Republicans want a second reconciliation bill before the midterms. But another vote cutting popular programs could be disastrous.
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Republicans want a second reconciliation bill before the midterms. But another vote cutting popular programs could be disastrous.
Ben Stiller asked the White House X account to leave “Tropic Thunder” out of its deranged propaganda video, saying ‘War is not a movie.’ The montage, which mixes movie scenes with real Iran footage, is offensive to anyone with a brain.
It’s still unclear who was responsible for a missile strike on a southern Iran school that left at least 175 dead, many of them children.
Ken Paxton has a clever ploy to stay in the Texas Senate race. The Texas AG is going to the mats for Trump’s beloved SAVE Act, making it much harder for the president to push him out in favor of incumbent John Cornyn.
The Iran war sure looks like a breaking point in a relationship that has been fraying for a long time, writes columnist Ross Barkan.
Speaking with political risk guru Ian Bremmer on his biggest worries about Iran, why he thinks President Trump really started this war, and the best-case scenario for how it ends.
The committee shown a willingness to demand answers even from those in high places, writes columnist Elie Hoenig.
In the days since the Iran war began, the Iranian diaspora has been fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.
House Republican leadership is urging Texas congressman Tony Gonzales to drop his reelection bid after he admitted to an affair with a now-deceased staffer.
Now that Kristi Noem has been fired as DHS secretary, will her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, be an improvement? A lot depends on whether Mullin and President Trump double down on ICE abuses.
In an interview, Donald Trump said he should play a role in selecting Iran’s new leader even as Republicans hesitate to describe the conflict as a war.
Trump fires Kristi Noem, but not for reason you’d think. The final straw for the Homeland Security secretary wasn’t the department’s cruel and chaotic tactics, her alleged affair, or various other scandals, but trying to use Trump himself as cover.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is once again on the outside as he supports the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, unlike almost all of his fellow Democrats.
Republicans now fully own Trump’s Iran war. The War Powers Act resolution would have reasserted congressional control. GOP senators rejected it almost unanimously.
Trump’s nominee for surgeon general believes lifestyle changes and functional medicine could be a cure-all for Americans. Science disagrees.
‘In the past you see people wearing bird masks to avoid the plague, and you’re like, ‘They are so silly.’ I think people will look at porn users the same as well,’ says Alex Slater, one of the co-founders of the anti-porn app Quittr.
Is Kristi Noem sleeping With Corey Lewandowski? She didn’t say ‘no.’ The DHS secretary did say she was ‘shocked’ to be asked about the widely rumored affair at Wednesday’s House hearing, calling the question ‘tabloid garbage.’
In response to US-Israel attacks on the country, Iran is launching drone attacks that target data centers nearby, writes columnist John Herrman.
Trump’s Texas Senate endorsement is all about the money. The GOP can’t afford to attack Ken Paxton, then rehabilitate him if he wins the runoff. So Trump is expected to back John Cornyn in the race against Democrat James Talarico.
Someone stole the entire supply of Tucker Carlson’s Alp Drifters nicotine pouches. The company is now offering a $100,000 reward for the stolen truck full of Carlson’s Zyn-like nicotine products.
Air strikes have never dislodged a regime. And Professor Robert Pape, an expert on the limits of such tactics, argues that such military tactics are more likely to deepen Trump’s Iran problem than solve it.
Embattled Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales made it to a primary runoff election, after weeks of growing scandal surrounding his alleged affair with a now-deceased staffer.
Trump can’t stop thinking about Zohran Mamdani. Monday night on Truth Social, he posted a cute days-old picture of the mayor posing with a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office.
The next leader of Iran may be another Khamenei, and the war is still expanding. Here are the latest updates, analysis, and commentary
Texas Senate primary results: Talarico wins as GOP faces nasty Cornyn-Paxton runoff. While the Texas GOP’s civil war drags on, epic turnout in the race between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett is raising Democrats’ hopes of flipping the Senate.
It was an amazing and surreal media moment. But Sunnyside Yards still looks like a long shot, writes columnist Errol Louis.
In emails released by the Department of Justice, Peggy Siegal and Jeffrey Epstein are revealed to have exchanged cash and access for a decade longer than the famed publicist previously admitted.
Trump is waging war on his own affordability push. Republicans’ midterms strategy was to focus on reducing living costs via lower energy prices. Now a war of choice in Iran has blown that all up.
