Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst (L), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine (R) testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 30, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine faced
President Trump said again on Thursday that oil and gas prices will drop after the war with Iran is over. But for now, they are back to levels last seen around the start of the war in Ukraine during the Biden administration. Jo Ling Kent reports from Los Angeles. Original CBS News Link
The New York Times reported that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have left a suicide note following an earlier incident about three weeks before his death. However, that note has been sealed in a separate case for nearly seven years and remains out of public view. Meg Oliver reports. Original CBS News
Iran war cost may be close to double what the Pentagon claims, officials say – CBS News Watch CBS News U.S. officials told CBS News that the estimated price tag delivered to lawmakers on Wednesday is only about half the true cost of $50 billion. Ed O’Keefe has more. link.lazyload { position: absolute; } .content__meta-wrapper::before
Ambassador Mike Waltz, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, hosts NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and the crew members of NASA’s Artemis II mission at the United Nations at 7 p.m. ET on April 30, following their historic journey around the Moon. Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, an alleged assassin burst through a set of double doors one floor above a ballroom where President Trump and roughly 2,600 other White House Correspondents’ Dinner guests were eating a salad course. Seven seconds later, he was apprehended by federal law enforcement, multiple sources familiar with the matter told
Harvard Business School, which had declared itself “thrilled” to host at an upcoming AI conference a businessman who was ostracized in Silicon Valley for social media posts that demonized Israel, has now canceled the event. The Washington Free Beacon wrote on April 28 about the conference under the headline, “Harvard Business School Is ‘Thrilled To