Author: Leslie Stewart

Iran said Sunday it was ready to confront U.S. forces on the ground and accused Washington of secretly planning attacks while seeking negotiations to end the war.”The enemy is openly sending messages of negotiation and dialogue, but is secretly planning a ground attack,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to state media IRNA and state news agency Tasnim.”The United States does not realize that it is waiting for American soldiers to enter the ground so that they can set fires on the ground and punish our regional partners forever,” he added.His comments came hours after The Washington Post…

At CPAC, various speakers and conference attendees said that a better outcome in this war would be for the Iranian people to make a hard effort to overthrow the theocratic regime. So far, the popular uprising that President Trump encouraged at the start of the war has not occurred.During a panel discussion on Iran, moderator Mercedes Schlapp, a senior White House official in Trump’s first term, said a “prolonged” war “I don’t think is what the American people want.” She asked Hiba Wallace, a panelist with the nonprofit, nonpartisan Alliance Against Nuclear Iran, what her message would be to people…

“My destiny is to lead God’s people into wealth,” she said. Hill, who was sitting at the beginner’s table, took note. A retired banker and his grandmother set out with a plan to buy Bitcoin.”I hate when the uphill starts and I miss that uphill,” she later told NBC News. For Hill, the potential for cryptocurrencies to lead to wealth intrigued her.“I’m not hungry, but I have a lot of things I want to do,” she said. One of the ways she spends her days is traveling to Singapore with her husband and teaching instead to give back.She said a…

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In today’s newsletter: The Senate agrees to fund DHS, excluding ICE and Border Patrol, to end the shutdown. Key figures in Iranian politics emerge as possible negotiators with the US. And, at the age of 73, he is still a top college basketball coach.Here’s what you need to know today.Senate approves deal to fund most of DHS, but not ICEThe Senate unanimously agreed early Friday to fund the Department of Homeland Security after the 40-day shutdown, but not for immigration enforcement or deportation operations.The package was approved by voice vote at 2:20 a.m. after a marathon session, hours after President…

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Savannah Guthrie shares the tearing fear and heartache she experienced over Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance and the possibility that her mother was targeted because of her fame as a co-anchor on “Today.” “I don’t know. I think it’s because she’s my mother and someone thought, ‘Oh, that girl, that woman has money. We can… make some quick money.’ I mean, that makes sense,” Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb in her first interview since her mother went missing. “But we don’t know. I can’t bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. It’s my fault.”Watch the rest of Savannah Guthrie’s…

Michael Flynn and the Justice Department have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed over allegations that Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, was politically targeted in a 2017 case in which he initially pleaded guilty.The parties notified a federal judge in Florida on Wednesday that they had reached a settlement. The amount was not disclosed. Flynn had sued for $50 million in 2023, alleging malicious prosecution and abuse of process.A judge had previously dismissed Flynn’s lawsuit in 2024. Flynn’s lawyers filed an amended complaint last June, alleging that the United States “unjustly and politically targeted General Flynn because…

The Justice Department has requested House Intelligence Committee records related to former CIA Director John Brennan, a frequent target of President Donald Trump, two people familiar with the request said.The Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday night to send several confidential hearing records related to Brennan to the Justice Department, according to a person familiar with the committee’s work. The vote was taken at the request of the Justice Department, two sources said.A Republican spokesperson for the committee said in a statement that the committee “resolved to report confidential hearing records at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice for ongoing…

North Carolina’s top Senate Republican conceded to his challenger in a close primary on Tuesday, despite having President Donald Trump’s support.Phil Berger, president pro tempore of the state Senate for the past 15 years, congratulated his opponent in the recounted race, Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page.”Although it was a close race, voters made their voices heard and congratulate Sheriff Page on his victory,” Berger said in a statement, NBC affiliate WRAL in Raleigh reported. “Over the past 15 years, Republicans in Congress have fundamentally redefined our state’s outlook and reputation, and I’m honored to play a role in that transformation.”On…