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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…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday designated Afghanistan as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” and urged the ruling Taliban to release two U.S. citizens he said are “unjustly detained.” “Today, I am designating Afghanistan as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention. The Taliban continues to use terrorist tactics, kidnapping individuals for ransom or…

President Trump on Monday described the war against Iran as an “excursion” that would be over soon, as the president contends with spiking oil prices, troop casualties, allies under attack and low support among the American public.  “This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We’re getting very close to finishing…

Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll do not support the U.S. sending ground troops into Iran, as the conflict in the Middle East hits 10 days on Monday. The survey, released Monday, found that 20 percent of respondents support such a move, while 74 percent oppose it. Just 3 percent of…

Democrats are pouncing on a spike in gas prices and expected soaring airline fares, blaming President Trump’s handling of the war in Iran for deepening economic pain on Americans. In interviews, statements and in a flurry of social media posts, Democrats have sharpened their arguments — repeatedly linking Trump’s decision to enter the Iran conflict…

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) defended his Islamophobic comments on Monday by blaming Democrats for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “To Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, and the high-ranking Democrats flooding X to condemn me: A Muslim shot and killed three Americans in Texas. Two Muslims tried to blow up New York City…again,” Ogles…

Ed Davey, the leader of the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats, is calling on King Charles III to postpone his state visit to the U.S. amid President Trump’s war in Iran. Davey wrote Sunday on the social platform X that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer “should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the…

Global energy markets have been rocked by the U.S. war with Iran, as shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have been all but completely cut off. But one location that has not been hit is Kharg Island, which is roughly 16 miles off the coast of Iran and 300 miles from the Strait of Hormuz….

While President Trump has left the door open to putting boots on the ground in Iran, he told the New York Post on Monday he is “nowhere near” taking that step. “We haven’t made any decision on that. We’re nowhere near it,” Trump said, regarding sending ground troops to safeguard nuclear material in Isfahan, Iran.…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday pressed Saudi Arabia to join U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, describing it as a “fight of mutual interest.” “It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the…

The National Park Service (NPS) on Monday announced the return of fireworks at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day. In a press release, the NPS said fireworks will be launched over Mount Rushmore on July 3, adding later that “the return of fireworks to this iconic national memorial reflects President Donald J. Trump’s vision of…

President Trump’s job approval has dipped by 3 points since March 2025 among registered voters, according to a new poll. In the NBC News poll, 44 percent of respondents said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” backed Trump’s job performance, down from 47 percent in March 2025. Fifty-four percent of poll respondents said they were “strongly”…

Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve alleged antitrust violations, the agency announced Monday. The proposed agreement, which comes one week into trial, would require Live Nation to pay $280 million in civil penalties to the states involved in the case, a senior…

President Trump on Sunday said he was “not happy” with Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was selected by a group of 88 Iranian clerics known as the Assembly of Experts on Sunday. His father and wife were killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Tehran last…

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday slammed White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for not ruling out the possibility of a military draft over the war in Iran. “Karoline Leavitt doesn’t rule out a draft. How about the answer is NO DRAFT AND NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND because we campaigned on NO…

The seeds of division between the Trump administration and the Catholic Church were planted early in Trump’s second term.

President Trump is pushing oil tanker crews to “show some guts” and sail through the Strait of Hormuz. “These ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz and show some guts, there’s nothing to be afraid of … They have no Navy, we sunk all their ships,” Trump said, according to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade,…

President Trump on Sunday said the decision to end the war in Iran will be a “mutual” decision with Israel. “I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” Trump told the Times of Israel newspaper in…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday said the spike in gas prices will not stick, arguing rising prices resulting from the war in Iran will not last for months. “Look, you never know exactly the time frame of this, but, in the worst case, this is a weeks, this is not a months thing,” Wright…

The Pentagon Papers caused lasting damage to the American people’s trust in the federal government. That trust is being damaged again by Jeffrey Epstein’s “Pedophile Papers,” the millions of documents withheld from Congress and the American people by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Oil prices surged overnight Monday, settling near $100 a barrel as the conflict with Iran shows no signs of slowing down. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday downplayed concerns about the Strait of Hormuz’s closure and its effect on energy prices. President Trump called it a “very small price to pay” for “peace” in a social media…

Oil prices on Monday soared above $100 a barrel as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran escalates, threatening economic stability and supplies. Early in the day, Brent crude jumped 25 percent, later cooling to $96.94 per barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate also surged 28.3 percent. In the U.S., diesel gas prices rose by…

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