Navigating Iran crisis, Trump relies on experience over star power  —  Gabbard, Hegseth outside the inner circle as president weighs military actions against Iran.  —  Summary55  —  As President-elect Donald Trump assembled his core national security team early this year …

'He's a snake': Musk jabs at Trump adviser who fueled messy presidential breakup  —  Sergio Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA head — a pick Musk had pushed.  —  Elon Musk may have stopped sparring with President Donald Trump online …

The Supreme Court Fails to See Transgender Teens  —  Imagine you are a transgender teenager.  Don't ask me how you know that you are transgender: That question is no more appropriate or relevant than asking people how they know that they are gay or Jewish or Black.  Maybe you've always known.

Parsing ICE's mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims  —  ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.  —  Last month, I wrote a column questioning why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were increasingly disguising their identities as they conducted sweeps and arrests.

‘Weak,’ ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’: Critics of DNC Chair Ken Martin savage his tenure  —  The new DNC chair has faced messy drama since stepping into the role in February.  —  Four-and-a-half months after the Democratic National Committee chair pledged to focus on fighting Donald Trump …

Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse  —  Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system. … As we at the Prospect have reported, while the Senate's version of the Republican budget reconciliation bill was widely expected …

Donald Trump Rages At Reporter Who Refuses To Stick To ‘Positive’ Questions  —  The president launched a trademark diatribe in response to a line of questioning he didn't particularly like.  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again ripped a reporter to their face …

The Subway Is Not Scary  —  In 2014, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro (who would go on to become one of the paper's superstars as host of its podcast “The Daily") posted this tweet:  —  After receiving a good deal of ridicule, Barbaro deleted the tweet.  The nervous sentiment he expressed, however, lives on.

Brad Lander Tried to Escort Immigrants Facing Arrest.  He's Not Alone.  —  A growing army of volunteers has mustered at immigration courts during a month-old campaign to detain people showing up for routine hearings.  —  When Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller …

Trump Insists MAGA ‘HATES’ Fox News After Embarrassing Network Poll  —  HURT FEELINGS  —  He couldn't believe what voters really think of his “miraculously perfect” border.  —  President Donald Trump savaged Fox News and declared that his MAGA base hates the network after a poll showed his approval ratings tanking.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation  —  As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.  —  Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.

Is Mike Lee Shitposting His Way Out of Congress?  —  Never Tweet  —  WHEN SEN. MIKE LEE (R-Utah) took to social media to spread wild, nakedly partisan theories about the Minnesota shootings that left a Democratic state representative and her husband dead, national Democrats were horrified.

How does Israel restrict its media from reporting on the Iran conflict?  —  The military censor has introduced a slew of new restrictions on journalists covering the unfolding war.  —  The Israeli government has issued new directives restricting how its media covers its current war with Iran.

Knife-Wielding Illegal Alien Charged With Attempted Murder After Allegedly Attacking Trump Attorney in NY  —  A United States Attorney for New York was chased with a knife by an illegal immigrant outside a hotel in Albany, New York, security camera footage shows.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol uncovers sophisticated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel  —  SAN DIEGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents have uncovered and disabled a large-scale narcotics smuggling tunnel linking Tijuana to the San Diego area.  The uncompleted tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet inside …

The Atlantic Announces Staff Writers Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef  —  As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial staff, today editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is announcing the hires of Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef as staff writers.

DHS issues new guidance for lawmakers visiting ICE facilities after tense confrontations  —  After a spate of tense encounters involving lawmakers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, the Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice …

Trump's border czar: Immigration raids at farms, hotels to continue  —  Following a week of immigration whiplash, President Trump's border czar Tom Homan confirmed Thursday that immigration raids will continue in the agriculture and hospitality industries.  —  The big picture …

Texas district judge overturns Biden rule on expanded abortion privacy protections  —  A Texas federal judge late Wednesday overturned a Biden administration rule designed to keep prosecutors from getting the medical records of patients seeking legal abortions or gender-affirming care …

Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources  —  A potential $35 million settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against Paramount's CBS affiliate has been delayed after the company's management continued to fear a potential legal backlash, The Post has learned.

White British — the two words toxifying politics  —  Serious social issues, perceived and real, will not be fixed by supercharging racial grievance  —  Mainstream political discourse has found two words seeping in: “white British”.  The term is increasingly used to create a narrative of victimhood …