Ghost Leader: Is Iran Being Run by a Man in a Coma?

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A new intelligence assessment is raising a question that cuts to the heart of the Iran crisis: Is anyone actually in charge? The report, first cited by The Times of London, claims that Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old son elevated as successor following reports of his father’s death during initial strikes — is receiving medical treatment in the holy city of Qom. According to the memo, he has been effectively sidelined from governing due to his injuries. If accurate, the implications are not merely significant. They are destabilizing. His absence from public view has produced a fog of competing claims.

‘God Is Good’ — The Two Words That Ended 48 Hours of Hell in Iran [WATCH]

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America showed the world what it’s made of… On Easter Sunday, as the sun broke over the mountains of Iran, an American Air Force colonel — known to the world only by his call sign, Dude Bravo 44 — was lifted from a crevice in the rocks where he had spent nearly two days bleeding, hiding, and refusing to die. He had been shot down on Good Friday. He had survived alone in hostile territory, hunted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard forces and their dogs, wounded seriously enough that lesser men would have stopped moving. He did not stop moving. He

Border Workers Didn’t Create This Crisis. Trump Says He Won’t Leave Them to Bear It.

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President Trump moved Thursday to shore up the Department of Homeland Security, pledging to use executive authority to ensure pay continuity for thousands of federal workers caught in an unresolved funding gap, while also using the moment to sharpen his attack on Democratic leaders. The Senate passed a DHS funding bill Thursday morning, but House action is not expected until April 13, leaving border patrol agents, immigration enforcement officers, and department employees in a period of financial uncertainty. Trump signaled he intends to bridge that interval himself. “I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees

Republicans Chart Two-Track Path to End Record DHS Shutdown — Without Dems

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The record has now been set. Forty-six days. The longest partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security in American history — longer than any of us had reason to expect, and longer than the country had reason to endure. TSA workers have gone without full paychecks. Airport lines have swelled. And Washington, as it so often does, found new and creative ways to make a solvable problem last. But something shifted Wednesday. Republicans in both chambers, nudged firmly by a president who has grown visibly impatient, announced they are now aligned behind a strategy that could finally bring this

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