Politics

The first missile in the U.S. arsenal used against Iranian targets in Saturday's pre-dawn strike was the Tomahawk, a long-range cruise missile launched from Navy ships and submarines.About half the length of a standard telephone pole, the Tomahawk flies at the speed of a commercial airliner and can carry a 1,000-pound warhead about the distance from Washington, D.C., to Miami.Fired from destroyers or submarines positioned hundreds of miles away, the […]

Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both progressive "Squad" members, lashed out at President Donald Trump on Saturday in response to his decision to strike Iran. "Trump has launched an illegal regime change war," Omar posted on X. "As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos."Omar, who fled Somalia as […]

President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday, after launching joint attacks on Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday morning. "President Trump monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago alongside members of his national security team," Leavitt posted to X on Saturday. "The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone." Trump announced in a Truth Social video message at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time […]

Iran launched missile and drone strikes targeting U.S. military facilities in multiple Middle Eastern countries Friday, retaliating after coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iranian military and nuclear-linked sites.Explosions were reported in or near areas hosting American forces in Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan, according to regional officials and state media accounts. Several of those governments said their air defense systems intercepted incoming projectiles.No U.S. service member fatalities […]

Former President Joe Biden on Friday accused President Donald Trump of attempting to "erase the truth" and squandering the United States’ role as the leader of the world."It's not just my record Trump's trying to erase," Biden told South Carolina Democrats, while talking about the president's efforts to get rid of the Affordable Care Act."He's trying to erase fairness, equity, history, the truth," he continued, citing incidents in which information […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accused Everett, Washington, Mayor Cassie Franklin of escalating tensions with federal authorities after she issued a directive limiting immigration enforcement in the city.Franklin issued a mayoral directive this week establishing citywide protocols for staff, including law enforcement, that restrict federal immigration agents from entering non-public areas of city buildings without a judicial warrant."We’ve heard directly from residents who are afraid to leave their houses […]

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of putting Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on the Supreme Court, joking he is the only nominee who would receive "100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote" because lawmakers would want to "get him out" of Congress.Trump made the comments after Cruz and other lawmakers traveled with the president to make remarks on energy in Corpus Christi, Texas."We have a […]

A Democratic Washington state lawmaker has apologized after admitting he showed up to a committee hearing after drinking alcohol and making somewhat slurred remarks during the proceeding.  Democratic state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, the state House majority leader, said it was a "serious mistake for many reasons" when he appeared at a House Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday where he discussed the operating budget. "I made a poor choice last night by drinking […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities like Princeton, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown and Yale, starting with the 2026-27 academic year.Hegseth added that the ban would also include "many others," claiming the higher education system has been "poisoned from within from a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused […]