Top World News
Supreme Court is about to 'gravely disappoint' America: expert
A veteran court watcher warned on Wednesday that the Supreme Court is about to "gravely disappoint" Americans. Former Solicitor General of the United States Donald B. Verrilli Jr. discussed the Supreme Court's recent ruling in the tariffs case on a new episode of the "Amicus" podcast with Dahlia Lithwick. He argued that the case provided temporary relief for those concerned that the court was about to sign away a wholesale transfer of power from Congress to the presidency. Even so, there are still some outstanding issues that should give Americans reasons for concern, he argued. "If you actually think about it, what Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, what Justice Neil Gorsuch said, what Justice Elena Kagan said in her concurrence, and what the chief justice said? There was a common core to it, which was: 'Use your common sense, man,'" Verrilli Jr. said. In late February, the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's tariff regime was unconstitutional because it was not approved by Congress. Courts are now wrestling with the question of how to return the tariffs that were collected to the businesses that paid them. While that case was a brief win, Verilli Jr. noted that there are still many cases concerning presidential power that are being decided by unsigned opinions — also known as the shadow docket — which he described as "quite distressing." "Nevertheless, I look at the course of our history, and I feel that there’s reason to keep the faith," Verilli Jr. said.
West Asia at war: From the Strait of Hormuz to the streets of Karachi, conflict tests the region
Four days of Iranian missile and drone strikes on Gulf cities have turned what Washington described as a limited decapitation campaign into a widening stress test of the region's energy corridors, aviation networks and political alliances
Lauren Boebert shames GOP for voting to cover up sex scandals: 'Go tell your daughters!'
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) lashed out at several of her Republican colleagues for opposing a motion that would require Congress to release information on payouts that silence victims of congressional sex scandals.During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) moved to release information about payouts for sexual misconduct. Boebert spoke out in support of Mace's motion in committee after a majority of Republicans in the full House voted down a similar effort."And I want to thank Congresswoman Nancy Mace for introducing this privileged motion," the Colorado Republican said. "I think at this point, this is something that should be introduced on a weekly basis. I am absolutely disgusted that we could even get to 50 members of Congress who want immediate transparency. Don't we all campaign on transparency? Don't we all go out and tell the American voters that we are leaders and that we are going to get justice for them, that we are going to do right by them?""And then we hire their daughters to come work for us," she continued. "And your tax dollars, millions and millions of dollars, has been used in this slush fund as hush money to silence victims who have been sexually harassed, sexually abused by members of Congress."Boebert noted that attention had been focused on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the misconduct was "happening right here in our nation's capital.""And to every member who voted to send this to committee, where you know this was sent to die on the House floor just moments ago," she remarked. "I hope you have a darn good reason to tell your constituents why you were not going to stand up for the victims.""And I'm glad that we are doing something about it here in the Oversight Committee," the lawmaker added. "And to the members who voted against this, go home and tell your daughters what you did today! Go home and tell your daughters what happens in the workplace, no matter where it is, in your hometown, in your nation's capital, and tell them what you did to help continue to cover up decades of corruption!"
North Korean leader inspects new warship, claims progress toward nuclear-armed navy
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected his new destroyer for two straight days ahead of its commissioning and observed a test of cruise missiles fired from the warship, vowing to accelerate the nuclear-armament of his navy, state media said Thursday
Karoline Leavitt unleashes on CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to her face: 'Especially you!'
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt directly attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday during the first press briefing since the United States and its ally Israel launched military strikes against Iran. Leavitt had made several comments criticizing media coverage of the Trump administration and went after reporters at the White House, specifically Collins and CNN. The Trump administration has presented several different objectives since launching its military operation five days ago — with Cabinet members and even President Donald Trump giving conflicting information over what prompted the attacks and led to the regional conflict that has now left six American troops dead. "Is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of U.S. service members?" Collins asked Leavitt. "No, it's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across this country should report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room," Leavitt said. "If the Iranian regime had their choice, they would kill every single person in this room, and so we can all be very grateful that we have an administration, that we have men and women in our armed forces who are willing to sacrifice their own lives for the rest of us in this room and for every American across the country, and for every troop that is based in the Middle East."Collins pushed back on what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said earlier Wednesday. When Leavitt started to clash with her, things became personal. "But Secretary Hegseth was complaining that it was front-page news about these six service members who were killed," Collins said. "That's not what the secretary said, and that's not what he meant, and you know it!" Leavitt said, appearing visibly upset by Collins' statement. "You are being disingenuous. There is not — we've never had a secretary of defense who cares more..." Collins then interjected and read the statement directly from Hegseth, who had claimed that the press had purposefully tried to speak badly about Trump."The press only wants to make the president look bad," Leavitt said. As you know, the press, the deaths of U.S. service members under every president. The press does only want to make the president look bad. That's a fact. Especially, you know, listen to me, especially you, and especially CNN, and the secretary of defense cares deeply about our warfighters and our men and women in uniform. He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them. And your network has hardly ever probably reported on that." Collins responded again to Leavitt's attacks — pointing out that covering the slain military members was not an attempt to attack Trump."That's not making the president look bad, that's showcasing that," Collins said. "And I just told you that the president of the United States will be attending their dignified transfer. So please. So, please," Leavitt said. "We expect you to cover that as you should, Kaitlan. But you and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the president look bad. That is an objective fact."Collins pushed back again. "I don't think covering troop deaths is trying to make the president look bad," Collins said."If you're trying to argue right now that CNN's overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump, I think the American people would tend to agree, and your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well," Leavitt said.
