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The optics struck many on social media as jarring.

Britain also initially refused to allow the same but Prime Minister Keir Starmer has now authorized their use for “collective self-defense”.

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Lindsey Graham and more appear in the “NewsNight” montage.

“Where is the lie?” asked one critic.

The late night host mocked Trump for doing exactly what he once predicted Barack Obama would do. 

The “Late Show” host suggested the military strike may be more about distraction than any actual threat to the nation. 

The “Daily Show” host tore into the president for dragging the nation into a war that he has failed to justify. 

The military campaign has killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sunk at least 10 Iranian warships and struck more than 1,000 targets.

The president used a somber occasion to brag about his ballroom … and his taste in drapes. 

President Trump on Monday slammed Democrats for criticizing his administration’s strikes in Iran over the weekend. “The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the United States and Israel, on Iran,” Trump wrote in a Monday evening Truth Social post.…
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Vice President JD Vance dismissed the notion that the U.S. operation in Iran would lead to a prolonged conflict on Monday, saying there is no way Trump would let Washington end up in a multiyear conflict. “What’s so different about this is that the president has clearly defined what he wants to accomplish,” Vance told…

The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by multiple drones on Monday following President Trump’s attacks on Iran.  “The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was subjected to an attack by two drones according to initial estimates, resulting in a limited fire and minor material damage to the building,” Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense wrote…

He claimed they were addressing an “imminent threat,” while citing longer term goals as well. 

As U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, the growing death toll in the Middle Eastern country includes a number of senior leadership officials. Among those killed in Iran is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled the country since 1989. In total, over 500 Iranians have died as of 6 a.m. EST Monday,…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said Iran posed an “imminent threat” to the United States following a series of strikes in the region. “There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately…

“The American people should ask questions and demand answers when our blood is shed,” said combat veteran Johnny “Joey” Jones.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday knocked Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for criticizing U.S. strikes in Iran. “She’s a former congressman for a reason. What is it — America first is the following. Make sure that no regime when wishes to hurt America can, to make sure that they don’t have a ballistic…

Watch the moment that an incensed Hillary Clinton learns that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) took photographs of her during her closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill

In her opening statement to the House Oversight Committee, Hilary Clinton pulled no punches when she called out its investigation for being “designed to protect one political party and one public official rather than to seek truth and justice”.

This marks the full defeat of one of Trump’s earliest autocratic moves to consolidate power over civil society.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday said President Trump could attempt to use a national emergency declaration to cancel midterm elections.  Greene said she could “see it” happening in a post on the social platform X made in response to a post from radio host Shannon Joy.  “Trump doesn’t seem to care about…

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), a former Interior Secretary during President Trump’s first term, said Monday he will not seek reelection this November. Zinke, who has represented Montana in the lower chamber for three non-consecutive terms, wrote in a letter to Montanans that he has “quietly undergone” multiple surgeries since returning to Congress in January 2023…

Democrats eyeing a White House bid in 2028 have unanimously opposed President Trump’s strikes on Iran but have split on their rationale, highlighting different approaches on what could be a crucial issue. While many expect the 2028 presidential race to be dominated by domestic economic issues, the differing views offer an early glimpse at how…

Tucker Carlson reportedly sought to talk President Trump out of going to war with Iran, The New York Times reported Monday. In a lengthy piece that outlined how Trump, at the urging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to launch military action against Iran, the newspaper reported that Carlson met with the president three…

More than half of Americans expect the recent strikes against Iran to grow into a long-term conflict, according to a poll released Monday. In the CNN poll, 56 percent of respondents said they believed “a long-term military conflict between the US and Iran” is “very likely” or “somewhat likely.” Thirty percent in the poll said…