New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future
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Karoline Leavitt said reopening the Strait of Hormuz was not a "core objective" of winning the Iran War for President Trump.
“.. setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels ..”
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"One of the president's original objectives was to guarantee that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. But in the call, Mr. Trump declined to specify if it would be possible to declare victory without removing Iran's enriched uranium stockpile"
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"Asked when the U.S. military operation may wind down, Mr. Trump did not give an end point but said, 'It won't be long,' adding, 'I would say we are two weeks ahead of schedule.'"
When the war started, Mr. Trump said it would last '4 to 6 weeks,' but this is already week 5."
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Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
Axios: The stock market "is like a pinball machine where the flippers are Truth Social and Anthropic blog posts."
New: DHS official tells TIME that, following Trump’s latest executive order, “TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday”
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Someone messed with Google’s widely cited databases of business listings, so that reporters calling the White House saw "Epstein Island" on their phones
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New: Why Iran thinks it’s winning
Despite more than 16,000 airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel, Iran feels validated in its “doctrine of asymmetrical warfare—relying not on tanks or battleships, but pinprick attacks targeting the fragile infrastructure of the Middle East’s petroleum industry”
@upshot.nytimes.com asked architects and designers about Trump’s ballroom plans
Among many concerns: the doors of the very prominent South Portico don’t lead to the ballroom and its columns will block views and daylight from inside
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President Trump told CBS News that he is not ready "quite yet" to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, despite a Truth Social post suggesting allies need to ...
President Trump told CBS News that he is not ready "quite yet" to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, despite a Truth Social post suggesting allies need to ...
