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The Pentagon apparently shut out photographers from attending press briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff decided recent photos of him were "unflattering," The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The images from the March 2 briefing came after...
The Department of War is reportedly so mad about some pictures taken of Pete Hegseth that officials have told several photographers not to come back to the Pentagon.
Baptist Health fires nurse after making a controversial TikTok clip wishing a "fourth-degree tear" on Karoline Leavitt during childbirth. Hospital condemns unprofessionalism amid social media backlash.
President Donald Trump insisted he had the answer for Republicans anxious about losing their congressional majority this year. He encouraged the party to build on an already strict national voter identification law to ban mail ballots and restrict transgender rights.
"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger." - James Baldwin An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one
Top Indiana Republicans are formalizing ties between their state offices and the conservative activist group Turning Point USA.
Edita Gzoyan told JD Vance about massacres of Armenians by Azerbaijanis and gave him a book on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Supreme Court ruled against California’s gender secrecy policy, exposing how Democrats still back the same woke agenda voters rejected
The liberal justice said that emergency rulings were "not serving this country well."
Trump has made the SAVE America Act his top priority. He also routinely misstates what's in it.
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Scott MacFarlane, who closely covered the Capitol insurrection, announced his departure from the news network run by Bari Weiss.