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President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Iran's latest peace proposal unacceptable, saying it fails to include provisions preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Moscow Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bid to secure diplomatic backing amid escalating tensions with Washington.
Senator Thom Tillis ended his weeks-long block on Kevin Warsh's Federal Reserve chair nomination after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the DOJ was dropping its investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell over headquarters renovation cost overruns. The Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote Wednesday to advance Warsh's nomination to the full Senate floor, with confirmation needed before Powell's May 15 term expiration.
House and Senate Republicans are scrambling to deliver a budget reconciliation bill funding ICE and Border Patrol to the President's desk by his June 1 deadline. Internal divisions have emerged over whether to keep the bill narrowly focused on border security or add provisions on tariff authorities, healthcare, Iran war funding, and the SAVE Act — which the Senate parliamentarian is expected to block.
The Treasury Department reported $16.5 billion in tariff collections from April 1–28, up sharply from $9.6 billion in March, with $11.6 billion processed on a single day — April 22. The administration continues to press its trade agenda through alternative statutory authorities after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump struck down the use of IEEPA for tariffs.
Oil tracker Kpler reports Iran could exhaust its oil storage capacity within 12 to 22 days under the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, forcing Tehran to reactivate abandoned storage facilities and pull two retired 30-year-old tankers out of reserve. Iran has warned it will launch massive strikes on regional oil infrastructure if any of its own facilities are destroyed, driving global oil prices higher amid stalled negotiations.
The Israeli Defense Forces issued evacuation warnings to residents of 16 villages in southern Lebanon, citing ceasefire violations by Hezbollah. Civilians were instructed to relocate toward the Sidon District as the IDF signaled potential military action in the area. Separately, Bahrain sentenced five individuals to life imprisonment and 25 others to 10-year terms on espionage charges tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Pyongyang unveiled a memorial museum honoring North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in the Ukraine conflict — a rare public acknowledgment of the regime's military involvement. The museum represents one of the most explicit admissions to date that North Korean troops have been deployed in the war.
The Trump administration launched the National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power, directing NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Pentagon to deploy 20-kilowatt nuclear reactors in lunar orbit by 2028 and on the moon's surface by 2030. The plan tasks multiple agencies with running parallel design competitions as the U.S. races China and Russia in the new space power competition.
Following the Artemis II crew's successful splashdown off San Diego on April 10 after a 10-day, 700,000-mile flight around the moon, NASA is now preparing Artemis III for a 2027 launch. The next mission will rehearse docking with a commercial lunar lander in Earth orbit, with SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon competing for the contract to carry Artemis IV astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Rep. Eric Burlison opened an investigation into the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 scientists involved in nuclear, aerospace, and UFO-adjacent research since 2022. The probe was sparked by the vanishing of retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland — the so-called "UFO General" — who disappeared from his Albuquerque home in February, leaving behind his phone, wallet, glasses, and a .38-caliber revolver. Letters have been sent to the FBI, NASA, and the Departments of War and Energy requesting a briefing.
