War Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump’s comments, doubting Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, can lead the country. In a Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning, Hegseth boasted of the U.S.’s degradation of Iran’s capabilities, specifically targeting the confusion around the lack of signs of life from Khamenei. “Iran’s leadership is in […]

Inflation fell one-tenth of a percentage point in January to 2.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in an update to to the personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge. Friday morning’s report on inflation is the last one the Fed will receive before it votes on interest rates next week. The report is directionally welcome news for […]

If President Donald Trump’s recent comments are to be believed, he wants regime change in Cuba. Even after seizing a wanted dictator out of Venezuela and while monitoring an air war in Iran. Along with ongoing military tension with Mexican drug cartels. Against that backdrop of cross-global conflict, the decadeslong tension between the island nation […]

When the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a political gift on Feb. 20, the president did what he almost always does with gifts: threw it back. The court’s 6-3 ruling in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump was, on its surface, a stinging legal rebuke. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, held that the […]