Israel believes Iran war could last months, testing U.S. resolve The prospect of extended combat creates novel political risks and uncertainties for President Trump.

The prospect of extended combat creates political risks for Trump, whose penchant for dramatic, short-term military operations has given way to a full-scale assault on Iran. Privately, Trump officials are surprised that Iran’s government has chosen to resist rather than acquiesce to Trump's demands.

Donald Trump team sends $2,000 rebate checks "commitment" email The email push arrives not long after the Supreme Court struck down a key legal basis for Trump’s tariff program.

Trump is teasing $2,000 tariff refund checks. But those payments would cost about $600 billion, which is double the $300 billion per year Trump claimed his tariffs would generate.

Opinion | Ukraine is holding its own Data from the battlefield show it’s Moscow that may be in trouble.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign is failing. So, why is Trump pressuring Ukraine to make territorial concessions and sue for peace, encouraging Putin to keep fighting and refrain from making compromises necessary for an enduring peace?

Guest column | Can’t stop overthinking? Here’s what experts say actually helps. Overthinking, worrying and ruminating can leave you mentally and physically wiped. Experts share what actually helps to turn down the volume on noisy thoughts.

(Free article) Some helpful advice during these troubled and worrying times.

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

Trump has cut money to states that don’t adopt his policies, universities that don’t bend to his will, hospitals that don’t alter their services, school districts that don’t abandon diversity efforts, nonprofits that don’t embrace his gender views, and researchers who study the wrong subjects.

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

If you give a chimp a crystal, you might not get it back. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of bananas and yogurt to get back the largest crystal. Others were never retrieved.

Representative Dan Crenshaw Loses G.O.P. Primary in Texas

The race, in a strongly Republican district in the Houston area, was a referendum on the candidates’ fidelity to Trump and his agenda, and whether a conservative with an independent streak like Rep. Dan Crenshaw could still have a place in the party.

Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley takes offense to Trump — a draft dodger who has characterized captured, wounded and fallen U.S. troops as “suckers” and “losers” — telling Americans to prepare for U.S. casualties in his Iran war.

When democracy dies. George Grosz’s “The Beginning of Spring” (1928). Popular during the Weimar Republic, Grosz had been targeted and harassed by the Nazis before they took power. With arrest imminent, he and his family fled to the United States in 1932.

The late Russian cartoonist Vyacheslav Sysoev issued a warning to believe your own eyes, not what you’re told by the regime.

Enjoy photographer Elliott Erwitt’s “Kids in Apartment Doorway” (Manhattan, New York) (1950).

Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall wonders when the Trump administration will settle on its reason for attacking Iran.

Algerian editorial cartoonist Amine Labter’s version of mirror, mirror on the wall…

With the Iran war expanding, Belgian editorial cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker reminds Americans that Trump has warned that U.S. deaths will mount as the Pentagon escalates its campaign.

Dutch editorial cartoonist Benjamin Kikkert salutes the Mossad’s ingenuity in tracking Iranian leadership, and pokes fun at what appears to be Trump’s greatest concern — exposure.

Editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson laments a troubling trend in vaccination-adverse red states.

Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich offers 20/20 hindsight.

Analysis: The rationale for striking Iran was already a mess. Trump just made it worse. | CNN Politics The Trump administration’s stated justifications for going to war with Iran were already a jumbled and self-contradictory mess before the president’s latest comments Tuesday.

Just a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Iran posed an imminent threat — because it would respond to imminent attacks from Israel by striking U.S. forces — Trump gives an entirely different explanation: Iran was going to launch preemptive strikes against the U.S. on its own.

Trump boasts of "unlimited" US weapons stockpiles Strikes across the Middle East continued for a fourth day on Tuesday after the U.S. indicated operations could last weeks.

Conflicted messaging? Trump said the U.S. campaign in Iran is expected to last between four and five weeks, but he kept the door open to a more prolonged campaign despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth telling reporters the U.S. would not be sucked into an "endless war."

FACT FOCUS: Misrepresented images spread after US and Israel strike Iran As the U.S. and Israel continued to strike Iran on Monday following a major attack over the weekend that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, misrepresented images related to the war ...

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Opinion | The cost of chaos at the CDC Confusion at the federal level and funding cuts are devastating local health departments.

Disease warning systems are being dismantled. Public health infrastructure, already fragile before the pandemic, is being steadily eroded. Local health leaders are already seeing the effects; it is only a matter of time before the public experiences the devastating consequences.

How Trump assassination attempts played into his decision to attack Iran President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time a personal rationale for attacking Iran: “I got him before he got me.”

Foreign policy or personal revenge? Trump cites Iran's efforts to assassinate him in 2024 as a key factor in ordering the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “I got him before he got me,” Trump said. “I got him first.”

Rubio says US struck Iran fearing it would retaliate for Israeli attack Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a new rationale for why the U.S. attacked Iran now.

If this goes wrong, blame Israel? It's highly unlikely Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would've struck Iran without Trump's green light. If Trump wanted to keep negotiating, any strike would have been postponed.

Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.

The larger goal of Trump's executive orders was chilling. Trump attacked a bedrock principle of the law, which is that everybody deserves legal representation. He sought to frighten lawyers from representing people who had the temerity to criticize him.

Victims are not faceless. Eva Shotland and her son, Harry, were deported on March 3, 1943 from Berlin to Auschwitz, where they were gassed after arrival selection.

Put some color in your day with Johnathan Harris’s “Up And Away" (2015).

Belgian editorial cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker believes Trump — outside of urging Iranians to overthrow a brutal regime — has paid little if any attention to what happens after the bombs stop falling.

Hanif Bahari, an Iranian editorial cartoonist living in Sweden, weighs in on the decapitation of the Iranian leadership.

Dutch editorial cartoonist Bas van der Schot questions the motivation behind Trump’s attack in Iran.

Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall questions Trump’s endgame in attacking Iran, which appears to based on the hope it will turn out OK.