Matt Gagnon discusses the implications of Iran’s nuclear program and its impact on Israel, highlighting the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the role of Iran in supporting terrorist groups. He argues that the Trump administration’s involvement in the region, despite its non-interventionist stance, is driven by a commitment to protect Israel. Gagnon suggests that the U.S. shared intelligence with Israel before the strike and that the administration could have prevented it but chose not to. He notes the internal division within the administration on foreign policy, with interventionists like Marco Rubio advocating for stronger action against Iran.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
