The hearing follows a marathon session in the House, where the defense secretary clashed with Democrats over the conflict and his purge of top military leaders.
A new poll from Reuters and IPSOS shows that 61% of Americans say the economy is on the wrong track, marking a 43% jump since January 2025. This comes as the U.S. Department of Commerce prepares to release its first economic report card of 2026 on Thursday. NewsNation’s Alicia Nieves joins “Morning in America” with the latest. Start your day with "Morning in America," NewsNation's live three-hour national morning newscast hosted by Markie Martin. Weekdays starting at 6a/5C. #MorningInAmerica NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is back on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on President Trump's $1.5 trillion defense budget and the administration's operation in Iran and blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. The hearing comes a day after he faced heat in the House over the Middle [...]
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the White House for a farewell ceremony on Thursday morning.
"200 farmers in our organization that have received loan acceleration foreclosure letters from USDA," John Boyd Jr. said.
The 2026 midterms are expected to have fewer competitive House districts than past elections, and the Supreme Court just blessed a redistricting war that will only squeeze races further. Why it matters: That means more often the real race happens in primaries, which cater to a party's most devout members and not the electorate at large. - "It means that elections are just no longer really a barometer of how how the public feels about politics," says Robert Boatright, a political science professor at Clark University who studies presidential primaries. What they're saying: Nick Troiano, the executive director of election reform group Unite America , tells Axios that the midterm elections "will be the least competitive elections of our…
A recent Gallup survey shows that the top financial concern for most Americans is the high cost of living, followed by energy costs, the cost […] Source
Graduates from classes that had just one more racial minority student earned up to 3 percent more, according to research in the journal Nature.
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn joined “Wake Up America” to discuss the plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.