Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press briefing at 2 p.m. on Thursday, filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on maternity leave. US AGREES TO 60-DAY CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT WITH IRAN, BUT TRUMP HAS YET TO GIVE FINAL APPROVAL Bessent will be the third Cabinet member to fill in for Leavitt, following […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said she will not run for president in 2028, ending speculation over whether she would throw her hat into what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary field. “I think there will be a robust group of people running for president,” Whitmer told Fox 2 Detroit on Thursday. “I will […]
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) announced Thursday he will run in the newly drawn 25th District in Florida, one day after a state court upheld the new congressional map backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The new district saw one of the more extreme shifts under the updated electoral map and contains parts of the former […]
Israel on Thursday severed its relationship with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his office after the Jewish state was added to a blacklist of groups committing conflict-related sexual violence. The Israeli Prison Service will be annexed in the 2026 list of countries and organizations that have engaged in conflict-related sexual violence, and other Israeli […]
U.S. and Iranian negotiators have agreed to extend the ceasefire for two months and begin substantive negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear program, but President Donald Trump is still mulling the final agreement. The agreement, officially a memorandum of understanding, comes as Trump’s negotiating team has raced to close the gap between Washington, D.C., […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to recreate a Big Apple version of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, called the Commission on Government Efficiency. New York’s COGE will examine the city’s charter and figure out ways for Mamdani’s administration to cut costs, improve efficiency, and modernize the city’s government, the […]
Two major UFC figures raised concerns about the wisdom of holding a cage fight on the White House lawn this summer, after President Donald Trump set the idea into motion. UFC CEO Dana White, a close friend of Trump’s who has been tasked with overseeing the June 14 match, has heralded the event as an […]
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it filed lawsuits against Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Massachusetts for denying undercover license plates to federal agencies. The Department of Homeland Security was specifically restricted in access to confidential plates, due to immigration enforcement activities in the Democratic-led states, but all four states continued issuing such plates to […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said the latest Republican political fallout in Texas proves one thing about President Donald Trump: “It shows that this guy is not only a kingmaker, he’s a career ender.” Concha noted that Trump is now “118 for 118” this year in candidate endorsements and argued that with the president backing […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sanctions on Tehran’s nautical authority that is seeking to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz, denouncing it as “maritime extortion.” The new sanctions were announced as part of Washington’s intensifying Operation Economic Fury, the effort to strangle Iran’s economy through economic and financial means. Iran has tried to maximize […]
