Outdated intelligence data may have led to a U.S. airstrike hitting a girls school in southern Iran following the start of the military operation against the Middle Eastern country, killing around 175 people, according to multiple outlets citing various sources. It remains
President Trump on Thursday nominated a State Department official to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America (VOA), after a judge ruled Kari Lake was unlawfully running the agency as its acting CEO. The president tapped Sarah B. Rogers,
The Trump administration is considering loosening shipping rules in an effort to lower fuel prices, which have surged as a result of the war in Iran. In particular, the administration is considering issuing a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, a 100-year-old law that requires
The U.S. military announced Thursday that a refueling aircraft, a KC-135, crashed in western Iraq in an incident that was not caused by friendly or hostile fire. U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said two aircraft were involved in the incident, with one going down and the other
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The U.S. has yet to begin escorting oil tankers through the treacherous Strait of Hormuz, something that increasingly looks like a high-risk proposition during the war with Iran. President Trump, who floated using escorts to reopen the waterway and avoid an oil crisis amid
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Fuel price hike hits Americans' pocketbooks High fuel prices caused by the conflict in Iran threaten to worsen affordability issues that ordinary Americans face — and some economists are warning that a
Time may be on Iran’s side in its conflict with the United States as President Trump faces domestic and international pressure to end the war. U.S. and Israeli military superiority has wreaked havoc on Iran, pounding its navy, missile launch sites and other assets. But the
Pauline Newman, a 98-year-old federal appeals judge suspended by her colleagues over concerns about her mental fitness, has asked the Supreme Court to step into her fight to resume hearing cases, her lawyers said Thursday. Three years ago, Newman’s fellow judges at the U.S.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday poked at the White House over a "big drone production deal" that would allow Ukraine to help the U.S. and Gulf partners shoot down Iranian drones deployed across the region. Zelensky talked about the potential deal, which Axios
In the week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the central bank head called 13 lawmakers. The calls, listed on Powell’s public calendar for January, were all 10 to 15 minutes in length. The Fed chair spoke
The man accused of stealing sensitive social security data didn’t just potentially commit a massive security breach that could affect millions of Americans—he also has a serious conflict of interest. Earlier this week, it became clear that the Social Security Administration’s
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is warning the Trump administration against drawing down hundreds of U.S. troops serving as peacekeeping forces in Kosovo as tensions rise in the region, according to a letter exclusively obtained by The Hill. The letter, sent Thursday,
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FBI Director Kash Patel said the Thursday shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., is being investigated as “an act of terrorism.” The FBI responded alongside local law enforcement agencies to a shooting at the Virginia institution on Thursday morning. One person
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that an “international coalition” could escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. “Are you starting to think, if this does keep persisting as it is, that the Navy has to go into the Strait of Hormuz to — to help ships get
Democratic lawmakers ripped Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on Thursday after he made a post connecting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) Ramadan iftar at City Hall with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote on the social
A Republican-backed voter requirements bill that recently passed in the House –– and has become President Trump's top legislative priority –– faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act would require Americans to show
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice spent weeks emailing its request for Oklahoma’s voter rolls to the wrong email address. Then it sued Oklahoma for not complying. It began in December, when Department of Justice officials wrote a letter demanding that Oklahoma Secretary of
High fuel prices caused by the conflict in Iran threaten to worsen affordability issues that ordinary Americans face — and some economists are warning that a prolonged conflict could pull the U.S. into a recession. Oil prices have jumped in the wake of U.S. attacks on Iran.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) endorsed state Rep. Micah Lasher (D), his former aide, in the Democratic primary in the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District. “We face extraordinary challenges both at home and abroad,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday on the
Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) twin brother slammed the White House on Thursday over a video it sent out on the social platform X depicting the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. “American service members are dead and you think this is all some big f---ing joke,” Scott
A Jackson County circuit judge in Missouri ruled on Thursday that a new, GOP-friendly congressional map can stay in place ahead of the midterms. The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and ACLU of Missouri filed suit on behalf of voters in
Republican Senator John Cornyn got a firsthand lesson in why the SAVE Act, backed by President Donald Trump, would suppress votes if passed. At a Senate Judiciary hearing Thursday, Cornyn said, “I don’t understand how [the SAVE Act] could disenfranchise millions of Americans.
