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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran's Uranium — The president hasn't made a decision, U.S. officials said, as he considers the risk to U.S. troops — WASHINGTON—President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran …
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Financial Times:
Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’ — US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue — Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island, as the US sends thousands of troops to the Middle East.
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Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel, Forbes, Mediaite, Raw Story, CNBC and The Hill
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says Iran Agreed to Allow 20 More Ships of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz — The president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cast the permission as a “sign of respect.” He also asserted that the United States had already achieved “regime change” in Iran.
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Bloomberg, Forbes and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
U.S. Special Operations Forces Sent to Mideast as Trump Weighs Next Move — The commandos have not been assigned specific roles. But President Trump has expressed concern about the now-closed Strait of Hormuz and Iran's store of enriched uranium. — Several hundred U.S. Special Operations forces …
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NewsMax.com
Chuck McCutcheon / Axios:
Oil prices rise as Iran war escalates with Houthi attacks — Oil prices climbed above $116 per barrel after markets opened Sunday, as Iran-backed Houthi militants fired missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend and promised to continue attacks. … - WTI, the main U.S. reference, was also up about 3% to nearly $103 per barrel.
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Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, FDD's Long War Journal, Associated Press, Reuters, Time and The Times of Israel
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser and NewsMax.com
Simon Tisdall / The Guardian:
Trump is contemplating the sheer folly of boots on the ground in Iran. How did it come to this?
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Newsweek, The Hill, Al Jazeera, Salon, UPI, Washington Times, NewsMax.com, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and CNBC
Associated Press:
Pakistan says it will host US-Iran talks, while Iran warns US ground troops would be ‘set on fire’
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Sen. James Lankford does not rule out supporting ground operations in Iran
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NewsMax.com, HuffPost and The Guardian
New York Times:
U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Despite Blockade — The tanker full of crude oil could reach its expected destination by Monday, providing a lifeline to the island amid intense U.S. pressure. — The United States Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba …
Kathryn Palmer / USA Today:
Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment,’ need new leaders — Sen. Cory Booker in a new interview said the Democratic Party has “failed this moment,” urging the left to support new leadership to temper the nation's deep divides. — Speaking to NBC News' “Meet the Press” …
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NBC News, twitchy.com and HuffPost
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship — The administration builds its arguments on an 1800s campaign, led in part by a Confederate officer, that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism. — Alexander Porter Morse …
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New York Times, NPR, Washington Monthly, New York Sun, Law Dork, Fox News and Reuters
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James Romoser / Wall Street Journal:
Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump's Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink
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NPR, New York Times, Washington Times, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and NBC News
NBC News:
‘I blame them all’: Travelers frustrated with Washington as shutdown drags on — House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed deal last week to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE — Amid the long lines and delays at the country's airports …
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New York Times:
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows — The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.
Ryan C. Smith / Liberal Currents:
“Worse Than the 1970s” — Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term's mismanagement of COVID-19 with an economic crisis of extraordinary scope and scale, entirely of his making. In a recent interview, International Energy Agency (IEA) Chief Fatih Birol asserted …
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Axios:
Some Dems' 2028 strategy: a straight, white, Christian man — Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man. — Their fear, divulged …
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twitchy.com and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate — Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players' average salary will top $580,000. — After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel …
Jacob Weisberg / New York Times:
Every Elite Has a ‘Dark Connector.’ — It's tempting to think of Jeffrey Epstein as an isolated aberration — a depraved man who was protected for too long by his wealth and privilege. In fact, he represents a recurring type. You might call this type the dark connector.
Kristen Soltis Anderson / New York Times:
MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar. Nope. — President Trump, who once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters, is now confronting a twist on that boast: What if, instead, he bombed Tehran? — The message coming from some of the most prominent MAGA voices is clear.
TMZ.com:
Lindsey Graham Vacationing at Disney World Amid Shutdown — I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!! … Lindsey Graham was ineffective talking his colleagues into keeping the government open, but he had a great convo with Mickey Mouse Sunday ... at Disney World!!! — The Senator had breakfast …
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