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The administration's shifting justifications for the military operation alarmed Democrats, who said no clear rationale had been given. Republicans struggled to echo the evolving explanations.
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President Trump acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday the economic toll for Americans of his assault on Iran, saying oil prices were likely to spike.
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North Carolina has broken national Democrats' hearts for nearly two decades, but this time they hope that Roy Cooper, the former governor, can once again find a path to victory.
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is also likely to face questions about how her department's shutdown is affecting counterterrorism work after the U.S. assault on Iran.
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Energy prices continued to rise on Tuesday as attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran intensified, along with the country's response.
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The president told lawmakers that the objective of the assault was to "neutralize Iran's malign activities," but did not present evidence of immediate plans by Tehran to attack the United States.
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Rami Khouri, Palestinian American journalist and distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, speaks with Democracy Now! about the historical context of Western colonialism in the Middle East amid the war against Iran. Khouri says the U.S.-Israeli attack is the latest act "causing people across the world to look at the idea of … Western liberal democratic tradition as a hoax."
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly refused to apologize for suggesting that Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two U.S. citizens shot and killed by agents, were domestic terrorists.
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Most U.S. citizens were not warned to leave the region before the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran.
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We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. "The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb," but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson. The Trump administration may have been after the ability to "turn off the power" to countries that don't follow U.S. foreign policy, he says.
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The president and top aides have offered varying justifications for attacking Iran — from regime change to preemption to eliminating its nuclear program and ballistic missiles.
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Higher fuel prices and lower demand for international flights are expected to eat into airlines' profits.
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President Donald Trump's executive orders imposing sanctions on several law firms had been struck down by judges. His administration is abandoning its appeals.
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Former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton appeared last week before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.
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