TakeAction Minnesota is 'basically a front group that can get away with doing some things the unions can't,' said Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education.
Iran on Wednesday and Thursday released retaliatory strikes on energy sites in several Gulf countries, following Israel's attack on a major Iranian gas field.
Two years ago, an older driver killed a couple, their toddler and their baby as her vehicle sped through San Francisco. A judge has indicated that he intends to let her avoid prison, home detention and community service.
At the Emergency Hospital, dozens crowded around a thick book to check the names of the victims killed in an airstrike on a rehabilitation center. The UN says over a hundred people were killed.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) Wednesday about his past comments calling him a snake, saying “tell it to my face.” Paul said Mullin has “anger issues” and said the public must be wondering whether the nominee has the temperament to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning on national security threats as the U.S. military operation in Iran nears the three-week mark. The hearing comes a day after Gabbard and Ratcliffe faced tense questioning in the Senate over Operation Epic Fury and how the Trump administration determined Iran posed an imminent threat. The duo largely dodged questions on the action in Iran and to what extent the president was briefed on possible scenarios in the lead-up to the initial Feb. 28 strikes on Tehran. The intelligence chief has also been in the spotlight after Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center,…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will speak to reporters Thursday morning to provide an update on the U.S. military operation in Iran. While President Trump has signaled that Operation Epic Fury has weakened Tehran both economically and militarily, he has stopped short of taking a victory lap. Instead, the Trump administration has not given a clear answer on the imminent threat Iran posed ahead of the initial Feb. 28 strikes or a true timeline on when the operation would end. Senate Republicans late Wednesday defeated a Democratic-sponsored motion to advance a war powers resolution to halt the continued attacks on Iran — a conflict that has caused oil and gas prices to soar. Trump has pressured…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds Pentagon briefing as war with Iran intensifies.
National security officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testify on threats to the US amid the Iran war before the House Select Intelligence Committee. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/464b7y9r
Chris Cuomo begins with a St. Patrick’s Day surprise. The director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, quit over the Iran war and says he believes President Trump was led into the conflict by Israel. Kent’s exit is seen by some as the widening of a divide in the MAGA movement. Will others follow Kent out of the White House? Conservative radio host Ben Ferguson debates the former chief of staff for the Homeland Security Department in Trump’s first administration, Miles Taylor. Israel killed two top defense figures in Tehran in its continued assault on Iranian leadership. Those successes come as Trump spoke out against his NATO allies who have not joined his proposed coalition to protect the Strait of Hormuz, going…