Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday called for Anthony Fauci, former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to be indicted for what the senator claimed was his lying under oath about gain-of-function research. "6 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) accused President Trump of allowing an environment of “political violence” to persist in an interview released Tuesday.  “Look, our leaders set the tone in this country, and I think that the President of the United States has set a tone where political violence is OK,” Pritzker told Politico’s Jonathan Martin....

Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday that the Iranian military has attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times since the two sides agreed to a ceasefire on April 7. “Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships. And...

The Trump administration is pushing a resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning Iran's effective shutting down of the Strait of Hormuz and calling for open passage on the critical maritime route, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. The resolution comes after Trump announced Project Freedom for the U.S. Navy to assist international...

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe prices will be higher than they are today a year from now, according to a new poll. In the survey from The Economist/YouGov, 59 percent said they believe prices are set to be “higher" than they currently are in 12 months. Fifteen percent said prices are set to be...

House progressives in leadership positions knocked the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) — their own campaign arm — on Monday for endorsing a candidate in a contested primary. The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC (CPC PAC) publicly took issue with the DCCC endorsing California Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains and adding her to its "Red to Blue" program,...

Billionaire investor Ken Griffin on Monday predicted that Democrats will take back the House in November. “It’s almost a certainty the Democrats will take the House. That’s the nature of almost every midterm election cycle, is the House seats swing in the favor of the opposing party,” Griffin, a supporter of President Trump, told host...

Pennsylvania is suing an artificial intelligence company to stop it from misrepresenting its AI chatbots as licensed professionals who can provide medical advice. The lawsuit alleges Character.AI chatbots claimed to be licensed medical professionals, including psychiatrists, available to engage users in conversations about mental health symptoms.  In one instance, a chatbot falsely stated it was licensed in Pennsylvania and provided a fake license...

One of the world’s largest container shipping firms on Tuesday said transits through the Strait of Hormuz are not yet possible a day after the U.S. began escorting vessels through the vital waterway. “At this point in time our risk assessment remains unchanged,” German company Hapag-Lloyd AG said in a statement, as reported by The...

President Trump reignited his attacks on Pope Leo XIV on Monday, accusing the pontiff of condoning Iran’s development of nuclear weaponry. “I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people,” Trump said in a recent interview with Hugh Hewitt. "But I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced his new initiative boost "deprescribing" psychiatric medications, during a Make America Healthy Again Institute summit on mental health and overmedicalization. “Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation’s mental health crisis by addressing the overuse of psychiatric medications —especially...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will brief reporters from the White House on Tuesday as tensions rise in the Strait of Hormuz. The press conference comes a day after Iran and the U.S. exchanged fire after the Trump administration began “Project Freedom,” an effort to guide some ships through the strait, a key oil shipping...