Senate to question Trump intel leaders on Iran war after top official quits in protest

Lawmakers will get to grill President Donald Trump’s top intelligence and spying officials on the Iran war publicly for the first time, just a day after the nation’s top counterterrorism official resigned in protest over the conflict. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency chief … Read more

California GOP launches petition targeting Newsom parole board over sex offenders

EXCLUSIVE: The California Republican Party has launched a new petition dubbed “Stop Gavin’s Predators,” aiming to highlight cases of convicted sex offenders granted parole in the state and the governor-appointed Board of Parole Hearings members involved in those decisions. The website, StopGavinsPredators.com, includes the petition along with information about parole board members and several offenders … Read more

DNI Tulsi Gabbard says Trump acted because he concluded the Iranian regime ‘posed an imminent threat’

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday issued a post on X in which she noted that President Donald Trump targeted Iran based on his conclusion that the regime “posed an imminent threat.” She issued the post in the wake of Joe Kent’s resignation from his role as National Counterterrorism Center director over his … Read more

Trump resurfaces old tweet from intel official who resigned

In the wake of Joe Kent’s resignation from the position of National Counterterrorism Center director over his opposition to the Iran war, President Donald Trump highlighted a years-old tweet in which Kent had urged the president to “wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out.” In the January 2020 post on X, Kent tagged the president and wrote, … Read more

Blue state Dem candidate who made ‘affordability’ a key issue in campaign ripped for charging $13 for water

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., is facing online mockery after his Senate campaign’s election night watch party charged customers exorbitant prices for water, despite claiming to champion affordability issues. Krishnamoorthi, a five-term House lawmaker, narrowly lost to Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton, D-Ill., in a bruising Democratic primary Tuesday night. Krishnamoorthi supporters had to pay nearly $13 … Read more