6+ hour, 33+ min ago   (340+ words) “Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about escalating the war in Iran as President Donald Trump weighed the possibility during a White House meeting on Friday,” CNN reports....

12+ hour, 53+ min ago   (147+ words) “The White House’s tariff revamp this past week represents yet another bend in President Trump’s continuing tariff saga. Beneath the headlines, the move likely means more of what businesses and shoppers have already learned to live with: sudden policy shifts,…...

12+ hour, 51+ min ago   (132+ words) David Frum: “America’s traditional democratic allies feel betrayed and baffled by the unpredictability of Trump’s pay-for-play diplomacy. But those willing to pay can suffer betrayals and bafflements of their own.” “If not even the Saudis, who showered Trump and his…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (153+ words) “American intelligence agencies believe that Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is far more interested than his father and predecessor in pursuing a nuclear weapon,” the New York Times reports. “Ayatollah Khamenei’s father, who was killed at the start…...

10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (137+ words) “President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon’s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other…...

12+ hour, 56+ min ago   (154+ words) “The Kheibar Shekan missile is the workhorse of Tehran’s arsenal—a cheap, mobile, accurate weapon with a range of at least 900 miles. And recently, Iran has been using it in complex attacks, proving itself to be an adaptable adversary for…...

12+ hour, 51+ min ago   (162+ words) “We’ve all been down this road before,” the New York Times reports. “President Trump issues a blitz of punitive tariffs on allies and rivals, straining trade, rattling bond markets, raising prices and injecting more uncertainty into the global economy.” “The…...

13+ hour, 2+ min ago   (212+ words) Charlie Warzel: “If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them. The examples are everywhere: dismissing stories he doesn’t like as ‘fake news’ from corrupt media, casting the January…...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (160+ words) “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he will share evidence with the United States showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance,” CBS News reports. Said Zelensky: “Since the beginning of…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago   (144+ words) “A U.S. appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s request to let federal officials fully move ahead with Donald Trump’s overhaul of mail voting ahead of the November midterm elections, leaving in place a Boston judge’s order that declared the president’s policies…...