Former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial could be over as soon as this week. Closing arguments from both the prosecution and defense are set to begin Tuesday, with both sides getting the opportunity to walk the jury through the alleged crime. The jury will then hear jury instructions, which will provide them with […]
North Korea said its attempt to launch a second spy satellite failed when the rocket carrying it exploded shortly after takeoff on Monday. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said the rocket exploded during a first-stage flight because of a possible engine malfunction, the Associated Press reported. The hermit nation is also exploring other possible […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the airstrike that Gazan authorities said killed dozens of civilians in a Rafah tent camp a “tragic mistake.” Authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said that at least 45 people were killed and nearly 250 were injured in the airstrike, which Israel said targeted two senior Hamas terrorists. Netanyahu said that Israel is investigating what […]
A bipartisan congressional delegation has sought to ease concerns in Taiwan about a backlog in the weapons the island has ordered from the United States. “We are moving forward on those weapons systems,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told reporters Monday in Taipei, Taiwan. “I’d like to see them faster, but they […]
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the latest example of the Left’s hysteria over conservative judges on the Supreme Court. MSNBC regular talker Elie Mystal said that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas not only wanted votes from black people to count less than white votes in elections, but he cited Thomas’s wife of 37 years, Virginia […]
President Joe Biden recalled the loss nine years ago of his eldest son Beau during his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery. Acknowledging that his grief was not the same as that of families who lost loved ones during the course of their military service, Joe Biden told those in the audience that he […]
Donald Trump used a Memorial Day post to excoriate a federal judge and E. Jean Carroll, who recently won a defamation verdict against the former president. In a Monday morning post on Truth Social, Trump’s media platform, the former president tore into Carroll and the judge overseeing the case. In January, Trump was ordered to […]
Israeli and Egyptian troops exchanged gunfire on Monday at the Rafah border crossing, reportedly resulting in the death of one Egyptian. Israeli media reported that a firefight occurred at the key crossing. The Israel Defense Forces said the government has been in contact with Egypt over what it described as “a shooting incident.” “A few […]
Israel is investigating after reports that an airstrike it conducted in Rafah killed dozens of people inside a tent camp for displaced people. Authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said that at least 45 people were killed and nearly 250 were injured in the airstrike, which Israel said targeted two senior Hamas terrorists. Gazan authorities said the […]
At least 19 people are dead, including children, and more than half a million homes and businesses are without power after 11 tornadoes and other storms ravaged several Southern and Great Plains states over Memorial Day weekend. At least eight deaths were reported in Arkansas, seven in Texas, two in Oklahoma, and two in Kentucky, with […]