The United Kingdom will allow the U.S. to use British military bases to carry out strikes against Iranian missile sites being used to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.K. government spokesperson confirmed Friday. The decision came after British ministers met Friday afternoon to discuss the ongoing conflict, including Iran’s continued blockade of…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Republicans should move to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through a two-step funding process to overcome Democratic opposition. The department has been shut down for more than a month as Democrats continue to demand major reforms to DHS’s immigration enforcement arms, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs…
New York Attorney General Letitia James and 40 states, counties, cities, and state agencies have sued the federal government to stop the EPA from repealing the 2009 endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.
Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCC), said an FBI probe investigating him for leaking classified information is a mechanism to “steal a narrative” to cover the Trump administration’s true intentions for entering war with Iran. “If you’ve been in MAGA circles for this long, you kind of understand what this…
Mika Brzezinski needed a little more time than her co-host to process the staggering exchange.
The Israeli military announced Friday that the top spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed by airstrikes as part of the U.S. and Israel’s joint military offensive in the Middle East nation. The Israeli military, in a post on social platform X, said its strikes took out IRGC Public Relations Array head…
President Donald Trump honored the Navy football team with a trophy Friday in the White House East Room. In his remarks, he touted the ongoing military operations in Iran, praising the American military as the “greatest military in the world.” Read more: Live updates: Pentagon accelerates Mideast deployments; Senate set to vote on DHS funding.
House Republican leaders will not bring a “clean” reauthorization of foreign surveillance powers up for a vote next week as they had hoped, a source familiar with the schedule confirmed to The Hill, as opposition to the program in both parties prevents swift passage. House GOP leaders had eyed a vote next week on an…
The medical drama’s latest true-to-life storyline targets the president’s ongoing immigration crackdown in the middle of the ER.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) suggested Friday that the Iranian regime should be the one to fulfill a $200 billion supplemental funding request from the Pentagon for its ongoing military operation, not Congress, arguing the country that “started the war” ought to foot the bill. Perry raised the idea during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source,”…
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski announced Friday that the outlet will cut 6 percent of its staff and shut down CBS News Radio after almost 100 years in operation, multiple outlets reported. “We recognize that this is a difficult time for those who will be leaving CBS News,” Weiss and Cibrowski…
If Mississippi loses this fight at the Supreme Court, it could mean major changes to how mail-in ballots are counted everywhere.
Chuck Norris, a martial artist who starred in several blockbuster action movies, has died at the age of 86, according to a Friday announcement from his family. “It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning,” the family wrote in a statement posted on Instagram….
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that overthrowing Iran’s regime will require a “ground component” along with a revolution, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with the Middle Eastern country nears the start of its fourth week. “It is often said that you can’t win –– you can’t do revolutions from the air, that is…
Friday’s lawsuit came less than two months after Trump said his administration was seeking $1 billion from Harvard to settle probes into school policies.
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Thursday that the U.S. does not “really know who’s in charge” in Iran amid reports that the country’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the early days of the war. “I think, so what we have is a fragmented leadership cadre,” Crawford said during an…
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The “Tonight Show” host’s gratitude had lots of attitude.
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday criticized President Trump over his Iran war strategy, arguing the commander in chief does not know what his objective is or when the conflict will end. “I don’t think Trump knows when it’s going to potentially end, because he doesn’t know what his objective is,” Bolton told…
A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Thursday that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overreached in his push to restrict gender-affirming care for minors, according to multiple outlets. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, an appointee of former President Biden, reportedly found that Kennedy did not adhere to proper administrative procedures when…
President Trump on Friday afternoon will present the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen football team at a White House ceremony. The award is presented annually to the team that wins the college football series among the Army, Navy and Air Force academies. Last December, the U.S. Navy secured their second-straight victory on Dec. 13,…
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The subpoena of the former FBI director is reportedly part of an ongoing investigation being led by a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Florida.
An overwhelming majority of Americans expect oil and gas costs to keep rising amid economic strain sparked by the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, according to a new poll. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Friday, shows that 87 percent of Americans believe gas prices will go higher over the next month, with 11 percent who say they…
If nothing else, we are confronting a dynamic that could possibly be described as ironic.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe President Trump will send U.S. ground troops to Iran as the Middle East conflict rages on, despite Trump saying the opposite, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Thursday, found that while some 65 percent of U.S. adults think Trump will eventually order troops into a large ground-scale…