Lawmakers are anxious that the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran may not hold, but many are not ready to call for regime change in the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a truce, but as the evening carried into the wee hours of Tuesday morning, whether that peace would last ...
Hours after President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, the fragile agreement nearly collapsed as hostilities flared before the truce took effect. Despite the president’s announcement, Israel continued its military campaign — launching attacks before the ceasefire’s scheduled start 12 hours later. Iran retaliated with a deadly rocket barrage on a hospital in Be’er Sheva, killing at ...
Thomas A. Berry The Trump administration has taken actions to withhold billions of dollars in contracts from Harvard University unless the institution both adopts governance structures approved by the administration and engages in affirmative efforts to promote underrepresented conservative viewpoints on campus. Harvard has now sued the Trump administration, arguing that these conditions violate the First Amendment (among other claims). ...
Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman are selling off UK properties and scaling back their presence in Britain, amid reports they are planning a new life in Miami. The couple — at the centre of an ongoing High Court case over a controversial PPE contract during the Covid-19 pandemic — have offloaded several high-profile assets in recent months, ...
The UK’s services sector returned to modest growth in June, defying broader economic concerns and offering a glimmer of hope amid a backdrop of rising taxes, falling employment and geopolitical instability. According to S&P Global’s latest flash purchasing managers’ index (PMI), business activity reached a three-month high, with the composite index rising to 50.7 from 50.3 in May. Any figure ...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has bowed out of the race to become the top Democrat on a key committee that is currently probing former President Joe Biden’s alleged mental decline. Democratic firebrand Crockett was gunning to become the next ranking member, a title given to the senior member of the minority party, on the House Oversight Committee. ‘It was clear ...
The Trump administration’s successful surprise strikes on Iran on Saturday night were executed without issue after the National Security Council saw massive overhauls earlier in 2025, and the national security advisor was replaced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to fulfill an additional job role that critics said would likely end in failure. President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement ...
President Donald Trump, fresh off announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, is off to The Hague, Netherlands for the yearly summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a conference where he’s hoping to drum up another foreign policy win by pushing European leaders to increase defense spending. The president is expected to land in the Netherlands on Tuesday ...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called the prospect of caucusing with Democrats an ‘interesting hypothetical,’ but she fell short of fully committing to doing so if the Democrats pick up three seats in the 2027 midterms. ‘It’s an interesting hypothetical,’ Murkowski said on the ‘GD Politics’ podcast with Galen Druke. ‘You started off with the right hook here, is if this ...
A growing number of business owners are turning to employee ownership trusts (EOTs) to sell their companies tax-free, as changes to capital gains tax (CGT) rules and rising national insurance costs prompt entrepreneurs to seek more efficient exit strategies. New figures reveal that applications to set up EOTs — the model famously used by John Lewis — jumped 40 per ...