Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick triggered outrage Thursday after he publicly apologized for falsely claiming this week no Americans had died in the Iran war. Lutnick claimed that during an on-air interview Wednesday he had confused the Iran conflict, which has claimed 18 service members’ lives, wi…
Billionaire investor Leon Black has filed a lawsuit to avoid House lawmakers investigating Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report.Black filed suit against the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, seeking to block the panel from obtaining his “non-disclosure agreements and testimony” as part of…
President Donald Trump’s endorsement of a scandal-plagued would-be senator has earned him a cold shoulder from the Republican Party, according to a new report.Conservative journalist David Drucker of The Dispatch said Thursday that Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton should not expect to see…
A career official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement blew the whistle on the agency’s problematic hiring practices and found himself interrogated and sidelined for 10 months, according to a new report.The former unit chief – who voted for President Donald Trump in both 2020 and 2024 – faced retr…
President Donald Trump made the unusual move of publicly correcting his own commerce secretary after he claimed no Americans had died in the Iran war, a conflict that has killed 18 U.S. service members.The correction came in a Truth Social post published about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Commerce Secretary …
President Donald Trump’s administration is facing backlash after quietly loosening the rules around a genetically engineered tree — and, internal documents suggest, may have already broken its own containment rules doing so.The controversy traces to April, when the administration planted two genetic…
Dozens of Proud Boys showed up at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting in North Carolina over the weekend in a play for relevance by an aging fascist street gang amid a right-wing backlash against socialism as the GOP braces for heavy losses in the midterm elections.An estimated 51 members of …
CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss wanted an even more “sensationalized” headline on the story tying Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to Sept. 11, staffers told Zeteo on Thursday.Three CBS sources described that push to Zeteo media columnist Justin Baragona, who reported Thursday that t…
Pentagon leaders have delivered unwelcome news to the families of soldiers deployed to the Middle East.The Defense Department is quietly extending troop deployments for another year – or longer – amid a six-month-old U.S. military campaign against Iran, even though Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pro…
President Donald Trump erupted the moment an aide handed him a printout of billionaire Elon Musk’s post claiming he was in the Epstein files, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said.Cruz described the scene during an interview published Wednesday on the PBD Podcast, hosted by Patrick Bet-David. The Texas Republic…