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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents. Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old.
A traveler walks along the concourse at Reagan National Airport, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump on Friday insisted Iran must open up the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic to make a peace deal — and dubbed the crucial waterway the "Strait of Trump."
MIAMI, Florida — President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his disappointment with NATO allies over their refusal to send military to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and said Washington may not help them in future if asked to do so.
As the Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens, lifting the Iranian blockade has become Donald Trump’s central war aim. For strategists at the Pentagon, that may come as a relief.
Actor outside Kennedy Center urges Americans to ‘stand tall against authoritarianism’ and resist free-speech threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Duke point guard Caleb Foster returned to the court for the Blue Devils in Friday night’s Sweet 16 matchup against St. John’s, less than three weeks after breaking his foot.
TSA agents walk through a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
O chanceler federal da Alemanha, Friedrich Merz, acusou nesta sexta-feira (27/3) o presidente americano Donald Trump de "ameaçar a todos" em sua guerra contra o Irã.
El secretario de Defensa de EEUU, Pete Hegseth, escucha al presidente Donald Trump mientras este habla en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, en Washington, el 24 de marzo de 2026. (Ap Foto/Alex Brandon/Archivo)
WASHINGTON — As President Trump cranks up pressure on Iran, Pentagon brass are quietly lining up a wide menu of military options — which could put US boots on the ground in a major war for the first time in nearly half a decade.
Sen. Rand Paul is mulling a 2028 presidential run, the Kentucky Republican revealed in an interview set to air Sunday.
Christopher Morel, de los Marlins de Miami, sigue la pelota con la mirada tras pegar un triple productor durante la primera entrada del juego de béisbol en los entrenamientos de primavera contra los Nacionales de Washington, el sábado 1 de marzo de 2026, en West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Foto/Jeff Roberson)
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seen at the Georgia State Capitol during questioning from a Georgia State Senate panel about her prosecution of President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
As tough as the competition is, the most dishonest trope of the entire major-media drive to protect the Islamic Republic of Iran has to be the constant claims that President Donald Trump and the Pentagon “have no plan” for the war, and no clue how they’ll end it — a fecklessness that supposedly has us headed for a “…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump is getting some major props for a new AI policy framework built to protect “human creativity.”
WASHINGTON — These magical March dreams are for parents as well, especially for mothers and fathers who have moved from one school to the next to be near their son, especially for a father who has watched his son grow from a 3-year-old playing Nerf basketball to transfer portal gold to trying Friday night to help ta…
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Shane Baz (34) throws during the first inning of an exhibition baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Miami Marlins’ Christopher Morel follows through on an RBI triple during the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the Washington Nationals Sunday, March 1, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
WASHINGTON — To the victor go the naming rights.
Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong (4) points to the dugout after bunting a one-run single during the seventh inning of an opening-day baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
As the race for orbital energy heats up, China’s ambitious plan to build solar stations in space could boost its strategic influence beyond our atmosphere
President Trump said he feels “badly” for Tiger Woods but wouldn’t say whether or not the golf legend was hurt.
A source has told Page Six that neither Vanessa Trump, whom Tiger Woods has been dating, nor her daughters Kai or Chloe were in the car with the golfer during his car crash on Friday.
Tiger Woods’ girlfriend Vanessa Trump and her daughter Kai Trump were not in the golf legend’s car when it rolled over in a two-car crash in Florida Friday afternoon, sources said.
WASHINGTON — US House Republicans on Friday effectively shot down a Senate effort to end a weeks-long budget standoff that has forced thousands of airport security staff to work without pay, likely extending the lapse in federal funding.
Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives have shot down a bill passed by the Senate that would have resumed funding for federal agencies tasked with airport screenings, continuing a standoff that has resulted in chaos at airports as workers go without pay.
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Order comes after House Republicans rejected a Senate‑passed deal to fund key DHS subagencies, including the TSA
PARIS — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's assertion that the Trump administration is demanding Kyiv hand over its eastern Donbas region to Russia to receive American security guarantees in any ceasefire plan.
To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The C…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press following a G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting with Partner Countries at the Bourget airport in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Friday, March 27, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
WASHINGTON – St. John’s had already reeled off 10 straight wins by Valentine’s Day. Rick Pitino’s team was on its way, turning the page from a disappointing non-conference slate.
Vista de frente al Kennedy Center para las Artes Escénicas, el 2 de febrero de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Rahmat Gul, archivo)
TSA agents will start seeing paychecks drop in their bank accounts on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Gas prices are displayed at a gas station in Parma, Ohio, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Donald Trump is sending marines to the Middle East while also talking about negotiations with Iran. (Reuters: Ken Cedeno)
An ex-security staffer for President Joe Biden who posed for pics with former VP Kamala Harris in front of a presidential jet was arrested for a chilling murder in San Francisco.
The Trump White House showed farmers some love Friday with a suggestive new website highlighting its agricultural policy, along with a massive golden tractor on the South Lawn.
People opposed to new the U.S. House districts passed by the Missouri General Assembly demonstrate outside the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo., Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
A bill that would make it easier for prosecutors to charge prison staff accused of sexually abusing inmates passed the Idaho Senate on Tuesday and is now awaiting final approval from Gov. Brad Little.
In The Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel described a system in which lies are not incidental, but foundational. A system that does not merely tolerate falsehood, but requires it, reproduces it, lives within it: “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything.”
Gavin Newsom is not a betting man.
Vice President JD Vance gathered Trump administration bigwigs Friday for his first anti-fraud task force meeting — saying the team would reverse a more relaxed approach to verification of social services benefits.
Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Capitol Hill, Sept. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, FIle)
El director del FBI, Kash Patel, escucha durante una audiencia de la Comisión Selecta Permanente de Inteligencia de la Cámara de Representantes para examinar las amenazas mundiales, el jueves 19 de marzo de 2026, en el Capitolio en Washington. (Foto AP/Tom Brenner)
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks at a news conference in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023, as officials announced that the closure of poppy fields at Walker Canyon until the wildflower bloom subsides. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of herself and other survivors against the Trump administration and Google for allegedly wrongfully disclosing and publishing personal information about them.