Author: Press Room

President Donald Trump’s proposal to give Americans without access to a workplace retirement plan an option to invest in a federal-style alternative similar to the Thrift Savings Plan is a smash hit, according to focus groups conducted by the Sentinel Action Fund. During his State of the Union address, Trump proposed to give Americans without access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) access to a federal-style option similar to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) used by federal workers. The president said that the plan would be available for the “forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built…

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab on Wednesday resigned from his position after almost nine years — only for him to be appointed as interim Ombudsman moments later after Ombudsman Alfredo Ruiz also resigned on the same day. Saab – a lawyer, poet, and a self-declared “stoic Buddhist” – is one of the most infamous “original” members of the Venezuelan socialist regime and a man once known as the “Poet of the Revolution,” a designation given by late dictator Hugo Chávez at the start of his rule in 1999. Saab, a close ally of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his…

LEESBURG, Virginia — House Democrats say they’re intent on putting a legislative agenda behind their midterm affordability message. They don’t know yet what’s going to be on it. But they have gathered at a resort outside Washington to spitball some options for putting specifics behind their pledge to address Americans’ rising costs of living, with sessions devoted to utilities, housing, groceries and the “care economy.” “We know it’s not enough to just lay out the issues and what the problems are,” said House Minority Whip Katherine Clark. “Our goal is to have simple solutions that we can put out and…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said President Donald Trump “has made it clear to the Iranians, you’re not going to have a nuclear weapon, you’re not going to enrich uranium, you’ve got to stop murdering your people.” And he doesn’t think you can separate Iran’s nuclear program from the need for the regime to leave. Host Leland Vittert asked, “Why then talk about Iran’s nuclear program? If Israel is the appetizer…we must take death to America at face value, why should President Trump stop with a nuclear deal? Why should the deal…

Front-Running the Next Tariffs: We’ve Seen This Movie Before The Supreme Court’s decision holding that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize tariffs has created an unusual near-term setup: a temporary “tariff valley” that could trigger another wave of import stockpiling in the months ahead. With the IEEPA tariff regime struck down on statutory grounds, the administration pivoted to Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, an authority designed to address short-term balance-of-payments problems. The White House initially described the new measure as a ten percent ad valorem import duty for 150 days, and officials have…

The United States and Iran began the third round of their current cycle of indirect nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, under the looming threat of U.S. military action and Iran’s belligerent threats to respond with attacks across the Middle East. As with previous rounds in Geneva and Oman, Thursday’s negotiations are “indirect,” meaning the Omani foreign ministry is carrying messages between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.  Oman released photos on Thursday of its foreign minister, Badr al-Busaidi, sitting down in Geneva with Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “We’ve been exchanging…

Leading language models showed little “horror or revulsion” at the prospect of all-out nuclear war, a researcher has found Leading artificial intelligence models chose to deploy nuclear weapons in 95% of simulated geopolitical crises, according to a recent study published by King’s College London, raising concerns about the growing role of AI in military decision-making.Kenneth Payne, a professor of strategy, pitted OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Google’s Gemini 3 Flash against each other in 21 war games involving border disputes, competition for resources, and threats to regime survival. The models generated roughly 780,000 words explaining their decisions across…

Financial magazine Barron’s says the Netflix deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is all but dead and that the streaming giant should look for a “graceful exit” to get out from under the eight-figure effort. The magazine now speculates that Paramount Skydance is now the front runner in the bid to buy Warners. As the sale drama continues, Warners board said on Thursday that the latest $31 per share offer from Paramount “could reasonably be expected to lead” the Netflix agreement with its $27.75 per share offer, Barron’s reported. Should Warners announce that the Paramount offer is officially the current…

An Iranian opposition group took credit for a coordinated assault on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Tehran headquarters this week, reporting “heavy clashes” with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that allegedly left more than 100 of its fighters killed, wounded, or arrested. The Command Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) said the operation began at dawn Monday, February 23, during the call to morning prayer, and continued into the afternoon around the Motahari Complex in central Tehran — one of the Islamic Republic’s most heavily fortified seats of power. According to the group, more than 250 fighters…

Rapper Cardi B, who previously said she was “starting not to like America,” called the United States “ghetto” and “dusty,” and declared “this is why some of y’all states be getting hurricanes” after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, is now urging voters in Texas — a Gulf Coast state that has been struck by major hurricanes — to back Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat U.S. Senate primary as early voting enters its final days. On Wednesday, Cardi B posted a video to her Instagram Story saying: “Listen up y’all. Early primary voting is happening right now in Texas, and…