US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East
Frigate goes down off Sri Lanka as Washington and Israel step up their offensive and promise to hit ‘deeper’ targets in IranMiddle East crisis – live updatesA torpedo fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri Lanka as the Trump administration followed through on its threats to destroy Tehran’s military and political leadership.At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack on the Iris Dena. The frigate was sailing in international waters as it returned from a naval exercise organised by India in the Bay of Bengal. The torpedo strike prompted questions from former US officials about whether Washington’s aim of eliminating all of Iran’s military breached international law. Continue reading...
Eight lies Trump told to take America to war
It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump has piled lie upon lie to justify his attack on Iran in violation of international law, constantly shifting his rationale as one lie collides with another.The following litany of lies reveals how Trump is responsible for fueling a burgeoning war in the Middle East.Lie #1Trump has said consistently that he opposes and would never involve the US in regime change and nation building, calling it a “proven, absolute failure.”Reality: Under Trump in 2025-26, the US has sought regime change in both Venezuela and Iran by attacking both nations and deposing their leaders. Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the US to face criminal charges, Trump stating that the US would “run” the country until a stable government could be formed. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the US’s attack on Iran, with Trump urging the Iranian people to rise up and oust the theocratic regime. Lie #2After the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025, Trump said that the US had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities and completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.Reality: The bombing of the nuclear facilities did not destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. A US Defense Agency (DIA) report concluded that the strikes set back the program by three to six months. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi said that Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile was largely unaccounted for.Had the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities destroyed its nuclear enrichment program like Trump said, why in 2026 was the US attempting to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran? Wasn’t that what the 2025 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities already accomplished? Lie #3Trump claimed that Iran was actively building nuclear weapons as a pretext for engaging in bad-faith negotiations, ultimately leading to the US’s attack on Iran.Reality: Iran was never building nuclear weapons. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Congress in March 2025 that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated the agency had “not found any proof” of an effort by Iran to build a nuclear weapon. The false justification for attacking Iran mirrored the justification for the US’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on the falsehood that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Lie #4Trump said the massive US military build-up in the Middle East was intended to pressure Iran to negotiate a nuclear agreement, with diplomacy preferred over force.Reality: Trump’s purpose in authorizing the massive US military build-up in the Middle East was obvious: to employ it. Attacking Iran was not a spur-of-the-moment decision but rather a long thought-out plan featuring a large, coordinated military attack on Iran conceived long before it was executed. The US was not going to amass that kind of military power halfway across the globe without intending to use it.Lie #5Trump claimed that he preferred resolving the issue of Iran’s nuclear program through negotiations and diplomacy.Reality: Trump never intended to negotiate in good faith but rather to use the “failed” negotiations as rationale for the attack on Iran. First, Trump gave negotiations a scant two months to reach settlement while in 2015, the US and an international coalition took 20 months to complete a successful nuclear agreement with Iran. Second, Trump knew the US’s “red line” negotiating position — that Iran could enrich no uranium after having enriched it for decades for domestic nuclear power — would never be accepted. Third, the US attacked Iran half way through Trump’s stated two-month negotiating window, a diplomatic solution never meant to be given a chance. Lie #6Trump claimed the US attacked Iran because it was a threat to America and the American people.Reality: Iran poses absolutely no threat to America. First, it has no nuclear weapons’ capability and lacks the long-range missiles to reach the US mainland. Second, if it ever developed such missiles, attacking the country with the most powerful military in the world would ensure Iran’s annihilation. Lie #7Trump claimed US citizens are safer today due to the attack on Iran.Reality: Since Iran posed no threat to the US, the attack on Iran didn’t make US citizens any safer. Instead, it could make them less safe through Iranian retaliatory bombing of US military bases and through potential terrorist activity in the US within Iranian-supportive sleeper cells. Lie #8Trump claimed the timing of the attack on Iran was necessary to eliminate “imminent threats” from a nation on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.Reality: The timing had nothing to do with eliminating “imminent threats” which didn’t exist and everything to do with the looming 2026 mid-term elections. Trump’s purpose was two-fold: to try and score a huge foreign policy victory that he could ride all the way to the Nov. 4 election and to deflect focus on the economic woes he has created for the American people through his failed policies.Trump’s lies that Iran was enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons and that it posed a serious threat to America provided the false justification for the US’s attack on Iran. That perfidious duplicity launched a series of horrific events with no end in sight.Thanks to Trump’s lies, the US attacked Iran, resulting in the heartbreaking killing of more than 100 Iranian children whose elementary school was bombed. American soldiers have been killed by Iranian retaliatory strikes on US bases, and putting American “boots on the ground” in Iran is being contemplated. The outbreak of a region-wide war has already begun as civilian deaths have been reported in countries across the Middle East. Thanks to Trump, a diplomatic settlement between the US and Iran that could have avoided all of the bloodshed and destruction was never given a chance. This is Trump’s war, and he bears responsibility for all of the human suffering that it is bringing. Tom Tyner is a freelance editorialist, satirist, political analyst, blogger, author and retired English instructor.
