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New York Times:
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says — Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump's assertion that Iran could be to blame.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump tells Axios there's “practically nothing left” to target in Iran — President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end “soon” because there is “practically nothing left to target.” — “Little this and that... Any time I want it to end …
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New York Times:
How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War — In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots — Also: Americans don't care about process. So they will get corruption. — ∙ Paid — People were not happy with me in the comments after yesterday's TNL. Many were upset that I spent part of the episode lamenting how unbelievably stupid …
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New York Times, Reuters and AL-Monitor
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump — The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident. — In the least charitable—and probably accurate—view, President Trump went to war with Iran out of a delusional faith in himself.
Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Control of Hormuz Means It's Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War — Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude go through the strait, while it scares off others — Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control …
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Ryan Grim / Zeteo:
NEW POLL: Most Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal
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Drop Site News, Gizmodo and DNYUZ
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump says Kushner helped convince him to go to war with Iran
Trump says Kushner helped convince him to go to war with Iran
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The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico and Mediaite
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Trump's Delusions Come at Americans' Expense
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says the Iran War Is Nearly Won but Israel Has Other Ideas
Trump Says the Iran War Is Nearly Won but Israel Has Other Ideas
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Al Jazeera, MS NOW, New Republic, Fortune, Phillips's Newsletter, Middle East Monitor, The Independent, ABC News, Reuters, Scripps News, Mediaite, NPR and HuffPost
Jonathan Saul / Reuters:
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now
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John Cornyn / New York Post:
Sen. Cornyn: Why the SAVE Act matters more than the filibuster — If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn't make him a pacifist — it just means he has bad aim. — Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn't be wise or honorable; it would be foolish.
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
John Thune says he's ready to take the filibuster heat
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Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Trump nominee withdraws after senators press him on remarks about Jews, Israel and ‘white culture’
Trump nominee withdraws after senators press him on remarks about Jews, Israel and ‘white culture’
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NBC News:
Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement
Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement
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Talking Points Memo and BizPac Review
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out photographers from two subsequent news conferences. — The Defense Department has barred press photographers …
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Mediaite, Associated Press, TMZ.com, IJR, The Wrap, twitchy.com, Raw Story, The Independent and New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats — The attorney general relocated from a Washington apartment to a base in the area within the past month, according to people familiar with the situation. — Attorney General Pam Bondi has quietly relocated to one of several military bases …
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The Independent, The Gateway Pundit, TMZ.com, Mercury News, NewsMax.com, New Republic, RedState, Mediaite, Raw Story and Althouse
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Tim Balk / New York Times:
Joe Rogan Says Trump's Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War — The influential podcast host described the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies the president had campaigned on. — Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that the war in Iran was “crazy” …
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New York Post:
The untold reason Kristi Noem's alleged lover Corey Lewandowski did ‘whatever the f-k I want’ at DHS — WASHINGTON — Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's top aide and alleged lover Corey Lewandowski bragged that he could do “whatever” he wanted as a powerful federal official …
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New York Magazine, The List, Digby's Hullabaloo, Mediaite and NBC News
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say — Add CBS News on Google — An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe …
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The Daily Caller, New Republic, DNYUZ and KECI
ABC News:
FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert — The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News. — Iranian-made Shahed-136 ‘Kamikaze’ drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran, March 7, 2024. — The FBI warned police departments …
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Daily Mail and The Post Millennial
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
Dems score upset win in New Hampshire special election, giving GOP fresh reason to worry — Heading into Tuesday's state legislative special election in New Hampshire, Republicans had reason to be cautiously optimistic. The race was in a district that Donald Trump won by 9 points in 2024 …
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The Hill, Democrats and Washington Examiner
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David Nir / The Downballot:
Democrats win GOP seat in New Hampshire, notching 10th straight special election flip
Democrats win GOP seat in New Hampshire, notching 10th straight special election flip
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The Guardian, The Hill and New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ordered Justice Department Reversal on Law Firm Sanctions — ‘I never signed off on that,’ the president told aides — The Justice Department's surprise reversal last week on defending the White House's sanctions against law firms came after an angry outburst by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Poll: Confidence in the Supreme Court drops to a record low — The latest NBC News poll shows that the percentage of voters with a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the court is at the lowest ebb since the question was first asked in 2000. — The percentage of voters …
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RedState, Forbes, Newsweek and Above the Law
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show — A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau's New York Field Office three years ago …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
How Trump's War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up — Congratulations are in order for Donald Trump: His attack on Iran is the most unpopular American war in modern history. The New York Times compared support for Trump's war with initial support for nine other wars going back to World War II …
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Strength In Numbers
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Why DOJ Hasn't Charged Anyone Else From the Epstein Files … But more than a month after the release, something like the opposite has happened. — A variety of public figures in the U.S. have incurred professional and reputational consequences as a result of socializing with Epstein …
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New York Times:
New Iranian Leader Was Wounded Early in the War, Iranian and Israeli Officials Say — Officials say Mojtaba Khamenei's legs were hurt, but the circumstances as well as the extent of his injuries were unclear. He has remained out of view since being announced as leader three days ago.
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Financial Times:
Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power — Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions — The Kremlin has launched a disinformation campaign aimed at helping Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán get re-elected next month …
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GZERO
David Strom / HotAir:
Impossible, But True: CNN Gets Worse, Says Mamdani Was Target of Terrorist Attack — The word went out on Saturday that the terrorist attack on Jake Lang and anti-Islamist demonstrators in New York City was to be rebranded as a right-wing attack on Zohran Mamdani.
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Ace of Spades HQ, Instapundit and National Review
Elias Isquith / The Necessary Fictions:
The media is structurally pro-Trump — Lately, when I try to explain to myself or to other people how US politics has reached its current state of decadent degradation, I find myself returning to a handful of aphorisms.1 — Here's one of my favorites: The media is structurally pro-Trump.
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New York Times
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
California 2026 Poll: Swalwell Takes Lead in Governor Primary, 25% undecided; Election for LA Mayor Wide Open — A new Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics survey of the June primary for Governor finds Congressman Eric Swalwell leading the open primary with 17%, followed by Steve Hilton …
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RedState, The Hill, BizPac Review and Noble Predictive
Ariel Wittenberg / Politico:
A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine. … STERLING, Virginia — Lindsay Shaw was happy when she found out a data center was going up 100 meters from her front door. — Unlike most of her neighbors, she preferred a supercomputing hub to a shopping mall, which might bring a crush of car traffic.
Politico:
The White House isn't panicking about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks. … “Assuming the economy continues to turn around once the active part of the war is concluded, you'll have the whole summer from May through August to ride the turnaround,” the person said.
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Fortune, The Independent, Raw Story and MS NOW
Seth Klamann / Denver Post:
Gov. Jared Polis punts Tina Peters clemency decision until after appeals court weighs in, his office tells lawmakers — In new letter, Democratic state legislators urge governor not to intervene in election misconduct case — Gov. Jared Polis' office has told lawmakers that he will delay …
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The Hill and The Colorado Sun
Politico:
Here is what the Mandelson files reveal — so far — LONDON — The U.K government has published the first tranche of its long-awaited files relating to the appointment of its former ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, following the revelations about his association with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Reuters:
Iran cannot participate in World Cup, minister says — Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after co-host the U.S. launched airstrikes alongside Israel, Sports Minister Ahmad Donyamali said on Wednesday. — The attacks killed the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered a region-wide conflict.
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