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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s purge of top military lawyers because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to … anything that happens.” Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream brought up the firings, which happened Friday night, in an interview today …

Sen. Susan Collins is “very concerned” about how the Trump administration’s mass firings in the federal government will affect her home state. “I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. …

The Trump administration is ordering immigration agents to find and deport thousands of undocumented immigrant children who came to the U.S. without their parents, Reuters reported, citing an internal government memo. The memo, titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” stated that children would be deported if they have …

A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …

This is an adapted excerpt from the new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. “Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim,” Peter Thiel said, adding, “you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or …

I met Karina on a sunny hillside in Eternal Glory Park in central Kyiv last April. The spring tulips and cherry blossoms that line the park were in full bloom. Ukraine’s omnipresent flowers have a rebellious quality during wartime. We sat to talk as the shouting and honking of a …

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — As the Beatles’ lyric goes: “Everybody had a hard year. Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a wet dream. Everybody saw the sunshine.” The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference held this week just outside of Washington, D.C., was exactly like that, if you’re someone who …

Last summer, Donald Trump gushed to Elon Musk about the billionaire’s propensity for firing people. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said in a conversation with Musk on X, formerly Twitter. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name …

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, …

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is taking a chainsaw to the US government and, at first glance, no one is standing in his way. Musk and his rogue’s gallery of minions are moving fast, dead set on breaking the things that hundreds of millions of people in this country …