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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Pete Hegseth may have violated the laws of war with a simple phrase

Brian Finucane

A close up of Eric Adams, whose hands are clasped in front of his mouth.

NYC moves to quit defending Eric Adams in sexual assault suit

Clarissa-Jan Lim

President Donald Trump gives remarks during a "Save America Rally.”

Next stop, SCOTUS? Trump loses latest appellate step in his ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN

Jordan Rubin

Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The DOJ’s ethics proposal would have a corrupt fox guarding the henhouse

Barbara McQuade

House Oversight Committee subpoenas Bondi over Epstein files

Sydney Carruth

DOJ reportedly lowers standards for federal prosecutors, adding to an unfortunate pattern

Steve Benen

Jared Kushner.

Jared Kushner’s conflicts of interest become even more controversial

Steve Benen

Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

‘Good thing he’s out’: Trump jabs counterterrorism official who resigned in protest of Iran war

Steve Benen

Dagen McDowell.

Fox Business hosts fret over Trump’s war with Iran

Ja'han Jones

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Today’s Illinois primaries are the first test of the 2028 presidential race

Leigh Giangreco

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A messy Senate primary with 2028 implications: Illinois takes center stage

Nnamdi Egwuonwu

Iran's parliament speaker and former Tehran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani speaks to members of the press.
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Iran highlights: U.S. counterterrorism official resigns in protest of war, Israel says it killed Iranian security chief

Barack Obama speaks with Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral.

Trump clings to self-defeating argument about Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran

Steve Benen

Steve Witkoff speaks in the Oval Office, seen in focus behind a statue of a jet in the foreground.

Witkoff expected to meet with senators on Iran war amid mounting questions

David Rohde, Vaughn Hillyard, Julia Jester & Ian Sherwood

A crowd of people wave Haitian flags and hold signs calling for an extension to Haitian TPS.

Trump’s plan to send these refugees home fits his discriminatory plan

Sumayyah Waheed

Photoillustration of a spotlight on Donald Trump, smiling over a red voting ballot.

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

Hayes Brown

Crews conduct overflights of controlled burns taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump approves oil project helmed by company responsible for the worst spill in U.S. history

Rachel Maddow

A commercial ship is anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump does himself no favors by boasting about his predictions on the war with Iran

Steve Benen

Jared Kushner speaks at the "Board of Peace" meeting during the World Economic Forum.

Ex-Obama ethics czar rips Kushner for seeking billions from Middle East regimes

Allison Detzel

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in the East Room of the White House.

As war continues, Trump points to support from his many secret, unnamed friends

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump speaks to the media as Vice President JD Vance listens in the Oval Office of the White House.

Four reasons why the White House’s new anti-fraud task force is destined to fail

Steve Benen

A bustling hallway in the emergency department.

A growing number of Americans are falling off a health insurance cliff. We’re seeing it firsthand.

Hasan Nadeem & Vin Gupta

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith attend a news conference at the Justice Department on Dec. 4, 2025, announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr.

Why Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon doesn’t apply to alleged pipe bomb planter Brian Cole

Jordan Rubin

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.

NIH head Bhattacharya dismisses criticism over funding delay as ‘political noise’

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch from above.

Democrat decries Esptein’s ‘disturbing’ behavior at New Mexico ranch amid probe

Allison Detzel

An anti-Project 2025 sign in front of Tucson's Federal Building in Arizona.

The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women

Ali Velshi & Amel Ahmed

Merly Streep looks on while wearing black framed glasses.

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

Ali Vitali

Miguel Díaz-Canel walks toward the camera with his hand on his suit jacket's button.

Trump: ‘I can do anything I want’ with Cuba

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

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

U.S. Embassy in Baghdad targeted by Iran

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

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  1. 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

  2. Cars are stuck in traffic at sunrise in Los Angeles.

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

    Paul Waldman

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Pete Hegseth.

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

    Hayes Brown

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Hilary Duff poses.

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

    Christina Wyman

  11. A closeup photo of Pete Hegseth surrounded by bombs

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

    Jeff McCausland

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