GRAPEVINE, Texas — Vice President JD Vance is the leading contender for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, according to attendees of the 2026 Conservative Political Action Conference. CPAC’s annual straw poll showed that 53% of the more than 1,600 people who were surveyed selected Vance as their preferred choice for president, marking the second straight […]
Iran will allow 20 more Pakistani vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan’s deputy prime minister announced on Saturday. “I am pleased to share a great news that the Government of Iran has agreed to allow 20 more ships under the Pakistani flag to pass through the Strait of Hormuz; two ships will […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he’s “thinking about” launching a 2028 bid to be the next president. “We’re thinking about it — I would say 50-50,” Paul said. “We’ll make a decision after the election.” Paul made the comments in a CBS Sunday Morning interview set to air this weekend. CBS’s Robert Costa pressed Paul […]
Congressional Republicans are revisiting the same intraparty tensions that turned passage of last year’s “big, beautiful bill” into a drawn-out and politically damaging saga. Republicans in the House and Senate have begun discussing what might get included in another attempt at reconciliation, the party-line budget process they used to pass President Donald Trump’s tax law. […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke out against two recent incidents of vandalism at Catholic churches in Queens as the New York City Police Department investigates the mid-March events as hate crimes. “I’m deeply troubled by reports of vandalism targeting two Catholic churches in Far Rockaway. Everyone in our city deserves to practice their […]
The accession of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in early March completed a decades-long process, solidifying the transformation of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a theocracy into a de facto military dictatorship. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was founded as a sort of praetorian guard, intended to be only a few thousand strong, meant to safeguard […]
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said that Operation Epic Fury had “for sure degraded” Iranian nuclear capabilities, as Bill Maher pressed her on the Iran war on Friday. “I can say very openly, as a national security person, we have for sure degraded their nuclear capabilities, for sure degraded their ballistic missile capabilities — important things […]
The Yemeni Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an airstrike launched at Israel, denoting their entry into the Iran war following weeks of holding out on attacks. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, confirmed the attack in a televised address on Saturday, saying the ballistic missile launch was part of their “immediate intervention in […]
The April 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in four days. SSI payments are typically issued to beneficiaries on the first day of each month. Beneficiaries are people with limited income who are either blind, aged 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries […]
Controversial school policies hiding students’ gender transitions from parents remains a ripe issue the Supreme Court should take up, activists argue, despite the justices already handing parents a win in an emergency docket case on the matter earlier this month. The Supreme Court’s emergency docket ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta gave temporary relief to parents […]
