Senators Tom Cotton and Mike Lee are circulating draft legislation on birthright citizenship in anticipation of a Supreme Court ruling against the executive order expected by late June.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to Beijing in early June for workin...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to Beijing in early June for working-level meetings on the trade truce, in the first cabinet-level American visit since the Iran war began.
Russian forces took the Donetsk rail hub on May 9 and crossed into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast the following week, the first such advance of the war. The Witkoff peace framework no longer matches the map.
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The Senate voted 52 to 48 Friday evening to discharge the War Powers Resolution on the Iran blockade. Five Republicans joined every Democrat to override the leadership.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency session of Israel's Security Cabinet on Saturday morning hours after Muscat Round 3 ended without agreement, in a meeting Israeli officials described as a review of military options.
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The third round of indirect U.S.-Iran talks ended in Muscat on Friday morning without the framework agreement Witkoff had been seeking. The Iranian delegation departed for Tehran.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Tehran on Tuesday morning unannounced, the first cabinet-level Chinese visit to Iran since the U.S. naval blockade began on April 12.
May 12, 2026 · 6 min read
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a closed-door briefing with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday afternoon. Senators of both parties pressed for an exit timeline.
May 12, 2026 · 5 min read
The USS Truxtun drove off four Iranian fast boats approaching a Liberian-flagged tanker in the central Strait on Saturday, in the most serious non-kinetic confrontation since the blockade began.
May 9, 2026 · 6 min read
OPEC+ met in Vienna and refused to formally backfill the Iranian barrels lost to the U.S. blockade. Saudi Arabia is already pumping 700,000 above its quota.
May 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Six weeks of high-intensity air combat against a regional adversary consumed years of American precision munitions production, and three weeks of subsequent blockade enforcement have begun eating into Standard Missile inventories that the Pacific theater is supposed to draw from in any future conflict with China. The Iran war has converted a long-running theoretical concern about American defense industrial capacity into an operational demonstration that the country cannot fight a longer or larger conflict on the inventory it currently possesses, with implications that extend well beyond the immediate Iranian theater.
May 3, 2026 · 11 min read
The Iran air campaign was a genuine American success: short, decisive, and clearly bounded. The blockade that followed it may produce the diplomatic outcome the administration is seeking, and it may not. Conservatives who voted to end forever wars should be watching for the warning signs that distinguish purposeful pressure from the kind of drift that has snared previous administrations of both parties.
May 6, 2026 · 8 min read
