White House says US has not escorted oil tanker through Strait of Hormuz despite now-deleted claim

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:53 pm

The U.S. military has not yet escorted any oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, contradicting a now-deleted post from Energy Secretary Chris Wright. “I was made aware of this post. I haven’t had a chance to talk to the Energy secretary about it directly, however, I...

Man imprisoned in Iran says he doesn't see regime 'capitulating' to Trump

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:51 pm

Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American scholar who was imprisoned in Iran, said Monday that he does not see the regime’s leadership giving in to President Trump’s demands, even as the president vows to accept nothing less than “unconditional surrender” from Tehran to end the conflict. “When [the regime] says death to America, it’s sometimes referred...

Judges won't extend Wisconsin interim U.S. attorney's tenure

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:51 pm

President Trump's top federal prosecutor in Milwaukee will not have his temporary term extended by judges on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the court announced Tuesday. Brad Schimel, interim U.S. attorney for the district, will see the clock on his appointment run out on March 17. A majority of the...

Live updates: Leavitt says US didn't escort oil tanker through Strait of Hormuz

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:50 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, not long after Energy Secretary Chris Wright wrote and deleted a post on social media saying the U.S. had done so. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier that attacks on Iran would...

High school mariachi musicians released from ICE detention

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:49 pm

Two high school mariachi musicians were released Monday with their family from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Texas after pressure from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Officials released Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, who was detained and held at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas. His brother and fellow mariachi player,...

Democratic senator says US 'seem to be' on path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:49 pm

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) left a Senate Armed Service Committee briefing on the Iran war Tuesday saying he believes the Trump administration is on a path to putting U.S. troops on the ground in Iran. “We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of...

Johnson says Iran supplemental funding bill 'inevitable' 

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:35 pm

DORAL, Fla. - Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Tuesday that a supplemental funding package for the Iran conflict is “inevitable” as the military operation stretches into its second week. “I think the supplemental funding bill for the military is inevitable,” Johnson said during a news conference at the House Republican retreat in Doral. “We...

Baltimore officer, suspect shot in 'active shooter incident'

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:17 pm

The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) said Tuesday one of its officers and a suspect were shot. BPD wrote on the social platform X at 12:36 p.m. EST that it was “on scene of an Active Shooter Incident” in the 6200 block of [Park] Heights Avenue, in Northwest Baltimore. The police department added that an officer...

CNN deletes tweet, attaches editors note to criticized story on NYC bombing plot

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:15 pm

CNN took down a tweet and attached an editor's note to a story about an attempted terrorist attack in New York City earlier this week after facing a wave of backlash over the way the piece was framed. In the since-deleted social media post, the outlet had said, "Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York...

Carney: Gunshots fired at US Consulate in Toronto 'reprehensible'

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 6:05 pm

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday condemned the attack on a U.S. Consulate in the country in a post on the social platform X. “The shots fired toward the United States Consulate in Toronto early this morning are a reprehensible act of violence and attempt at intimidation,” Carney wrote in the post. “I am...

Third senator backs Platner in Maine race

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 5:44 pm

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) on Tuesday endorsed Graham Platner in the Democratic primary for Senate in Maine. Heinrich told Politico that Platner, a Marine Corps veteran and oyster farmer running a populist campaign, is “exactly the person the Democratic Party needs to win back working people.”  Platner is part of a crowded primary field in...

Trump administration’s financial ties revealed in new report: suspicious!  

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 5:35 pm

One of the core principles of American government is that the people making the rules shouldn’t be the same people quietly benefiting from them. But new reporting from ProPublica suggests that line is getting harder to see.  

Why the NDS 2026 Golden Dome is a strategic paperweight

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 5:30 pm

The National Defense Strategy of 2026 represents a shift away from collective security and towards a high-tech shield, potentially isolating the U.S. and creating a power vacuum in Eurasia.

Retired Army general: Iran regime 'fundamentally miscalculated' Trump

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 5:25 pm

Retired four-star U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane said Monday that the Iranian government “fundamentally miscalculated” President Trump as conflict in the Middle East persists. “What these guys did, Rita and John, is they fundamentally miscalculated President Trump,” Keane told radio hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on WABC's “Cats & Cosby” program. “They bought into...

Shock poll: Democratic Party super unpopular; voters hate Kamala, Newsom, AI, Iran  

By: The Hill

Published on: March 10, 2026, 5:21 pm

Americans don’t love everything Trump does, but they’re really, really not sure they can trust Democrats to govern ever again.