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A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas directed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave a border wall contract to a company that illegally smuggled workers into the country, provided...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged Friday that the U.S. military had opened a comprehensive investigation into the attack on an Iranian...
Donald Trump rambled about immigrants’ bad “genetics” Friday during an unfiltered white supremacist rant.
The likelihood is growing that the economy will be in recession when voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Goldman, Sachs on Thursday...
The U.S. is deploying to the Middle East a Marine expeditionary unit that can conduct ground operations if needed.
Donald Trump admitted Friday that Russia is likely helping Iran in its war with the U.S., but doesn’t think it’s a big deal.
Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the American military can drop bombs on scores of schoolchildren and not face serious media scrutiny...
Two weeks after he directed American forces to bomb Iran, Donald Trump has revealed he has no notion of when the war will end.
A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for one negative social media post about progressive Illinois House of Representatives candidate Kat...
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the District of Southern New York, has been tasked with investigating “people and institutions” tied to...
The president is leveraging his position as commander in chief for another moneymaking scheme.
A prison guard on duty during Jeffrey Epstein’s death has been asked to testify to the House Oversight Committee.
The Trump administration and its fellow Republicans are going nuts over a CNN report that the White House didn’t adequately plan for Iran closing...
You’ve surely seen or read about the video the White House put out last week that interspersed bombing footage from Iran with punishing hits from...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took some pot shots at the media Friday during a press conference and openly salivated over the coming right-wing...
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is once again cracking down on the journalists who cover it.
U.S. economic growth at the end of 2025 was half as strong as previously estimated.
European leaders are incensed after President Trump temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil to remedy oil costs after his war on Iran sent prices...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admitted that the U.S. military is using “every tool of AI” in the war on Iran.
Vice President JD Vance appears desperate to create daylight between himself and Donald Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, as the president’s inner...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was abruptly yanked out of a Thursday interview with Sky News’s Wilfred Frost after President Trump demanded...
The Trump administration seems to have been caught off guard by Iran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, once again showing a glaring lack of...
Donald Trump campaigned against “endless wars.” Yet in late February, he launched a war against Iran that has already killed over one thousand...
In the days since President Trump announced that he was firing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary and replacing her with Oklahoma Senator...
As the Iran war drags on and the death and devastation grow, I keep returning to a three-minute clip from a Republican presidential debate in February...
Images of black rain pelting one of the world’s oldest civilizations, after the United States and Israel bombed Iran’s oil depots this week, are...
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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
Donald Trump has been all over the place on the global oil shock created by his war amid Iran’s closing of the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this week...
The global trade crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran may soon become a global food crisis, as farmers facing surging fertilizer...
The highest-ranking U.S. commander in Europe told Congress what has been obvious for decades—that bombing civilians is an evil and inhumane tactic...
The White House is weighing in on the internal affairs of private business—again.
Republican Senator John Cornyn got a firsthand lesson in why the SAVE Act, backed by President Donald Trump, would suppress votes if passed.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice spent weeks emailing its request for Oklahoma’s voter rolls to the wrong email address. Then it sued Oklahoma...
The man accused of stealing sensitive social security data didn’t just potentially commit a massive security breach that could affect millions of...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is demanding that ABC News retract reporting on a potential Iranian retaliatory attack on California...
The Senate passed a landmark housing bill Thursday with a rare show of bipartisan support, but one Democrat still voted “no.”
A former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson was reportedly directly involved in awarding federal funds that ended up with her husband’s...
The White House is taking the current Middle East conflict very seriously.
The Pentagon estimates that it spent more than $11.3 billion in the first week of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran. And every cent of that was...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while...
Iran has systematically destroyed U.S. missile defense systems across the Middle East over the last 13 days, opting to surgically dismantle the eyes...
Donald Trump issued a veiled threat to Iran Thursday, but not one directly related to the war: It concerns their men’s national soccer team.
A 35-year-old rapper turned mayor, Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, looks set to become Nepal’s youngest-ever prime minister. His party,...
Donald Trump is trying to spin skyrocketing oil prices caused by the war in Iran as good for the U.S.
Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.
Having Iranian sleeper cells floating around the country is apparently no big deal to the president.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that his agents will be training with UFC fighters, further solidifying the sport’s connection to the...
Former slumlord President Donald Trump reportedly told speaker Mike Johnson that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing.”