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 …

Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump's campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election …

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 …

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.

Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray  —  Good Saturday morning.  This is Irie Sentner, taking the helm.  Get in touch.  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The latest battle in the 2026 redistricting wars …

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 …

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 …

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.

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

Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame  —  “I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration has urged professional football's leaders …

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial  —  Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. … Donna Gustafson had a harder time than usual shaking off …

Walz in Spain rips ‘feeble-minded’ Trump, Vance over Iran war  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) issued sharp criticism against President Trump over his administration's military operations against Iran at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona on Saturday.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.  What is going on?  —  Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers  —  Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February.

Construction on Trump's White House ballroom can continue for now, US appeals court says  —  A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue building a $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling a day after a lower court judge continued to block above-ground construction on the site of the former East Wing.

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.

D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show  —  The Florida Republican is the focus of a House ethics probe stemming, in part, from the alleged assault.  —  Summary  —  D.C. police were about to arrest Rep. Cory Mills (R-Florida) after a woman accused …