Americans are getting conflicting messages from the Trump administration and congressional leaders about whether the U.S. is at "war" with Iran. The post Is the U.S. at ‘War’? Politicians Disagree appeared first on FactCheck.org .
It’s the latest indication that the weeks-long “talking filibuster” fight is coming to an end.
President Donald Trump has claimed that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was "a road to a nuclear weapon" and the country "would be sitting with a massive nuclear weapon three years ago" if he hadn't withdrawn the U.S. from the deal in 2018 during his first term. The multilateral
GOP leadership has remained quiet as a growing number of party members post Islamophobic rhetoric on social media.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday that he is going to personally review his posts on the social platform X after deleting a post about a military escort that the White House disputed. “My last question for you is, there was the X post the other day that came from the
Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday, challenging its food restriction waivers that reduce the types of foods that can be purchased with benefits. Represented by the
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s resignation amid mounting questions about how a deadly strike on an all-girls elementary school on the first day of the military operation in Iran unfolded. Gillibrand told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on
Police responded to reports of an active shooter opening fire on Thursday at Temple Israel, a reform synagogue located in the Detroit suburbs. Investigators said a man armed with a rifle drove into the building before police shot him. The crash caused a fire and left smoke
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted a Women's History Month event on Thursday afternoon at the White House. The event is Trump's only public appearance on Thursday, 12 days into the Iran war. Trump released a statement on March 3 marking Women's History Month,
The White House is weighing in on the internal affairs of private business—again. Trump administration officials are reportedly seething that CBS News hired Jeremy Adler, a communications executive who previously worked for former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, according to
The highest-ranking U.S. commander in Europe told Congress what has been obvious for decades—that bombing civilians is an evil and inhumane tactic that only leads to more long-term problems. “What I’ve observed over the course of studying air power in history is that anytime
A New Mexico-based company is recalling one of its supplements after a lab found it to contain the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil, according to a Wednesday news release from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The global trade crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran may soon become a global food crisis, as farmers facing surging fertilizer prices warn they won’t be able to plant their crops, according to a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
The Trump administration’s tariff refund system is more than 40 percent developed, a customs official told a federal judge Thursday, and additional performance testing will take place “in the next few weeks.” Businesses are pushing for speedy refunds of the $166 billion in
The business of war has always been lucrative. But when the people making money are tied directly to the people making policy, it raises questions Americans should be asking.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke Thursday at the 2026 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture at the Library of Congress. Barrett, appointed to the high court by President Trump in 2020 during his first term, has been a key swing vote in consequential rulings.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Thursday that a recent trip to rescue a South Carolina family who was stranded in the Middle East amid the war with Iran turned into a “full scale evacuation” of hundreds of Americans from the region. Mace, who is seeking the GOP nomination for
Quintessential swing voter Joe Rogan is very worried about the potential outbreak of World War III due to U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, which have decimated the country’s military capabilities and have already provoked counterattacks on U.S. servicemembers, a spike in global
The Senate passed a landmark housing bill Thursday with a rare show of bipartisan support, but one Democrat still voted “no.” Brian Schatz of Hawaii was the lone Democrat to vote against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would create incentives to build new homes,
Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a motion to proceed to a House-passed bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the 27-day shutdown that has hampered the functions of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical agencies. The motion
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is stepping into the fight over the use of AI in domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, drafting legislation to put “commonsense safeguards” to protect privacy and the values of the American people. Schiff, a fierce critic of the
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) backed his fellow Kentuckian, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a day after President Trump slammed the libertarian representative during an address in Massie's home district. “I’m a big supporter of Thomas Massie. I have campaigned with him, will continue to
The top commander of U.S. forces in Europe told members of Congress on Thursday that the U.S. military is responding "robustly” to any entity aiding Iran in its military operations against the U.S. “Anytime anyone puts American service members in harm’s way in any manner
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is demanding that ABC News retract reporting on a potential Iranian retaliatory attack on California because it was based on an “unverified” tip—even though the FBI alerted law enforcement to it in the first place. “This post and
