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How Malta to Jordan, Usually About 10 Hours, Turned Into Four Days

While I am generally an optimistic person, I tried to be realistic in assessing the potential of war breaking out in the region before agreeing to...

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Daoud Kuttab

Is JD Vance Rooting for the Iran War to Fail?

If you want to understand how Donald Trump is managing the Iran war, a glimpse at the president’s recent public statements tells you all you need to...

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Alex Shephard

Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Investigation Into Jerome Powell

A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas directed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Kristi Noem Gave Huge Contract to Company Accused of People Smuggling

Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave a border wall contract to a company that illegally smuggled workers into the country, provided...

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Hafiz Rashid

Hegseth Quietly Admits U.S. Might Be Behind Iran Girls’ School Strike

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged Friday that the U.S. military had opened a comprehensive investigation into the attack on an Iranian...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Tells White Reporter Immigrants Don’t Have “Your Genetics”

Donald Trump rambled about immigrants’ bad “genetics” Friday during an unfiltered white supremacist rant.

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Edith Olmsted

The Latest Economic Numbers Are Brutal for Trump

The likelihood is growing that the economy will be in recession when voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Goldman, Sachs on Thursday...

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Timothy Noah

Trump Deploys Marine Unit That Could Conduct Ground Operations in Iran

The U.S. is deploying to the Middle East a Marine expeditionary unit that can conduct ground operations if needed.

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Admits Putin Is Screwing Up His Plans in Iran War

Donald Trump admitted Friday that Russia is likely helping Iran in its war with the U.S., but doesn’t think it’s a big deal.

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Hafiz Rashid

Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the American military can drop bombs on scores of schoolchildren and not face serious media scrutiny...

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Greg Sargent

Trump Says Iran War Will Be Over “When I Feel It in My Bones”

Two weeks after he directed American forces to bomb Iran, Donald Trump has revealed he has no notion of when the war will end.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Dark Money Group Using Influencers to Take Down Gen Z Dem Candidate

A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for one negative social media post about progressive Illinois House of Representatives candidate Kat...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Lead Epstein Investigator Benefits From Limiting Probe

Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the District of Southern New York, has been tasked with investigating “people and institutions” tied to...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Seems to Be Selling National Security Briefing Details to Fans

The president is leveraging his position as commander in chief for another moneymaking scheme.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

House GOP Summons Epstein Prison Guard to Testify

A prison guard on duty during Jeffrey Epstein’s death has been asked to testify to the House Oversight Committee.

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Team Spirals Over Damning Report on Bungled Iran War Planning

The Trump administration and its fellow Republicans are going nuts over a CNN report that the White House didn’t adequately plan for Iran closing...

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Hafiz Rashid

War and Football? What Kind of Sick Mind Thinks That Video Is Cool?

You’ve surely seen or read about the video the White House put out last week that interspersed bombing footage from Iran with punishing hits from...

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Michael Tomasky

Hegseth Goes Off on CNN—and Cheers Planned David Ellison Takeover

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took some pot shots at the media Friday during a press conference and openly salivated over the coming right-wing...

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Hafiz Rashid

Hegseth Bars Reporter Who Revealed Aides’ Reaction to Dead Troops Quip

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is once again cracking down on the journalists who cover it.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

GDP Growth Shrank Dramatically Under Trump—While Inflation Rose

U.S. economic growth at the end of 2025 was half as strong as previously estimated.

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Edith Olmsted

Europe Outraged as Trump Delivers Russia a Big Win Amid Iran War

European leaders are incensed after President Trump temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil to remedy oil costs after his war on Iran sent prices...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Pete Hegesth Admits They’re Using AI in Iran War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admitted that the U.S. military is using “every tool of AI” in the war on Iran.

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Inner Circle Fractures Over Iran War

Vice President JD Vance appears desperate to create daylight between himself and Donald Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, as the president’s inner...

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Edith Olmsted

Watch: Trump Summons Treasury Secretary in Middle of Live Interview

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was abruptly yanked out of a Thursday interview with Sky News’s Wilfred Frost after President Trump demanded...

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Malcolm Ferguson

New Report Exposes Botched Iran War Planning as U.S. Death Toll Rises

The Trump administration seems to have been caught off guard by Iran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, once again showing a glaring lack of...

