BY JULIA MUELLER AND SARAH FORTINSKY |
© Eric Gay, The Associated Press |
Democrat James Talarico is now staring down the challenge of a tough general election against a still-undecided Republican rival after emerging victorious from his own bruising primary that offered a rare boost to Democrats in a deep red state.
Democratic turnout surged on Tuesday as the 36-year-old rising star's message of faith and economic populism fueled hopes of the party's first statewide flip in decades. Talarico won out on Tuesday over Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who swiftly endorsed him and called for a unified party heading to November.
Now, as the Republican race between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) heads to a May runoff, Talarico is tasked with rallying Crockett's supporters, turning out chronic nonvoters, and reaching across the aisle to stay competitive in November's showdown against whoever wins the GOP nod. |
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BY SARAH FORTINSKY AND JULIA MUELLER |
President Trump on Thursday tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), creating a vacancy in the U.S. Senate and setting off a scramble to replace him.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has 30 days to appoint someone from Mullin's party to temporarily fill the seat after the senator leaves his post, but the appointee must pledge not to run for a full term afterward.
Speculation about the race quickly grew after news of Mullin's selection to Trump's Cabinet, with several top Oklahoma figures rising to the top of the potential list. |
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New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle the issue.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report late last month showed more than 1 in 5 U.S. children and teenagers were obese between 2021 to 2023, compared to only 5.2 percent between 1971-1974. The number of children with severe obesity in recent years has hit 7 percent.
School meals, physical activity and weight loss drugs have all become talking points in the problem, which is a major issue in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement associated with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
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President Trump is facing an economic squeeze as the Iran war drives up oil prices and the U.S. job market sputters.
Friday brought a double dose of bad economic news for Trump: an unexpected loss of jobs in February and another surge in oil prices driven by growing conflict in the Middle East.
Trump and Republicans were already dealing with poor public approval over their handling of the economy before the president's decision to join Israel in war against Iran.
With the war now a week old, the potential costs for the U.S. economy — and the GOP's midterm election hopes — are quickly growing. |
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The U.S. military and its allies across the Middle East are struggling to combat Iran's swarms of cheap attack drones as the war enters its second week.
Pentagon officials this past week reportedly conceded in closed-door briefings with lawmakers that waves of Iranian-launched drones are punching through air defenses, leaving American troops and bases in the Persian Gulf region vulnerable to attacks. Six Americans have already been killed in a drone strike. To combat Iran's Shahed 136 drones — a relatively inexpensive weapon that costs around $20,000 to quickly produce — America's armed forces are bleeding costly Patriot and THAAD interceptors that take years and millions of dollars to build. |
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President Trump on Saturday said attending more dignified transfer proceedings for slain U.S. service members is a "part of war" after attending the dignified transfer of six service members killed in Kuwait following the start of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.
A reporter asked the president while aboard Air Force One if he will attend more of these proceedings. Trump replied, "Sure, I hate to. But it's a part of war, isn't it?" He asked if the reporter thought it was a part of war, and the reporter agreed. "It's a sad part of it," Trump added. "It's the bad part of it." |
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President Trump on Saturday announced a new coalition to counter drug trafficking and cartels during the inaugural "Shield of the Americas" summit in Miami.
"On this historic day, we come together to announce a brand-new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region," Trump said during the event, which convened a range of Latin American leaders and members of his administration, among others. "And you have a lot of it," the president told the heads of state, adding that the U.S. is "knocking the hell out of" the cartels and vowing to "go heavier." |
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned this week that soaring jet fuel prices tied to conflict in the Middle East could soon push airline ticket prices higher.
Kirby, following an event at Harvard University, noted that while the demand for air travel was still strong, the carrier would likely feel a "meaningful" impact on its second-quarter finances due to the recent spike in fuel prices as the Trump administration continues its military operation in Iran. The impact would "probably start quick," Kirby said after being asked when higher fuel costs would likely start affecting airfare prices, according to CNBC. |
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President Trump on Saturday rejected the United Kingdom's reported offer to send two aircraft carriers to the Middle East amid the U.S. conflict with Iran, warning that the U.S. "will remember" — seemingly alluding to the U.K.'s hesitance to get involved in the war.
"The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"That's OK, Prime Minister [Keir] Starmer, we don't need them any longer — But we will remember," he added. "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!" |
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BY JARED HAYDEN AND MICHAEL TOSCANO | OPINION | After decades of inadequate digital safeguards, toothless federal regulation, and little legal recourse, American families may finally witness the most comprehensive update to kids online safety law in decades.
This week, after years of hard work by advocates and lawmakers, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a package of kids online safety legislation to the House floor, and the Senate unanimously passed the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act. If enacted, these bills would strengthen parents' abilities to effectively protect their kids online while also providing the means to hold commercial pornography websites, social media platforms, AI chatbot companies, app stores, app developers, and other entities accountable for failing to protect children. |
OPINION | The Environmental Protection Agency is gaslighting the American public about contamination by PFAS. It claims major progress under a Make America Healthy Again agenda while actively weakening the very protections meant to reduce exposure to these toxic "forever chemicals."
When an agency charged with protecting public health replaces facts with spin, the consequences are real — measured in illness and lost lives. |
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When President Trump issued an abrupt order last month compelling the production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller known as Roundup, he angered health activists who have long campaigned to ban the product for its links to cancer.
But largely overshadowed in the furor was the order's mention of something contentious in another way: the manufacture of munitions used by the United States military. |
BY KARA DAPENA & NEIL MEHTA |
The release of the Epstein files has rippled through politics, business and academics, revealing secret ties that many prominent people kept with Jeffrey Epstein. After their connections became public, many said they regretted associating with Epstein and some have stepped down from their roles. |
As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation but no visible action to support its Middle Eastern ally.
That cautious stance is driven by President Vladimir Putin's focus on Ukraine and his apparent hope that the Iran war will play into Moscow's hands by boosting its oil revenues and eroding Western support for Kyiv. |
BY STEVE HENDRIX & JOHN HUDSON |
For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right, President Donald Trump has been something close to a prophetic fulfillment.
Through five years in the White House, Trump answered some of their biggest prayers. He moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and ripped up the Iran nuclear deal. U.N. funding for Palestinian refugees was gutted. Jewish settlers in the West Bank, once condemned by Washington, are now getting their own U.S. passport office.
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