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1593 episodes transcribedSecretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Commi...
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff were supposed to fly to Islamabad, Pakistan, this week to negotia...
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FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic for $250 million. It comes after the magazine published an article alleging that Patel is frequently dr...
Happy Earth Day! While we celebrate efforts to save the earth, the Trump administration appears to be doing everything in its power to destroy it. At...
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President Donald Trump and Co. have historically claimed to be all about free speech. But maybe Trump only cares about free speech when he likes what...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire. The ceasefire could pause weeks of fighting b...
Presidential hopefuls have already started jockeying for position in the 2028 race — look at the number of Democrats who published memoirs over the l...
Two members of Congress stepped down over allegations of sexual misconduct from former staffers on Tuesday —Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales and C...
Trump’s war in Iran is now 45 days old with no end in sight — which is a problem for Republicans. Because while midterms are always tough for the par...
A very tired-looking Vice President JD Vance emerged from 21 hours of high-stakes peace talks on Sunday to say no deal has been made to end the Iran...
From the moment the U.S. and Israel launched strikes in Iran at the end of February, several people have been profiting from them because of extremel...
In the brief period since President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, Iran has claimed that the United...
President Donald Trump posted a disturbing threat on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. If Iran did not meet his demands by 8 PM Eastern, "A whole ci...
The Iran War has a second front in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, a militia that launched missiles into northern Israel in retali...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is inserting Christian nationalism into the culture and policy of the armed forces, and that’s drawing concern both ins...
Attorney General Pam Bondi is out of a job. After multiple media reports stating she was headed to the green pastures of… somewhere else, President T...
The Supreme Court tackled a question Wednesday that most Americans probably thought was settled: are the American-born children of immigrants America...
