Israel and Hezbollah reportedly agreed Friday to renew their ceasefire to end their fighting in southern Lebanon and help the US and Iran reach a broader deal to end their roughly four-month-long war.
CBS News is reporting the ceasefire, based on what it said was information from three diplomats briefed on the matter. The ceasefire follows renewed fighting overnight between Israel and Hezbollah.
Read the full story
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the alleged ringleader of a foiled plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House is a Mexican national in the country illegally.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump signed the “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran, which is aimed at ending the conflict in the Middle East, while visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at Versailles on Wednesday evening.
A Trump administration official read the terms outlined in the memorandum to reporters earlier in the day, which addressed Iran’s nuclear program, ongoing fighting in Lebanon, sanctions relief, and plans for the release of frozen funds.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump on Tuesday had harsh words for Israel over its conduct in Lebanon and suggested that the Syrian government may be better suited to handle Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon and a ceasefire there has become a sticking point in the larger Iran deal. Trump, for his part, criticized Israel over its propensity to cause collateral damage in strikes
Read the full story
President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that he is ready to help end the conflict in Ukraine.
He called the end of hostilities “vital” during a conversation between the two leaders, which lasted nearly an hour, according to a statement from Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, Reuters reported.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that the United States has reached a comprehensive deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ending months of conflict and authorizing the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
Read the full story
The United States military said Wednesday evening that it has begun its next wave of self-defense strikes on Iran amid tensions over the downing of an American helicopter earlier this week.
The move is the second wave of strikes on the Middle Eastern country after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter.
Read the full story
The U.S. military launched “self defense” attacks against Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an American helicopter, officials said.
“U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” CENTCOM posted on X. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
Read the full story
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Iranians shot down the U.S. Apache helicopter that fell overnight near the Strait of Hormuz and is calling for a response.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump early Monday demanded that Iran and Israel stop firing missiles at each other after a weekend of violence between the two threatened a fragile Mideast ceasefire.
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social account.
Read the full story
Eighty-two years ago on June 6, 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Free French forces, Canada, and other Allies launched one of the most audacious military operations in history: the seaborne invasion of Normandy, France. Code-named Operation Overlord, the assault thrust 160,000 troops onto five beaches in a last-ditch bid to open a Western Front and crush Hitler’s Nazi empire.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not “care” if peace negotiations with Iran are over, stating that the negotiations had been taking too much time.
The comment comes after Iran said it was suspending talks with the United States over the continued fighting in Lebanon, with the Iranian foreign minister asserting that the ongoing ceasefire agreement included Lebanon.
Read the full story
The Islamic Republic of Iran suspended negotiations with the United States on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and Israeli strikes against the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an ally of Tehran.
Iran argues that the U.S. and Israel are in violation of the fragile ceasefire that began in April.
Read the full story
Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
Read the full story
Chinese government officials are working to shore up their country’s grip over the Panama Canal, the South China Morning Post reported, as a battle over influence in the key waterway intensifies with Washington.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha that Panama should not allow any third parties to influence the bilateral ties between China and Panama, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout on Wednesday. The discussion between the leaders comes as a dispute simmers over who will operate ports within the Panama Canal, with the U.S. playing an active role, according to the outlet.
Read the full story
Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.
Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.
Read the full story
Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) newly unsealed indictment against former Cuban leader Raul Castro and several co-defendants over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down, EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said the case highlights growing pressure on Cuba’s communist regime and renewed American attention on the island nation.
Read the full story
The Trump administration announced a record-high increase in immigration judges on Thursday to speed up its deportation efforts.
Read the full story
The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary — for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
Read the full story
The Supreme Court determined that a U.S.-based company — Havana Docks — can recover damages from four major cruise lines that used its docks previously confiscated by the Cuban government.
Read the full story
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks to more aggressively scrutinize illegal immigrants, closing a fiscal fence around American taxpayer interests and resources, and likely further incentivizing self-deportations.
Read the full story
In an exclusive interview conducted 11 years ago, former Rep. Barney Frank told Michael Patrick Leahy that Congress exercised virtually no oversight over the controversial Uranium One transaction that ultimately gave the Russian government control of roughly 20 percent of America’s uranium deposits.
Read the full story
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said Monday that his country has no “aggressive plans or intentions” to attack any country including the United States – following a news report that the Communist-run island nation has acquired over 300 drones with possible plans to use them to attack American military vessels, the U.S. military base at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, and possibly Key West, Florida.
According to Axios, which based its report on classified intelligence that was shared by a U.S. official, the findings could become a pretext for U.S. military action against Cuba.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump returned to the U.S. on Friday following a 36-hour summit in China with Chinese President Xi Jinping, concluding talks that produced agreements on trade, aviation, and Iran while setting the stage for a reciprocal visit by Xi to the U.S. in September.
Read the full story
The majority of Americans across both political parties would support President Donald Trump taking executive action to vet new artificial intelligence models for safety, a new poll from Institute for Family Studies and YouGov shows.
Read the full story
Many of our conservative friends are extremely concerned that President Trump’s visit to Red China, and his effusive praise of Communist Dictator Xi Jinping, signals a weakening of our security posture towards the Communist Chinese behemoth.
Read the full story
“Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump on Monday stated that the ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” amid a growing diplomatic deadline between Tehran and Washington and the exchange of live rounds across the Persian Gulf.
