Before the U.S. launched its military offensive against Iran on Saturday, President Trump had expressed frustration with the progress of talks about Iran’s nuclear program and deployed an “armada” to the Middle East. But said he had not said much about the reasons why the U.S. would conduct a bombing campaign against the regime. Mr. Trump
In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those nine-digit awards aren’t all warmly received. At least one group of Republican state lawmakers appears to have scuttled an initiative preapproved by
Voters in three states are heading to the polls on Tuesday, with a four-term incumbent Republican senator in Texas seeking to fend off a primary challenge from his state’s starkly conservative attorney general while Democrats will be choosing their own candidate in hopes of breaking their decades-long losing streak in the state. There are also
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump chairs a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York on March 2, 2026. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images U.S. First Lady Melania Trump, speaking to the United Nations Security Council, declared Monday that “peace does not need to be fragile,” calling on world
The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, three U.S. military officials with direct knowledge of Iran’s attack told CBS News. At least six Americans were killed in a strike on a tactical operations center
Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. Terry P. Richardson is presented the Medal of Honor by U.S. President Donald Trump during a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 2, 2026. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Donald Trump awarded Medals of Honor to three U.S. Army soldiers in a
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