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Court Rules For WaPo Reporter In Major Win For Press In National Security Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, There was an important ruling last week by Magistrate Judge William B. Porter of the Eastern District of Virginia in favor of the press regarding the handling of files and materials taken in a search of the home of a Washington Post reporter. Judge Porter ruled against the Trump Administration in what he called an “unsupervised, wholesale” search of the files of Hannah Natanson, who covers the federal government for The Post. Instead,...

The US-Israeli war against Iran is already expanding into Lebanon with an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but Reuters is now reporting that the Trump Administration is keen to drag Syria into the conflict as well, encouraging its Islamist government to invade Lebanon and fight Hezbollah. Citing multiple Syrian officials familiar with the situation, […]

Oil Nears War-Highs As Iran-Israel Strikes Intensify After Trump Speech Set No Off-Ramp Timeline Summary Oil prices surge after no mention of ceasefire while vowing to keep hitting Iran 'extremely hard' in Wed. night Trump speech. Surge in tit-for-tat overnight strikes. US intelligence assessments say Iran is not ready to negotiate given it believes it has the strategic upper-hand, and doesn't believe Trump is 'serious' about talks: NYT Highest bridge in Iran, connecting Tehran and Karaj, destroyed - amid reports of expanding attacks on civilian infrastructure UK's Starmer chairs virtual summit of over 30 countries...