Mullin faces Senate panel for DHS confirmation hearing: What to watch

The arrival of President Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio changes everything.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday’s overnight strikes in Tehran also took out Iran’s intelligence minister. Iran has yet to confirm Esmail Khatib’s death, which would mark the third killing of a high-ranked official in the Middle East nation in the latest attacks. The regime confirmed on Tuesday that Ali Larijani, the secretary of...

Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is aiming for a third term and will take on Republican Darren Bailey in November. Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton won the Democratic Senate Primary and will face Republican attorney Don Tracy in the general election to succeed retiring Democratic Senator Dick Durbin.

The U.S. military dropped multiple 5,000-pound deep-penetrator bombs on “hardened” Iranian anti-ship missile sites on Tuesday along the country’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz.  “The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait,” the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said. The employment of the munitions, known as Coastal...