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President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening said Iran released a U.S. citizen it has held for nearly two years, a development that could signal positive momentum in peace negotiations between Tehran and Washington.The president did not name the woman but said she had been “wrongfully detained” since December 2024, when... Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that veterans who have driven “heavy trucks” for the military will be automatically eligible for a commercial driver’s license, stating that they will replace illegal truck drivers being taken off the roads.The president revealed the development at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, where... Read more

Vice President JD Vance said people “lost their minds” over UFC fighter Josh Hokit calling former first lady Michelle Obama “a man” at the White House fight last month, arguing the reaction was “totally disproportionate.” The comment was brought up when Joe Rogan asked Vance on his podcast, The Joe Rogan... Read more

Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration botched how it released the Epstein files, conceding what was widely viewed as a public relations disaster for the White House. Vance waded into the Jeffrey Epstein case during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast released Wednesday, referencing then-Attorney General Pam Bondi’s... Read more

Vice President JD Vance said that online influencers, allegedly paid to criticize his efforts to negotiate peace with Iran, should “go to hell.”Vance sat for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump reinstated coordinated airstrikes against Iran.During the interview, the vice president, tasked... Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday will attend the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle and deliver an address at 3:15 p.m.The conference was organized by Sen. David McCormick (R-PA) and began Tuesday with ZeroEyes, an AI weapons detection platform, announcing a $10 million investment in artificial intelligence research and... Read more

Second lady Usha Vance is offering students a new incentive to pick up a book this summer, unveiling a prize website Wednesday for children who complete her 2026 summer reading challenge.This is the second year of Vance’s summer reading challenge, and now students have an “expanded prize selection” to choose... Read more

President Donald Trump remains low in new approval ratings, with only 37% of people saying they approve of his job performance in his second term so far.The latest Economist/YouGov poll, with more than 1,600 respondents between July 10 and 13, comes as the war in Iran continues with no end... Read more

Former President Joe Biden announced the release of his new memoir, Promise Me, America, which is slated to hit shelves on Nov. 17, two weeks after the midterm elections.Memoirs have become a signature move for presidents after they leave office, providing both a lucrative source of income and a chance... Read more

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he doesn’t want to see the end of vehicle stops conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after they were reportedly halted by the agency yesterday in response to multiple fatal officer-involved shootings.The Department of Homeland Security shifted a key part of its immigration policy... Read more

President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Thursday to make the case for new election integrity measures, an issue central to his political movement since he alleged the 2020 White House contest was stolen by Democrats and former President Joe Biden.Trump offered few details about his surprise address to the... Read more

The Trump administration is ramping up enforcement against individuals who take part in “birth tourism,” which involves traveling to the United States for the sole purpose of having a baby on U.S. soil and automatically receiving U.S. citizenship for the child.The crackdown follows a ruling in the Supreme Court earlier... Read more