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Trump Calls for 'Harmony' After 'Weak' Iranian Attack

President says nobody was injured in Iran's response to bombing of nuclear facilities

(Newser) - Iran fired missiles at the largest US military base in the Middle East on Monday—but President Trump signaled that the US does not plan to retaliate. He said "hardly any damage was done" by the barrage of missiles fired at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Trump said...

Trump: 'Everyone, Keep Oil Prices Down'

'I'm watching,' he says

(Newser) - Oil prices have remained relatively stable despite US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites—and President Trump wants them to stay that way.
  • "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. "YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE
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Trump Aims to Oust GOP Congressman After Criticism

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky called attacks on Iran unconstitutional

(Newser) - GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has apparently ticked off President Trump one too many times. The president's political operation has launched a campaign to oust the Kentucky Republican, reports Axios .
  • The 54-year-old Massie has libertarian views and a history of opposing Trump's initiatives , notes Time . Most recently, he was
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Trump's Two-Week Deadline Wasn't Real

President was already all but certain he would authorize strikes on Iran, say multiple accounts

(Newser) - Several outlets are offering behind-the-scenes accounts of how and when President Trump gave the green light to bomb Iranian nuclear sites , and they're unanimous about one key point. When Trump said on Thursday that he would make a decision within two weeks, the deadline was a deliberate deception to...

Mahmoud Khalil Addresses Supporters, Describes Detention

The US permanent resident is back home, says detention 'felt like kidnapping'

(Newser) - Mahmoud Khalil gave his first interview since being released from ICE detention to the New York Times , and he tells the newspaper the moment he was taken into custody "felt like kidnapping." The 30-year-old Palestinian, a US permanent resident with a green card, was in the lobby of...

Experts Suggest Iran Strike Is 'Incomplete'

Even as Trump insists sites were 'obliterated'

(Newser) - President Trump late Sunday used the word "obliteration" to describe what the US strikes did to Iran's nuclear facilities, but that's not what some early assessments indicate.
  • Trump's post on Truth Social: "Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by
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Analysis: Trump Bets Presidency on Attack

Criticism of foreign entanglements marked his political rise

(Newser) - Other presidents have become ensnared in foreign fights. But for President Trump, the issue is complicated by the fact that he rose to political prominence by relentlessly criticizing them for it—especially George W. Bush for the Iraq War. What happens next, Michael Birnbaum and Natalie Allison write in a...

Pakistan, India Differ on a Trump Peace Prize

President receives new nomination a day after saying he wouldn't win

(Newser) - A day after President Trump, who's been up for the honor multiple times, discounted his chances of winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan's government announced it's nominated him again. Trump deserves the award "in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent...

Iran State TV to Trump: 'You Started It, and We'll Finish It'

But how Tehran responds militarily to the US strikes was not immediately clear

(Newser) - How Iran will respond to the US strikes on three of its nuclear facilities remains unclear, but a commentator on state TV delivered a stark warning, reports the Times of Israel :
  • "You started it, and we'll finish it."
  • The male commentator also declared that every US citizen
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Trump Addresses Nation After Bombing Iran

'Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace'

(Newser) - President Trump gave a brief address to the nation Saturday night to explain his decision to have US bombers strike three Iranian nuclear sites —and he warned that more strikes would follow unless Iran acquiesced. "Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace," he said,...

US Bombed Nuclear Sites in Iran, Trump Announces

'All planes are safely on their way home,' president posts

(Newser) - US warplanes dropped bombs on nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced, ending the global uncertainty about his intentions in the Israel-Iran conflict that he had said might last another two weeks. He posted online that the planes had left Iranian airspace after striking three targets. "All...

Vance Calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose,' Rips Cali Leaders

Gov. Newsom, LA Mayor Bass push back as National Guard deployment sparks a legal fight

(Newser) - Vice President JD Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday, sharply criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass for their opposition to recent federal immigration raids. Vance accused both leaders of making it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs and claimed their rhetoric encouraged violence...

Trump: My Intel Chief Is 'Wrong' on Iran's Nukes

Tulsi Gabbard, meanwhile, says her testimony in Congress on the matter was taken out of context

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday said that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" when she previously said that the US believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, suggesting it would be "very hard to stop" Israel's strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a...

Judge Gives Harvard a Win on Foreign Students

School can continue to host them as case proceeds in court

(Newser) - A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration's efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students, per the AP and the Harvard Crimson . An order from US District Judge Allison Burroughs preserves the ability of Harvard to host foreign students while the case is decided. It marks...

Noonan: Trump Has a Smart Play to Make on Iran
Noonan: Amid Iran
Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear
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Noonan: Amid Iran Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear

Before 'epochal' decision, Trump should give Congress a say in the matter

(Newser) - "The price a government or party pays for being dramatically wrong can have foreign-policy reverberations that last generations," writes columnist Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . She's referring to the "epochal" year of 2003, when the US blundered into war with Iraq. Two decades later,...

Trump: I Want Special Prosecutor for 2020 Vote

President insists again that he won

(Newser) - President Trump said earlier this year that missing out on the chance to serve consecutive terms has worked out OK in the end for him. But he's still not about to let the 2020 election results rest. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the president called for a...

Trump Deploys His Favorite Deadline: 'Two Weeks'

President has frequently used it over both his administrations on difficult matters

(Newser) - When President Trump informed the world on Thursday that he would make his decision on whether to bomb Iran within two weeks , it was a familiar tactic. "As almost everyone in Washington is by now aware, 'two weeks' is one of Mr. Trump's favorite units of time,...

Court Sides With Trump on Use of National Guard Troops in LA

Trump can keep control of troops as lawsuit continues to unfold

(Newser) - An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids, the AP reports. The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition...

Stumped Players Have Awkward Trump Session

Soccer team sidesteps presidential question about women playing on men's teams

(Newser) - Instead of being allowed the usual preparation time before a match that evening, an Italian team of soccer stars was shepherded into the Oval Office on Wednesday to meet President Trump—a 16-minute session that covered Iran, the US Civil War, and transgender athletes and overall was, one player said,...

This Time, Trump Is Silent About Juneteenth

White House had promised a proclamation

(Newser) - President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He once claimed to have made it "famous." But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to...

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