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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

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Trump Still Thinks His Confusion Can Crush Iran

It has been more than nine weeks since President Trump started his war with Iran, and somehow he’s still keeping everyone guessing — about whether...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Trump’s Iran War Is Now Officially Illegal

Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his widely unpopular military misadventure in the Middle East is going great and ahead of...

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Can the U.S. and Iran Avoid Going Back to War?

President Donald Trump blinked on Tuesday and unilaterally extended the Iran War cease-fire, citing the need for more time for peace negotiations to...

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Patel: I’m No Erratic Drunk. Now Give Me $250 Million.

FBI director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday, alleging that the...

20.04.2026 10

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Pete Hegseth Adds Press and Pulp Fiction to His Sacrilege

Pete Hegseth is a man of simple pleasures — Donald Trump, lethal violence, maximal posturing, push-ups, and Jesus — and he’s lucky enough to...

16.04.2026 10

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U.S. F-15 Shot Down Over Iran, One Crewmember Rescued

An American F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southern Iran on Friday, and one of the two crewmembers has reportedly been rescued. The condition of...

03.04.2026 10

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Is Trump Walking Out on His War?

For weeks, President Trump has been issuing bellicose threats to Iran over its de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Reopening the strait and...

31.03.2026 10

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Will Trump Order an Invasion of Iran?

While diplomatic discussions appear to be underway between the U.S. and Iran, as of now there is still no end in sight for the Iran war. It’s also...

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Who Will Trump Blame for the Iran War?

Though President Donald Trump continues to insist that the war with Iran is a spectacular success, four weeks after the U.S. and Israel attacked, the...

28.03.2026 10

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Will the Iran War End Soon? Trump’s Shifting Timetables

How long will President Donald Trump’s new war with Iran last? That depends on whom, how, or when you’re asking (or how freaked out the markets...

21.03.2026 20

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Scenes From the Iran War

Two weeks later, there’s still no reason to believe the war in Iran will end anytime soon, and even if it did, so much damage has already been done....

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Making Sense of the Epstein Files, One Search at a Time

For years, everyone wanted to know what was in the Epstein files. Now, millions of documents have been made public by Congress, albeit with countless...

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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files?

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