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Trump’s Iran Agreement Draws More Alarm Than Relief From GOP
President Trump is seen at the Palace of Versailles in France on June 17, 2026, soon after a senior U.S. official released the text of a memorandum of understanding with Iran. —Mustafa Yalcin—Anadolu via Getty Images Even before the White House released the actual textof its agreement with Iran on Wednesday, leaked snippets were getting…
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Netanyahu Finally Learns the Truth About Trump
In 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu draped buildings with giant banners that depicted him shaking hands with a grinning Donald Trump. Captioned with the words Another League, the posters presented Netanyahu’s ties with the American president as an argument for the Israeli prime minister’s reelection. No one else, Netanyahu’s campaign implied, could deliver the mercurial man in…
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Ex-MAGA lawmaker bashes Trump’s Iran deal in sarcasm-laden post: ‘What winning looks like’
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to X on Wednesday with a nearly five-minute video dripping from start to finish with sarcastic praise for President Donald Trump’s deal to end the war against Iran. “I truly hope that the totally unnecessary Iran war, which is not a war, is truly over and peace is…
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Sen. Rick Scott asks Trump admin to strip CodePink’s tax-exempt status over China funding ties
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is calling on the Trump administration to strip lefty activist group CodePink of its tax-exempt status over its alleged funding connections to the Chinese Communist Party and potentially other US adversaries like Cuba. Scott wrote a letter to IRS Commissioner Frank Bisignano on Wednesday, saying that the 501(c)(3) educational…
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The family behind football legend Lionel Messi: Wife Antonela Roccuzzo and three sons
Soccer star Lionel Messi’s family is total goals. The FIFA World Cup winner met his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, when the two were children, before reconnecting in 2005. The couple went on to welcome their eldest son, Thiago, in 2012. In 2015, Messi and Roccuzzo’s son Mateo was born, just two years before the pair tied the…
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A Robin Hood Without Redemption
What if you took a folk figure or a popular comic-book character—someone beloved enough to be the star of, say, a Disney cartoon—and made a film that cast them in a dark, even antiheroic light? Call it the “grim and gritty” take, or perhaps the “untold true story”; it’s the kind of reimagining that has…
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Wall Street Terrified That SpaceX Investors Will Dump Their Stocks
The SpaceX IPO has been a windfall for investors — or most of them, at any rate. But there’s a fear at the back of their minds that they just can’t shake off. What if a significant number of buyers turn tail and become sellers, dumping their SpaceX stock and leaving the most loyal Elon…
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Lost in LACMA’s new galleries, a serene still life serves as a compass
Much has been written about the experience of aimlessness in the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, but it is another thing to experience it firsthand. The meandering floor plan, with its rooms of various sizes and orientations alongside their resulting passageways and corners, demands that you wander, not map, your perusal of the galleries.…
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Trump stuns analysts with abrupt U-turn over key Iran war issue: ‘Just complete surrender’
The internet was shocked on Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to reverse his stance on Iran having nuclear weapons — a key point he argued for launching the war. The president was boarding Air Force One and heading to Paris when he spoke about Iran’s nuclear program. Trump had spent the last several days…
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Iranians Welcome a Peace Deal, but Worry About What Comes Next
A man works on his smart phone in front of a mural honoring schoolchildren killed in a Feb. 28 strike in the southern Iranian city of Minab, in northern Tehran, on June 15, 2026. —Vahid Salemi—Associated Press For Iranians exhausted by months of war, the announcement of a preliminary peace deal brought a rare moment…