With Assad Challenged, a Push to Cut Syria’s Ties to Iran Grows More Unlikely Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance with Tehran. Rebels’ shock advance has dampened those hopes. 12/4/2024 - 3:25 am | View Link
Defeat the Iranian threat by empowering the people of Iran Those U.S. sanctions are already on the books, but Biden stopped enforcing them on day one of his administration, allowing Iranian oil sales to skyrocket form 400,000 barrels per day in January 2021, ... 12/4/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
US deepens sanctions on Iran's 'shadow' oil fleet The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as part of what the U.S. Treasury ... 12/3/2024 - 7:53 pm | View Link
Exclusive-US, UAE discussed lifting Assad sanctions in exchange for break with Iran, sources say By Maya Gebeily, Parisa Hafezi and Alexander Cornwell BEIRUT/GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates have discussed with each other the possibility of lifting sanctions on ... 12/2/2024 - 12:29 am | View Link
Iran to "substantially increase" uranium enrichment capacity over IAEA rebuke led by U.S. and allies A rebuke of Iran led by the U.S. and its close allies at the global nuclear watchdog agency has drawn a vow by the Islamic republic to further ramp up uranium enrichment. 11/21/2024 - 11:35 pm | View Link
“Nearly 100 former senior U. S. diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have urged Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to allow for a full review of the government’s files on former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to be national intelligence director,” the AP reports.
“The former officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, said they were ‘alarmed’ by the choice of Gabbard to oversee all 18 U.
Washington Poat: “Hegseth has been told not to expect Trump to apply pressure to Republican senators to get him over the finish line, according to two people familiar with the discussions.”
Playbook: “Depending how his nomination ends up, you can look back on Trump’s decision as either the kiss of death for Hegseth’s nomination, or the thing that gets him over the finish line with Republican senators by forcing him to earn it on his own.”
“The early morning killing of a top health insurance executive in midtown Manhattan Wednesday has unleashed a flurry of rage and frustration from social media users over denials of their medical claims, a public display of Americans’ pent-up anger at the nation’s complex health insurance industry,” CNN reports.
Washington Post: “In posts that trended on multiple social media platforms, users mocked Thompson’s death by invoking health insurance terms, saying their empathy for his loss had been ‘denied.’ Other users implied the killing was essentially merited, citing UnitedHealthcare’s frequent rejections of customers’ requests.”
“Many of the posts were liked by tens of thousands of users, some of whom chimed in with their own stories of struggling to get the corporate giant to cover their health insurance claims.”
Daily Beast: Disturbing trend as Internet thirsts after CEO’s assassin.
New York Times: “Broadly speaking, polls show most Americans do want change in many of the areas where Mr. Trump has promised sweeping reform, including the economy and immigration. But when asked about specific policies and the effects on their daily lives, Americans, including many who voted for Mr. Trump, aren’t always as supportive and often have mixed opinions…”
“That’s not to say that polling suggests all of Mr.
“President-elect Trump has assembled an administration of unprecedented, mind-boggling wealth — smashing his own first-term record by billions of dollars,” Axios reports.
“That’s even without counting the ballooning fortunes of his prized outside adviser and the world’s richest man: Elon Musk.”
“It’s not hyperbole to call this a government of billionaires. Whether it acts as a government for billionaires — as Democrats argue is inevitable — could test and potentially tarnish Trump’s populist legacy.”
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