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A sitting US congressman says he was held for more than an hour by armed Israeli settlers during a West Bank trip — and now it's a live question of what, if anything, Congress does about it.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed four New York Times journalists to testify before a Manhattan grand jury over their reporting on Air Force One security gaps, in a move the paper's lawyer calls an affront to press freedom — and one allies are watching as a signal of how far Washington will go to police unfavorable coverage.
Graham Platner has formally filed paperwork to withdraw from Maine's Senate race, confirming what our earlier coverage flagged as likely. Democrats now have to pick a fresh challenger to Susan Collins fast — and the outcome matters well beyond Maine, since the Senate's margin shapes votes on Ukraine funding, NATO commitments and sanctions policy.
The US Central Command has moved 20 warships, including two aircraft carriers, toward Iran, two days after President Trump suggested he could reinstate a naval blockade on Iranian ports, according to the New York Post.
Senator Lindsey Graham says the White House has agreed to a version of his Russia sanctions bill, clearing the way for a Senate vote and threatening 500 percent tariffs on countries that keep buying Russian energy. The announcement lands the same week Turkey's foreign minister says Washington is moving to lift its own sanctions on Ankara — a reminder that in this administration, sanctions are less a fixed wall than a lever.
Flying home from the NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump travelled on an older Air Force One on Secret Service guidance — a sign of how seriously the protective detail takes Iranian threats. Meanwhile the president admits he does not know whether full-scale war has returned, and reports of 300 Shahed drones in Cuba pull the conflict toward the Western Hemisphere.
Graham Platner ended his Maine Senate campaign Wednesday night after a woman alleged he forced her to have sex, a claim he denies. Democrats now scramble to field a replacement against Sen. Susan Collins in a race central to the fight for Senate control.
The threatened 'big attack' is now a sustained campaign: US forces struck Iran for a second consecutive day, an Iranian official warned Gulf states that Tehran has 'no red lines', and the ceasefire's collapse is driving oil prices higher.
President Trump says the U.S. will let Ukraine co-produce Patriot interceptors — the weapons defending its cities from Russian ballistic missiles. It is a small sentence with a large consequence: it changes how the West arms Ukraine, from shipping finished stock to sharing production.
Washington hit Iran with fresh strikes and reimposed oil sanctions after attacks on three ships near the Strait of Hormuz, moves that recouple U.S. security policy and allied energy supply.
Trump says Washington will drop the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey and weigh an F-35 sale, a deal struck face-to-face with Erdoğan that could rewire NATO's eastern flank. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what remains unconfirmed.