The White House slammed a Wednesday report by Bloomberg that claimed Iran was a greater risk of obtaining a nuclear weapon than it was before the 2025 strikes destroyed Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Iran is using Lebanon as leverage in peace talks with the U.S., exploiting tensions between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in the process. Trump held two expletive-laden calls with Netanyahu earlier this week, demanding he retreat on a major military offensive in Beirut against Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Trump, speaking with the New…
Donald Trump's imploding festival commemorating America's 250th anniversary has sparked an inquest inside the White House over a 'grossly negligent' decision.
Bill Pulte, President Trump's pick for acting director of national intelligence, is being met with some skepticism on Capitol Hill.
Thousands of Albanians have taken to the streets — and the internet — to rage against a planned luxury resort linked to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, with protesters demanding the government cancel the project and chanting "Ivanka, go home."The flashpoint is a proposed €4 billion ($4.7 billion) development — described by Prime Minister Edi Rama as an "extraordinary investment" — on Sazan Island and the protected Vjosa-Narta coastal wetlands in southern Albania. Ivanka described it in dreamy terms on a recent podcast."It's an unbelievable, beautiful, 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean," she told host David Senra. "We swam to the island, we went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated."She did not mention the protests.On the ground in Albania, the mood was rather less romantic. Anadolu Agency reported thousands gathering in Tirana under the slogan "Albania is not for sale." TV Klan presenter Leftioni Peristere flagged AFP wire coverage of the demonstrations, which have now stretched into a fourth consecutive day — with police firing water cannons at crowds that included children.One Albanian, posting a video of the country's stunning Adriatic coastline, put the stakes simply: "Do you know what we are protesting for?"Another, in a widely shared video, was blunter. "All the blood, sweat, and tears that our people and ancestors have fought for is being sold by a leader who has betrayed us," he said, calling out Prime Minister Edi Rama by name.Protest crowds have echoed that sentiment, chanting "Thieves!" and demanding Rama's arrest by SPAK — Albania's Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutors, who opened a formal investigation into the project this week.Ivanka told Senra the resort is "the culmination of all of my experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people increasingly want to live."Albanians, it seems, have thoughts about that too.
Bipartisan pressure is keeping the war alive.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said he once told Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte, who President Trump recently tapped to serve as acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), that he “was going to kick his a–.” Bessent made the remark while testifying before the Senate…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio grew visibly annoyed with the Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee during his Wednesday testimony, openly voicing his exasperation in several exchanges. Rubio appeared before the committee to provide updates on the war with Iran and other foreign policy developments. Nearly every exchange with Democrats was hostile, but one […]
Rubio offered more information than the president, but the hearings still offered little clarity on the war.