As conflict intensifies across the Middle East and pressure mounts on Iran’s military and political leadership, a long-shadowed figure inside the Islamic Republic has stepped fully into power. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as the country’s new supreme leader, inheriting authority at one of the most dangerous moments in the regime’s history. Yet […]
This past week, President Donald Trump accomplished what seven presidents before him never could by cutting the head off the snake of the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 47 years, this once-prosperous nation was turned into a prison of oppression, censorship, and violence by radical Shia […]
President Donald Trump inherited an economy sputtering from four years of the Biden administration’s economic strategy of overspending, overregulating, and a simple refusal to recognize that COVID-19 was over. He won in 2024 because voters still remember how the economy flourished during Trump’s first administration and didn’t want four more years of stunted-growth policies from […]
The National Intelligence Council bridges the intelligence and policy communities to provide policymakers with intelligence assessments. It famously produces National Intelligence Estimates and makes other judgments that gain legitimacy from the claim that they represent the consensus of 18 different intelligence agencies. That, of course, is nonsense. The Central Intelligence Agency assesses problem sets that […]
The news broke last Friday like a thunderclap: Russia has been feeding Iran the precise locations of U.S. warships and aircraft — real-time, actionable intelligence used to kill Americans. Six U.S. service members are already dead in Kuwait, struck by an Iranian drone. The CIA’s station in Riyadh was hit, killing another. According to officials who spoke to […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that strikes on Iranian oil depots causing "black rain" could lead to respiratory problems as toxic pollutants disperse through the air. "Black rain," also referred to as "acidic rain," falling over Tehran "is indeed a danger" to the city's inhabitants, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who chairs the Homeland Security panel, have a chilly relationship, which could spill out during Mullin's confirmation hearing next week.
Trump vowed to keep oil flowing as the Iran conflict drove gas prices up 59 cents nationwide, creating new political pressure ahead of the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump has tapped Erika Kirk, the widow of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to serve on the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.
U.S. officials say American and Israeli forces are gaining control of Iranian airspace after striking more than 3,000 targets in the first week of conflict.
