Legal scholars say the defense secretary's Pentagon briefing statement violated international humanitarian law and the Pentagon's own rulebook, though one expert calls it Trumpian hyperbole
The president linked violent behavior to heredity following shootings in Virginia and Michigan, drawing condemnation and renewing scrutiny of a years-long pattern
Senator called America "much, much safer" after Khamenei's death, then declared the terror threat the highest in decades
Republicans and Democrats united to kill Rep. Nancy Mace's push for transparency — one day after the case that triggered it produced an Ethics investigation, a resignation and a bipartisan call for accountability
On day seven of the joint war, the president signals full regime change as strikes widen and Congress fails to intervene
Iran's effective closure of the world's most critical oil chokepoint has stranded hundreds of vessels, spiked crude prices and exposed deep fractures in the geopolitical order.
Iran's ground-painted helicopter decoy fooled Israeli targeting systems — and the IDF broadcast the evidence of its own miss to the world
Assembly of Experts elects Mojtaba Khamenei under IRGC pressure, creating hereditary succession in revolutionary republic founded on overthrowing monarchy