Iran’s new supreme leader is ‘his father on steroids,’ experts warn of hardline rule
"Think of Mojtaba Khamenei as his father on steroids."That is how Kasra Aarabi, director of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps research...
NATIONAL SECURITY
U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School
President Donald Trump claimed that Iran, not the U.S., struck an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab,...
Cartels fear US retaliation as Trump-era pressure reshapes strategy: ‘They fear the United States’
MEXICO CITY: Mexican drug cartels are increasingly calculated in their targeting decisions, often avoiding deliberately attacking American tourists and citizens...
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet...
Pope Leo says he ‘can’t comment’ on 20-year sentence of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai
Pope Leo XIV this week said he "can’t" comment on the 20-year sentence imposed on a democracy activist in Hong...
ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press...
Trump’s War to Nowhere
The Israel–U.S. military campaign in Iran has killed more than 1,000 people since the assault began on February 28. A...
Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next
The Trump administration’s war on Iran is reckless and ill-planned, four government officials briefed on the attacks told The Intercept....
House Iran War Powers Resolution Could Lose Support to Competing Bill by Pro-Israel Democrat
The U.S. Senate declined an opportunity to rein in President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran in a vote Wednesday...
U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever”
The United States opened a new front in its world wars, launching joint military operations against what the Trump administration...
Iran’s senior clerics ‘exposed’ after building strike in Qom, succession choice looms
Senior Iranian clerics would have been left "exposed" after an Israeli airstrike hit a meeting place where they were supposed...
Rubio Admits That America Is Fighting Israel’s War
Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that the U.S. was forced into the war with Iran by Israel while speaking...
Democratic Leaders Avoid Criticizing Trump’s Iran War. Now Voters Will Have a Say.
If Democratic voters wanted party leaders to give a strong, unanimous condemnation of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, they...
The Regime Change President Who Won’t (or Can’t) Actually Change Any Regimes
Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on March 1, 2026, in Washington,...
Tel Aviv analyst shelters from 30 missile sirens in 48 hours, says Iran ‘won’t recover’
The past 48 hours in Tel Aviv have been unlike anything seen before, a leading security analyst has said, as...
