House Republicans reject the Senate's Department of Homeland Security spending plan, with the Freedom Caucus pushing to fund the entire department through budget reconciliation.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) hesitated to express his confidence in a ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran a day after President Trump announced a temporary halt in fighting. “I am not sure there’s a deal,” Bacon told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Wednesday morning. “That will bear out in the next 24 to 48 hours,…
The Department of Justice building in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced three separate criminal and civil actions on April 7 seeking to hold two individuals and two companies accountable for schemes to steal more than $500 million from taxpayer-funded programs. The defendants are two companies
Trump’s former attorney general had been subpoenaed for an April 14 deposition that was never confirmed.
Rising gas prices are becoming a central political battleground as Democrats tie fuel costs to Trump's Iran conflict ahead of midterm elections.
Vice President JD Vance suggested that the European Union was interfering with the upcoming Hungarian election, while Vance himself is on a visit to Budapest aimed at boosting strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chances of winning a tough battle for another term. Vance said Wednesday that there’d been a “lot of conversation about foreign influence” in
A satellite image shows airstrike craters over the underground centrifuge halls of the Natanz Enrichment Facility, following U.S. airstrikes amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Natanz County, Iran, on June 22, 2025. Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on April 8 that the United States will work closely with Iran’s new leadership to