Illinois voters head to the polls Tuesday for the first open Senate race in nearly three decades following Sen. Dick Durbin’s retirement — a Democratic primary overshadowed in its final days by controversy over a claimed endorsement from the late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The retirement of the 81-year-old Durbin, who has held the […]
President Donald Trump does not appear to regret his more adversarial strategy toward allies, even as many resist his calls for help with the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, more than two weeks into his war against Iran, Trump is portraying the resistance as proof of his point that the world is overreliant on the U.S. […]
Israel Defense Forces claimed it killed two Iranian officials, secretary of Iran’s National Security Council Ali Larijani and commander of the IRGC’s Basij unit Gholamreza Soleimani, in overnight airstrikes. Their deaths mark the latest members of Iran’s leadership killed since the U.S.-Israel joint military operation began on Feb. 28. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed […]
Republicans are hoping to fix the spotlight squarely on Democrats as the Senate prepares for days of high drama over President Donald Trump’s marquee election bill. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday to kick off debate on the SAVE America Act, voting legislation that quickly set Republicans at odds over Trump’s demand to bulldoze the filibuster to […]
As Utah emerged as the epicenter of an internal GOP conflict over AI regulation, two groups with considerable links to progressive politics were quietly stoking the flames. In January, State Rep. Doug Fiefia (R-UT) introduced legislation that would require AI companies to promulgate public safety and child protection plans and report any issues concerning those […]
A man, allegedly enraged over the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, was sentenced to over three years in prison on Monday after sending more than 40 letters threatening violence to Jewish museums, organizations, and even a Jewish deli. Clift Seferlis will serve 37 months in federal prison for sending over 40 threatening letters and two […]
America’s war against Iran is continuing in its third week without any reduction in intensity or imminent signs of its conclusion, despite statements from senior American officials about the successes already achieved. U.S. forces have struck more than 7,000 targets in the first two and a half weeks of the war, which began on February […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is polling far behind his opposition rival heading into next month’s presidential election, but a glut of undecided voters could make the final results a nail-biter. Orban’s conservative-nationalist party, Fidesz — Hungarian Civic Alliance, is polling behind the pro-European opposition, the Respect and Freedom Party, or Tisza. Tisza sits at […]
Former MSNBC talk show host Joy Reid made some controversial comments on a recent podcast in which she claimed that the United States was only “marginally better” than Iran. Reid made the comments on the One54 podcast last Wednesday, hosted by former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila and the comedian Godfrey. While discussing current events, and […]
President Donald Trump claimed that an unnamed former president praised his decision to attack Iran, though all four living ones denied doing so. At a Monday press conference, Trump boasted that one of the fans of Operation Epic Fury was a former president who said he wished he had done what Trump had done. He refused to name the man, […]
