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Some contractors working with the Department of Homeland Security have told the Trump administration that they had been asked to pay Corey Lewandowski, a close ally of the president. NBC News’ Julia Ainsley has details on Lewandowski’s influence over the contracting process as an unpaid “special government employee.”

The US president wanted an easy win, but the conflict is spiralling following Israel’s attack on a gas field and Iranian retaliation across the region Shortly after the US and Israel began their illegal assault on Iran, with the US president still preening himself over the kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro the previous month, a … Read more

Trump invoked Japan’s December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor when speaking about recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran during a meeting with Japan’s prime minister.

Conservatives celebrated Tuesday after a federal appeals court denied California’s request to narrow a Supreme Court ruling on transgender policies, two weeks after the high court dealt the state a major blow in the same case. “California has now lost at the district court, lost at the Supreme Court, and been turned away by the … Read more

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in his patented off-the-cuff, southern style, urged the “smart lawyers” in Congress and beyond to rework the SAVE America Act to pass Senate parliamentarian “muster,” so it can move to law with a simple budget reconciliation majority. “You don’t know till you try, and we haven’t tried,” Kennedy said Wednesday night … Read more

Epstein survivors previously accused Darren Indyke, co-executor of Epstein estate, of helping ‘facilitate’ his crimes Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime lawyer, told US House lawmakers on Thursday that he “had no knowledge whatsoever of Jeffrey Epstein’s wrongdoings” during his employment. … Read more

When asked by a reporter about why the U.S. didn’t share their Iran war plans with Japan, President Donald Trump said it was necessary for the element of surprise. The president followed this with a joke, saying, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

During a meeting with the prime minister of Japan, President Trump said he was “not putting troops” in Iran and that he thought the economic impact of the conflict would have been worse than it has been.

FIRST ON FOX: Top Democratic candidate James Talarico, who is running for U.S. Senate in Texas, is facing criticism for suggesting concerns about biological males in girls’ sports are a “far-right conspiracy.” Since rising to the national stage, Talarico, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, has faced intense criticism for his history of … Read more

Nellie Pou’s bill follows refusal of ICE chief Todd Lyons to rule out enforcement near stadiums and fan festivals A New Jersey congresswoman introduced legislation on Thursday to block immigration enforcement from conducting raids within a mile of a Fifa World Cup soccer match or fan festival in the US this summer. The Save the … Read more