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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is blasting conservative pundit Tucker Carlson over the commentator’s criticism of President Trump’s foreign policy and military operations in the Middle East. “The Democrats and the press are trying to undermine President Trump, they’re trying to undermine the U.S. military, and they’re trying to bolster Iran and the Ayatollahs. Do you…

A drone company that names President Trump’s sons among its top investors shared plans to merge with a golf course operator on Monday.  In a press release, Aureus Greenway Holdings Inc. (AGH) announced a reverse merger agreement with American drone company Powerus to form Powerus Corporation. AGH owns and operates two public golf country clubs…

Democrats have a good chance of regaining control of the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, which could clip Trump’s wings and put the brakes on his agenda.

Former acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf will testify before the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday morning about sanctuary cities. President Trump earlier this year announced his administration’s plans to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and states — or areas that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement to protect residents against…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said attacks on Iran would ramp up on Tuesday and that the U.S. is “winning” the battle. “Today will be, yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran. The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes. Intelligence more refined and better than ever,” Hegseth said at a briefing…

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary on Tuesday threatened President Trump after the president warned Iran against stopping oil from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. “The sacrificial nation of Iran doesn’t fear your empty threats,” secretary Ali Larijani wrote on social platform X in a post translated by The Associated Press. “Even those bigger…

A firearm was discharged at a U.S. consulate in Toronto, local police said on social media early Tuesday morning. In a post on the social platform X, the Toronto Police Service said there were reports that someone discharged a firearm at 5:29 a.m. EDT at the American consulate. Police responded to the reports, according to the…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday granted expanded approval to Wellcovorin for the ultra-rare disease cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) in both children and adults, the same prescription drug that the Trump administration touted from the Oval Office as a potential treatment for symptoms of autism last year. Senior administration officials announced that Wellcovorin,…

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said late Monday that any U.S. military mission to secure Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium would be “very perilous.” President Trump has reportedly expressed serious interest in deploying a small contingent of U.S. troops inside Iran to secure some 900 pounds of the nuclear material at a later stage…

President Trump on Monday described Vice President JD Vance as being “maybe less enthusiastic” at the start of the U.S. war in Iran. “We get along very well on this,” Trump told reporters in Miami when asked if there were any divides with Vance on the war. “He was, I would say, philosophically a little…

Americans are bracing for expected economic impacts of the Trump administration’s military operations in the Middle East, with a majority in a new poll expressing pessimistic views about the future of gas prices.  In the Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Monday, 67 percent of respondents said they anticipate gas prices to surge even higher in the U.S….

The official wrote the message to the U.S. president on social media.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will speak with the media Tuesday morning as tensions with Iran persist following U.S. strikes on the Middle Eastern nation earlier this month. The Pentagon and President Trump have given conflicting accounts on how long the U.S. conflict with Iran will last in…

It’s a complete betrayal, said the “Late Night” host.

Over a dozen candidates are vying to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the President Trump loyalist turned critic, in a Tuesday special election. Trump has endorsed Republican Clay Fuller, a district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, in the heated race where all candidates, regardless of party, are running on one ballot.…
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“All the boys have them,” a Trump administration source told The Wall Street Journal. Another called it “hysterical.”

The president made the boast to GOP lawmakers at an event at one of his Florida clubs.

The “Late Show” audience erupted at the joke. 

The late night host tore into the president for turning a dignified transfer into a “merchandising opportunity.” 

GOP lawmakers cackled at the president’s comment, which was slammed as “grotesque” and “sickening” on social media.

The president also received a new mocking nickname.

The president escalated his rhetoric against Iran as the war’s second week continues. 

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an “excursion” on Monday. “You can’t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,” Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source,” after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington at…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Monday he hopes to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “We’re shooting for a week from Wednesday,” Paul told reporters as he stepped…

President Trump on Monday threatened the Iranian regime against halting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as gas prices back home rise amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of…