The Department of Homeland Security used the budget proposal to begin advocating the privatization of the TSA, which former President George W. Bush established as a national security measure after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. In a new document from DHS, the agency detailed...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is holding her first press conference since the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire.President Donald Trump announced the deal before his 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline that would have presumably seen the U.S. escalate its war with the Islamic regime. Because of...
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First lady Melania Trump highlighted on Tuesday the first arrest tied to a law she championed targeting cyberstalking, threats of violence, and non-consensual explicit content generated using artificial intelligence.James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a series of cybercrimes involving both authentic and AI-generated sexually explicit...
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Vice President JD Vance warned that the recently negotiated two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was a “fragile truce,” while speaking in Hungary.“The United States agreed to stop attacking, and that not just the United States, but also our allies, have agreed to stop attacking, and that is...
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President Donald Trump announced 50% tariffs on any country supplying weapons to Iran in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning. “A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately,” Trump wrote....
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President Donald Trump released new details about the two-week ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran on Wednesday, insisting that Tehran will no longer pursue uranium enrichment.“There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply...
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President Donald Trump said authorities are investigating a CNN report that cited Iran‘s claim of victory in its war with the United States and Israel.The White House pointed to an article about Tuesday’s two-week ceasefire agreement on CNN’s live blog titled “Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept...
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President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to annihilate Iran on Tuesday, saying negotiations between the United States and Tehran would continue on how to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and...
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President Donald Trump plays many roles as commander-in-chief, but in the last few days his effectiveness as a crisis communicator during the Iran war has come under scrutiny.Trump threatened Tuesday morning that Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” absent a deal. This followed an Easter Truth Social post warning “Tuesday...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on blast in a new campaign ad. The ad used artificial intelligence to show the senator sitting on the beach and going down a water slide on spring break. “President Trump is fighting to protect our nation and stop...
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The calls come after Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday that Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal with the United States. Trump previously set a Tuesday 8 p.m. EDT deadline by which Iran must agree to a...
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President Donald Trump imposed an 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday deadline for Iran to agree to a peace deal and open the Strait of Hormuz. And if there is no deal, the president threatened “complete demolition” of Iranian power plants and infrastructure. As the war enters its 38th day, a familiar question...
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