Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs looks into how Trump’s base is responding to the administration’s conflicting messages on the war with Iran.
In opening a military campaign against Iran, President Trump is the first president in modern times to take the United States to war without the backing of the public.
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”
Market movements this week had already been choppy as investors weighed the inflationary impact of the conflict in the Middle East. On Friday, the jobs report complicated matters.
One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
Reporters tapped sources, combed through public records and scrutinized social media to penetrate the web of influence and money underlying the president’s clemency grants.
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Sales and traffic at restaurant chains like Cava, Chipotle and Sweetgreen are falling, as customers grow tired of both salad bowls and their rising price tags.
The character “Daryl Hannah” in “Love Story” is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life or my conduct — and these kinds of lies don’t go away.
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The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration’s deportation efforts.
The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense.
The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.
In a tightly contested Democratic Senate race, the state representative defeated Jasmine Crockett. Republican Senator John Cornyn and state attorney general Ken Paxton face a prolonged contest.
On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.
The state’s primaries on March 3rd will determine candidates for House and Senate races in November, with major implications for the balance of power in Congress.
So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.
Amid the controversy over redrawn district maps, a bitter senatorial primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, and growing dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, has the Party overreached?
The Supreme Leader, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades, has been killed by Israel and the United States. Can the regime survive without him?
The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes, but the conflict is far from over, and has convulsed the Middle East in a spasm of interstate violence.