“Great optics if you want to ignite a revolution,” remarked one observer. Dozens of peaceful protesters including people in wheelchairs were arrested inside a U.S. Senate building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday while protesting Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid spending in the budget reconciliation package facing votes on Capitol Hill in the coming days. The […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Representative Mark Messmer (R-Ind.)— members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees—hosted a press conference today with their colleagues announcing the introduction of their legislation, the Ground and Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile Engagements (GOLDEN DOME) Act. The GOLDEN DOME […]
“The IAEA, which did not even formally condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, has put its international credibility up for sale,” said Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The Iranian parliament approved a bill Wednesday suspending its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The resolution states that weapons inspectors with the United […]
An expert at the Federation of American Scientists warned that “radioactive fallout would be intense” if the U.S. deployed a penetrator nuke. The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump has not ruled out dropping a nuclear weapon on Iran as he considers options for joining Israel’s escalating and increasingly deadly war. An unnamed Trump administration […]