By Solange Reyner | Saturday, 29 August 2026 02:27 PM EDT Rep. Beth Van Duyne said she is losing confidence in Senate Majority Leader John Thune as a House-passed elections bill sits idle, and laid out a crowded fall agenda for Republicans that starts with avoiding a government shutdown. “Every…

Republican Senate nominee Michele Tafoya said she and her Democratic opponent, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, hold irreconcilable views on crime and immigration enforcement, criticizing Flanagan’s pledge to dismantle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Oh my goodness, we couldn’t be further apart on this,” Tafoya said in an interview. “I’m…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe undertook a secret mission to Moscow this week, personally ordered by President Donald Trump, delivering urgent warnings to senior Russian officials about NATO while pressuring the Kremlin on Ukraine and Iran. The trip was so discreet that some high-level White House officials and military leaders, who…

U.S. officials stated that Iran’s ability to disrupt shipping has been sharply reduced after weeks of American airstrikes, mine-clearing operations, and military escorts through the strait. President Donald Trump said on Thursday: “That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild. They don’t want us to go back at…

House Democrats on Tuesday named Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, elevating a staunch Israel supporter as the party’s base pulls sharply against U.S. aid to the Jewish state. The announcement from Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., the committee’s ranking…

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and foreign policy analyst Walid Phares stated Thursday on Newsmax that economic pressure against Iran must target the regime itself and be combined with efforts to strengthen internal opposition. “You cannot negotiate with dead-enders and millenarians,” Wilkie told “Wake Up America.” “They believe they…

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Ohio from requiring residents to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote at Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices, finding the requirement likely conflicts with federal law. U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction against the provision,…