6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (147+ words) Wall Street Journal: "Hegseth has spent much of his tenure as Pentagon chief largely snubbing Congress. His appearances before committees on Capitol Hill often turn contentious, frustrating both Republicans and Democrats who say they want more answers on the Iran…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago  (147+ words) No matter who is in the final World Cup match, there could be some awkwardness in New Jersey on July 19 when US President Donald Trump presents the trophy," CNN reports. Trump has made war on one country in the tournament…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago  (338+ words) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has crystallized his playbook when it comes to Donald Trump's relationship with the alliance: Make it about the money," Politico reports. His sales pitch to the president last year centered around Europeans increasing their military…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago  (112+ words) President Trump joked that he could be "the greatest communist in history" as he blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's newly approved rent freeze and a trio of socialist triumphs in House primary elections, the New York Post reports....

5+ hour, 14+ min ago  (145+ words) President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as communists after self-described democratic socialists won primaries in New York this week, previewing a new emphasis for his campaigning in this year's midterms," the Washington Post reports. While new to his recent speeches, the…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago  (113+ words) The U. S. launched a fresh attack on Iran Friday just one day after Tehran struck a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the latest sign a fragile ceasefire between the two countries is breaking apart," the Wall Street Journal reports. CNBC:…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (119+ words) The Trump administration's move to close the US Agency for International Development helped enable the Ebola outbreak spreading through the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to Samantha Power, who led the organization for almost four years," Bloomberg…...

5+ hour, 31+ min ago  (120+ words) Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins," Associated Press reports. Buttigieg writes about the incident:…...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago  (152+ words) The Trump administration is conducting a far-reaching investigation into whether Yale University's admissions practices violate anti-discrimination laws, prompting one of the country's most elite schools to pursue settlement talks with the government," the New York Times reports. The Justice Department…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago  (162+ words) Senate Republicans are elevating Colombia as a role model in their push for stricter voting rules in the U. S. " and using California as their foil," Axios reports. Republicans don't have the votes to jam through President Trump's SAVE Act, but some…...