The U.S. Navy on Monday released a 30-year shipbuilding strategy that calls for $68.5 billion in new spending and officially confirms that President Trump's new "Trump-class" battleships will be nuclear-powered and armed with hypersonic missiles and high-energy lasers.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced legislation Tuesday that would make fentanyl dealers eligible for the death penalty when their product kills someone, a direct challenge to the current federal sentencing cap of life in prison.
President Trump signed executive orders aimed at lowering record-high beef prices, directing the federal government to reduce trade barriers on beef imports and take steps to help rebuild the domestic cattle herd.
Some 215,000 federal government employees failed to pay their federal taxes in 2024, and the collective tab has reached $2.1 billion, according to a report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced late last week that the Pentagon will establish a COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force to reinstate service members discharged under the previous administration's vaccine mandate.
President Donald Trump declared Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is "on massive life support" after he rejected Tehran's latest counterproposal to end the war, calling it "totally unacceptable" and a "piece of garbage."
