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Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials told The Associated Press. The Kurdish groups are widely seen as the most well-organized segment of the fragmented Iranian opposition and are believed to have thousands of trained fighters. Their entry into the war could pose a significant challenge to the embattled authorities in Tehran and could also risk pulling Iraq further into the conflict. Khalil Nadiri an official

Kurdish dissident groups say they are preparing to join the fight against Iran with US support

White House formally nominates Warsh to be Federal Reserve chair

Trump administration widens its anti-fraud efforts with a Medicaid probe in New York

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WNBA executive committee meets, Stewart says players still unified amid CBA talks

Breanna Stewart, who teamed with fellow WNBA star Kelsey Plum on a letter to the players' association this week expressing concerns about the state of labor talks with the league, said Wednesday she feels better about where things stand and is convinced players are still unified in what they want in the next collective bargaining agreement. Stewart was part of a call with other members of the players' executive committee on Tuesday night, hours after the letter that she and Plum wrote to WNBPA executive director Terri Jackson — one where they expressed “serious concerns abou

Navigating conversations with children about war, conflict and other traumatic events

US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters marking a first since WWII

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Analysis: What Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio said vs. what they claimed they said

Two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries claimed Tuesday that their comments on high-profile subjects were being described inaccurately.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied she had previously called Alex Pretti, the nurse killed by the Border Patrol in Minneapolis in January, a domestic terrorist; she claimed she had merely said “it appeared to be an incident of” domestic terrorism. In reality, Noem had unequivocally claimed in her initial January remarks, without any “appeared to be” qualifier, that Pretti was a domestic terrorist.Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

Hegseth confirms sinking of Iranian warship

Putin hosts Hungary's foreign minister for energy supply talks as war in Mideast causes disruptions

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Newsom ramps up his criticism of Israel, accuses Netanyahu of leading Trump into war with Iran

In the latest mark of how much the conversation among Democratic leaders around Israel is shifting, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for pushing the US into war with Iran and said the United States must reconsider future military aid to its longtime ally.The governor cited those whom he has said are “talking about it appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.”Newsom, in a live appearance on “Pod Save America” to promote his new memoir, said of Netanyahu and Iran, “In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversatio

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Trump says 'someone from within' Iranian regime might be best choice to lead once war ends

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed — but said “most of the people we had in mind are dead.” The president, who four days ago had emphatically called on Iranians to “take over your government” once the U.S.-Israel bombardment ends, appeared to drift further away from the idea that the war presents an opportunity to end the theocratic rule that has been in place since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution. Trump sa

Aaron Spencer wins primary race for sheriff as he awaits his murder trial in Arkansas

Gayle King renews deal with CBS News, ending speculation about her exit

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Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee to advance to runoff for Texas 18th, CNN projects

Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee will head to a Democratic primary runoff for Texas’ redrawn 18th District, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk.Neither Green nor Menefee got more than 50% of the vote required to win outright on Tuesday. The runoff between Green and Menefee will be on May 26.The 18th District, in the Houston area, was without consistent representation until about 30 days ago, when Menefee won a special election runoff to replace former Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in office last year just over two months into his term. The runoff election occurred unde

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Hegseth says US 'can't stop everything' that Iran fires even as he asserts air dominance

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Wednesday that some Iranian air attacks may still hit their targets even as he asserted that U.S. military superiority is quickly giving it control of the Islamic Republic's airspace. The United States has spared “no expense or capability” to enhance air defense systems to protect American forces and allies in the Middle East, Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in a war that has widened throughout the region. “This does not mean we can stop everything, but we ensur

US Rep. Tony Gonzales and activist Brandon Herrera will head to a runoff for Texas’ 23rd District

Texan James Talarico becomes a fresh face of Democrats' midterm hopes after Senate primary win

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What went wrong in the women’s competition at the chaotic USATF half marathon championship?

North Carolina runner Molly Born won the USA Track & Field (USATF) women’s half marathon championship by a slim margin of just over four seconds on Sunday in Atlanta – but the result is only half the story.To say Born’s win was mired in controversy would be an understatement. That’s because the four runners that were outpacing the rest of the pack were led off the course by the guide vehicle with just over a mile remaining in the 13.1-mile race.The quartet ran about 1 kilometer (roughly 0.62 miles) extra, according to one of the runners. By the time the mistake was realized and the way

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Apple announces its cheapest-ever new MacBook

Apple on Wednesday launched the MacBook Neo, the company’s cheapest-ever new model.The MacBook Neo is the first Apple laptop to run on a chip typically used in the iPhone and starts at $599. It signals a fresh attempt to court Windows and Chromebook customers and ramp up growth as an ongoing component shortages rattles the broader market.John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, described the MacBook Neo as being “totally new” and built “from the ground up” during an event in New York on Wednesday.The iPhone is Apple’s biggest moneymaker, followed by its

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US stocks rise, Asian markets get rocked as Middle East conflict intensifies

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‘No Winston Churchill’: Trump opens new rift with Europe as leaders try to avoid being sucked into Iran war

US President Donald Trump sat alongside his German counterpart Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office on Tuesday and unleashed a broadside against some of his European allies.“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” he said of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after once again berating London for denying the US permission to use British military bases in the Chagos Islands – an archipelago in the Indian Ocean – for offensive strikes against Iran.Not content with criticizing one European leader, Trump laid into Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez too, threatening to i

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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted on that, sending troops into conflicts from Panama to Libya, with no regard for Congress’ will. Congress has for the most part registered only feeble and ineffective opposition to such executive action. The current move in Congress to deny President Donald Trump the ability to conti