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Iran, Holding Firm to Hormuz, Pushes for Return to June MOU
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8/9/2026 10:58 AM
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| The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s best leverage to get Washington to release Iran’s frozen assets, lift economic sanctions and end its naval blockade. |
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Inside the War on Hezbollah’s Finances
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8/9/2026 2:00 AM
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| Israel and the United States aren’t just targeting the Lebanese militant group’s weapons. They’re going after its money. |
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Iran Taps Longtime I.R.G.C. Commander Mohsen Rezaei to Top Security Post
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8/9/2026 11:18 AM
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| The appointment of Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council suggests that Iran’s old guard is consolidating power. |
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Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Plan to Disarm Hamas
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8/9/2026 12:48 PM
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| President Trump’s Board of Peace announced an agreement last month that aimed at Hamas’s giving up its weapons alongside an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. |
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Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags
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8/9/2026 5:58 AM
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| The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president. |
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The Lonely Crew at the Kennedy Center Will Miss Its…Mice
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8/9/2026 4:56 AM
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| Employees say the performing arts center’s quirky-looking mice have an exotic back story. Do they? |
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Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is Freezing Her Eggs and Still Mulling a Presidential Run
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8/9/2026 1:23 PM
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| In a TV interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from positions like “defund the police” and indicated she hasn’t ruled out a presidential or Senate run. |
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Obama and Abdul El-Sayed Spoke to Discuss Unity After Michigan Senate Primary
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8/9/2026 11:38 AM
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| Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s call with the former president comes as he tries to win over wary Democrats in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate race. |
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Michigan Senate Candidate, a Former Trump Critic, Shifts Toward Election Skepticism
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8/9/2026 6:23 AM
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| Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sank his first Senate bid two years ago. |
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A Democrat Sounds the Alarm on Christian Nationalism in Congress
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8/9/2026 2:01 AM
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| Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger. |
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How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
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8/9/2026 8:55 AM
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| Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion. |
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The ‘Furthur’ Bus’s Long, Strange Trip, and Why It’s Returning to San Francisco
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8/9/2026 9:58 AM
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| Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, immortalized in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” is preparing for one more run. And to its owners, America sure could use it. |
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Anthony Scaramucci, Podcast Star, Explains U.S. Politics to the World
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8/9/2026 5:52 AM
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| He spent 11 days in the Trump White House nine years ago. Now he has a hit podcast, helping the British public, among others, understand what’s going on. |
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Please Judge the Books I’m Reading
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8/9/2026 8:08 AM
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| Literary awards get dismissed for elitism. But more than ever, we need passionate and idiosyncratic champions for the books most worth seeking out. |
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It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.
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8/8/2026 10:49 PM
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| The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country. |
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Mother and Daughter Die After Boat Overturns in New York Harbor
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8/9/2026 11:51 AM
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| Police divers found a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old baby in the water near Liberty Island. A man was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. |