A top Iranian national security official drew up a list of demands for U.S. officials to meet ahead of any peace deal on the Strait of Hormuz, throwing this week’s peace negotiations into flux. Iranian National Security Council Secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr released the statement with six demands through Iran’s state media, saying “until America […]

One year after the initialing of the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the United States has cemented its lasting influence in the South Caucasus. On Aug. 8, 2025, longtime enemies Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met alongside President Donald Trump as newly christened friends, ready to put aside decades […]

Vice President JD Vance took a swing at Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate, leftist Abdul el Sayed, calling him “crazy” in an interview on Saturday morning. “The problem with el Sayed is that he is a person who claims to stand for working people, and yet he opposed [President] Donald Trump‘s policies that have quite literally […]

Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general was on thin ice when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reached out with a plea. “Don’t overcomplicate this. Get it done,” Grassley said in a late July phone call to Blanche, encouraging him to compromise with two holdouts on his committee who wanted […]