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The Islamic Republic of Japan: What Trump Said at NATO, and What It Reveals
At the Ankara summit, the president confused two countries on opposite ends of the earth while narrating a military engagement his own forces conducted. The slip is not the whole story.
The president of the United States sat next to the president of Ukraine at a NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, 2026, and told the assembled press that the Islamic Republic of Japan had fired 111 missiles at a US aircraft carrier.
He meant Iran.
Investigations & The Dossier
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The War Hero Nobody Remembered: How Lewis Carroll's Cousin Was Erased, Restored, and Erased Again
The strange double disappearance of a Victorian military legend and the journalist who refused to let the record stay buried
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Trump's Other Paint Job
Before the Reflecting Pool turned blue, the president tried to paint the border wall black. His own engineers told him it was a bad idea. He did it anyway, and the story of how it happened reveals everything about how power works in the second term.
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The Bezos Conversion: How America's Most Powerful Billionaire Made His Peace With Power
Jeff Bezos went from Trump's most prominent media adversary to his most strategically valuable corporate ally. The public record shows exactly what changed, and what it cost.
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China Is Practicing Sinking U.S. Warships. Again.
Satellite imagery confirms a new Arleigh Burke replica at China's desert missile range. This is not the first. It will not be the last.
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The handshake question the White House will not answer
A physical therapist's observations about Trump's G7 movement patterns expose something more important than speculation: a system built to keep the public from finding out
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Politics
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The Cold Stare That Said Everything Trump Would Not
Zelensky sat across from a man insulting him to his face and chose silence. That choice was its own answer.
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The GOP Civil War Nobody in Leadership Wants to Name
A House Republican just declared open war on his own party's leadership. The record shows why that matters more than leadership wants to admit.
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23 Percent: The World Has Rendered Its Verdict on Trump's Second Term
A 36-country Pew survey finds global confidence in Trump's leadership near historic lows, U.S. reliability ratings in freefall, and an alliance system quietly rewriting its assumptions about Washington
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Trump Cancels His Own Victory Lap
The president killed a housing bill signing to punish Republicans who wouldn't break the Senate for him. That is not a governing strategy. It is a hostage note.
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A Republican Senator Yelled at the President. The Room Called It a Total Cluster.
Sen. Bill Cassidy confronted Trump to his face over the Iran memorandum, the war's unmet objectives, and what the American people have not been told. The Senate GOP lunch on June 24 cracked open a fault line the party has been papering over for months.
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Markets & Video
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Carpet in the Bathroom: What the White House Redecoration Reveals About the Man Running It
A new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan surfaces details about Trump's second-term renovation obsession that his own aides described as therapeutic. The carpet story is the least of it.
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The July 4 Miracle That Wasn't: How a MAGA Rally Booking Became a National Punchline
When the entertainment lineup for a patriotic celebration goes viral for the wrong reasons, the story is about more than bad bookings, it's about a movement that can no longer tell the difference between sincerity and self-parody
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