The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of U.S.-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court […]
Author: Jake Johnson
Republicans Race to Advance Trump’s Federal Reserve Pick
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the […]
US soldier pinched for profiting off Maduro abduction bets
The US Justice Department announced that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis […]
Senate GOP Blocks Sanders Amendment That Would Have Cut Drug Prices by Half
Senate Republicans voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to reject an amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders that aimed to cut US prescription […]
Top Iran diplomat: Deal ‘inches away,’ Trump team sabotaged talks
Iran’s foreign minister said Sunday that the Trump administration’s representatives derailed marathon talks in Pakistan’s capital with maximalist demands, just as the two sides were […]
Iranian American Congresswoman Readies Impeachment Effort Against Hegseth
US Rep. Yassamin Ansari, the lone Iranian American Democrat in Congress, said on Monday that she will soon introduce articles of impeachment against Pentagon Secretary […]
Iran: Trump a ‘supreme war criminal’ if he executes strike threat
Iranian officials on Monday warned US President Donald Trump that his name will be “etched in history as a supreme war criminal” if he follows through with his threat […]
$1.5 trillion Pentagon budget would explode US debt by $7 trillion
The budget document that President Donald Trump’s White House is set to release Friday calls for $1.5 trillion in military spending for the coming fiscal year, an unprecedented sum that—if approved […]
Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi
US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday after reportedly growing frustrated by her failure to pursue his political enemies with sufficient zeal and her handling […]
Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Are Threatening to Shutter Hospitals Across the US
The unprecedented Medicaid cuts that US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans approved last summer are putting hundreds of hospitals across the country at high […]
FT: Hegseth broker tried to invest in weapons just before Iran war
A broker for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly tried to make a “big investment” in a bundle of weapons stocks just weeks before the US […]
Letting Russian tanker through, Trump declares ‘Cuba is finished’
President Donald Trump said Sunday that his administration would let a Russia-owned tanker carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of oil to reach Cuba, loosening the illegal fuel blockade that has intensified the […]