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Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s probe into the Jeffrey Epstein case. Comer, the chair of the committee, wrote on the social platform X that Lutnick “proactively agreed to appear voluntarily” before the panel.  “I…

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) slammed Israel allegedly leading the recent U.S. operation in Iran, calling it “an absolute abdication of leadership.” “We lost six men and women so far, and I’m not sure there was, what kind of preplanning and planning was actually created in enough time to actually be able to even execute this…

Pop singer Kesha slammed the White House on Monday for including one of her popular songs in a recent social media video of what appeared to be fighter jets conducting military strikes, becoming the latest artist to criticize the Trump administration for using their music without permission. The 31-second clip features images of military planes…

The MS NOW host blasted the “shocking glibness” of launching an attack from a makeshift room where guests can “just swing by and poke their head in.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) dismissed a GOP effort to fund the Homeland Security Department (DHS) this week, saying President Trump’s decision to attack Iran has no bearing on the Democrats’ push to constrain federal immigration agents. “Donald Trump launches an unauthorized war in the Middle East. He characterizes it as endless. He decides…
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Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Monday said the Trump administration has not effectively explained the U.S. military objective in Iran, accusing the White House of giving “multiple definitions.” CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Davidson if the Trump administration “has done a good enough job” in offering an explanation for its strikes on Iran since Saturday….

The jump in fuel costs comes after the president falsely boasted about them during his State of the Union address.

As Americans in the Middle East attempt to evacuate amid the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) slammed the Trump administration for its handling of the situation.  Kim wrote Tuesday on the social platform X that his office “is receiving panicked calls from Americans stuck in the Middle East, outraged that our government…

President Trump on Tuesday said the worst-case scenario in Iran would be if their new leader turns out to be worse than deceased Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen, we…

If the mission is defense, say that. If it’s deterrence, define it. If it’s regime change, own it. But shifting goals in real time, while lives and markets hang in the balance, is not strategy, it’s uncertainty. And uncertainty is a dangerous place to wage war.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans. 

The U.S. has “no stupid rules of engagement,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday.

The House Oversight Committee released more than eight hours of testimony yesterday that depicts Bill and Hillary Clinton testifying as to their relationship, or lack there of, with Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) went after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) over comments he made about the U.S. operation against Iran, asking the senator “what the actual f—” he was “talking about.” During a Monday appearance on Fox News’s “America Reports,” Mullin said, “The loss of life, when the president first came out and he talked…

President Trump on Tuesday said there was no evacuation plan for Americans in the Middle East because the joint strikes launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel “happened very quickly.” “We thought and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask [Secretary of State Marco Rubio], but I thought we were going…

Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Trump, is describing his “utterly surreal” escape from the Middle East amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Bruesewitz was in Doha, Qatar, “just as the Iranian attacks erupted, leaving me stranded amid the chaos,” he wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X that included video…

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) on Tuesday called Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s explanation that the U.S. carried out a preemptive attack on Iran because Israel struck first “breathtaking” during a Senate hearing with a top official from the Pentagon. King and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking member, pressed Under Secretary…

Thousands of flights intended to depart from the Middle East have been cancelled amid the expanding conflict between Iran and joint U.S.-Israeli forces. More than 6,000 flights from countries in the region have been cancelled as of Tuesday, with major airlines diverting trips for the next two days amid regional instability, according to FlightAware. Delta…

Minnesota on Monday sued the Trump administration for withholding hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds to the state, alleging it is a “political punishment” that will only serve to harm the more than 1 million Minnesotans who are enrolled in the program. Last week, Vice President Vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday said it can confirm that Iran’s Natanz enrichment site did sustain damage from U.S. and Israeli strikes.  The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said the entrance to the building was recently damaged.  “No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP [Fuel Enrichment Plant] itself, which…

The White House explanation mostly checks out. Mostly.

Sam Brown, a retired Army captain who ran who previously ran twice for Senate, announced on Tuesday that he would be forgoing a run for retiring Rep. Mark Amodei’s (R) seat in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District.  “Amy and I will always call Nevada home. But at this moment, I have a solemn duty to remain in Washington…

The progressive lawmaker shared a particularly relevant clip on social media showing the president opposing certain endeavors.

During a hearing, Kristi Noem faced tough questions about producing millions of dollars of television ads.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has teamed up with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to propose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on the nation’s billionaires that would raise an estimated $4.4 trillion over the next decade to help “working families” cope with higher living costs. The tax hike would apply to 938 billionaires in the U.S.,…