Author: Press Room

Some Democrats aren’t ruling out voting for a multibillion-dollar military infusion, setting up a potential internal clash in the weeks ahead for a party whose political base is aghast at President Donald Trump’s aggression against Iran. The Trump administration’s top defense and intelligence officials told lawmakers this week that the Pentagon could soon send an emergency supplemental funding request to Capitol Hill. They didn’t offer a timeline or dollar value, but the White House is reportedly mulling a $50 billion ask. That’s a massive sum on top of the more than $990 billion Congress has shelled out for defense capabilities…

The massive airstrikes by Israel and the United States on Iran were not entirely unexpected. Strike forces had been building up in the Persian Gulf for months. Iranian-American negotiations had stalled and offered little prospect of success. Yet the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, members of his family, and several senior Iranian officials have sent shockwaves far beyond the region.Iran has responded with missile strikes on Israel and US facilities in the Middle East. The repercussions were immediate: disruptions to oil shipments in the Persian Gulf and instability in financial and transport infrastructure in the UAE and Qatar.Iran may…

President Donald Trump holds a roundtable discussion on energy usage for artificial intelligence (AI) datacenters on Wednesday, March 4. Earlier Wednesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing and answered questions about the ongoing military operations in Iran. On Tuesday, the president met with the chancellor of Germany and spoke with the media about the U.S. strikes. Read the full article here

The Israeli government says it has authorised its forces to advance into Lebanon and “take control of additional areas” to prevent Hezbollah using them to fire into Israeli border settlements as part of Operation Roaring Lion, Jerusalem’s counterpart of the American Operation Epic Fury. Israel is reacting to the decision “of the Hezbollah terror organization to join the campaign of the Iranian terror regime” and is moving forward to occupy land used to launch attacks against Israeli border communities, they said on Tuesday morning. Air raid sirens sounded in the north of Israel again on Tuesday morning as Hezbollah rocket…

President Donald Trump said that electricity prices in communities where tech companies are building data centers will not rise, and in many cases will come down, thanks to his Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Trump hosted leaders of top tech companies — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday and stated that the Ratepayer Protection Pledge will not only shield Americans from higher costs due to data centers, but actually bring costs down in many communities. “Under this new agreement, big tech companies are committing to fully…

A Democrat state representative in Michigan said she is not running for public office again because of her Christian faith, citing the party’s moral decay as a major reason behind her decision.  “I will not be seeking re-election for this office, and I will not be running for any office ever again. This is not a political calculation—it’s a spiritual decision,” State Rep. Karen Whitsett announced on Monday, ClickOn Detroit reported.  Whitsett said she will continue to civically engage and will support leaders across the political spectrum who act according to God’s Word, according to the report.  “I don’t have…

The projectile was shot down as it approached Turkish airspace through Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry has said NATO anti-aircraft systems in the Eastern Mediterranean have shot down an Iranian ballistic missile headed for Türkiye’s airspace, the country’s Defense Ministry has announced.The projectile was detected traveling through Iraq and Syria and was destroyed in a “timely manner” by the US-led military bloc’s defenses, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.Debris from the interceptor missile used to destroy the incoming projectile fell in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, although it inflicted no damage on the ground, the ministry noted.“We urge…

The former director of an anti-Breitbart censorship group has resigned from British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government amid reports he spread fake Russiagate-style allegations against journalists critical of the organisation he ran. Labour MP for Makerfield, Josh Simons, resigned from his post as a junior Cabinet Office minister over the weekend, conveniently timed while the British and international media turned its focus to the conflict in the Middle East. Simons, once tipped as a rising star in the Labour ranks, had come under fire in recent weeks amid a flurry of reports exposing the mud-slinging way of the Labour…

NBA coaches Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers have signed on to an open letter blasting what they call the “political interference” in college sports. “College sports unite us as a nation, drawing out team spirit and shared values of fair play,” the letter states, according to ESPN. “Campuses – big and small, public and private, two- and four-year – are a bedrock foundation for the role sports play in American life. Protecting university independence safeguards this proud tradition.” “Right now, at both the federal and state levels, acts of political interference threaten the independence of our colleges and universities,” the…

Congressional investigators have found “a substantial reason to believe” that Rep. Tony Gonzales had a sexual relationship with a subordinate — an apparent violation of House rules. POLITICO exclusively reviewed the report made by the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Conduct and delivered Wednesday to the House Ethics Committee, which has separately announced it is investigating the matter. The board of the OCC— an independent investigative body of the House — recommended in a 6-0 decision that the Ethics panel, which handles member disciplinary matters, further examine the allegations against Gonzales, a Texas Republican. The OCC report and announcement from the…