Live updates: Trump warns 'a whole civilization' could die in Iran; US strikes Kharg Island

Iran’s representative at the United Nations is vowing a “proportionate” response if President Donald Trump follows through on his threats to destroy the country’s power plants. At a Security Council session on the Strait of Hormuz blockade, Amir-Saeid Iravani, Tehran’s representative at the U.N., decried Trump’s Truth Social post saying a “whole civilization will die” […]

An appeals court hearing in the legal fight by environmental activists to shutter the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility turned into a battle on Tuesday over who controls the facility: the state or the federal government. The lawsuit, filed by Friends of the Everglades, claims that the construction of the immigration detention facility on the […]

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has requested a transcribed interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the committee has asked Gates to appear for the interview on June 10 […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on blast in a new campaign ad. The ad used artificial intelligence to show the senator sitting on the beach and going down a water slide on spring break. “President Trump is fighting to protect our nation and stop illegals from voting, but his […]