Freed Argentine officer urges release of remaining foreign prisoners in Venezuela
Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine military police officer, is urging the international community to push Venezuela to free 24 foreigners still in detention
Ecuador declares Cuba’s ambassador 'persona non grata, orders mission to leave the country
Ecuador has declared Cuba’s ambassador and his diplomatic staff persona non grata and gave them 48 hours to leave the South American country
Iranian minister says Trump official lied about how war began: 'That was not true at all'
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said Wednesday that a Trump administration official did not give the real story about what prompted the war with Iran. Majid Takht-Ravanchi told MS NOW anchor Ana Cabrera that Iran has continued to defend itself and its civilians after the surprise attack from the United States and Israel started on Saturday. He said that Iran has not received any messages from the United States and that Iran has also not sent any messages following the failed negotiations in February, saying that the Trump administration had not clearly represented what happened during those talks. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, had claimed that Iran had enough enriched uranium to develop 11 nuclear bombs — something Takht-Ravanchi argued was not the case, citing what happened during the two instances in Geneva last month. "No... it is no secret," Takht-Ravanchi said. "This is based on the information which appears in different IAEA atomic energy organization, international atomic energy organization, which says that Iran is in the possession of this amount of 60% material. So this is no secret, but the point is that that amount of 60% enrichment, if it is enriched to a higher degree, that would amount to 10.2 bombs, that did not mean that we were looking for, you know, possessing 10.2 nuclear bombs. We were telling the American delegation that this is the assessment by the European experts, that this amount of 60% enriched uranium can deliver around 10.2 nuclear bombs. But they did not say that we are going to use them. We did not say even that we wanted to enrich that amount to a higher degree." Takht-Ravanchi claimed that Witkoff had misrepresented what was said during the negotiations. “In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%,” Witkoff had said in the Fox interview. “And they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.”“They were proud of it,” Witkoff said. “They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”Takht-Ravanchi, along with other diplomats, has suggested that his description of this important conversation was false, MS NOW reported."The point that Mr. Witkoff was trying to convey was that Iran was bragging about this nuclear material that is in our possession, and that was the reason that the talks didn't succeed," Takht-Ravanchi said. "That was not true at all."
MAGA leader warns 'Texas will be flipping its Senate seat blue' if one trend persists
Former MAGA lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a harsh message Wednesday for President Donald Trump as results from the Texas primary showed a serious problem for the Republican Party ahead of the midterms. Greene, the former Trump ally who has now become a vocal critic of the administration, described why the voter turnout in Texas could signal challenges for Republican candidates not just in the Lone Star state — but across the United States — as the Trump administration ramps up its military attacks against Iran. "Now that Trump and his admin betrayed their campaign promises of No More Foreign Wars/No More Regime Change and Republicans in the majority in the House and Senate are flat out refusing to pass key legislation, voter outrage was shown in yesterday’s Texas primary," Greene posted on X early Wednesday.Greene pointed out that "more Democrats showed up to vote than Republicans in yesterday’s Texas primary" and that if that happens in November, Texas could flip its Senate seat blue. The last time a Democrat won a statewide election was in 1994, she added. Greene left office in January and has suggested that the MAGA coalition has fractured over its "America First" ideology."Whatever Trump’s new twisted perversion of MAGA is, is going to LOSE in the midterms," Greene wrote. "Clearly Levin, Lindsey Graham, Loomer, and Netanyahu highjacking MAGA and flipping it to MIGA is not working out so well. People do not want to vote for this s--- show and didn’t turn out in Texas. Maybe they will wake up now and realize Armageddon is not what we voted for. We voted for America FIRST and that means AMERICANS FIRST AND AMERICANS ONLY."Now that Trump and his admin betrayed their campaign promises of No More Foreign Wars/No More Regime Change and Republicans in the majority in the House and Senate are flat out refusing to pass key legislation, voter outrage was shown in yesterday’s Texas primary.More Democrats…— Marjorie Taylor Greene ???????? (@mtgreenee) March 4, 2026
Stella McCartney lets horses steal the show — and makes her point in Paris without saying a word
Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first
Mar 6, 2026