TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel and Iran exchanged strikes a week into their war Friday as President Donald Trump weighed U.S. military involvement and new diplomatic efforts got underway. Trump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to […]

Top O’ the Briefing Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is at a Slap Chop revival confab somewhere outside of Sioux Falls.  Thursday was a day full of tech hiccups, among them a lengthy nationwide internet outage for a few providers, including mine. […]

An appeals court has once more ruled that the president of the United States does have the authority to keep the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles to put down the dangerous, and even deadly, anti-ICE riots. A federal appeals court issued the decision in favor of Donald Trump […]

There’s a peculiar habit among exiled intellectuals: mistaking the regime that exiled them for a misunderstood uncle rather than what it is—a sadistic cartel running a prison camp called Iran. Arash Azizi, in a recent Washington Post piece, insists the Islamic Republic must not be toppled by foreign pressure. He […]

LOS ANGELES — An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids. The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition from California Gov. Gavin […]