August 19, 2025
Trump moves to broker Putin-Zelenskyy meeting following DC peace talks
President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House, to begin coordinating next steps in the peace process aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The president posted on his Truth Social platform Monday evening saying that he […]
August 18, 2025
Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director alongside Bongino
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau, Fox News Digital has learned. Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Fox News Digital has learned. ‘I am thrilled to welcome Andrew Bailey as […]
August 18, 2025
Comer, Crockett clash over Barr’s Epstein testimony as ex-Trump AG ends four-hour House grilling
Former Attorney General Bill Barr’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee wrapped after over four hours on Monday, and lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle had very different interpretations of how it went. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., who represented committee Democrats during the staff-led sit-down, said they were left […]
August 18, 2025
Trump: Europe will ‘take a lot of the burden’ in providing security guarantees for Ukraine
President Donald Trump predicted Monday that European allies would bear the brunt of responsibility providing Ukraine certain security guarantees to prevent Russian aggression, but that the U.S. would also help them. Trump’s comments come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, along with other European leaders, visited Washington, D.C., to advance peace talks to end the war […]
August 18, 2025
Trump DOJ handing Epstein documents to House Oversight Committee on Friday as subpoena deadline looms
The Trump administration will begin handing over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case to the House Oversight Committee on Friday, Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said. House investigators originally requested the Department of Justice (DOJ) produce a tranche of files pertaining to the late pedophile and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, by 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. […]
August 18, 2025
Russian drone strikes kill 7 in Kharkiv during Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump
Just as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, D.C., to meet President Donald Trump at the White House, Russia routed his nation with airstrikes on Monday, killing 10. Seven people, including a toddler and a 16-year-old, were killed by a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to local authorities. Ukrainian […]
August 18, 2025
Bill Barr testifies he didn’t see info that would ‘implicate’ Trump in Epstein case, Comer says
Former Attorney General Bill Barr told House investigators on Monday that he never saw anything that could tie President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid crimes, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said. ‘He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if […]
August 18, 2025
Trump: Zelenskyy meeting not ‘end of the road’ for US support in securing a peace deal
President Donald Trump said that his meeting at the White House Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy isn’t a last attempt to help Ukraine secure a peace deal ending its war with Russia. ‘I can never say that. It’s never the end of the road,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday. ‘People are […]
August 18, 2025
DOJ to start turning over Epstein files to Capitol Hill
Congressional lawmakers will get their hands on a first tranche of Epstein files in the coming days. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer in a statement Monday said the Justice Department would start to turn over Jeffrey Epstein-related materials this Friday — less than two weeks after the Kentucky Republican transmitted a subpoena to the […]
August 18, 2025
Senate signals readiness to hit Russia with hard sanctions if peace deal fails
Lawmakers are watching President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy closely and are ready to pounce with hard-hitting sanctions against Moscow if need be. Trump, Zelenskyy and a slew of European leaders are set to meet at the White House on Monday, just days after the president’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
August 18, 2025
Federal appeals court blocks Louisiana’s new congressional map in blow to GOP
Judges for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Louisiana’s request to allow it to enforce its long-stalled congressional redistricting map, delivering a near-term blow to Republicans in the state by ruling that it amounts to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. All three judges on the bench voted to uphold a lower court’s ruling that the […]
August 18, 2025
EU preparing 19th round of Russia sanctions as Zelenskyy meets Trump
The European Union is preparing a new round of sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its ongoing conflict in Ukraine, signaling continued resolve as the war drags past its three-and-a-half-year mark. The announcement of the upcoming sanctions package, the 19th such round, comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Donald Trump at the […]