Washington — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next week to answer questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the panel said Wednesday. “The Department of Justice has stated Pam Bondi will not appear on April 14
Washington — Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered a by-the-numbers look Wednesday of the meals and caffeine the U.S. military has consumed during Operation Epic Fury, as a fragile ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran begins to take hold. Briefing reporters hours after President Trump and Iran announced the pause
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said “we’ll be hanging around” after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire with Iran, while saying that Iran knows “this agreement means that they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon.” Hegseth announced at the start of Wednesday’s briefing that the Pentagon’s job is done in Iran. But he
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are briefing reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon after President Trump said Tuesday night he’d agreed to an immediate, conditional two-week ceasefire with Iran. After the announcement, there were signs that shipping traffic was picking up in the vital Strait of Hormuz. “I agree to suspend
Washington — Vice President JD Vance, who is on a trip to Hungary, called the U.S.-Iran ceasefire a “fragile truce” on Wednesday. He said the Iranian foreign minister responded favorably to the agreement, but that others in the country are “lying.” “This is why I say this is a fragile truce,” Vance said in Budapest.
Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of renewed contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading
The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they