It was Sunday, and Washington was supposed to be celebrating. UFC Freedom 250, on the South Lawn of the White House, with the crowds and the lights and the noise of a country enjoying itself. That was the plan. But there was another plan, too. At least 12 suspects, scattered across the country, who called themselves accelerationists. They didn’t want
Vice President JD Vance went on television Monday morning to say something remarkable: the United States and Iran have already signed a peace agreement ending three and a half months of war. Not will sign. Have signed. The signature, he told ABC’s Good Morning America, was digital — affixed over the weekend, ahead of a formal ceremony scheduled for Friday
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The thing about a deal is that both sides have to believe the same words mean the same thing. That is where this one stands now: in the gap between what Washington says it has and what Tehran says it agreed to. President Trump expressed frustration with Iran on Thursday after its Foreign Ministry said Tehran had not reached a
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A president who once warned against touching Iran’s oil now wants all of it. President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States could soon seize Iran’s strategic Kharg Island oil hub, the latest escalation in a conflict that has slid, week by week, into open warfare between Washington and Tehran. “The United States will be hitting Iran … VERY
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There is a sound a negotiation makes when it has stopped being a negotiation. President Trump described it Wednesday from the Oval Office, and he described it twice, because he wanted it understood. Tap, tap, tap. That was the noise of Iran, in his telling — not signing, not refusing, just tapping. And the President had decided he was done
The thing happened at night, which is how these things often happen. A pair of Apache helicopters was flying over the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow and consequential stretch of water where a third of the world’s oil moves and where patience has been running thin for a hundred days. One of them went into the sea. By Tuesday morning,
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For two months the cease-fire held, in the way these things hold in that part of the world — which is to say uneasily, with everyone watching the door. Then over the weekend the door opened. Iran sent three waves of missiles toward Israel. Israel struck back at launchers and petrochemical plants inside the Islamic Republic. And the President, who
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In Los Angeles this week, on the floor of a vast 144,000-square-foot ballot processing center, the work stations sat largely empty. Outside, the days passed. Inside, the ballots waited. This is California in June 2026, where the count drags and the questions sharpen. On Friday morning, Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor said out loud what many Californians have been saying
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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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