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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates departs after a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP)
June 11, 2026, 1:05 am
Testifying before US Congress on Epstein, Bill Gates says he ‘never victimized anyone’
In prepared remarks to lawmakers, Microsoft co-founder says he ‘never witnessed’ any criminal conduct and did not visit Epstein’s ‘island, his ranch, or his Florida home’
By Frankie TAGGART
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, watches as acting Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller Jules Hurst III testifies at a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing for the US Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
May 12, 2026, 9:54 pm
Pentagon says US cost of Iran war approaching $29 billion
US Defense Department tells Congress $4 billion jump from previous estimate is due to equipment upkeep, as Democrats accuse White House of futile and opaque spending on conflict
By Frankie TAGGART
US President Donald Trump (right) greeting Britain's King Charles III at the South Portico of the White House for a State Dinner, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)
April 29, 2026, 9:30 am
Hosting British king, Trump says Charles agrees Iran cannot have nuclear bomb
Speaking at state dinner, US president says Tehran is ‘militarily defeated’; despite US-UK tensions over the war, both leaders strongly praise ‘special relationship’
By Danny Kemp and Frankie TAGGART
Attendees wait in line to enter the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, as the annual gathering of thousands of conservatives from around the country and overseas begins. (AP/Thomas Beaumont)
March 26, 2026, 8:02 pm
Trump’s Iran war tests MAGA movement’s ‘America First’ creed
At large right-wing CPAC convention in Texas, many attendees put their faith in US president, despite antiwar rhetoric from right-wing podcasters and dissent from GOP lawmakers
By Frankie TAGGART
From left; US Reps. Ro Khanna, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and Thomas Massie speak during a news conference as the US House prepares to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, at the US Capitol in Washington, November 18, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
November 18, 2025, 11:52 pm
US Congress approves bill calling for release of Epstein files after Trump U-turn
American lawmakers vote almost unanimously for release of files on the convicted sex offender, who the US president says he kicked out of his club for being ‘a sick pervert’
By Frankie TAGGART
The Dome of the US Capitol Building is visible behind a statue depicting US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands on the National Mall on October 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harni / Getty Images via AFP)
November 12, 2025, 7:06 pm
Democrats release email in which Epstein wrote that Trump ‘knew about the girls’
White House says leak of correspondence between financier, his girlfriend, and author Michael Wolff designed ‘to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump’
By Frankie TAGGART
A member of the cleaning staff makes her way through the Rotunda on an empty US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
October 1, 2025, 12:11 pm
US government enters shutdown as Congress fails to reach funding deal
Trump threatens to punish Democrats with public sector layoffs during shutdown, as top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer blames GOP for crisis over failure protect health care
By Frankie TAGGART
Minnesota Governor and 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz gestures after speaking on the third day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
August 22, 2024, 7:43 am
Vowing to ‘make a real difference,’ Democratic VP pick Tim Walz accepts nomination
Minnesota governor tells audience at party convention it is the ‘honor of his life’ to be Harris’s running mate, outlines his life story, lauds presidential pick, slams Trump
By Frankie TAGGART
Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Turning Point Action's 'The Believers Summit' in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 26, 2024. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)
July 27, 2024, 8:32 am
Trump makes baseless claim that Harris skipped Netanyahu’s speech due to antisemitism
‘She doesn’t like Jewish people. She doesn’t like Israel,’ Republican nominee says of vice president, who is married to a Jewish man; says her Netanyahu meeting was ‘insulting’
By Chandan Khanna and Frankie TAGGART
US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024.(Erin SCHAFF / POOL / AFP)
July 23, 2024, 11:33 am
Harris snags enough delegate support to clinch US Democratic nomination
VP sails past 1,976 of 4,000 needed; massive donations bring her campaign $81 million in a day after Biden steps down; she will meet with Netanyahu in Washington
By Danny Kemp and Frankie TAGGART
US former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a bandage on his ear after being wounded in an assassination attempt, pumps a fist during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
July 16, 2024, 1:49 pm
Trump, with ear bandaged after shooting, gets hero’s welcome at convention
Having narrowly survived assassination attempt, Republican presidential candidate marches into Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum on opening day of party’s national summit
By Frankie TAGGART and Michael Mathes
Former President Donald Trump leaves his Trump National Doral resort, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in Doral, Fla. (AP/Jim Rassol)
June 14, 2023, 1:39 am
Trump pleads not guilty to dozens of charges over mishandling of US state secrets
US government says ex-president violated Espionage Act, other laws when taking classified files after leaving office in 2021, sharing some of them, and misleading authorities
By Gerard Martinez and Frankie TAGGART
A motorcade of vehicles, with former US president Donald Trump on board, arrives at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse in Miami, Florida, on June 13, 2023. (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO / AFP)
June 13, 2023, 11:00 pm
Trump surrenders to face federal charges of mishandling government secrets
Former president expected to plead not guilty in latest investigation threatening his bid to retake the White House
By Gerard Martinez and Frankie TAGGART
Former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a Team Trump Volunteer Leadership Training at the Grimes Community Center in Grimes, Iowa, on June 1, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
June 10, 2023, 4:55 pm
Trump’s indictment adds unprecedented twist to 2024 White House race
Former US president expected to seek pardon for himself if reelected; most GOP rivals rally to his side, seemingly not wanting to alienate Trump’s loyal base should he drop out
By Frankie TAGGART
US President Joe Biden meets with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (L) about the debt ceiling, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 22, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
May 23, 2023, 4:28 am
Biden, McCarthy call debt talks ‘productive,’ but no deal as June 1 deadline looms
Speaker says negotiators are going to ‘work through the night’ and that he and the president will ‘talk every day to try to find a way to get this done’
By Frankie TAGGART
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