
Advocate - 16 hours 1 min ago
As President Donald Trump prepped for his second term, Tyler Hack was getting ready, too. Just before the inauguration, they launched a new political action committee called the Christopher Street Project . It aims to get pro-trans candidates elected to federal office a "direct response" to the Trump administration's "attacks on the trans community," they said.

The Guardian - 16 hours 9 min ago
The narrow shipping route on Iran's southern border carries one fifth of global seaborne crude oil, one fifth of LNG shipments and one third of the most widely used fertiliser Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow the Iranian government by force could trigger a new wave of cost-of-living pressures that embattled governments and central banks around the world will struggle to deal with. The US-Israel attack on the Middle Eastern country...

The Onion - 16 hours 9 min ago
WASHINGTON Still sweating from the 7.5-mile walk from the White House to the video game retailer, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were spotted Thursday attempting to trade in a 1797 portrait of George Washington at a D.C.-area GameStop. "One PS5, please," Donald Jr. said as his younger brother Eric pushed the 18th-century Gilbert Stuart oil-on-canvas across […] The post Trump Boys Try Trading In George Washington Portrait At GameStop appeared first on The Onion .

NBC News - 16 hours 15 min ago
In a press briefing Monday on Operation Epic Fury, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detail the joint attack by the United States and Israel on Iran that saw the death of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "We didn't start this war but under President Donald Trump, we are finishing it," Hegseth says, adding, "This is not a so-called regime change war but the regime sure did change."...

The Nation - 16 hours 39 min ago
Andrea Arroyo The Epstein files have renewed scrutiny of alleged misconduct by powerful figures, including Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, raising ongoing questions about accountability and justice. The post Will There Be Justice for Survivors? appeared first on The Nation .

The Independent - 16 hours 42 min ago
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie accuses President Donald Trump of attempting to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by launching new offensive overseas...

Chicago Tribune - 16 hours 45 min ago
The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at war.

The Guardian - 16 hours 57 min ago
US president also very disappointed' in Keir Starmer over UK government's deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius US-Israel war on Iran live updates The UK "took far too long" to allow US forces to use its airbases to attack Iran, Donald Trump has said. The US president added that he was "very disappointed" in Keir Starmer over the British government's deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as a means to preserve the status of the UK-US airbase on...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 4 min ago
Reacting to a report from Wall Street Journal that there are growing fears of weaponry shortages looming for the Pentagon after Donald Trump ordered an assault on Iran, a retired general claimed the war planners may have made a major miscalculation . Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," retired United States Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling explained that when he worked in the Pentagon, one of his duties included war-planning and he understands the constraints that come with limited...

The Guardian - 17 hours 8 min ago
Trump cited debunked claims in video address that Iran was on verge of nuclear weapons to justify US casualties. Plus, the teacher who exposed Putin's primary school propaganda Good morning. Donald Trump recorded a new video address yesterday, vowing to avenge three American deaths after the joint US-Israel strikes on Iran and accusing the Iranian regime of "waging war against civilization itself". What is Trump's plan? It's unclear but he is under pressure to spell out his vision...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 17 min ago
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's attack on Iran is premised on a gossamer web of assumptions and inferences. Trump says Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb within days, will soon have long-range missiles capable of hitting the United States, and plans an attack. But he has offered no evidence. Most experts say he's wrong. Here's the real reason for this war. Trump wants it to divert Americans' attention from everything that's gone to s--- on his watch: the economy...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 31 min ago
Donald Trump's administration has yet to show they have a long-term plan for Iran after a flurry of weekend strikes , a political analyst has warned. Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow and Iran specialist at the Middle East Institute in Washington, told The Guardian there is no sign of a longer-term thought process behind the strikes orchestrated by the US military. Trump confirmed the strikes in a Truth Social post, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead after the strikes. But Vatanka says the...

NBC News - 17 hours 38 min ago
President Donald Trump is back in Washington, D.C., as his administration prepares to brief Congress on the joint attacks with Israel on Iran. Two sources briefed on the matter tell NBC that the attack was launched Saturday after months of close coordination with Israel because intelligence showed that the Ayatollah would be at a meeting with several of his deputies. Political reaction on Capitol Hill is mostly breaking along partisan lines with Republicans largely praising the President's act...

Mother Jones - 17 hours 39 min ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost all coal-fired power plants in the US had the ability to comply with rules limiting their emission of dangerous pollutants such as mercury that can cause brain damage in children. Despite this, Donald Trump's administration decided to demolish the standards anyway. […]...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 46 min ago
According to the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, reporting that Donald Trump is now fishing about for suggestions on what to do in Iran after he launched a war on the country and killed its leader is yet another example of his "undisciplined" leadership. And that puts him in a precarious position politically . Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," longtime diplomat Richard Haas expressed concern that the war on Iran will become open-ended due to lack of planning...

Daily Signal - 17 hours 49 min ago
President Donald Trump is promising to avenge the deaths of those lost in Operation Epic Fury. U.S. Central Command reported three fatalities in the first... Read More The post Trump Responds to American Casualties in Iran, Predicts More appeared first on The Daily Signal .

The Independent - 17 hours 53 min ago
President Donald Trump and top members of his Cabinet watched Operation Epic Fury unfold in a curtained-off area of his club in Palm Beach, Florida...

The Guardian - 18 hours 7 min ago
Lawmakers are seeking the US president to require congressional approval before further military action against Iran Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox As Republicans celebrated the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , with praise for Donald Trump 's decisive action, Democrats faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front. Most were quick to condemn the US president for sidelining Congress to launch...

NY Post - 18 hours 25 min ago
President Trump has said he took out Ayatollah Khamenei before “he got me” seemingly referring to the failed Iranian assassination attempts orchestrated against him. "I got him before he got me," Trump told ABC News Sunday as he reacted to the death of the Iranian Supreme Leader, 86. "They tried twice. Well I got him...

Vox - 18 hours 39 min ago
A monitor plays footage of President Donald Trump announcing US and Israeli strikes against Iran in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2026. | Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images About six months ago, I noted an interesting divide among the right-leaning or politics-adjacent podcasters and influencers who helped get Donald Trump reelected. They were either shutting up about politics, bending over backward to justify his policies, or citing...

The Raw Story - 19 hours 3 min ago
Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief has ruled out peace talks with the United States and claimed that Donald Trump is worried about further conflict . In statements posted to X, Ali Larijani confirmed the US and Iran had not entered any form of peace talks and that they would be unlikely to do so after a series of strikes on the Middle East over the weekend. Trump confirmed the strikes in a Truth Social post, with three days of bombing seemingly set to continue. Larijani wrote, "TRUMP...

The Guardian - 19 hours 9 min ago
The war has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire Last week, during his State of the Union address on Tuesday and again on Friday, just before launching Operation Epic Fear, Donald Trump laid out his case for attacking Iran. The US president offered a lengthy bill of indictment against Iran 's Islamic Republic, stretching back to the 1979 revolution: the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran...

The Guardian - 19 hours 9 min ago
Lawmakers from Sanders to Mark Kelly offer mixed feelings on Trump's action and killing of Iranian supreme leader As Republicans celebrated the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , with praise for Donald Trump 's decisive action, Democrats faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front. Most were quick to condemn the US president for sidelining Congress to launch an illegal and unconstitutional war and demanded a swift vote on a war powers...

The Independent - 19 hours 44 min ago
The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and set off a furious Iranian response...