National Security
US, Israel, Iran Split on Whether the Deal Even Covers Lebanon
Three days before signing, the war's three principals describe the same memorandum in incompatible terms.
Three days before signing, the war's three principals describe the same memorandum in incompatible terms.
A president demands a bill his Senate leader says is dead — and holds a lapsed surveillance tool as the chip.
A single senator's objection killed a Democratic bill aimed at a dead fund and a live tax exemption worth up to $100 million.
A Korean War-era statute now governs US weapons production, days after the defense secretary called stockpile worries a "manufactured story."
The signed ceasefire hands Tehran immediate access to oil markets while the disarmament it is meant to buy waits two months.
Republicans wrote the review statute in 2015. Some now predict their own president will write around it.
A maximalist threat rests on detecting a breach no one is currently positioned to catch.