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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Trump Says Iran War Will End ‘When I Feel It In My Bones’ — It's another stunning admission that the president and his administration have no real timeline for ending the conflict. — President Donald Trump did little to reassure Americans that war with Iran will end anytime soon …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
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Finya Swai / Politico:
Trump: Iran war will end when I ‘feel it in my bones’
Trump: Iran war will end when I ‘feel it in my bones’
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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump: Will “Feel It in My Bones” When Iran War Should End
Trump: Will “Feel It in My Bones” When Iran War Should End
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Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Is Moving Additional Marines, Warships to the Middle East — The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request …
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Axios:
U.S. sending USS Tripoli, thousands of Marines to Middle East — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is sending an amphibious assault ship, the USS Tripoli, and its Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Axios on Friday.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Pete Hegseth on Strait of Hormuz: 'Don't need to worry about it'
Pete Hegseth on Strait of Hormuz: 'Don't need to worry about it'
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NBC News:
Judge blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, citing ‘essentially zero evidence’ — Powell said the subpoenas were related to his testimony before the Senate in June about the renovation of Federal Reserve office buildings. — A federal judge on Friday said he was blocking subpoenas …
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Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
How This Oil Supply Shock Compares With the Embargo of 1973 — Governments have stockpiled oil, and cars are more efficient but the supply shock is global, and there's no sense of when it'll end. — In October 1973, oil-producing countries in the Middle East imposed an oil embargo …
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Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Trump administration allows for Russian oil sales as energy prices soar
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New York Times:
Oil Prices Rise Despite Trump's Decision to Lift Russia Sanctions
Oil Prices Rise Despite Trump's Decision to Lift Russia Sanctions
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eases Venezuela sanctions on oil, fertilizer to blunt Iran war costs
Scoop: Trump eases Venezuela sanctions on oil, fertilizer to blunt Iran war costs
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud — Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the American military can drop bombs on scores of schoolchildren and not face serious media scrutiny over it. And he just might get that world soon enough.
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Politico:
Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes … A second senior Trump official said “his role is to provide the president and the administration, you know, all points of views of what could happen from many different angles and, you know, he does that. But once the decision has been made, he's fully on board.”
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump is preparing to replace Ric Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center — President Donald Trump is expected to remove Richard Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center, according to three sources familiar with the matter. — The move comes as the arts and culture institution …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Kennedy Center's President Is Leaving After Tumultuous Year — Since Richard Grenell was appointed by President Trump, the arts center has endured a wave of cancellations and departures. It will soon close for lengthy renovations. — Richard Grenell, a close ally of President Trump …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal — Investors in social-media platform's U.S. business, including Oracle and Silver Lake, agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources say — The Trump administration is set to receive …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Sinema acknowledges affair with Senate bodyguard while in office — The acknowledgement is part of a legal filing to dismiss an “alienation of affection” lawsuit against the former senator from Arizona. — Former U.S. senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona acknowledged having an affair …
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David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Sinema admits to affair with bodyguard in motion to dismiss lawsuit from his ex-wife
Sinema admits to affair with bodyguard in motion to dismiss lawsuit from his ex-wife
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Eric Niiler / New York Times:
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab — Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company. — The Trump administration is reviewing proposals to break up one of the world's leading climate …
Associated Press:
Justice Department charges man accused of selling gun to Old Dominion University shooter — The Justice Department on Friday charged a man who authorities say sold a gun to the Old Dominion University shooter despite the gunman's previous conviction in a terrorism case.
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Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate — Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.” — A week out from a crowded and contentious Democratic primary …
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Christian Gläßel / Can We Still Govern?:
The Secret Police Playbook — Since the Pendleton Act of 1883, the U.S. federal government has rested on a simple promise: professionalism, merit-based recruitment, independent oversight. Over time, U.S. federal law enforcement became a global reference point—effective, technically sophisticated …
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Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
Welcome to the Derp State
The Guardian:
Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon — Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon and became a naturalized US citizen, lost two brothers, a niece and a nephew in the airstrike — The armed suspect who drove a vehicle into the hallway …
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Rose L. Thayer / Stars & Stripes:
Pentagon plan expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content — The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication's independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content and transitioning away from a print publication.
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
How a Catch-a-Predator Sting Nabbed a Right-Wing Hatemonger — Was Jake Lang evaluating a teenage girl for a bikinis-and-burkas protest? Or was something more lecherous at play? — ∙ Paid — Welcome back to False Flag! … ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS HATEMONGERS on the far right appears …
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Judge Says Trans Rights Case Is About ‘Swinging Dicks,’ Berates ‘Woke’ Colleagues — “This is a case about swinging dicks,” began 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke in his dissent. — The case in question centered on the policy of two Korean spas in Washington state that allowed only …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony — Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’ — US immigration agents in Oregon used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods …
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El País
Politico:
Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians … The high level of opposition to the cuts, which has not been previously reported, hints at the tension between top military officials and their civilian leader over the rules of engagement in combat, which the Pentagon chief has called “stupid.”
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Patrick Smith / NBC News:
All 6 U.S. crew members killed after refueling plane crashes in Iraq — The crash brings the number of U.S. service personnel killed since the Iran war began Feb. 28 to 12. A 13th died of a medical issue. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE — All six U.S. crew members have been confirmed dead …
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Erica Orden / Politico:
Ghislaine Maxwell still seeking Trump pardon, her lawyer says … “I can imagine, for example, maybe you're hoping — not in that case, but in a case — to get a presidential pardon or commutation,” Pollack said, at which point Markus interjected with a smirk to say, “that case, too.”
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
I graphed every president's approval rating during “rally around the flag” events — Donald Trump launched airstrikes against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026. In the two weeks since, I've already written about how the public opposed the strikes from the start and how nearly every poll on the war so far confirms this trend.
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Tim Dickinson / The Contrarian:
Is Trump Building ‘Concentration Camps’? These Experts Have No Doubts — Donald Trump's brutal ICE detention facilities have been blasted as “concentration camps.” This is a freighted term — summoning more than a century of deplorable history. But experts in the field have no hesitation …
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Associated Press
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas — The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments. — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed to weaken limits …
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