Mullin replaced President Donald Trump’s first DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, and was an unexpected pick to lead the department given his lack of background on related issues. However, in his two weeks atop the third-largest federal department following Kristi Noem’s ouster, Mullin has begun to take the department in a new...
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Tension over whether or not the two-week ceasefire agreed to by President Donald Trump and Iran’s leadership included an end to Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon has threatened to unravel the delicate pause in hostilities.The United States, Iran, and Pakistan have offered conflicting accounts of what was agreed to...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Iran has signaled a willingness to hand over enriched uranium as part of ongoing negotiations with the United States.Speaking during a White House press conference, Leavitt said stripping Iran of its uranium is “on the top of the priority list” for...
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Vice President JD Vance will lead the U.S. negotiations with Iran in Pakistan this weekend, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed. Leavitt said Wednesday that the negotiating team Trump was dispatching would be led by Vance and include U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced as “false” reports that Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz less than 24 hours after the United States and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal.Iran reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s continued attacks on Hezbollah in...
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday bashed leaks and media reports about the terms of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, as confusion over the agreement threatened to undermine the fragile pause in fighting.In a post on Truth Social, the president said that “Numerous Agreements, Lists, and Letters” being circulated online are being “sent...
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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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