
The Hill - 54 min 31 sec ago
A super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for Senate is airing television ads in Palm Beach, Fla., where President Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as his endorsement in a competitive primary runoff hangs in the balance. Lone Star Liberty PAC came out with a new television ad on...

The Hill - 1 hour 20 min ago
The war with Iran entered its third week on Saturday, with military strikes, retaliatory attacks and economic disruption roiling the Middle East as President Trump sends mixed signals about how close the U.S. is to achieving its objectives and how long the conflict could last. More than 2,000 people have been killed across the region...

The Hill - 1 hour 42 min ago
President Trump declared that the U.S. has beaten Iran "both militarily, economically, and in every other way" in a Truth Social post on Saturday, and called on countries that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz to "take care" of the closed passage. "The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait...

NY Post - 1 hour 58 min ago
President Trump on Saturday urged allied nations to work together to keep oil safely flowing through the Strait of Hormuz as Iran said the critical global trade route was off limits to the US and Israel.

NY Post - 2 hours 15 min ago
Oil pumping operations are expected to begin imminently off the coast of California after President Trump issued an executive order Friday to resume oil drilling operations near Santa Barbara, The Post has learned.

NPR - 2 hours 31 min ago
NPR's Jane Arraf reports on developments in the war in the Middle East.

Attack of the Fanboy - 2 hours 59 min ago
Richard Grenell, a prominent ally of President Trump, is stepping down from his role as president of the Kennedy Center, with facilities operations...

The Hill - 3 hours 12 sec ago
President Trump on Friday said he was looking at loosening shipping rules in the Jones Act as a method to lower gas prices that have skyrocketed since the U.S. launched its military offensive in Iran two weeks ago. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade pressed Trump on the issue during an interview on Kilmeade's eponymous podcast,...

Attack of the Fanboy - 3 hours 29 min ago
US forces launched strikes against military installations on Iran's Kharg island, a move President Trump said "totally obliterated" all military targets...

Newser - 6 hours 37 sec ago
President Trump called Saturday in a pair of posts for an international naval effort to secure oil shipping lanes severely restricted by Iran. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "many countries" would dispatch warships to the Strait of Hormuz to ensure it remains "open and safe," urging Britain, China, France,...

New York Times - 6 hours 34 min ago
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts now features President Trump's name on its exterior.

Twitchy - 6 hours 53 min ago
An analysis of Senator Chris Murphy's controversial statements and alleged misinformation on U.S.-Iran relations and President Trump.

The Hill - 7 hours 19 min ago
President Trump on Saturday announced that "many countries" will send war ships to patrol the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, suggesting that its military is still capable of fighting back "no matter how badly defeated they are." "Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted closure of the Hormuz...

The Hill - 7 hours 29 min ago
From "Grand Theft Auto" to "SpongeBob SquarePants," the White House has turned to memes from pop culture and video games to sell President Trump's war with Iran. The videos follow a broader trend in the Trump administration's social media strategy, which increasingly uses artificial intelligence, pop culture and at times sarcasm to promote Trump's policy priorities...

The Hill - 7 hours 29 min ago
Members of the mainstream media have every right to disagree with President Trump regarding Iran or any other subject. What they don't have the right to do is join the "resistance" against him while feeding false information to the American people in a time of war.

The Hill - 8 hours 16 min ago
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday swiped at President Trump for having no control over the Strait of Hormuz, the closure of which has led to oil and gas prices surging amid the Iran conflict. "Apparently, [the Iranians] have something left to bomb, which is the Strait of Hormuz," Maher told his "Real Time" panelists, former...

NY Post - 9 hours 17 min ago
President Trump lambasted the media Saturday over reports that Iran struck five US refueling planes at a US base in Saudi Arabia.

The Hill - 10 hours 52 min ago
President Trump late on Friday declared that Iran is "totally defeated" and "wants a deal" with the U.S., two weeks after the U.S. and Israel launched joint military operations on the Middle Eastern country. "The Fake News Media hates to report how well the United States Military has done against Iran, which is totally defeated...

Newser - 11 hours 37 min ago
President Trump's political action committee is offering donors what it describes as access to his "private national security briefings" in a fundraising email built around an image from a recent dignified transfer of fallen American soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The message, sent by Never Surrender Inc., pitches a...

The Hill - 13 hours 29 min ago
President Trump is facing a difficult set of options in attempting to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian attacks on tankers in the vital shipping route. Trump on Friday evening said the U.S. had conducted heavy strikes on Kharg Island, Iran's key oil export location, in what appeared to be a warning of what...

NPR - 13 hours 58 min ago
President Trump said on Friday the U.S. military had "totally obliterated" military targets in Kharg Island, home to the primary terminal that handles Iran's oil exports. This as all six crew members on a refueling plane that went down in western Iraq were confirmed dead.

New York Times - 14 hours 27 min ago
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the helm of President Trump's aggressive campaigns to reshape the governments of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and beyond.

Newser - 17 hours 19 min ago
President Trump says the United States has hit what may be the most valuable piece of real estate in Iran's energy network. In a Truth Social post on Friday night, the president claimed that American forces bombed Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, calling it Iran's "crown jewel" and saying...

Sky News - 19 hours 31 min ago
You don't have to read between the lines when President Trump posts on Truth Social.