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U.S. President Donald Trump is drawing criticism from both Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, including Charlie Sykes and former GOP strategist Tim Miller, in response to a threat against Iran that they say went way too far.Trump, in a Tuesday morning, April 7 post on his Truth Social platform, posted, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS

President Donald Trump is still pushing to build his own version of France's Arc de Triomphe in Washington D.C., and he may have found some cash to do it.NOTUS reported on Tuesday that Trump has decided to take $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities to use for his own purposes The president shared his plans with the Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday, and among the demands was $2 million for the Trump arch, as well as with $13 million in matching grants. The spending plan is the first

In 2026 alone, the United States has faced two partial shutdowns of the federal government: a brief shutdown in late January/early February, and a much longer one that has been going on since Valentine's Day. Both of them followed an October/November 2025 shutdown.The current shutdown involves funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Many Democratic lawmakers are happy to fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) but not U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), both of which fall under the DHS umbrella.But the clashes over DHS funding within Congress go beyond Democrats versus Republicans. In an

With a cost-of-living crisis raging, Fox News has shared a grim set of numbers: “A pound of ground beef now costs more than the minimum wage,” said a surprised Stuart Varney. “What does that say about the economy?”Skyrocketing gas prices due to the conflict in Iran, along with tariffs and other market pressures, have pushed costs ever higher, to the point where even Fox can’t ignore the precarious economy. “The minimum wage hasn’t changed in 17 years, and it’s $7.25,” explained Varney’s guest. He noted that when the minimum wage was raised to its current level in 2009, ground beef cost around $2.20 per pound. �

Marine veteran Mark Glesne explained to CNN that the war in Iran is justifiable in Christianity and that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a Christian Nationalist, is right to promote it as such as a U.S. official. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to kill "a whole civilization," Glesne cited Romans 13. According to Glesne, it says, while Christians are called not to personal revenge,

With U.S. President Donald Trump doubling down on his threat to bomb Iranian power plants, opponents of his war are warning that the Iranian government would likely respond to such attacks by escalating its strikes on U.S. installations in the Middle East. Those opponents are pointing out that a prolonged war in that part of the world will have dire economic consequences, leading to even higher oil prices and — as a result — higher prices for a wide range of goods.On his Truth Social platform, Trum

The conduct and consequences of the war on Iran have prompted many loyalists of President Donald Trump to question or even withdraw their support, but his post on Tuesday was the last straw for some of his remaining backers. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump posted. “I don’t want that to ⁠happen, but it probably will.”This is, “most certainly not what I voted for or intended for when I donated 12.8 bitcoin to Trump's team,” tweeted crypto investor Gary Cardone in response. He went on to explain that while his intentions were to “drain

In early April, lawyers from the Justice Department declared that laws preventing the president from keeping official documents were “unconstitutional.” But according to a new lawsuit filed against the White House, this policy poses the "substantial likelihood" that President Donald Trump "will keep or destroy numerous records after his term in office."Filed by the American Historical Association and American Oversight, the suit intends to “stop the unconstitutional actions of the government, ensure the President and his admi

Back in 1987 — the year "The Art of the Deal" came out — Donald Trump sat down for an interview with the late ABC News journalist Barbara Walters. Trump, now 79, was in his early forties at the time, and his first presidential run (a short-lived Reform Party campaign in 2000) was 13 years away. But Trump had a lot to say about politics, including foreign policy. And according to Salon's Heather Digby Parton, Trump revealed, during that interview almost 40 years ago, what he had in mind for Iran."Much has been said over the past few weeks about what motivated Donald Trump to go to war with Iran," Parton explains in a

President Donald Trump is leading the Democrats to victory in North Carolina, CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported on Tuesday. While it's election day in states like Georgia and Wisconsin, North Carolina is growing increasingly likely to flip a U.S. Senate seat due to Trump's unpopular war with Iran. Analysts expect the House of Representatives to flip to Democratic Control, but there are now growing reports that Republicans might lose the Senate as well. "So you want to talk about a state that Donald Trump has won three times? Three times. But it looks to me that Roy Cooper, the former governor of the great state of North Ca