American intelligence agencies intercepted Ukrainian government communications in late 2022 describing an elaborate scheme to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid — money designated for clean energy projects in a war-ravaged country — back across the Atlantic to fund President Biden’s re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The intercepts have now been declassified and were
President Trump is pressing Iran toward the negotiating table — or, if Tehran refuses, toward consequences his administration has described in terms of unusual severity. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the president is prepared to strike Iran harder than it has ever been struck if its government fails to accept that it has been militarily defeated.
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Something significant may be happening. On Tuesday, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran has agreed to never acquire nuclear weapons — the demand that has sat at the center of American policy toward Tehran for a generation, and the issue that has shadowed this three-week war from its first hour. “They’ve agreed,” the President said. “They
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There is a war in the Middle East, and it is three weeks old. On Monday, President Trump announced a pause — five days, no strikes on Iranian power plants or energy infrastructure — contingent, he said, on the progress of ongoing negotiations. “I am pleased to report,” the President wrote, “that the United States of America, and the country
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Nine percent. That is what Kamala Harris draws as a first-choice presidential candidate in her own home state, according to a new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies. In the place that knows her best, where her political identity was forged, fewer than one in ten Democrats are raising their hand for her. The survey, conducted March
There is a particular moment when a leader must address not only the enemy abroad but also the rumors gathering at home. Benjamin Netanyahu stepped before the cameras Thursday evening to do both. He had been the subject of online speculation about his health and safety — the kind of digital fog that now accompanies every major conflict. He dispensed
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There is a phrase that has always defined the American character in crisis: improvise and adapt. The Jones Act, passed in 1920, was not designed for a world in which the Strait of Hormuz goes dark and crude oil climbs past a hundred dollars a barrel. So President Trump has done what presidents in emergencies do — he has reached
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There is a particular quality to a presidential ultimatum delivered in capital letters on a social media platform in the early hours. It is not the language of persuasion. It is the language of compulsion. On Tuesday, Donald Trump turned his attention to the United States Senate and the SAVE America Act — legislation he has declared “one of the
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Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should
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