The Actual Danger of Trump's Phony Vote-by-Mail Executive Order  —  Sometimes it's the chaos, not the cruelty, that's the point.  —  That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump's second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday.  The order purports, among other things …

The Birthright Con  —  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the case that will decide the fate of the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.  —  On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order that tried …

$4 Gasoline is Less Than Half the Story  —  The biggest losers from the Iran War are buyers of diesel, jet fuel, chemicals and fertilizer  —  Although I expected the war on Iran to be a disaster, I didn't expect the Trump administration to be implicitly conceding defeat after barely a month.

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato  —  Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy  —  Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.

U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight  —  Gulf state begins effort to persuade U.S. and others to open waterway by any means necessary  —  The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, Arab officials said …

Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Landmark Challenge to Birthright Citizenship  —  President Trump attended the arguments but left after the government presented its case.  Multiple justices seemed skeptical of his efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents from automatically being Americans.

Trump's mixed messages on Iran perplex his own team  —  President Trump isn't just befuddling foreign leaders and financial markets with his mixed signals on Iran.  Advisers who speak regularly with the president tell Axios they're just as uncertain. … Then the cycle restarts without any lasting clarity.

‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported  —  The top official in charge of the federal government's disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he's experienced “teleportation” - an experience he insists was real …

Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents  —  EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees …

Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go  —  Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.  —  When Israel and Hezbollah last went to war two years ago …

On the Original Legal Meaning of “Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof”  —  There has been some originalist debate of late about the proper reading of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  The fate of the Trump administration's executive order excluding new categories of individuals …

CNN Poll: Trump's approval rating on the economy hits a new low  —  Donald Trump Election polls Corporate news US shutdown  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS …

U.S. Plans Military Expansion in Greenland  —  The Pentagon is in talks with Denmark for access to three more areas on the Arctic island.  Several Greenlanders said they didn't like the idea.  —  The American military is intensifying efforts to secure greater access to Greenland …

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Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers  —  How MAGA influencers became part of the mass deportation campaign.  —  As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed Eydarus was out with his mom, shoveling snow.

How China hopes to win from the war  —  Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake  —  Going to war against Iran promised to change the Middle East by weakening a villainous regime and thwarting its nuclear ambitions.  To its most bullish supporters, the war would also change the world by cowing an ascendant China.

Astroturf and selective outrage: The real story behind ‘No Kings’  —  Organizers of last weekend's “No Kings” protests claimed eight to nine million participants across more than 3,300 events.  It was billed as the largest single-day protest in American history.

In South Dakota, Neighbors Feel Sorry for Kristi Noem's Husband  —  In the tiny town of Castlewood, S.D., where everyone knows the Noems, the prevailing sense was that people can't help but feel bad for Bryon Noem after a tabloid photo leak.  —  That couldn't be him, could it?  —  The cartoonishly large breasts.

Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War  —  U.S. commanders have kept many troops away from bases in the region to protect them from Iran's ballistic missile attacks.  —  The U.S. military's decision to move troops away from bases under Iranian attack to hotels …