Iran said it will not meet directly with the U.S. in upcoming talks mediated by Pakistan, despite a contrary statement from the White House earlier Friday. “No meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S. Iran's observations would be conveyed to Pakistan,” Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry, said in...

Camp Mystic, where 27 people died during a flash flood last summer, submitted an inadequate emergency plan proposal, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) informed directors Thursday. The Texas summer camp is facing several legal challenges and investigations but said it intended to reopen in May. In a letter first reported by Quorum...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shared an update Friday of the ongoing installation of an “American flag blue” floor in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “Renovations are underway!” Burgum wrote in a post on the social platform X, alongside a picture of workers applying the new blue base to the pool. The secretary thanked President Trump...

America is celebrating its 250th birthday this July 4, and the White House has released a full itinerary of events to commemorate this momentous occasion. Several federal agencies have already kicked off events and ongoing programs associated with the anniversary celebrations. The next major event is a prayer gathering on the National Mall in May,...

Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly said Wednesday that President Trump "needs to win" the U.S. conflict with Iran, when asked about the war's negative impact on Trump's approval ratings. “See, if he wins in Iran, the equation changes because he becomes the victor, and to the victor go the spoils, as the cliche goes,” O’Reilly said...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) challenged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday to campaign in his state after the Democrat issued a warning to Florida over redistricting. “I will pay for you to come down to Florida and campaign,” DeSantis said during a press conference. “I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s...

President Trump’s political director James Blair expressed his confidence on Wednesday for GOP midterm election victories, despite falling economic approval ratings and a recent loss on a redistricting measure in Virginia.  “We’re not ignorant of the history of the midterms obviously, right, but it’s way too soon to declare defeat,” Blair told CNN’s Dana Bash...

President Trump’s fiscal policies are becoming increasingly unpopular amid economic strains resulting from the Iran war, according to new polling. The Associated Press-NORC Research Center survey, released Wednesday, showed the president’s economic approval rating slumped down to 30 percent this month. This is an 8-point decrease from March and 9-point fall from February.  The April...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel turn over information to Congress related to accusations that he has regularly consumed alcohol in excess during his time leading the counterintelligence agency. “These glimpses of your relationship to alcohol would be alarming to see in an FBI agent; for us to...

A group of NASA veterans came together on Tuesday to launch a new nonprofit organization aimed at defending Americans’ constitutional rights.  Astronauts for America is a group of over 100 former astronauts with common “patriotic, not partisan” goals, the founding members wrote in an open letter.  “We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents from many different...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned on Tuesday that his department will be unable to pay out employee salaries starting in early May amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.  The lapse in funding, which impacts DHS’s 22 agencies, has now stretched for a record 66 days.  “Fortunately, what President Trump did through...