The gunfire outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had barely faded when the administration chose its target: not the suspect in custody, but the political opposition. Within 24 hours of the April 25, 2026, shooting that sent President Trump sprinting for cover at the Washington Hilton, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stood at the…

Less than 24 hours after being rushed off a Washington ballroom stage under Secret Service protection, Donald Trump did not project shock, grief, or restraint. He projected defiance — and then canceled peace talks. Standing before reporters and appearing on CBS’s 60 Minutes the morning after a gunman opened fire outside the annual White House…

In a landmark shift, the Trump administration has moved state-licensed medical marijuana out of the same federal category as heroin — and the ripple effects are already being felt from Washington state medical license holders to New York and beyond. On April 22, 2026, President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed…

The clock is ticking on one of India’s most strategically sensitive overseas investments. With a critical us sanctions waiver set to expire on April 26, 2026, New Delhi is reportedly weighing a temporary transfer of its operational stake in iran’s chabahar port to a local Iranian entity — a carefully calibrated maneuver designed to limit…

As the Iran energy crisis chokes off a fifth of the world’s oil supply, America’s record-breaking production is the lifeline the globe didn’t plan for — but desperately needs. For years, critics mocked President Donald Trump’s mantra of “energy dominance” as political theatre. Today, with the Strait of Hormuz effectively sealed shut and global oil…

A new poll puts Trump’s approval at 37% — his lowest of the second term. The twin drivers are unmistakable: the Iran war that never ended and an economy that never recovered from it. The midterms are six months away. The ceasefire just collapsed. And the voters who built his coalition are now the ones…

The first time Donald Trump declared victory in the Iran war, the conflict was roughly one hour old. He has not stopped declaring it since. Axios counted at least twelve separate occasions between late February and late April on which Trump publicly signaled the Iran war was ending, had ended, or was moments from ending.…

John Yep helped elect Donald Trump. He ran Catholics for Catholics, one of the most active conservative Catholic organizations in the 2024 campaign, and he delivered. Trump won 55% of the Catholic vote that November — a 12-point margin over Kamala Harris, with white Catholics breaking for him at nearly 60%. Yep was part of…

In February, the Pentagon declared Anthropic a national security threat — the first American company in history to receive that designation. In April, the White House Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary sat down with its CEO and called it “productive.” The model that changed everything is called Mythos. And it found zero-day vulnerabilities in…