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Hafiz Rashid

The Trillion Dollar War Machine That Barreled Toward Iran

Donald Trump campaigned against “endless wars.” Yet in late February, he launched a war against Iran that has already killed over one thousand...

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Indigo Olivier

What Does Kristi Noem’s Firing Mean for a Hobbled FEMA?

In the days since President Trump announced that he was firing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary and replacing her with Oklahoma Senator...

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Heather Souvaine Horn

With the War in Iran, Trump Has Launched His Own Brand of Forever War

As the Iran war drags on and the death and devastation grow, I keep returning to a three-minute clip from a Republican presidential debate in February...

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Alex Shephard

Bush Sr. Solved the Acid Rain Problem. Trump Is Bringing It Back.

Images of black rain pelting one of the world’s oldest civilizations, after the United States and Israel bombed Iran’s oil depots this week, are...

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Liza Featherstone

Democratic Voters Don’t Want Vanilla Centrism

You can watch this conversation above, on Substack, or YouTube.

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Perry Bacon

Transcript: Trump Outburst over Oil Shock Goes Awry as Advisers Panic

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Outbursts over Oil Shock Go Off Rails as His Aides Quietly Panic

Donald Trump has been all over the place on the global oil shock created by his war amid Iran’s closing of the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this week...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Did Trump Kick Off a Global Food Crisis With Iran War?

The global trade crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran may soon become a global food crisis, as farmers facing surging fertilizer...

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Edith Olmsted

Air Force General Testifies That Bombing Civilians Always Backfires

The highest-ranking U.S. commander in Europe told Congress what has been obvious for decades—that bombing civilians is an evil and inhumane tactic...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Team Freaks Out Over CBS’s Newest Hire

The White House is weighing in on the internal affairs of private business—again.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Watch This GOP Senator Learn in Real Time Why the SAVE Act Is Bad

Republican Senator John Cornyn got a firsthand lesson in why the SAVE Act, backed by President Donald Trump, would suppress votes if passed.

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Hafiz Rashid

DOJ Spent Months Emailing Wrong Address in Quest for 2020 Revenge

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice spent weeks emailing its request for Oklahoma’s voter rolls to the wrong email address. Then it sued Oklahoma...

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Edith Olmsted

Here’s Which DOGE Goon Allegedly Took Social Security Data

The man accused of stealing sensitive social security data didn’t just potentially commit a massive security breach that could affect millions of...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

White House Flips Out Over FBI Warning of Iran Attack on U.S. Soil

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is demanding that ABC News retract reporting on a potential Iranian retaliatory attack on California...

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Malcolm Ferguson

One Democrat Votes Against Landmark Housing Bill Even Republicans Back

The Senate passed a landmark housing bill Thursday with a rare show of bipartisan support, but one Democrat still voted “no.”

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Hafiz Rashid

DHS Spokeswoman Helped Hire Husband for Ads That Got Kristi Noem Fired

A former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson was reportedly directly involved in awarding federal funds that ended up with her husband’s...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Posts Most Unhinged Video Yet Showing Iran War as a Game

The White House is taking the current Middle East conflict very seriously.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Here’s How Much Just One Week of Trump’s Iran War Cost Us

The Pentagon estimates that it spent more than $11.3 billion in the first week of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran. And every cent of that was...

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Edith Olmsted

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Iran Destroys U.S. Missile Defenses as Trump Insists Everything’s Fine

Iran has systematically destroyed U.S. missile defense systems across the Middle East over the last 13 days, opting to surgically dismantle the eyes...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Issues Dark Warning to Iran Men’s Soccer Team Ahead of World Cup

Donald Trump issued a veiled threat to Iran Thursday, but not one directly related to the war: It concerns their men’s national soccer team.

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Hafiz Rashid

Want Something to Feel Hopeful About? It Just Happened in Nepal.

A 35-year-old rapper turned mayor, Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, looks set to become Nepal’s youngest-ever prime minister. His party,...

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Brabim Karki

Trump Desperately Tries to Convince America Rising Oil Prices Are Good

Donald Trump is trying to spin skyrocketing oil prices caused by the war in Iran as good for the U.S.

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Hafiz Rashid

John Fetterman Says Investigating Iran Girls’ School Strike Is “Moot”

Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Says He Totally Knows Where All Iran Sleeper Cells Are in U.S.

Having Iranian sleeper cells floating around the country is apparently no big deal to the president.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling