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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) is projected to win his primary race, fending off a long-shot challenge from 34-year-old antitrust lawyer Evan Turnage, according to Decision Desk HQ. Thompson, the 78-year-old civil rights leader, has represented Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District for more than 30 years. He is expected to prevail in November’s general election, as his…

Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to a runoff to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.  All candidates, regardless of party, ran on one ballot in the special election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in the northwest corner of the state. Fuller and…

Republican Clay Fuller, a district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit with President Trump’s backing, has won a spot in the runoff to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), according to Decision Desk HQ.  Fuller was among more than a dozen candidates running in the special election to succeed Greene, who resigned from…
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Conservative commentator Meghan McCain on Tuesday slammed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for saying that he is asking parents to send their children to war against Iran. “Nothing like a single, childless, septuagenarian telling American mothers to send their children to go possibly die in a war,” McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain…

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has teased changes in the operations at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), though the close ally of President Trump has largely backed the White House’s immigration moves. Mullin would take over DHS amid heightened scrutiny over its operations on everything from aggressive immigration enforcement to delays in distributing disaster funds…

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Monday said that the selection of Iran’s new leader doesn’t change anything in regards to diplomatic relations between the countries. “Let me be clear, changing the man at the top does not change the regime. It is the same ideology, the same nuclear ambitions, the same…

The State Department has authorized the use of up to $40 million in emergency funds for evacuation flights from the Middle East amid the unrest over the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.  The funds were pulled from a stockpile traditionally reserved for emergencies involving diplomatic and consular staff, two U.S. officials who were not permitted to…

President Trump’s war in Iran has sparked a heated fight in conservative circles, pitting some of Trump’s most ardent supporters in the media against GOP lawmakers who are backing what critics argue is a conflict pushed by Israel but unpopular with the American people. Among the loudest opponents of the war in its early days…

Seventeen candidates spanning both parties are vying for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R) seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Twelve Republicans, three Democrats and a pair of independent candidates will face off in a special election to represent the seat in northwestern Georgia. Tuesday’s race is likely to lead to an April runoff. Clayton…

President Trump on Tuesday threatened to escalate U.S. attacks on Iran if it has put mines in the Strait of Hormuz amid reporting that it has done so. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, made the threat but also indicated that the U.S. doesn’t have evidence of such activity. “If Iran has put out any mines…

Podcaster Joe Rogan said supporters of President Trump “feel betrayed” by what he called the “insane” conflict with Iran. “Well, it just seems so insane, based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?” Rogan said during the latest episode of his podcast. “He ran on,…

President Trump on Tuesday quipped about Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney becoming the “future Governor of Canada,” reviving an insult previously hurled at his predecessor Justin Trudeau over the president’s push for America’s northern neighbor to become the 51st state.  “I’m working with Governor Gretchen Whitmer [D-Mich.] on trying to save The Great Lakes from…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday expressed uncertainty about President Trump banning all federal agencies from using Anthropic after the AI company and the Pentagon traded blows in recent weeks.  “I’ll confess, I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic,” Cruz told host Andrew Ross…

A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday called for public hearings in regard to the Trump administration’s Iran operation.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) wrote a letter to President Trump requesting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide testimony under…

Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American scholar who was imprisoned in Iran, said Monday that he does not see the regime’s leadership giving in to President Trump’s demands, even as the president vows to accept nothing less than “unconditional surrender” from Tehran to end the conflict. “When [the regime] says death to America, it’s sometimes referred…

Two high school mariachi musicians were released Monday with their family from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Texas after pressure from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Officials released Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, who was detained and held at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas. His brother and fellow mariachi player,…

Retired four-star U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane said Monday that the Iranian government “fundamentally miscalculated” President Trump as conflict in the Middle East persists. “What these guys did, Rita and John, is they fundamentally miscalculated President Trump,” Keane told radio hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” program. “They bought into…

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on Tuesday said the Russians have not been sharing intelligence with Iran to target the United States as it fires off retaliatory attacks on Gulf partners in the region. “I can tell you that yesterday, on the call with [President Trump], the Russians said they have…

Exxon Mobil has evacuated some personnel from the Middle East amid growing instability in the region due to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, CEO Darren Woods told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. “Our first and highest priority is ​making sure our people remain safe, and we evacuated folks who weren’t critical or essential…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Tuesday afternoon as tensions with Iran stretch into its 11th day. President Trump on Monday signaled the U.S. military operation in Tehran could wrap up “very soon” but acknowledged that the Pentagon has not ruled out deploying troops to the region in the future. Defense Secretary…

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) warned Tuesday that the midterms could be “disastrous” for his party if the war in Iran continues. “Already, we are behind the eight-ball as far as the electoral process,” Paul told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria.” “I think if you add in high gas prices, high…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called President Trump’s recent claim that Iran has Tomahawk missiles that it used on a girls school, killing over 100 civilians, is “beyond asinine.” “He claims that Iranian Tomahawk missiles were responsible for the bombing of an all girls school that killed 170 people, including many children,”…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed concerns Tuesday about the ongoing U.S. military operations in the Middle East. In translated remarks published by Politico, Merz said, “With each day of war, more questions arise.” “What concerns us most is that there is clearly no common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion,”…

Almost three-quarters of American voters expect the U.S. conflict in Iran to last for months or longer, according to a new poll. In the Quinnipiac poll, 71 percent said they believed the Iran conflict would go on for “months,” “about a year” or “longer than that” into the future. Three percent said the conflict would…

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Tuesday warned the Strait of Hormuz will “either be a strait of peace and prosperity for all” or a “strait of defeat and suffering for warmongers” as President Trump threatens retaliation against Tehran for disrupting the flow of oil. The narrow channel between the…