Author: Press Room

The US president believes his Russian counterpart is ready to make a deal, unlike the Ukrainian leader US President Donald Trump has singled out Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky as the main obstacle to a peace agreement to end the conflict with Russia, in an Oval Office interview with Reuters.Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration that his attempts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine over the past year have been unsuccessful, alternately blaming both Moscow and Kiev for the deadlock.Asked on Wednesday who was stalling the negotiations, Trump responded with a single name: “Zelensky.”“I just think he’s… having a hard time…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday claimed the massive nationwide uprising against the regime he serves was an “Israeli plot” carried out by “ISIS-style terrorist operations,” and the regime has defeated these “terrorists” after three days of pitched battle. “These terrorist cells entered the protests, using Daesh-style terrorist operations. They shot at police officers, burned them alive, beheaded them, and targeted civilians,” Araghchi claimed in an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News. “Daesh” is another name for the Islamic State. “For three days, we were not fighting protesters. We were fighting terrorists,” Araghchi said. According to the Iranian…

On Thursday, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported that the number of firearms “in civilian possession” topped 500 million by the end of 2023. The NSSF gathered information from “reports such as ATF Firearms Commerce in the United States, ATF AFMER and Congressional Research Service and including the collective ATF AFMER reports up to the 2023 edition.” They noted, “The estimated total number of firearms in civilian possession from 1990–2023 is 506.1 million.” On January 12, 2024, Breitbart News pointed to a previous NSSF report showing there were an estimated 473.2 million firearms in U.S. civilian hands by the end…

This marks the first time a mission has returned ahead of schedule for medical reasons in the station’s 25-year history Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Thursday after leaving the International Space Station (ISS) a month ahead of schedule due to a medical issue affecting one crew member.The four-person team had been conducting research aboard the ISS since August and was expected to remain until next month, following a handover period after the arrival of the Crew-12 mission.The Crew-11 members – Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and Japan’s…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest. At the direction of President Donald Trump, Bessent said the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown on protesters, while moving to choke off the regime’s sanctions-evasion pipelines used to launder proceeds from Iranian petroleum and petrochemical sales. In a video released Thursday on X alongside the sanctions announcement, Bessent said his message…

Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” disgraced former acting FBI director and senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe claimed we couldn’t trust what the Trump administration was saying about the civil unrest in Minneapolis. Host Pamela Brown said, “Just really quickly to follow up, I mean, you had the situation with the shooting overnight, and DHS says that a Venezuelan national tried to flee and attacked the ICE officer trying to arrest him. I mean, in that situation, do you think the shooting was justified? In that case, he was shot in the leg, that Venezuelan national.” McCabe said, “Well, it’s very…

The US president is “pumping himself with poison all day long” by eating fast food and drinking soda, the health secretary has said US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed bafflement that President Donald Trump is still alive given his well-documented diet of fast food and soda, as the president insists he is in “perfect health.”Kennedy made the remarks during an appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast. When asked who in the administration had the most “unhinged eating habits,” Kennedy answered, “the president.”“The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald’s…

Responding to crippling input costs, Alex Harrell slashes his cropland in half and predicts significant U.S. acres may be bare come spring.How deep is the farm crisis? Adios to acreage.In November 2025, Alex Harrell, among the most highly reputed producers in the U.S., dropped an old-school grading scale, A to F, across his 6,000-acre operation and slashed almost half his ground, notifying 12 landlords in a three-week window. “I can’t speak to the rest of the country, but around here, generational growers are either cutting back, quitting, falling into Chapter 12, or grasping at straws.”Spurred by crippling inputs, Harrell’s acreage…

Tariff Doom Didn’t Show Up in the Factory Data Cato Institute economist Scott Lincicome’s recent Bloomberg column argues that U.S. manufacturing “ended 2025 with a thud,” citing employment losses and weak survey data as evidence of policy failure. But this analysis makes a fundamental error: treating employment as the scoreboard in a labor-constrained economy. A better scoreboard would look to output and productivity. In the third quarter of 2025, manufacturing productivity rose 3.3 percent because output climbed 2.6 percent even as hours worked fell 0.7 percent. Over the past four quarters, productivity is up 2.3 percent—the biggest gain since 2021.…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the “four commonsense pillars” of President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled framework for the “Great Healthcare Plan,” which the White House is calling on Congress to pass. Leavitt outlined the president’s vision to reporters during Thursday’s White House press briefing. She stated that the first pillar is “permanently lowering prescription drug prices” by codifying Trump’s most-favored-nations deals with pharmaceutical companies. “Congress can get this done by codifying President Trump’s historic most-favored-nation [MFN] initiatives into law to guarantee Americans the same low prices for prescription drugs that people in other countries around the world pay,”…