As deadly tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains last weekend, state and local search-and-rescue crews rushed to the devastated areas to look for survivors. It wasn’t until the teams deployed that they realized they were operating without a critical tor…
About a year ago, President Donald Trump asked Americans to deal with some short-term pain over tariffs. Now he’s doing the same on Iran and oil prices.
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump disputed a recent report that he has bought members of his Cabinet dress shoes but then offered detailed thinking on why he has replaced top officials’ footwear, saying he doesn’t want his Cabinet sporting sneakers.
The prospect of turning Texas blue is once again tantalizing Democrats. But the party still faces imposing obstacles to reestablishing a foothold in the state.
The first primaries of the 2026 midterms are in the books, and they offered some very interesting storylines.
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was…
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Trump has been back in the White House for a year now, and his standing — more than anything else — will define the mood and the direction of the midterm campaign. Ebersole scores his performance at a 3 out of 5. The economy feels a little better to her, and i…
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Two new pieces of economic data, one released Thursday and one released Friday, blew another hole in President Donald Trump’s triumphant narrative about the effects of his tariffs.
Political veterans Joe Walsh and Rick Tyler react to Pete Hegseth suggesting the press is being unpatriotic when covering the war in Iran. They criticize the Secretary of Defense for complaining over news headlines rather than answering pressing questions abou…
America’s attitude toward allies leading up to the Iran war was the geopolitical equivalent of a slogan on a jacket once notoriously sported by first lady Melania Trump: “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail.
President Donald Trump’s top aides are already scripting a victory narrative in Iran for the inevitable day when he tries to extricate himself from the war.
The US government doesn’t simply want Americans to support the war it launched with Israel on Iran; it wants to pump people up.
The loss of a US tanker aircraft over Iraq underscored the costs of mass military mobilizations
In the war the US launched on the Islamic Republic, the US secretary of war, as he prefers to be called, likes to talk about how the Christian God is on his side.
The Biden administration was all in on EVs. The Trump administration pulled the plug, ahem, on government support. How is the US car industry dealing with the whiplash.
It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump launched a war with Iran, and Vice President JD Vance has yet to offer anything like the full-throated public votes of confidence he offered about Trump’s previous operations.