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Charlie Kirk Highway Vote Sparks Outrage as SC Democrat Calls Late Activist's Remarks 'Divisive' and 'Hurtful'

The South Carolina Statehouse is embroiled in controversy over naming a road after Charlie Kirk, with Republican lawmakers pushing the measure despite Democratic opposition, citing his divisive legacy.

International Business Times UK

France’s National Health system explained to U.S. citizens in 2026

France’s vision of universal healthcare and America’s health insurance premium-reliant system are worlds apart. On October 1 2025, the US Federal Government shut down after an insufficient number of Democrat votes amid disputes over health policy led to a federal government budget deadlock

The Conversation

Trump’s ‘quasi-dove’ era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn

Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump

The Guardian - US

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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted…

The Conversation

With or without Lionel Messi, Inter Miami’s Trump visit means something

The MLS Cup champions’ players are put in a conundrum: lend credence to a problematic administration, or sit out and draw heat

The Guardian - US

Trump officials outline why they decided to bomb Iran

Iranian officials masked the true intent behind their stubborn insistence to enrich uranium, two administration officials said Tuesday.

Roll Call

‘The Epstein files won’t knock him out’: what Anthony Scaramucci learned in Trump’s inner circle

He lasted just 11 days as White House communications director, before being fired from the Trump administration. The financier and broadcaster discusses working for the president – and becoming his biggest critic

The Guardian - UK

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Trump to attend first White House Correspondents’ dinner as president, claiming reporters now recognize him as the ‘GOAT’

The president has boycotted the glamorous D.C. event ever since his first term, after a humiliating roast from Barack Obama at the 2011 dinner

The Independent UK

'Complaining bitterly': Trump lashes at Obama, Democrats as Middle East tensions spiral

US President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Barack Obama and senior Democrats as tensions in the Middle East deepen, accusing his critics of “complaining bitterly” about US strikes on Iran simply because he ordered them.

The Times of India

Trump says he'll end White House Correspondents' Dinner boycott and attend this year

Trump never attended the event as president.

Axios

Iran and the US have been at war for decades – and there’s no end in sight

It may seem that the US and the Middle East are currently embarking on yet another forever war. But the truth is that this is just the latest instalment of an undeclared military conflict between the two nations that has been ongoing since the 1980s.

The Conversation

Truth About Claims Barack Obama Allegedly Funded Terrorism In Iran and Empowered Ali Khamenei's Regime

Explore the inaccuracies in Trump's claims about Obama's dealings with Iran, including the $150 billion figure and the implications of recent military actions.

International Business Times UK

Trump’s approach to Iran is a departure from containment policy of his predecessors

The joint US-Israeli combat operation against Iran, and the killing of its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a watershed moment in the US-Iran relationship. Bilateral interactions have been tense since 1979 when a revolution ousted Iran’s pro-American Shah, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, and replaced him with an Islamic theocracy opposed…

The Conversation

No one can predict how the US war with Iran will unfold

The war has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire

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Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77

Award-winning science fiction and horror writer died in Colorado on 21 February with family at his side

The Conversation

Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns

Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two countries’ nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action. A perceived lack of progress in the last of those indirect negotiations on Feb 26, 2026, was enough…

The Guardian - US

Protesters rally across US after strikes on Iran that killed Khamenei

Crowds gather in DC, New York and beyond to denounce Trump’s Iran strikes as an illegal act of war

The Independent UK

Trump’s tweets saying Obama will start war with Iran to distract from domestic failures come back to haunt him

Several members of Trump’s cabinet have previously spoken out against foreign interventions

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The Independent UK

The brave Iranian people deserve our support – but Trump’s strikes will only answer bloodshed with bloodshed

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US-Israeli attack may, if sources are correct, have killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – but remains the case that the Iranian people deserve more support and wisdom than Trump has shown to be free of this appalling regime

Reason

An Unconstitutional War

Trump's attack on Iran is obviously unconstitutional. The moral and policy issues are a closer call.

The Independent UK

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed

The Times of India

'Obama will attack, will use Iran card': Trump’s old tweet resurfaces after US-Israeli strikes

Explosions rocked Tehran after US-Israeli strikes, reviving Donald Trump's 2013 tweet predicting Obama would attack Iran. Now, with "Operation Epic Fury" targeting Iran and Tehran retaliating, Trump's past accusations of using Iran for political gain echo.

Axios

Trump strikes Iran again. Why presidents skip Congress to use military force

Only Congress can declare war, but presidents have repeatedly ordered military force without authorization.

We Got This Covered

Donald Trump’s old tweets saying Obama attacked Iran just to boost his popularity return to haunt him

"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate."

Fortune

Trump's universal 401(k) architect on why lower-income people distrust retirement accounts: 'they want to know what the catch is'

Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics at The New School, has studied retirement security for 42 years.

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