Bank Melli, Iran’s largest lender, already faces waves of sanctions that severely limit its ability to operate abroad. Every foreign branch must be shut down, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
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A surrogate refused to have an abortion after the fetus was diagnosed with a serious heart problem. She fled to Texas and had the child. Now she wants a judge to give custody to her instead of the biological parents.
The National Museum of Korean Democracy, which opened last year, documents an era of brutal suppression. But that dark history has resurfaced in troubling ways.
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The landmark U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement was finalized last month.
J.D. Vance toplines the benefits of faith—but maintains his essential enigma. The post Vice Presidential Elegy appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture Vice Presidential Elegy J.D. Vance toplines the benefits of faith—but maintains his essential enigma. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, by JD Vance, HarperCollins, 304 pages. In 1990, the CNN founder Ted Turner called Christianity “a religion for losers.” Though compelled by a prudent regard for public opinion to apologize for this statement, it must be conceded the late media mogul had a point. Christ ministered to the poor and the sick, the widow and the orphan, the publican and the prostitute. His Kingdom was famously not of this world; condemned by His own countrymen, the Son of God died the agonizing death of a common criminal. And in the ensuing two…Open
Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans The post Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Control of the Senate appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Senate Control Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted. The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has continued to hold). Last week’s race doesn’t determine who gets Alaska’s Senate seat; rather, the nonpartisan primary simply…Open
The Iran War has undermined key U.S. partnerships. The post Friendship With Trump’s America Can Be Fatal appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Friendship With Trump’s America Can Be Fatal The Iran War has undermined key U.S. partnerships. Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg via Getty Images Henry Kissinger famously (if apocryphally) said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” This may be the year the world finally got the message. President Donald Trump said he wanted his legacy to be “the wars that we end—and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” It won’t be. Instead, he will be remembered by history as the president who squandered trust in and respect for Washington and brought the post–Cold War era of American hegemony to an end. Trump’s America leads by threats, punishments, and…Open
The library honored Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has donated more than 300 million books to U.S. children under the age of 5 since 1995.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (Mich.) couldn’t help but name-check the aide in her scorched-earth post.
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The victims represented four generations of the blended family, ranging from a great-grandmother in her 90s who used a wheelchair to a 7-year-old girl.
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