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By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, sending the nomination to the Senate as part of a package that also formally named acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to the permanent Navy post and Heidi Overton to lead the...
By Tommy Flynn
September 15, 2026 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday in Houston that the agency has finalized repeal of most of the Biden administration’s 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants, a move the agency projects will save $310 billion. Zeldin made the...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot handling rules before the Nov. 3 midterms, leaving a nationwide injunction intact less than two months before Election Day. The unsigned order denied the Justice Department’s emergency...
By Tommy Flynn
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican and former majority leader, returned to the Senate floor Monday for the first time in more than three months, arriving in a wheelchair for an evening vote on a federal appeals court nominee. It was his first recorded...
By Tommy Flynn
Vice President JD Vance announced Monday in Kansas City that the Small Business Administration has suspended nearly 870,000 borrowers linked to an estimated $39 billion in suspected fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program,...
By Tommy Flynn
An eight-foot bronze statue of Charlie Kirk, unveiled Thursday at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix to mark one year since his killing, was found Sunday morning smeared with red paint. Phoenix police said calls came in about 8:09 a.m. reporting vandalism at the memorial...
By Tommy Flynn
The National Security Agency is heading into its largest internal overhaul in at least a decade, a redesign built around China and artificial intelligence rather than the directorates that have defined Fort Meade for years. The Washington Post first reported the plan Sunday,...
By Tommy Flynn
House Speaker Mike Johnson spent Sunday explaining a midterm promise the president made last week without clearing it through the people who write spending bills. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump told the hall he would “issue a dividend to...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump used a stop at the Irish Open on Sunday to put a public marker on Ukraine’s campaign against Russian refineries. “Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters at Trump International Golf Links...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to treat a Wall Street Journal account of Chinese satellite support for a deadly Iranian strike as a crisis in the run-up to his Sept. 24 meeting with Xi Jinping. “You know what they say? That China spies on us. I say you’re right, and...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Sunday he will review a request from Sept. 11 families to declassify remaining records that they say may tie hijackers or facilitators to Saudi officials, telling reporters on the Shannon Airport tarmac that he “could be” open to a release after he returns...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump closed a two-day Ireland trip Sunday at his Doonbeg course by announcing he will take U.S. tariffs off Irish whiskey, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure, and saying the United States must stay ahead of...