State of the Union: Saudi Arabia was believed to have bombed Yemen on Monday, with the Houthis retaliating with missiles and drones. The post Iran War Day 137: U.S. Bombs Iran for Third Consecutive Night, Iran Retaliates appeared first on The American Conservative .
The U.S. on Monday evening bombed Iran for the third consecutive night, with Iran again retaliating against U.S. bases, as the Iran War entered its 137th day. U.S. Central Command said it hit targets in Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, and Bandar Abbas while Iran’s IRGC said it targeted the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, a U.S. military air base in Jordan, and Iranian Kurdish opposition group facilities in Iraq. Iran’s IRGC claimed it killed three U.S. service members in Kuwait over the weekend. CENTCOM initially denied any casualties, but the Pentagon’s official death toll rose by one Monday with the death in early July of a Navy pilot in a helicopter crash. Iranian media says that at least 23 people have been…Open
TAC staffers talk to Amir Handjani. The post TAC Right Now: Iran War Restarts appeared first on The American Conservative .
TAC Executive Director Curt Mills and Correspondent Harrison Berger speak with Amir Handjani, a partner at Karv Global and board member of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft who has years of experience in the petroleum industry. They discuss the resumption of hostilities in the Iran War, the status and future of the Strait of Hormuz, and the prospects for ending the conflict. Recorded July 10, 2026. The post TAC Right Now: Iran War Restarts appeared first on The American Conservative .Open
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Senator Lindsey Graham spoke twice by phone from Kyiv on Friday, fresh from a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and brimming with news: the Trump White House had given him the green light to move bipartisan legislation imposing steep penalties on buyers of Russian oil. By Saturday, the South Carolina Republican was dead. Graham's […] The post Lindsey Graham spent his final day pushing Russia sanctions from Kyiv — now his unfinished work falls to Congress appeared first on American Almanac .
Senator Lindsey Graham spoke twice by phone from Kyiv on Friday, fresh from a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and brimming with news: the Trump White House had given him the green light to move bipartisan legislation imposing steep penalties on buyers of Russian oil. By Saturday, the South Carolina Republican was dead. Graham's passing, after what a CBS News headline described as a brief and sudden illness, ended a career defined in its final years by relentless focus on two foreign-policy priorities: punishing Russia's war economy and brokering normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Both remain unfinished. And the question now is whether Republican leaders in the Senate and House will pick up the work he left…Open
Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at 71 after an aortic dissection, and Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized with pneumonia, twin blows that strip the Republican Senate majority down to 51 effective votes and leave the party's legislative agenda hanging by a thread. Hours before his death, Graham was still working. He had just landed […] The post Graham's death and McConnell's absence leave Senate GOP with zero margin for error appeared first on American Almanac .
Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at 71 after an aortic dissection, and Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized with pneumonia, twin blows that strip the Republican Senate majority down to 51 effective votes and leave the party's legislative agenda hanging by a thread. Hours before his death, Graham was still working. He had just landed from Ukraine, his tenth trip there since Russia's 2022 invasion, and called President Trump to talk about the SAVE America Act. Now the Senate faces 34 scheduled days before the August recess with a packed docket, a $1.5 trillion defense authorization bill, military funding related to Iran, the confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and a possible third budget reconciliation package,…Open
Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the legal status of a 42-year-old Laotian national convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child, and had him deported to Laos, weeks after Minnesota's Board of Pardons wiped his record clean. Internal clemency documents now show exactly why the board's review commission recommended that pardon: four of six commissioners […] The post Documents reveal why Minnesota clemency board pardoned convicted child sex offender facing deportation appeared first on American Almanac .
Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the legal status of a 42-year-old Laotian national convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child, and had him deported to Laos, weeks after Minnesota's Board of Pardons wiped his record clean. Internal clemency documents now show exactly why the board's review commission recommended that pardon: four of six commissioners cited the man's fear of deportation as a reason to grant him a fresh start. The case of Tue Lue Vang has become a sharp test of how far state officials will go to shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration enforcement, even when the person in question pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a girl who was ten years old when the abuse began. …Open
The Red Cross has pulled its aid workers out of the Netherlands' main asylum seeker registration centre at Ter Apel, declaring that the safety of its employees "can no longer be guaranteed" after a wave of stabbings and harassment by migrants at the overcrowded facility. The decision marks a stark admission from one of the […] The post Red Cross withdraws aid workers from Dutch asylum centre after stabbings, citing safety breakdown appeared first on American Almanac .
The Red Cross has pulled its aid workers out of the Netherlands' main asylum seeker registration centre at Ter Apel, declaring that the safety of its employees "can no longer be guaranteed" after a wave of stabbings and harassment by migrants at the overcrowded facility. The decision marks a stark admission from one of the world's most recognized humanitarian organizations: conditions inside a European asylum centre have deteriorated so badly that even the people sent to help can no longer safely do the job. Local Red Cross director Harm Goossens called the withdrawal a "very drastic decision" driven by violence from what he described as "a small group of troublemakers." Multiple stabbings occurred at the centre in just over a week, and…Open
Apple News and Google News ran zero stories about the mounting controversies surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for roughly six months, even as conservative outlets published at least 112 reports on his Nazi tattoo, offensive Reddit posts, and sexual misconduct allegations, a new Media Research Center study alleges. The alleged blackout, which the […] The post Study: Apple News and Google News buried negative coverage of Maine Democrat Graham Platner for months appeared first on American Almanac .
Apple News and Google News ran zero stories about the mounting controversies surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for roughly six months, even as conservative outlets published at least 112 reports on his Nazi tattoo, offensive Reddit posts, and sexual misconduct allegations, a new Media Research Center study alleges. The alleged blackout, which the MRC says ran from November through May, began shortly after a late-October poll showed Platner as the strongest Democratic challenger to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins. It ended only after The New York Times published a May 30 report on Platner's sexting controversy, by which point the candidate had become a political liability rather than an asset. The timeline…Open
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has tapped Stanley Meador, the former head of the FBI's Richmond field office whose shop produced a since-retracted memo calling for surveillance of Catholic churches, to co-chair a new state council on prison reform. The appointment, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, puts Meador back in a high-profile government role […] The post Spanberger picks former FBI official tied to retracted anti-Catholic memo to lead Virginia prison reform council appeared first on American Almanac .
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has tapped Stanley Meador, the former head of the FBI's Richmond field office whose shop produced a since-retracted memo calling for surveillance of Catholic churches, to co-chair a new state council on prison reform. The appointment, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon , puts Meador back in a high-profile government role months after the FBI ousted him over the same controversy that made his name a byword for federal overreach against people of faith. Spanberger announced the Community Partnership Council on Corrections on June 23, naming Meador, her secretary of public safety and homeland security, and Virginia Department of Corrections director Joseph Walters as co-chairs. The governor said…Open
