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Brian Finucane is a senior adviser with the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group. 

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Trump’s vanity projects are becoming a burden for Republican candidates

Hayes Brown

Merly Streep looks on while wearing black framed glasses.

Meryl Streep backs women’s history with major donation — and a pointed message

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FILE - Commander of Iran's Basij paramilitary force, Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani, gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Israel says 2 top Iranian officials killed in airstrikes in blow to Tehran leadership

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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Nnamdi Egwuonwu

A photo of Donald Trump taken with a slow shutter speed. Part of an American flag is visible on the left-hand side of the photo.

Trump’s failures as a leader are glaring during his Iran war

Nicholas Grossman

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a lunch with the Kennedy Center Board Members.

Trump blurts out GOP congressman’s terminal diagnosis in a bizarre moment

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Three federal agents talk to two men in a white truck.

Louisiana’s empty crawfish processing plants shine a light on Trump’s visa restrictions

Kevin McGill

Jeanine Pirro during a news conference at the Department of Justice.

Jeanine Pirro struggles after racking up a series of embarrassing defeats

Steve Benen

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Brendan Carr doesn’t have the law on his side. So he’s trying a menacing shortcut.

Paul Farhi

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits in a blue leather chair in front of a blue curtain.

Federal judge temporarily blocks RFK Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy

Will McDuffie

This close-up shot shows Donald Trump, left, and Keir Starmer leaning toward each other from the profile.

After alienating allies and declaring victory, Trump ‘demands’ foreign help in war

Steve Benen

Donald Trump looks toward the audience as he holds a poster.

No, the Supreme Court didn’t say Trump has ‘absolute right to charge TARIFFS’ differently

Jordan Rubin

Brendan Carr speaks as he sits during a meeting.

Team Trump gives massive clue that it knows Iran war isn’t going well

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump with the US flag behind him.

Trump’s top priority is splitting Republicans — and could reshape the Senate

Kevin Frey

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at President Donald Trump.

Trump gives Putin’s Russia a pass on assisting Iran during U.S. war

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump.

Trump is about to find out Cuba is very different from Venezuela

Daniel R. DePetris

A man holds a candle and a sign about [protection tps for Haitians.

Supreme Court takes up issue of temporary immigration protections in Haiti, Syria cases

Jordan Rubin

Greg Bovino, center, squints in the light beside multiple federal immigration agents.

Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to retire, reports say

Julianne McShane

Street vendors chat during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Islandwide blackout hits Cuba as it struggles with deepening energy crisis

The Associated Press

Donald Trump, wearing a red "Gulf of America" hat, is seen from behind a chainlink fence. Rows of bunk beds are seen in the background.

Why Trump suddenly doesn’t want anyone talking about one of his biggest campaign promises

Zeeshan Aleem

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference.

States pursue Live Nation anti-trust case without feds

Ja'han Jones

People hold their belongings while walking through a big warehouse-like building with tables and chairs monitored by people in army uniforms.

Waking in terror: Thousands of Afghan refugees at U.S. camp in limbo amid Iran war

Allison Detzel

‘Monumental strategic stupidity’: Trump faces wrath of Senate Democrats over Iran

Lawrence: When asked, Trump refused to honor fallen U.S. troops in his war

Trump’s decisions on war are ‘not based on reality’, key House Democrat says

Media Matters president warns: Trump an ‘autocrat’ seeking control of the news media

‘A big flop’: Justice Department struggling to enact revenge and retribution on Trump’s enemies

U.S. Embassy in Baghdad targeted by Iran

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    These Americans aren’t as worried about gas prices. If not for Trump, there’d be more of them.

    Paul Waldman

  2. Still from "The Voice of Hind Rajab" with Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani and Clara Khoury.

    ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is a paralyzing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza

    Ayman Mohyeldin

  3. A compilation of stills from this year's Academy Award for Best Picture nominees. Top row, left to right: The Secret Agent, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Train Dreams, Hamnet. Middle row: Sinners, One Battle After Another, F1; Marty Supreme. Bottom row: Train Dreams, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, The Secret Agent, Frankenstein.

    This best picture nominee is proof the Oscars have completely lost the plot

    Anthony L. Fisher

  4. Workers sit on a wall against the Dubai backdrop of the city skyline as they take a break.

    Gulf leaders now face the shockwaves of a war they did not start

    Ayman Mohyeldin

  5. Pete Hegseth.

    How two words from Pete Hegseth sent a chilling message about America’s rules of engagement

    Hayes Brown

  6. A community member holds a sign calling for a national boycott of Target stores.

    We started boycotting Target for rolling back DEI. It’s given us more reasons since then.

    Nekima Levy Armstrong

  7. A plume of purple-looking smoke rises above a city, contrasting an orange sky.

    The cost of Trump’s Iran war is even more infuriating than it sounds

    Philip Bump

  8. A person's hand is seen holding an unfolded piece of paper. The paper, drawn on with marker, says, "Black Lives Mater any life." Below it are four ovals colored in with different shades of brown.

    How a first-grader’s misspelled ‘Black Lives Matter’ note became a federal case

    Nicholas Mitchell

  9. Hilary Duff poses.

    Hilary Duff’s new album normalizes family estrangement. Some of us need that.

    Christina Wyman

  10. A closeup photo of Pete Hegseth surrounded by bombs

    The insulting spectacle of Pete Hegseth’s Iran war news conferences

    Jeff McCausland

  11. The Live Nation logo is displayed at a Live Nation corporate office.

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