WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered a much different explanation for how the United States and Israel opted to launch a surprise war with Iran, contending he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the conflict.

The U.S. commander in chief offered a brief update on the war’s status, telling reporters in the Oval ...Read more

So much Trump-related news has appeared lately on the airwaves and in web pixels — what with Iran and Epstein and Minnesota and so on — that inevitably a nugget will fall between the cracks.

That seems to have been the fate of the most recent annual financial report of Trump Media and Technology Group, which covered calendar year 2025 and ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied that Israel forced the U.S. to join the war against Iran by planning to launch its own assault on Tehran.

Distancing himself from remarks made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump insisted that he alone was the driving force to launch the war against the Islamic Republic.

“It was my opinion that ...Read more

The Oregon Supreme Court on Feb. 5, 2026, issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400 criminal cases had to be dismissed, the justices ruled, due to lack of adequate counsel available for defendants.

Like other states, Oregon must provide defendants with legal representation if they cannot afford attorneys on their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ryan Zinke, the Montana Republican who served as Interior secretary during the first Trump administration, is retiring after two stints in the House.

Zinke, the first Navy SEAL elected to Congress, said he’s undergone multiple surgeries in recent years related to his military service.

“The injuries sustained from a ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, a lifeline by ruling that her Staten Island-based district does not need to be redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

The conservative top court blocked a state court judge’s ruling that ordered the state’s redistricting committee to redraw the lines of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top lawmakers began weighing the potential need for an emergency defense spending package as they returned to Washington on Monday for a briefing on the U.S. and Israeli military offensive against Iran.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters that the need for supplemental funding for munitions was “brought up in discussion...Read more

President Donald Trump’s massive and unprovoked attack on Iran is a war of choice, not necessity. He said as much when he declared his objective to be regime change. That’s far beyond destroying Iran’s warmaking capacity.

Trump started a war with no consultation with Congress, let alone the consent the Constitution still requires. He ...Read more

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade war on terror, of which the Iranian theocracy has been the principal foe.

President Donald Trump is acting on a long-standing national security challenge, one that previous presidents have ...Read more

Northern California Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, whose congressional district was carved up in the redistricting ballot measures approved by voters last year, announced Monday that he would not challenge fellow Republican Rep. Tom McClintock. Instead he plans to run in the Democratic-leaning district where he resides.

"It's true that I was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge more permanently stopped a Department of Homeland Security policy Monday that would require a seven-day notice for members of Congress to visit immigration detention centers.

In an opinion, Judge Jia M. Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia halted Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s latest ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court revived a San Diego judge's order Monday and said parents have a right to know about their child's gender identity at school.

The decision came in a 6-3 order granting an emergency appeal from lawyers for Chicago-based Thomas More Society.

They said the student privacy policy enforced in California infringes on...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is backing out from a court battle with four major law firms that won rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders against them.

The DOJ plans to drop its appeals of the rulings, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The Wall Street Journal first reported the move.

The ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House.

The panel released video on Monday of its questioning of the former president and his wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the Second Amendment and deny gun rights to "habitual" users of drugs, including marijuana.

But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.

They noted too that ...Read more

President Trump’s doctor downplayed a red rash on the commander-in-chief’s neck as the byproduct of a “preventative skin treatment.”

The 79-year-old president raised further questions about his health Monday when he appeared at a Medal of Freedom event at the White House with a dark-red rash on the right side of his neck, blooming out ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court intervened Monday to halt a New York state court-mandated redistricting of the Staten Island-based seat currently held by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.

The unsigned order pauses the effort to force the state to draw a new map for the seat on arguments that it violated the state constitution by ...Read more

Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across the country, some of which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – President Donald Trump declared the objective was to destroy Iran’s military capabilities and give rise to a change in government.

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Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig says she regrets her support for a bill pushed by the Trump administration last year that mandated the detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for certain crimes.

Craig’s change in position on the Laken Riley Act, outlined in an op-ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune published Monday, comes in the aftermath of ...Read more