It’s unbelievably weak. After reading that garbage they sent over? I didn’t even waste my time reading all of it. It’s on life support,” he told reporters. “I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘sir, your loved one has approximately 1% chance of living.'”
Read the full story
President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Russia and Ukraine would observe a three-day ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had already declared a unilateral ceasefire to mark Russia’s victory in the “Great Patriotic War,” Russia’s name for World War II. The Kremlin further warned Ukraine against attempting to target Moscow during the festivities.
Read the full story
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday morning at a Pentagon briefing that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire “is not over,” amid the sides exchanging fire at or near the Strait of Hormuz.
Hegseth also said the U.S. guiding vessels through the strait, a global shipping channel off the Iranian coast, is a “temporary solution,” according to CBS News.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump said his call Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin included an offer for Russia to help with the conflict in Iran and the enrichment of uranium, which he declined in hopes of getting the war in Ukraine to end instead.
The president expressed confidence that a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war could come “relatively quickly” after the call or that a ceasefire could take place while Russia hosts its Victory Day celebrations on May 9.
Read the full story
Amid renewed but fragile diplomatic talks between the U.S. and Iran, veteran D.C. political reporter Neil W. McCabe suggests that the current ceasefire may be less about peace and more about strategic timing.
Read the full story
The Trump administration and state leadership are working relentlessly to obtain private, federal and state investments and grants, as well as foreign direct investment in new enrichment technology, advanced nuclear power plants, and other innovations that are being built and deployed in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Read the full story
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker said Friday that the “time is over for negotiations with Iran’s regime,” as the United States and Iran engage in peace talks to end the military conflict in the Middle East.
The U.S. and Israel began a military operation against Iran in February, which eliminated some of Iran’s top leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran has retaliated with strikes on U.S. military bases in the region and on Israel.
Read the full story
Republican Indiana Sen. Jim Banks introduced a bill on Monday to overturn a rule he says has been manipulated by Democrats to unfairly targets career schools and military students.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would extend the ceasefire with Iran to give the Tehran government time to coordinate a unified proposal.
“Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” he posted on Truth Social.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s not open to extending the two-week ceasefire with Iran when it expires on Wednesday but he’s confident the U.S. and Iran will come to an agreement soon.
“We don’t have much time,” the president said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Read the full story
This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the real and legitimate representatives of the global masses, as they pushed back against the American president, his policies, and his purported destruction of the post-World War II institutions they profess to respect and cherish. The Global Progressive Mobilization conference, which drew some 6,000 elected representatives and activists from around the world, was organized and hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief international critic over the last several weeks. Sanchez said that he intends to turn Barcelona into a “hub of resistance” to Trump and the global Right and told the gathering that he will “twist the arm of the people who think they are completely untouchable.”
It is not entirely clear what Sanchez can actually do to twist anyone’s arm, literally or figuratively. As the prime minister of Spain, he oversees a lower-mid-tier EU economy and commands a lower-mid-tier global military. He talks a good game and proclaims to represent the morally superior political position, but his actions belie ulterior motives. He demands an end to American and Israeli tyranny and neocolonialism, even as he openly and unashamedly embraces ideas and partners that demonstrate, at best, an indifference to genuine tyrannical and colonial behavior.
Read the full story
Iran’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial traffic triggered an immediate decline in oil prices, a development national political reporter Neil W. McCabe said reflects easing geopolitical fears rather than a significant change in global supply.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump reportedly signaled Friday that the end of the United States’ conflict with Iran could be coming soon, stating that the Iranians have “agreed to everything,” including getting rid of its enriched uranium.
The announcement marks a significant step in peace negotiations in the Middle East. The U.S. and Israel have been engaged in a military conflict with Iran since February.
Read the full story
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared Friday the Strait of Hormuz “completely open after the implementation of a U.S.-mediated ceasefire that paused Israeli operations in Lebanon.
“In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran,” Araghchi posted to X.
Read the full story
“We’re going to move it as expeditiously as possible. We’re going to do our part and fund those essential functions of the government, and then we’ll do the rest of Homeland Security.”
Read the full story
Members of the House Freedom Caucus are urging colleagues to oppose extending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants ahead of a final House vote Thursday, citing concerns about public safety.
Read the full story
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons will step down on May 31 amid an ongoing battle over funding and reforms for the law enforcement agency.
Read the full story
The anti-tariff priesthood has delivered yet another paper purporting to expose the folly of Trump’s trade strategy.
Read the full story
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that China has agreed not to send weapons to Iran.
Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, and he said that he is “permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Read the full story
The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the U.S. and one far better than the status quo ante bellum.
Read the full story
The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by the U.S. and Iran may cause further headaches for consumers due to disruptions in major commodity markets.
President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would begin Monday, placing further strain on an already challenged economy. Consumers will suffer under rising prices caused by the strait’s blockade, including disruptions to commodities such as fertilizer, sulfur, steel and oil, market analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Read the full story
Artificial intelligence is expected to drive economic growth for decades, but one question matters most. Where are those jobs going to be created?
Read the full story
Criminal migrants across the country are increasingly avoiding deportation thanks to an unlikely source: public attorneys using local taxpayer dollars to represent them in immigration court.
Read the full story