Trump says U.S. forces destroyed an Iranian anti-aircraft installation as Iranian media separately report strikes on Qeshm Island; the accounts remain unconnected and damage unverified.
While Americans were voting, the Iranian regime put a message over Enghelab Square in Tehran that does not require a translator. “We will kill Trump.” That is not graffiti from a random mob. The Straits Times, citing AFP, reports a giant state-backed billboard depicting the U.S. president behind bars with his head bowed, unveiled Nov. […]
President Trump is not firing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Rep. Thomas Massie still wants him impeached. Democrats, about to run Congress, want hearings and worse. Those are three different fights. Only one of them is about whether Iran was allowed a nuclear weapon. Trump’s line: keep him On Wednesday Trump told reporters Hegseth is “doing […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is using the last months of his term to do what voters have twice refused to do at the ballot box: end the death penalty in practice. On Thursday he moved to commute all 548 death sentences in the state to life without the possibility of parole, according to his office’s […]
President Trump says a decision on Iran is coming. After meeting his national security advisers, he put the choice in the blunt terms he prefers. “Now we will make a decision,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “Do we want to go further? I would rather not destroy the rest of the […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican colleagues Wednesday he will not seek a leadership post in the next Congress. In a dear-colleague letter obtained by Axios, he wrote that after three years as speaker, “the time has come for me to give [my family] more of the attention and presence they so richly deserve.” He […]
Nithya Raman is projected to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, unseating one-term incumbent Karen Bass. Decision Desk HQ called the race Wednesday; The Hill reported Raman ahead by about 26,000 votes, roughly 3 points, with mail still counting. That is a projection, not a certified result. But if it holds, the nation’s second-largest […]
Vice President JD Vance spent Wednesday telling Republicans what they already felt in their guts: the Iran war cost them Congress. “The reason we lost is the war,” he wrote on X. “The president himself said so last night.” President Trump called that “largely true.” Then he said he would do it again. That is […]
Democrats won the House on Tuesday night. Within hours, the man in line to run its main investigative committee had a message for the White House, and it wasn’t about grocery prices. “Lawyer up,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said in a two-word statement also posted on X. Garcia is the ranking Democrat on the House […]
Washington, D.C., has its first democratic socialist mayor. Council member Janeese Lewis George won Tuesday with 126,932 votes, or 84.0%, according to the DC Board of Elections’ unofficial results. Independent Rhonda Hamilton took 10.3% and Statehood Green Robert L. Gross 3.6%. She succeeds Muriel Bowser on Jan. 2, 2027. She was not alone. In Providence, […]
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