early Saturday morning. Trump long threatened “unfortunate” consequences for Iran if the country did not agree to a new nuclear deal with the U.S. The latest attack comes after the…

Video posted to social media shows the aftermath of airstrikes on the Iranian capital, Tehran.

President Donald Trump announced “Operation Epic Fury” as American and Israeli forces launched airstrikes in Iran.

Reactions from world leaders poured out early Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The initiation of “Operation Epic Fury,” which came after weeks of threats from President Trump over the Middle Eastern nation’s nuclear program, sparked support from allies but also stoked fear in many countries in the region about the…

Lawmakers are calling on Congress to convene earlier than planned next week to vote on a war powers resolution in light of widespread U.S. attacks on Iran. “Donald Trump has launched a war on Iran and Congress must convene on Monday to vote on [Rep.] Thomas Massie’s [R-Ky.] and my war powers resolution to stop…

As Epstein’s former acquaintances around the world face consequences, people around Donald Trump have not.