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Houthis Join the War With Missiles at Israel, and the Map of Escalation Gets Bigger
FOREIGN POLICY | REGIONAL WAR | RED SEA Houthis Join the War With Missiles at Israel, and the Map of Escalation Gets Bigger The war just got another front, and another warning. Yemen’s Houthis have now openly entered the fight with a missile attack on Israel, turning what was already a dangerous regional crisis into
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Senate Funds TSA as Airport Chaos Grows, but ICE Is Left Out
RIFTLANDS | HOMELAND SECURITY | AIRPORT CHAOS Senate Funds TSA as Airport Chaos Grows, but ICE Is Left Out For weeks, the nation’s airports have been running on forced optimism, the kind that assumes exhausted federal workers will keep showing up, passengers will keep absorbing delays, and Washington will stop playing budget roulette before the
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Israel Strikes Tehran as Iran Retaliates and the War Pushes the Region Toward a Wider Rupture
FOREIGN POLICY | MIDDLE EAST | WAR Israel Strikes Tehran as Iran Retaliates and the War Pushes the Region Toward a Wider Rupture The Middle East did not drift into chaos this month. It was shoved. Israel struck deep into Tehran, Iran answered with missiles, and the United States kept speaking in the language of
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Trump Confirms May Meeting With Xi as the Iran War Reorders His Global Agenda
FOREIGN POLICY | CHINA | GLOBAL POWER Trump Confirms May Meeting With Xi as the Iran War Reorders His Global Agenda Donald Trump has now confirmed that he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May, after the war with Iran forced a delay to a trip that had originally been planned for late March.
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U.S.-Iran Talks May Be Coming, but This War Is Not Ready to End
FOREIGN POLICY | IRAN | DIPLOMACY U.S.-Iran Talks May Be Coming, but This War Is Not Ready to End A narrow diplomatic opening appears to be forming between the United States and Iran, but nobody should confuse a possible channel for an actual breakthrough. Reuters reports that Pakistan conveyed a U.S. proposal to Tehran and
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When Oil Meets War: Trump, Iran, and the Price at the Pump
When Oil Meets War: Trump, Iran, and the Price at the Pump War does not stay on the battlefield for long. It spills into trade routes, fuel markets, grocery bills, and the kind of everyday costs that quietly remind people global conflict is never really far away. As tensions involving Iran intensify and oil markets
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Primaries and Fault Lines: Texas and North Carolina Expose the Early Shape of the 2026 Senate Fight
Primaries and Fault Lines: Texas and North Carolina Expose the Early Shape of the 2026 Senate Fight Primary elections rarely feel historic in the moment. They unfold quietly beneath polling updates and campaign speeches that blur together after the fifth rally. Yet every election cycle produces a handful of primaries that reveal something deeper than
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FBI Firings After the Mar a Lago Documents Case, The Loyalty Test Comes to Federal Law Enforcement
FBI Firings After the Mar a Lago Documents Case, The Loyalty Test Comes to Federal Law Enforcement Washington rarely rewrites itself with a single vote. It rewrites itself through personnel decisions, internal memos, and the kind of administrative actions that never get a prime time hearing. That is why the reported termination of FBI staff
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A State of the Union Built for the Rift, Not the Room
A State of the Union Built for the Rift, Not the Room President Donald Trump walked into the State of the Union chamber with a clear objective, not to calm Washington, but to define it. The speech centered on economic strength, immigration enforcement, and sharp contrasts with Democrats, yet the deeper message went beyond policy.
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