As President Donald Trump returned to Washington early from the G7 summit in Western Canada to meet with his National Security Council on the escalating Israel-Iran conflict, two House lawmakers were busy trying to drum up support for legislation to keep the United States out of it. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Republican Rep. […]
On Tuesday, June 17, senators received a high-level security briefing from U.S. Capitol Police and the Senate Sergeant at Arms. It’s a direct response to last weekend’s deadly attack on Minnesota lawmakers, which has reignited fears about rising political violence. What do we know about the attacks? The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, faces charges in […]
The Pentagon has failed seven audits, and now a group of U.S. House members are asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for answers. The bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to know how close the Department of Defense is to getting its budget to a point where it can pass at least one audit. Members of the […]
The second black box from the Air India jet that crashed last week, killing all but one person on board and multiple people on the ground, has been found. Investigators in India are analyzing the black boxes recovered from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed just minutes after takeoff. The London-bound Flight 171 crashed into […]
President Donald Trump is facing a crucial decision: directly help Israel defeat the Iranian regime or don’t. If the president decides on the former, one of the options on the table is deploying the United States’ largest conventional weapon, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as an MOP or GBU-57. After just five days of […]
The latest product marketed under President Donald Trump’s name is the $499 T1 “Trump phone,” announced Monday, June 16, alongside a cellular service plan called Trump Mobile. But early attempts to pre-order the Chinese-built phone are being met with errors. Payment and shipping errors Those errors, first reported by 404 Media’s Joseph Cox, raise questions […]
As people took to the streets of Los Angeles following recent arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), national media outlets are again at odds over how to categorize the demonstrations. Viewers tuning in to different networks are seeing different versions of the same story — some describing peaceful protests, others highlighting scenes of […]
At least two are dead and 32 injured after a bridge collapsed Sunday, June 15, at a popular tourist destination in India. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. local time in Kundamala. At least six people were hospitalized in critical condition, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote on social media. Meanwhile, Press Trust of India reported that […]
The Trump administration is considering adding 36 more countries to its list of full and partial bans on entry into the U.S., a State Department cable seen by Reuters details. The additional countries would be a significant expansion of Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries imposed Monday, June 9. 36 countries face potential travel bans […]
A hearing is scheduled for Monday, June 16, involving a declaration that blocks international students from entering the country to attend Harvard University. On June 5, Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. On Monday, Burroughs will decide whether to block the proclamation indefinitely. The Trump administration has said that it is […]
