The Israeli Air Force conducted numerous strikes across Iran Saturday morning in an attempt to assassinate Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior political and military leaders, Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters: The U.S. and Iran have launched a massive joint military operation in an effort to destabilize the Iranian regime, which has been in power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. - "The goal is to create all the conditions for the downfall of the Iranian regime, but developments will also depend on the extent to which the Iranian people rise up," an Israeli official said. Zoom in: Israeli officials said Israel is targeting the entire Iranian leadership — political and military, past, present, and future…
President Trump touted to raucous Republican applause during his State of the Union address this week that "We ended DEI in America." - A year into Trump's crusade to eradicate "anti-white racism ," some of the administration's most ambitious diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks are stalled in court. Why it matters: With Congress aligned with the White House, the judiciary has become the primary check for civil rights advocates who argue the administration is distorting long-standing equity laws. - DEI policies are "being used as a sword, not a shield," Leah Watson, an ACLU racial justice program attorney, tells Axios. The intrigue: DEI policies are intentionally broad to repair decades of discrimination, but the administration…
Cultivating sources. Verifying claims. Staying safe. After the death of El Mencho, four journalists share their approach to this difficult, dangerous work.
A new inspector general delayed a decision on whether to approve the project and is said to have raised its potential political ramifications, in a test of the watchdog system in President Trump’s second term.