Howard Lutnick shuts down Dem questions over Jeffrey Epstein at budget hearing
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick repeatedly shut down questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
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Trump praises ousted Navy Secretary Phelan amid tensions with Pentagon leadership
Sources say Navy Secretary John Phelan was removed after months of tensions with Pentagon leaders over shipbuilding programs and chain-of-command issues.
‘VEXIT’ movement reignites as red state invites disenfranchised Virginians to ‘Best Virginia’
West Virginia leaders push VEXIT, calling on disaffected Virginians to join the Mountain State after approval of a new 10-1 congressional district map.
US Warns of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Efforts by China to Extract AI Technology
White House Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios gives a speech on the last day of the Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 7, 2019. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images The White House said on April 23 that China and other foreign adversaries are carrying out “industrial-scale campaigns” to extract advanced American artificial intelligence
Republicans fail to attach SAVE America Act to party-line funding package
Senate Republicans Tom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted against a voter ID amendment to the GOP immigration enforcement funding bill.
Trump border czar Tom Homan wants Pope Leo XIV to ride along with ICE agents: ‘They don’t understand’
Tom Homan invites Pope Leo XIV to join ICE officers on a ride-along amid the ongoing feud between the Vatican and the Trump administration on immigration.
New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, ‘Grabbed on to the American Dream’
When Hung Cao was 4 years old, the U.S. military rescued him to freedom, evacuating him and his immediate family—seven people, two suitcases—from Saigon just hours before the capital of South Vietnam fell to the communists. What was a stroke of good fortune for Cao has worked out pretty well so far for America, too.