Donald Trump claims Iran is responsible for the bombing of an elementary school that killed scores of children, even though evidence continues to mount that the United States is responsible. In a striking exchange with a reporter , Trump was asked why no other government
A handful of lawmakers is joining Vermont independent Bernie Sanders in wanting to pause new projects.
The battle over the SAVE America Act is pitting Republicans against each other. The majority leader is determined to bring it to an end.
YouTube on Wednesday said it would expand access to its artificial intelligence (AI) detection tool to politicians and journalists. The company will allow a pilot group of lawmakers and reporters to use its likeness detection feature, which flags AI-generated content that uses
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
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Monday said one of his staffers flew to Colombia to return a hearing aid device to a 6-year-old who was deported alongside his mother. “As we stand here, my staff has just landed in Columbia, and is placing the hearing devices back in the boy's
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
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
A federal judge in Ohio ruled Monday that prediction market platform Kalshi must adhere to state regulations on gambling. In denying Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction against state regulators, U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison wrote that the Commodity Exchange
GOP leaders are not leaping to take immediate action on a new version of the SAVE America Act.
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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
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Wright deletes post that US helped tanker pass Hormuz The U.S. military has not yet escorted any oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday,
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
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
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to Novo Nordisk over its alleged failure to report adverse side effects, including death, in patients who took its GLP-1 medications, popularly known as Ozempic and Wegovy. The FDA wrote in a March 5 letter that
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Pentagon-Anthropic feud fuels surveillance fears Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon is reigniting fears of government surveillance, as experts warn the capabilities of artificial intelligence, paired with the Trump
President Trump is betting on his "fire and fury" rhetoric to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and avoid an oil crisis prompted by his war with Iran. But the strategy, which includes the possibility of Navy warships escorting tankers through the critical waterway or even a U.S.
Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump declared he was thinking of taking it over. At least two people familiar with U.S. intelligence told CNN Tuesday that Iran began laying mines in recent days, but noted that the operation is still in an early
A new report released by the bipartisan Senate Joint Economic Committee (JEC) on Tuesday found that overpaying for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans caused Medicare Part B premiums to rise across the board. According to the JEC's report, overpayments to MA plans caused standard
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
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
Turbulence in President Trump’s messaging on the war in Iran has deepened this week, with the commander in chief and his aides toggling between implying the conflict could be nearing a close and striking a more belligerent tone. The most striking example came Monday when the
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has cut ties with former Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers amid the ongoing fallout over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The Journal cited
Microsoft has filed an amicus brief in Anthropic's case against the Trump administration, urging the court to temporarily block the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
Multiple news outlets have reported that video, satellite images and expert analysis indicate that the United States was likely responsible for the Feb. 28 bombing of an Iranian school for young girls, contradicting President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the deadly
Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers about how Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to an eight-day-old media company. In a series of letters Tuesday, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Peter Welch requested information and
The North Carolina Republican was scheduled to meet with Kevin Warsh on Tuesday, one of a series of sessions the Fed nominee is holding with senators.
An employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have taken Social Security data with him to a new job, in what would be a major security breach. The Washington Post reports that the Social Security Administration’s inspector general is looking into a
Married women will need to update their identification documentation in order to vote if the SAVE America Act passes Congress, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Responding to a reporter’s question Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Leavitt argued
The House-passed GOP elections bill is dividing Senate Republicans on tactics.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright deleted a social media post Tuesday claiming that the U.S. Navy had begun escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds of ships have been stopped amid Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Apparently, it wasn’t true. Wright’s
The South Carolina Republican’s media blitz urging more aggressive action in Iran drew backlash from anti-interventionists on the right.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal offered an alarming message regarding the growing likelihood of U.S. boots on the ground in Iran and the looming prospect of yet another forever war in the Middle East. “I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I
Donald Trump’s war in Iran is weakening U.S. military resources and weapons surpluses around the world. The Washington Post reports that military assets are being rerouted to the Middle East, including from East Asia, where high-end weapons systems are typically kept to defend
The renewal of Section 702 surveillance authorities could hit the floor in mid-April.
Yet another massive piece of anti-Epstein class protest art has appeared on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall—this time depicting President Donald Trump and disgraced sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein embracing in the Jack and Rose pose from the movie Titanic . Another statue of
Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback is a hero of the Republican Party’s growing sect of young white nationalists. He’s also a laughingstock among his own staffers, according to a series of text messages obtained by The Bulwark . Fishback is $200,000 in debt due to a
Yet more evidence has emerged from the Epstein files suggesting that Donald Trump was well aware of the child sex trafficker’s criminal empire. The Justice Department has slow-rolled the congressionally mandated release of the Epstein files, only releasing a fraction of the
The speaker suggested his members meant to decry “Sharia law,” not the Muslim faith.
One of Donald Trump’s most outspoken attorneys is facing discipline over ethics violations. Ed Martin, an employee at the Justice Department, is in trouble with Washington, D.C.’s professional conduct investigator for sending a letter to the dean of the Georgetown University
The Pentagon spent an estimated $5.6 billion on munitions alone during the first two days of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran, three U.S. officials told The Washington Post . And every dollar of that was spent without congressional approval. This figure, which was delivered
The Democratic National Committee is suing the Trump administration for some clarification on any plans to send armed federal agents to polling places amid the president’s threats to “nationalize” elections. “To ensure that the American people obtain timely knowledge of
Donald Trump opted not to attend the dignified transfer for the seventh U.S. service member killed during the war with Iran. Several prominent Trump officials attended Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington’s funeral procession at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Monday, including
The president’s call for a near-total ban on mail voting is a hard sell, senior Republicans say.
Rep. Jodey Arrington said any pre-midterms reconciliation bill should focus on “fraud prevention.”
The U.S. could have had the schematics for Iran’s Shahed drones, but the Trump administration said no. Roughly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the White House the technology to destroy Iran’s inexpensive, low-flying drones, going so far as to compile a
President Donald Trump was caught in an obvious lie about the military strike on a girls’ primary school in Iran that killed 175 people, many of them children. Speaking at a news conference Monday evening, Trump floundered when asked whether the United States would accept
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old congressional seat in Georgia could flip to the Democrats in a special election Tuesday. Since Greene’s resignation took effect at the beginning of the year, the special election in Georgia’s 14th congressional district has Republicans and Democrats
