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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…

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, is warning the U.S. and Israel against targeting his country’s infrastructure.  “Let the enemy know that whatever they do, we will undoubtedly respond with a proportionate and immediate retaliation; no malice will go unanswered, and today we decree the rule of ‘an eye for an eye’;…

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that strikes on Iranian oil depots causing “black rain” could lead to respiratory problems as toxic pollutants disperse through the air. “Black rain,” also referred to as “acidic rain,” falling over Tehran “is indeed a danger” to the city’s inhabitants, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in…

Solar installations in the U.S. decreased by 14 percent last year, a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie found. The report, released Monday, found that the solar industry installed 43.2 gigawatts direct current (GWdc) of capacity in 2025, down from above 49 GWdc the year prior.  Since President Trump…

Former CIA Director John Brennan expressed concerns on Monday about the long-term implications of President Trump’s ongoing military operations in the Middle East. The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have not ruled out putting boots on the ground in Iran, though Trump told the New York Post on Monday that the administration was “nowhere…

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Monday criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his defense of the U.S. military operation in Iran, saying that he does “NOT” tell President Trump how to oversee the conflict. “There are some in the Senate that advocate for war everywhere,” Luna wrote on the social platform X. “Lindsey Graham…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday suggested a mutual defense agreement with Saudi Arabia amid the ongoing U.S. operation in Iran. “Finally, to my friends in Saudi Arabia: I’ve been your biggest champion. I think the crown prince has taken Saudi Arabia in a completely different direction, in a good way,” Graham told Fox News’s…