Secretary of Energy Chris Wright was caught off guard Wednesday when he learned about President Trump’s statements earlier in the day about inflation and a “secret mission” on oil amid the war in Iran.
Democratic Representative Emilia Sykes grilled Wright during his testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, asking him if he loves inflation. Dumbfounded, Wright said…
Pakistan has carried out strikes on terrorist hideouts along its border with Afghanistan and killed 26 terrorists, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday.
“In the aftermath of recent terrorist incidents in Pakistan […] precise and calibrated strikes were carried out along Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas on hideouts and safe havens of masterminds and planners belonging to…
Asked whether he thought the Los Angeles mayoral election was rigged, House Speaker Mike Johnson did what he does best: steer away from facts and embrace nebulous speculation.
“I’m not saying it’s rigged, I’m saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that,” Johnson said to a gaggle of reporters Monday evening. “Let’s remove the appearance of impropriety—what a concept. Let’s have…
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Senator Rubina Khalid on Monday urged those whose words may have hurt BISP beneficiaries’ sentiments to apologise.
While she did not specifically name anyone, the senator said this during a press conference in Islamabad after mentioning remarks by Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah.
Speaking on _Geo News_ ’ programme…
The title of Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel, _The Wizard of the Kremlin,_ knowingly evokes vividly Technicolored Hollywood fantasies: There’s no place like Motherland; please pay attention to the man behind the (Iron) curtain. An Italian Swiss think-tanker, essayist, and high-end political adviser, da Empoli is fascinated by Machiavellian machinations. The book’s protagonist, Vadim Baranov, is a…
Netanyahu is dead set on war and Trump seems incapable of stopping him. Plus, why Albanians are pissed at the Trump family and the latest on Ebola.
Regime officials never meant what they said about occupying the nation's capital
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday refuted reports that Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar shared any intelligence regarding Iran’s nuclear programme during a meeting with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Dar met with Rubio on May 29 during a brief visit to Washington, where the two discussed bilateral cooperation as well as regional security issues. Rubio had…
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday refuted reports that Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar shared any information regarding Iran’s nuclear programme during a meeting with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Dar met with Rubio on May 29 during a brief visit to Washington, where the two discussed bilateral cooperation as well as regional security issues. Rubio had…
At the beginning of 2025, Jonathan Gavalas seemed like a normal, well-adjusted 36-year-old, working at his father’s consumer debt relief business in Florida. By October, he had taken his own life, directly after attempting a mass casualty attack on Miami International Airport.
Gavalas was not recruited by a terrorist cell, nor was he radicalized on fringe internet forums to carry out a lone-wolf…
Plus, a New York law targeting “ghost guns.”
Plus, a New York law targeting “ghost guns.”
GILGIT: Seven people went missing after a tourist jeep on its way to Fairy Meadows in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan fell into a ravine and was swept away in Tattu Nullah on Monday.
According to the spokesperson for the GB police, the accident occurred at around 3pm on Tattu Raikot Road.
According to initial reports, all six tourists in the vehicle, as well as its driver, are still…
Iran on Monday suspended all peace talks with the U.S., just hours after President Trump claimed Iran “really wants to make a deal.”
Tehran placed the blame on Israel, which it said violated the trifold ceasefire agreement when Israeli troops captured Beaufort Castle, a twelfth-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon, over the weekend.
Israel previously used the castle, also known as…
The war in Iran has not been the unequivocal success that Donald Trump has claimed it to be.
Tehran has damaged at least 20 regional U.S. military sites since the war began in late February, according to satellite imagery reviewed by the BBC. The damages have destroyed air defense systems, radars, and aerial refueling planes, costing the U.S. millions of dollars.
The Pentagon, on the other…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Saturday wrote to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan, urging immediate judicial intervention to ensure transparency in the upcoming GB elections amid what he described as an “alarming” deterioration in the electoral environment.
The move came amid a series of reported incidents involving PTI leaders during the…
Donald Trump’s repeated aggression toward Greenland could soon expand the European Union’s membership.
Denizens of Greenland’s closest neighbor, Iceland, are currently weighing the possibility of joining the continental alliance, The New York Times reported Friday.
“The Greenland crisis definitely hit a nerve,” Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told the _Times_ in February, in an interview…
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller falsely claimed that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was transgender during a heated online exchange on Tuesday, as Republicans escalated anti-LGBTQ+ attacks against the Democrat.
The exchange began after the Democratic National Committee promoted Talarico on its official X account following Texas Republican voters’ decision to nominate…
LAHORE: Actor and model Momina Iqbal on Friday filed an application with Chung Police for the registration of a first information report against a PML-N MPA Saqib Chadhar, levelling serious allegations of blackmail, harassment and death threats.
In her application, she alleged that the PML-N MPA had been making threatening calls to harass her and her fiance.
Momina claimed that the lawmaker…
Republicans are going all out to convince the American people that President Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for his MAGA allies is actually a good thing.
Representative James Comer proclaimed that there’s a “need” for the slush fund.
“The things they tried to convict him of—it was a joke,” he said Friday. “So I think that there is a need for it. What the president needs to do…
In mid-May, around two weeks before the Texas Republicans’ Senate primary runoff election, state Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped yet another ad smearing his opponent, incumbent John Cornyn, for having “turned his back on President Trump.” Accompanied by a cinematic score, replete with intense, brassy blasts (BRAAAM!), the ad spliced together Cornyn admitting “the idea of a [border] wall is…
The White House is replacing a space known for protests with a parking lot for a month of major national events—including Donald Trump’s birthday.
Over the weekend, a pedestrianized stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Lafayette Square Park was painted with yellow lines denoting parking spaces. The area has served as a viewing spot for tourists and a gathering place for…
A case for positive language
Nate Blouin said that hiding the fact that he is a progressive Democrat to appear more moderate in Utah’s 1st Congressional District race isn’t what Utahns need — or want.
In a conversation with controversial online streamer Hasan Piker, Blouin said that voters want someone who doesn’t change their politics to match constituents — but they instead, “should be electing people who are, you know,…
On immigration, Luxon said New Zealand should learn from what he described as “failed” policies in Europe and North America.
Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have been named by a top White House official as potential targets for the Trump administration’s counterterrorism strategy.
During an interview with Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow last week, Sebastian Gorka, the pugnacious far-right influencer angling to be the next head of the National Counterterrorism Center, was asked whether he considered right-wing…
Cycling’s most famous pig disappeared from the podium this year – and nobody seemed keen to explain why.
President Donald Trump accidentally just handed Democrats another sound bite they can use to destroy him.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly was asked to explain Trump’s thinking about high energy prices.
Kelly claimed Trump was “clear-eyed” about the rising gas prices, adding that Iran had been “incredibly decimated” militarily and “totally crippled”…
The Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday that the Afghan chargé d’affaires was summoned and handed a “strong demarche” over the suicide attack in Bannu, which claimed the lives of 15 police personnel.
In a statement, the FO said, “The Afghan chargé d’affaires was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to deliver a strong demarche regarding the cowardly vehicle-borne improvised explosive…
We're only four months out from the launch of Apple's premium next-generation smartphone lineup, and while we're not expecting a sea change in terms of functionality, there are still several enhancements rumored to be coming to the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max.
One thing worth noting is that Apple is reportedly planning a major change to its iPhone release cycle this year, adopting a…