ICE has cycled through multiple acting leaders in recent years and has lacked a Senate-confirmed director. No successor has been publicly named. The ICE director position requires Senate confirmation; Lyons had only ever served in an acting capacity.
Read MoreLooming over everything is a proposed $16 billion cut to the HHS – budget cuts that would gut the very public health infrastructure Kennedy claims to be rebuilding. The contradiction between his Make America Healthy Again rhetoric and the administration's proposed funding slashes is the central tension of these hearings, and Congress has six more opportunities to press it.
Read MoreThe Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. It has not used that power since World War II. Today's vote is the fourth time this year it has chosen not to. The 60-day deadline may finally force the question that four votes have managed to avoid.
Read MoreThe legal question is not a small one. Critics argue that while the "target" is foreign, the surveillance inevitably results in the "incidental" collection of millions of Americans' emails and phone calls. The practical effect is a near-total stranglehold on modern privacy.
Read MoreThat traffic has been at a near-standstill since February. The blockade doesn't fix that – it doubles down on it, betting that economic strangulation will force Iran back to the table faster than bombs would. It is a significant bet. Iran has survived sanctions before. Whether it survives this depends on how long the rest of the world is willing to pay $100 a barrel to find out.
Read MoreSwalwell has denied everything and says he will not drop out, a position that, as of tonight, he appears to be holding alone. Whether he survives the next 48 hours as a candidate, let alone a congressman, may be the most consequential question in California politics right now.
Read MoreThere is a structural problem here that no amount of negotiating can easily solve. The U.S. wants a permanent commitment. Iran wants to survive. Those two goals are not obviously compatible, and 21 hours in a room in Islamabad was never going to bridge that gap on its own.
Read MoreWhat is unfolding in Los Angeles is a preview of what happens when decades of underinvestment in public education meets a workforce that can no longer afford to absorb the cost. The striking workers are not the cause of this crisis – instead they are its most visible symptom. Tuesday will make that impossible to ignore.
Read MoreMelania Trump has long cultivated a public image of quiet removal from her husband's chaos. Today she stepped into the center of it, on her own terms, on her own timeline, and apparently without asking anyone's permission.
Read MoreBut somewhere on the Moon, at a bright spot on the edge between the near side and the far side, there is already a place that bears her name in the hearts of the people who put it there. In a week when the news has been dominated by profanity-laced ultimatums, intelligence wars, and military escalation, four people traveling farther from home than any humans in history took a moment to grieve, to remember, and to love. It was, quietly, the most human thing to happen all week.
Read MoreFor now, the threat of immediate strikes on Iranian infrastructure has been removed. This pause in hostilities provides a crucial moment for international leaders to weigh in. Many hope that the talks in Islamabad will lead to a permanent resolution. Both sides still maintain their military readiness. This two-week window offers a rare chance in this conflict to avoid further escalation.
Read MoreThe strategic logic is not hard to follow. Russian intelligence reportedly told Iran that Israel's power grid is characterized by a high degree of isolation, and unlike European nations, Israel does not import electricity from neighboring countries. This means that damaging even a few central components could trigger a total and prolonged energy collapse. Russia has spent years learning exactly how to do this to Ukraine. Now it is teaching Iran to do it to Israel.
Read MoreUltimatums only work if someone believes them. Trump has now moved this particular deadline three times. Iran has noticed.
Read MoreBy formally assuming the presidency, Min Aung Hlaing is attempting to shift his international standing from coup leader to head of state. The distinction matters enormously for sanctions relief, diplomatic recognition, and access to international institutions. It is a bid to normalize his authority, not just consolidate power.
Read MoreThese removals reflect a deliberate and accelerating effort by the Trump administration to reshape the U.S. military in its own ideological image, prioritizing loyalty over institutional knowledge at a moment when the nation is actively at war. The timing is what makes this particularly striking. These firings did not occur during a period of peace or transition, instead they occurred while American aircraft are being shot down over Iran and U.S. forces are engaged in the most significant Middle East conflict in decades.
Read MoreHer dismissal, coming just weeks after the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, signals an emerging pattern within the Trump cabinet, one where even loyal, longtime allies are not immune from the President's frustration when they fail to fully execute his agenda. With two cabinet secretaries ousted in under a month, questions are mounting about stability within the administration and who, if anyone, in Trump's inner circle can consider their position truly secure.
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