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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say — American military will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Iran, as it steps up ‘Economic Fury’ — The U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships …
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The Hill, New York Post, The American Conservative, RedState, Algemeiner.com, NewsMax.com, Business Insider and Atlantic Council
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Paul Krugman:
Trump Can't Even Surrender Right — When you're losing a war, but it's not an existential defeat, your country, your government can continue pretty much as before. Aside from the humiliation, there's a well-established technique, which is to declare victory and pull out.
Axios:
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers — Iran said on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is again closed to traffic following threats of such action if the U.S. continued its blockade of the shipping channel. … - “As long as the United States does not agree …
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Associated Press, NBC News, Human Events, UPI, NewsMax.com and Clayton Cramer
Taz Ali / The Guardian:
Middle East crisis live: tanker reports attack as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; French soldier killed in Lebanon — Iranian military's command says the strait has ‘reverted to its previous state’; Macron confirms death of French UN peacekeeper — UKMTO reports further attack and suspicious activity near strait of Hormuz
Sonali Verma / India Today:
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
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Associated Press, Townhall, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Naval Today, NewsMax.com, Reuters, The Japan Times and Middle East Monitor
New York Times:
Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz
Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday …
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday …
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, Politico, ABC News, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, The Hill, New York Sun, PoliticusUSA, Blaze Media, Washington Examiner and Forbes
Reuters:
Trump says he has ‘good news’ on Iran, no clarity on peace deal
Trump says he has ‘good news’ on Iran, no clarity on peace deal
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The Times of Israel, Townhall, MeidasTouch News, Bloomberg and The Hill
Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times:
Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much
Associated Press:
Live updates: Iran's military command says it has closed Hormuz again over US blockade
Live updates: Iran's military command says it has closed Hormuz again over US blockade
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Politico, Breitbart, New York Times, Israpundit, IJR, Forbes, Associated Press, Blue Virginia, Reuters, Telegraph, Bloomberg, NOTUS, Washington Examiner, Middle East Monitor and The Hill
New York Times:
Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business — Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court's now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. — Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic …
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SCOTUSblog
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The White House:
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled …
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Straight Arrow News, NPR, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Associated Press, KARE-TV, Breitbart and The Post Millennial
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Order on Psychedelics to Ease FDA Restrictions
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The White House, New York Sun, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Semafor, KIFI-TV, The Guardian, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, MS NOW, Washington Times and Fox News
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
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US Food and Drug …, Rolling Stone, Forbes, UPI, Newsweek, The Daily Wire, The Independent, CBS News, STAT, Mediaite, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. — You've probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted what he apparently thought was a bible verse but was in fact the faux biblicalism delivered by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Pulp Fiction.
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Associated Press, Mother Jones and New York Post
Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump — Zelensky has written off the United States. — For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope—at least publicly—of winning him over. Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia's Vladimir Putin again and again …
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Washington Examiner, France 24, El País and The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Miami Herald:
Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir — In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein's plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York.
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The Epstein Files
The Independent:
White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’ — Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel's alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue
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Fox News, twitchy.com, IJR, Forbes, TMZ.com, MS NOW, Raw Story, The Independent and Mediaite
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Keystone Kash's Endless Wild Booze Binges Spilled by Top Officials
Keystone Kash's Endless Wild Booze Binges Spilled by Top Officials
Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not. … Yet three months later, Americans' views of President Donald Trump's deportations campaign remain broadly negative. — New results from The POLITICO Poll show that even as the spotlight has moved away …
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Erin Doherty / Politico:
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
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The Dean's Report, Digby's Hullabaloo, Political Wire and Breitbart
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit — Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs. — Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit …
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Associated Press, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Raw Story, Washington Post, KDFX-TV, NBC News, Mediaite, New Republic and MS NOW
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
The End Times Customer Service Desk — False prophets, sticky problems, and decent advice on everything from the dire Strait of Hormuz, to fleeing from the world, to aging gracefully when your body has other ideas … Dear Matt, — You've bitched a lot about Trump and the Iran War.
Paul Krugman:
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary — More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy. Now, suddenly, a much happier occasion. I found her account of how this happened startling …
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Mock Paper Scissors
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Jason Sattler:
How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies? — Trump is wishing away the Iran War the way he did Covid. What happens when the market finally has to tell the truth? — · — Just now — Everyone has finally picked up the pattern.
Kyla Scanlon / New York Times:
Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now — The stock market has been trying to ignore the war in Iran. That's been true over weeks of escalation and de-escalation, cease-fires, a blockade, and a blockade of a blockade (now just a U.S. blockade). Markets have barely flinched …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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New York Post:
Lefty love boat: Greta Thunberg's freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations — They're going to need a bigger boat! — Greta Thunberg's freedom flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona Sunday for another anti-Israel voyage to Gaza, has been rocked by scandal after one of its woke leaders …
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Human Events and The Gateway Pundit
Axios:
Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wreaking havoc on Israel's standing with Americans as the Iran war supercharges a deterioration in relations with the U.S. … Lawmakers who started out staunchly pro-Israel are becoming increasingly vocal critics.

