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President Donald Trump just blew up Iran’s nuclear program. That was the easy part. What Trump has done in arranging a tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel, after hammering the table with 14 MOPs dropped on Iran’s most critical underground nuclear enrichment plants, is “a return to 19th Century Great Power projection,” says author and investigative reporter Peter Schweizer on the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast. Co-host Eric Eggers adds, “the rizz is back.” But success in diplomacy in the Middle East has never been simple, lasting, or without causing other problems. U.S. foreign policy there has…

Executives with General Motors (GM) are working hard to curry favor with President Donald Trump’s administration, even as some of the automaker’s initiatives — including trying to preserve Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates and subsidies — do not align with the president’s agenda. When Trump first announced tariffs on imported cars to the United States market, GM CEO Mary Barra jumped to seemingly support the tariffs despite the automaker importing millions of foreign-made cars every few years. “The Detroit stalwart imported more cars into the U.S. last year than any other automaker, even Japan’s Toyota,” Bloomberg UK reported last month: Nearly…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that being “reflexively anti-Bibi Netanyahu, reflexively anti-Trump” is the cause of “a lot of” Democratic opposition to the Iran strikes, Trump “violating the Constitution” is another factor, and Iran has launched a PR campaign on social media, including TikTok, and “we’ve got to do a better job of making people understand, the bully and the bad guy in that region is Iran.” While talking about polling on the strikes on Iran, Jones said, “[T]he difference between ISIS and Iran is ISIS did…

Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday excoriated Emil Bove, a top Trump Justice Department official and nominee for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that he was uniquely unqualified for the seat on the federal bench. Bove, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee along with four district court nominees. His nomination has come under fire this week after allegations that he suggested flouting court orders to fulfill Trump’s political agenda. His nomination has become the first flashpoint judicial confirmation battle of Trump’s…

Mostafa Sadati-Armaki, along with his wife and three children, died in the latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reports Top Iranian nuclear scientist Sayyed Mostafa Sadati-Armaki and his entire family have been killed in Israel’s latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reported on Monday.According to the state-run Iranian outlet, Sadati-Armaki was a member of the “scientific elite.” He was killed along with his wife, three children and in-laws in Israel’s latest strikes on the capital of the Islamic Republic.Tasnim stated that their deaths came as the Israeli military was deliberately targeting residential areas and civilians that had “nothing…

Maureen S. Riordan is the Senior Counsel, and Acting Chief of the Voting Section, part of the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice. She was appointed to that role in May 2025. She is the top elections enforcement official in the Civil Division at the Trump/Bondi Department of Justice. She has spent nearly her entire professional career at the Department of Justice. Lawyers close to the Department of Justice tell the Gateway Pundit that she’s nowc the “top dog” for election crimes. From 2021-2025, Riordan worked for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sues states to clean up…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at efforts to improve prior authorization, commercializing Bell Labs’ IP portfolio, a new billionaire from Caris Life Sciences’ IPO, a big funding round for robots to do cataract surgery, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. AFP via Getty Images On Monday, representatives from multiple health insurance companies said they had pledged to the Department of Health and Human Services that they would improve their prior authorization procedures, the bureaucratic process required for them to pay for certain tests, medications or procedures. The insurers vowed to reduce the number…

Pope Leo XIV told Catholic believers during a weekly event on Wednesday that he welcomed the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran with “hope,” advising the nations to abandon plans for “revenge” and embrace a path to long-term peace. The Bishop of Rome made his remarks during a General Audience, which occurs every Wednesday, at the Vatican. Pope Leo has on several occasions since his recent ascent to the leadership of the Church addressed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, as well as other conflicts such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These were his latest comments…

There is “no doubt” the big, beautiful bill will make it to President Donald Trump’s desk, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. When asked if he believes the Senate will be able to make this happen soon, with Trump’s preferred July 4 deadline in mind, Whatley expressed confidence in Congress. “The President’s made it very clear to the leadership in the House and the Senate. He wants this bill. He wants this bill now. Senator Thune has said that they’re going to have it on the floor this week and start…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže stated that the American strikes on Iran has given NATO members reassurance that President Donald Trump will act militarily when he feels he needs to do so and there was also “the sheer power projection and the force of it, which was also very important as a demonstration of strength and a demonstration of the willingness to engage.” Host Jim Sciutto asked, “So, first, I wonder what the reaction to the U.S. strikes on Iran has been at the NATO Summit there. And is it…