A Helicopter Down, a Deal in Doubt: Trump Vows Response.

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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, the President had a verdict. Iran shot it down, he wrote on TRUTH Social, the helicopter “highly sophisticated,” the military “Great,” the two pilots aboard “safe and uninjured.” Then the line that mattered: the United States “must, of necessity, respond

Two Months of Quiet, Two Days of Fire — and Trump Steps In

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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 had been quiet, spoke. “Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,'” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social — his first public words since the two enemies began trading blows in the worst escalation in more than two months. By Monday, Iran’s

DOJ Launches Audit of CA Voter Rolls Amid Sluggish Vote Count

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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 quietly for years. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced that his office, working with the FBI, has multiple election fraud investigations underway. And he announced something else: a comprehensive audit of the state’s voter rolls, in coordination with the

Procedure or Plot? Trump Targets Cali’s 30-Day Vote Count

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There is a ritual to California’s elections now, and the ritual is patience. The polls close, the night ends, and the counting goes on — for days, sometimes weeks, in a state so large it counts like a small nation. To those who live there, it is procedure. To the President of the United States, watching from across the country Thursday, it looked like theft. “The Dumocrats are at it again,” Donald Trump wrote on TRUTH Social, in the capital letters that have become their own form of punctuation. He accused Democrats of trying to “STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA

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