FBI Director Kash Patel is tackling China’s influence on American farmlands head-on, as both a food supply and national security concern.  Patel’s early focus on Chinese influence over American land — particularly farmland near sensitive sites — reflects a broader second-term push by the Trump administration to confront the Chinese Communist Party’s presence on U.S. […]Read More

Whether Russia is ‘serious’ about achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine should become apparent in a ‘matter of weeks,’ Secretary of State Macro Rubio told reporters Friday. ‘The Russians know our position in terms of wanting to end the war, and we will know from their answers very soon whether they are serious about proceeding with […]Read More

President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), a high-level move driven by mounting pressure from conservative allies to purge officials they view as insufficiently loyal to the president’s ‘America First’ agenda. Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Wendy Noble were let go from their roles as director and deputy […]Read More

President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), a high-level move driven by mounting pressure from conservative allies to purge officials they view as insufficiently loyal to the president’s ‘America First’ agenda. Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Wendy Noble were let go from their roles as director and deputy […]Read More

A key moderate Democrat is warning his party they are heading the ‘wrong’ way on trade. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was one of the few Democrats to express some optimism at President Donald Trump’s support for tariffs, specifically his move to add a 10% baseline duty to all U.S. imports.  Golden noted in a brief […]Read More

A key moderate Democrat is warning his party they are heading the ‘wrong’ way on trade. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was one of the few Democrats to express some optimism at President Donald Trump’s support for tariffs, specifically his move to add a 10% baseline duty to all U.S. imports.  Golden noted in a brief […]Read More

Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country’s nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations. ‘The president should be making the regime sweat, pure and simple,’ Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the […]Read More

The Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would have blocked the Trump administration’s planned $8.8 billion arms sale to Israel.  Sanders’ proposal was split into two votes, each of which failed, with 15 senators voting for the measure. Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, […]Read More

The Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would have blocked the Trump administration’s planned $8.8 billion arms sale to Israel.  Sanders’ proposal was split into two votes, each of which failed, with 15 senators voting for the measure. Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, […]Read More