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The US military last week extended its blockade on vessels coming in and out of Iranian ports to the waters of the wider world, declaring that it would pursue any ship aiding Iran, regardless of location.

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Trump should put Iran’s regime to a fundamental choice: It can have an economy. Or the regime can attempt to have a nuclear program while trying to control the Strait of Hormuz. But it can’t have both.

NEW YORK TIMES: Trump has lashed out at enemies, allies and even the Pope, and made it harder for Republicans to keep the focus on economic issues in a midterm election year.

The president is struggling with the consequences of his actions, raging in protest of the fact that for all its firepower, the United States cannot bomb Iran into submission.

President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a ‘pretty reasonable’ new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.

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When an Alabama man visited a Florida hospital in 2024, he reported a pain in his left side, near his spleen. Three days later, he died, missing a different organ, his liver, on his right side.

Let’s analyse the world’s latest church-and-empire fracas, the open conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.

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NEW YORK TIMES: Unlike his predecessor, Pope Leo XIV enjoys growing support from a broad swath of conservative Catholics.

As the US and Iran wage war against each other, Russia has come out as an unlikely winner.

In an election with the highest voter turnout in Hungary’s democratic history, Magyar’s Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US proposed a 20-year ‘suspension’ of all nuclear activity. That would allow the Iranians to claim they had not permanently given up their right to produce their own nuclear fuel.