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In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure, including voting machines.He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump’s defeat.On social media, Harvilicz has called for doing away with voting machines, saying they are “eminently vulnerable to exploitation.”

Eight of our American service members are dead and more than 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, airmen, and marines. News reports say they’ve been able to hit us with such precision because Russia is using their extraordinary spy satellite, spy plane, and advanced radar capabilities to help Iran’s military.The Washington Post, which first reported on this, quoted a Russian military exper

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, on Saturday appeared to threaten the licenses of broadcasters reporting on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran after the president crafted a lengthy Truth Social post against the “Fake News Media.”Trump, in a post on Saturday, took exception to an “intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about” five tanker planes that were hit in an Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia.The Wall Street Journal reported the story Saturday, citing two U.S. officials.“The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike

President Donald Trump keeps calling the U.S. operation in Iran “a little excursion,” that will keep the United States out of war. But one Marine Corps veteran says it’s clear Trump has no strategy beyond his chaotic messaging as the war in Iran enters its third week.As the Guardian reported Saturday, the Iran war’s “timelines and goals are also continually shifting.” Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “has said it is up to the president ‘whether it�

Senate Republicans are “anxious about the midterms," and “the mood is shifting” among GOP leaders who once assumed they could coast to victory in November, Politico reports.Politico spoke with 10 Republican senators and aides, many of whom "are now openly predicting a tough battle to hold onto control,” thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s policies.Their party is struggling “to keep the focus on affordability policies that lawmakers want to make the centerpiece of their midterm campaign,” Politico explains, as Trump wages an unpopular war in the Middle East

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has no idea he’s President Donald Trump’s “future victim,” British-American journalist Sarah Baxter writes in i Paper.“We are beginning to see in real time what happens when a vain, looksmaxxing US secretary of war encounters death and destruction, and it isn’t pretty,” Baxter wrote Saturday. Looksmaxxing, as the New Yorker puts it, is “the practice of intensively optimizing one's appearance.” And for Baxter, who calls Hegseth a “cartoonish Johnny Bravo lookalike," the Pentagon chief is certainly a follower of the practice.

President Donald Trump’s personal phone number is “for sale to deep-pocket interests seeking influence, two administration officials” told the Atlantic.The stunning report reveals Trump’s personal number is a “hot commodity” as officials tell the Atlantic they’ve “heard of CEOs offering money for his number … [and] crypto bros offering cryptocurrency for it.”According to the At

President Donald Trump’s team “is privately trying to reassure the president that conservatives aren’t abandoning him,” the Wall Street Journal reports, including providing him recent polling data “they say shows the [Iran] war is popular with his supporters.”Still, the Journal notes, “a majority of Americans in polls [oppose] the war” as Trump’s team tries “to make the case that the conflict won’t drag on like the so-called ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.” The Journal notes such an extended conflict is “a red line for many lawma

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm while working as “one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East,” the New York Times reports.According to the Times, who spoke with five people familiar with the discussions, Kushner is trying to raise money for his investment firm Affinity Partners. Representatives form the company “have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investme

The trouble with reprisals is that they never end. The resentment over loss always creates a new target, and retaliation itself spawns another cycle of violence.News that the West Bloomfield, Michigan synagogue was targeted by a naturalized immigrant from Lebanon whose relatives were killed in a recent Israeli air strike felt as inevitable as it does irrational. His truck smashed into a temple where young children were in classes, burst into flames, and the driver apparently killed himself.At Old Dominion University in Virginia, it was