President Donald Trump estimates Iran has retained about one-fifth of its missiles as he gave an assessment on where the country’s military stands as peace talks continue. “Most of the drone factories have been knocked out, most of the launching pads have been knocked out, and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked […]
Maine’s under-fire Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner dismissed the mounting series of controversies rocking his campaign as “politically motivated” at a get-out-the-vote rally Friday. Platner’s campaign is taking on water after being hit with a slew of troubling allegations this week. Republicans are pouring money into the campaign of his opponent, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), […]
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, knocked back a report that she is set to quit her demanding role, describing it as a “piece of Friday fiction.” A story posted on Friday evening by the Daily Mail, citing five insiders, claims Wiles, 69, is planning to depart after the November midterm elections. “She […]
LOS ANGELES — Xavier Becerra, former President Joe Biden’s health and human services secretary, advanced to November’s general election in California’s gubernatorial race on Friday. With roughly 66% of the vote counted, Becerra emerged from a crowded field of more than 60 candidates with about 26.7%, according to the Associated Press, inking the first spot for […]
The U.S. military downed four Iranian drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening, marking the latest scuffle as the fragile ceasefire holds in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. “U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal […]
President Donald Trump dinged California for its delay in reporting all the results from this week’s primary elections. During his opening remarks at an agriculture policy roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Trump alleged without evidence that the delay was due to California “rigging the election.” “Can you imagine?” Trump asked the roundtable and surrounding crowd. […]
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is set to take the stage with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) at a get-out-the-vote event in Bar Harbor on Friday at 7 p.m. The event will cap off what has been a scandal-filled week for Platner, after news broke that he had sent sexually explicit text messages to women […]
The Department of Justice announced that three U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of allegedly plotting to finance ISIS‘s terrorist operations against U.S. service members. Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, were arrested early Friday by the FBI over an alleged plan […]
By hour 13 of Thursday’s Senate “vote-a-rama,” Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was growing visibly frustrated. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) had spent the day consulting with the parliamentarian on a way, any way, to block an anti-weaponization fund the Justice Department had announced weeks earlier, and he was busy shuttling to and from the Senate […]
Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the Henry Nowak murder rocking the United Kingdom on Friday, saying the university student would still be alive today if European leaders stood up against the “politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.” The murder of 18-year-old Nowak by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British-born Sikh, has sparked […]
