Archaeologists who were excavating an historic Connecticut town green have uncovered the well-preserved remains of an 18th-century bake house — an unusual remnant of the Revolutionary War.
President Trump has discussed resuming full-scale war with Iran, but is opting to stay the course with diplomacy for now.
President Donald Trump has held a series of private conversations with top military officials over whether to abandon diplomacy with Iran and resume full-scale military strikes, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.Some aides have described the option as "finishing the job," but for now, Trump has decided against it, telling advisers that another round of heavy strikes could derail negotiations and jeopardize the broader goal of dismantling Iran's nuclear program entirely, reported the Wall Street Journal."President Trump has weighed a return to all-out war with Iran, holding multiple conversations in recent days with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine on more strikes, but has decided to stick with diplomatic talks for now, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussion," the report said.The president has also indicated he's willing to let an Aug. 18 deadline for a nuclear agreement pass without treating it as a breaking point, giving talks more time to develop. In the meantime, he appears content relying on narrower, retaliatory strikes whenever Iran breaches the existing memorandum of understanding — a policy already tested over the weekend, when limited fighting strained a ceasefire reached just two weeks earlier.Publicly, Trump maintains an upbeat posture, insisting Iran is "agreeing to everything" the U.S. wants and warning that failure to comply means "we just go back and do what we have to do." Vice President JD Vance struck a similar tone, saying the administration would "work the problem" diplomatically but retains "a lot of optionality" if talks collapse.Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Doha this week for another round of indirect negotiations, communicating through mediators rather than directly with Iranian officials.A central obstacle remains Iran's demand for steep transit fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz — a position the U.S. rejects, insisting the waterway must stay open as it was before the conflict. Iran has also refused to accept the extent of nuclear restrictions Trump claims it already agreed to.Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Tuesday that Iran "has not been cooperative at all yet," crediting continued U.S. naval escorts — not Iranian cooperation — for stabilizing global oil flows. A newly established communication channel between the Revolutionary Guard Corps and U.S. Central Command has offered a modest de-escalation tool, though officials are divided on how much it signals genuine improvement.The stalled talks have pushed Trump to solicit fresh military options from Hegseth and Caine, who have outlined paths back to large-scale airstrikes.Officials note this would be a tacit admission that the earlier campaign, which struck more than 13,000 targets in Iran, failed to force lasting compliance — a scenario Trump has so far chosen to avoid, despite repeated threats to escalate.
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President Donald Trump is simmering after the Supreme Court rejected his claim that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not confer citizenship upon anyone born in the United States — and now the conservative movement is splitting in two over the matter.“When you hate immigrants so much that you want government run sterilization,” 2024 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Chase Oliver posted on X on Tuesday. “These kind of weirdos want to completely undo the country because a long standing precedent and interpretation of the 14th Amendment was once again confirmed by the highest Court in the nation.”He concluded, “They don't want a Republic, they want fascism.”Oliver was replying to a post by Sean Davis, the CEO and co-founder of the right-wing media outlet The Federalist, which advocated illegal defiance of the Supreme Court’s decision. First, Davis called out the two Republican judges (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett) who joined the three Democratic judges in ruling against Trump’s position. Then he advocated a series of measures to defy the will of America’s most powerful bench.“Nullification,” Davis wrote. “States issue birth certificates, and they can just stop issuing them to non-citizens. Roberts/Barrett can deal with the fallout and litigate each birth individually.”He also suggested, “Pack the court. If Robert wants to be a politician who writes laws instead of a judge, then he can fight with 10 more unelected legislators in robes.”Additionally, Davis recommended that Trump “deny entry to all pregnant foreigners,” “deny entry to all female foreigners,” “require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry,”and “dissolution of the Union. A nation which can’t even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn’t a nation.”Davis also sarcastically said that Republicans could “amend the Constitution. This is pointless, because once a judge decides he can rewrite the Constitution at will (as Roberts and Barrett did today), the actual text is meaningless. But this is what most GOP politicians gravitate towards because they are useless.”He concluded, “If you think all these options are not great, understand that that is what happens when unelected judges decide that they are in charge of the country and get to write its laws.”In contrast to Davis, liberal commentator and former Secretary of Labor for President Bill Clinton Robert Reich expressed disappointment that the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of the 14th Amendment was only a 5-to-4 ruling.“In another era, this would have been a no-brainer,” Reich wrote. “No constitutional lawyer I know thought the Court would decide otherwise. The lower federal courts had consistently and unanimously ruled against Trump.”He added, “Had Trump won, it would have probably caused panic among recent immigrants and their families. Although Trump has insisted his policy would apply only to future births, it was far from clear that the logic of any win for Trump wouldn’t apply retrospectively if a future president (JD Vance? perish the thought) wanted to go there. What I find troubling is that the decision was 5 to 4 rather than unanimous or nearly so, as it should have been.”Trump has openly considered defying the Supreme Court’s decision, as well as the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, perhaps in part because — as Georgetown University School of Law Professor Steve Vladeck recently pointed out — his loss with this decision deals a body blow to his agenda on immigration policy.
The Supreme Court ruled the Civil War was fought so that Chinese nationals who have set up birth tourism companies in the United States could have anchor babies.
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