President Trump refuted reports on Monday that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has advised the president and other top officials that a military action versus Iran could pose substantial risks and leave the U.S. entwined in a prolonged conflict in the Middle East. “Numerous stories from the Fake News…
The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has barred U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco Charles Kushner from meeting with government officials. A French official told The Hill Monday that Kushner did not show up to the foreign ministry when he was summoned, a breach of diplomatic protocol. As a result, Kushner is now…
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said President Trump has “no intention of following” the Constitution when it comes to tariffs, comments that came in the wake of a Supreme Court decision Friday that rejected the authority for many of Trump’s expansive tariffs. “He has no intention of following the spirit or the letter of the Constitution….
Rapper Nicki Minaj and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Monday knocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom over his SAT remarks at an event in Atlanta previewing the release of his memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry.” “I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you I’m like you. I’m no better than…
Ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, a majority of respondents to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll said he is changing the country for the worse. The survey, released Monday, found that 55 percent of respondents believe he is moving the country in a negative direction. That is up from 51…
Special envoy Steve Witkoff says Iran is a “week away” from developing nuclear bombmaking material through uranium enrichment. Witkoff said Iran’s enrichment level has reached “60 percent.” “They’re probably a week away from having industrial-grade bombmaking material,” the special envoy said during a Saturday appearance on Fox News’s “My View with Lara Trump.” Typically, uranium…
Trump has faced backlash for teasing that he had to invite the women to D.C. along with the men’s team, both of which earned Olympic gold.
Dave Sundberg, who previously helmed the FBI’s Washington Field Office before he was ultimately pushed out after President Trump returned to office, announced on Monday that he’s running to succeed Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) in Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. “I’m running for Congress because I believe in the rule of law, not the rule of one man,” Sundberg said in a statement announcing…
Nearly half of respondents in a new poll say they are most interested in hearing President Trump talk about the economy in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. The Scripps News/Talker Research poll, released Monday, found that 47 percent of respondents are most interested in what Trump has to say on the economy. That…
President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is expected to highlight accomplishments made throughout the first year of his second term, with a focus on affordability, election security and immigration enforcement. While this is not Trump’s first speech to Congress following his return to the White House, it falls in the midst of…
The president also claimed he does not have to “go back to Congress to get approval of Tariffs.”
Sandra Hafraoui said she believed Trump would focus on “the worst of the worst” and not people like her husband.
The Oscar-winning actor called Donald Trump’s presidency “a no-win situation” during an interview with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace.
A federal court on Monday rejected the latest Republican-led bid to block a new congressional map in Utah that could give Democrats a seat in the red state. A three-judge panel denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the new lines from going into effect before this fall’s midterms. “Because we…
For much of his second term, the court has handed the president major wins on immigration, executive power and agency authority. But this time, the justices drew a line.
The CNN data chief spotted how Trump’s polling numbers have hit record lows compared to his predecessors ahead of his address to Congress.
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Monday requiring the Trump administration to refund up to $175 billion collected through tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were invalid. The bill would require the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to pay refunds of all “unlawfully collected duties” in the wake of the court’s decision last week that…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new proposal Monday for flexible drug approval pathway treatments addressing ultrarare diseases. The FDA unveiled draft guidance on a proposed regulatory pathway for individualized therapies, treatments for rare conditions that affect a very small population, with the proposal specifically focusing on genome editing and RNA-based therapies. The…
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos brushed aside a demand by President Trump that the company fire former Democratic diplomat Susan Rice from its board. Sarandos was discussing Netflix’s tentative deal to buy Warner Brothers Discovery’s sprawling movie and television studio, a potential $70 billion acquisition that has raised antitrust concerns. “He likes to do a lot…
Critics weren’t happy with what Trump said about inviting the winning women to the White House after they defeated rival Canada, just like the men.
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen is turning down an offer from President Trump, who has openly sought to acquire the island from Denmark, to send a Navy hospital ship to his country. “It’s going to be a no thank you from here,” Nielsen wrote on Facebook. “President Trump’s idea to send an American hospital ship…
Almost seven in 10 Americans say that President Trump is focusing on the wrong problems in the U.S., according to a new poll released ahead of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. In the CNN poll, published Monday, 68 percent of respondents said that the president “hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s…
When the Industrial Revolution came to the United States more than a century ago, it promised unprecedented prosperity for the American people. The revolution delivered. But it involved a Faustian bargain.
FBI Director Kash Patel is at the center of an online firestorm after videos captured inside Team USA’s men’s hockey locker room on Sunday showed him chugging beers, singing a Toby Keith song and partying with the Olympic gold medal-winning team. Patel, a noted hockey fan, was in Milan to watch the U.S. take down…
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