The acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division denied on Wednesday that politics will play a role in the federal review of the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Democrats have raised concerns about the perceived political ties between President Donald Trump and Paramount CEO David Ellison. His father, […]

A House committee voted along party lines to advance a bill that would repeal Washington, D.C.’s authority to use traffic cameras and prohibit right turns at red lights. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform advanced the “Stop DC CAMERA Act” by a vote of 21 to 19, with all Republicans voting in favor and […]

President Donald Trump bragged that the military might of the United States against Iran had led to members of the Middle Eastern nation’s military abandoning it during a Thursday bilateral in the Oval Office. “There’s a lot of military defections. You have a lot of military defections in Iran,” Trump said while seated next to […]

President Donald Trump claimed he did not tell Japan and other U.S. allies about the joint operation to launch strikes against Iran because he wanted the element of surprise akin to the attack on Pearl Harbor. “We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Trump joked […]