House lawmakers returned to Washington on Tuesday to confront the Iran conflict and joust over Congress’s role, or lack thereof, in governing the terms of the fight. President Trump launched the Iran operations with a hail of strikes early Saturday, after weeks of threats and a massive buildup of military power in the surrounding region….
Congressional Republicans are denying that President Trump is waging a war in Iran, arguing instead that the U.S. is responding to acts of war by the Iranian regime and engaging in a limited combat operation. “This isn’t a war. We haven’t declared war,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said on CNN on Monday, later adding that Iranian Supreme…
Washington — The Senate will hold a vote Wednesday on whether to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, amid shifting messaging from the administration about the strikes and warnings about more American casualties to come. It’s the second time in less than a year that Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
Snow falls outside of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on March 2, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The wife of U.S. Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) has passed away due to complications from injuries she sustained in a car accident earlier this year, the Indiana Republican’s office announced Sunday. Danise Baird died after the accident,
An early voting polling site at East Carolina University as North Carolina begins its midterm primary elections, in Greenville, N.C., on Feb. 12, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times On March 3, voters went to the polls for the first primary elections of the 2026 midterm election cycle. The elections in Texas and North Carolina had
House Oversight Republicans release a 53-page report accusing Gov. Tim Walz of ignoring warnings as billions in taxpayer funds were lost to massive welfare fraud in Minnesota.
‘No other president has ever held them accountable,’ said Dawn Woody, whose husband, Joshua, was 1 of 19 US airmen killed in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing organized by Iran and carried out by an Iranian proxy Trump poster (Mario Tama/Getty Images), Khobar Towers (Getty Images) Families of the victims of the 1996 Khobar Towers