Vice President JD Vance expressed gratitude Sunday for the American people’s “patience” with high gas prices throughout the war with Iran as news of a peace deal […]
When President Donald Trump accepted the April 2026 ceasefire, I knew he had committed the gravest political blunder of his career. America and Israel had cornered Iran, shattered its leverage, and battered its proxies. Instead of forcing permanent concessions, the White House now appears ready to rescue Tehran and rebrand retreat as a “peace crusade.” […]
An agreement has been reached between the United States and Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to President Donald Trump and Iranian officials. A document signing is expected to take place Friday. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports on the details of the deal for TODAY.
Pakistan will host an event in Geneva to mark the US-Iran peace deal, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told parliament, crediting Army Chief Asim Munir with playing an “extraordinary role” in efforts to end a conflict that threatened to destabilize the global economy.
‘LET THE OIL FLOW!’: On his 80th birthday, President Donald Trump proudly announced a 60-day ceasefire extension with Iran that he touted as a “Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region.” “Many presidents have tried to make Peace with Iran, and all have failed before me,” Trump gushed on his Truth […]
A small group of arch-conservative lawyers inside the Trump White House quietly fought back against Stephen Miller and Vice President JD Vance's push to suspend constitutional rights, according to internal memos and accounts drawn from a forthcoming book on Donald Trump's second term.The internal resistance — remarkable in an administration that rarely tolerates dissent — centered on proposals pushed by Miller to habeas corpus to accelerate deportations and invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military force against immigration protesters, reported New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”In both cases, it was not Democrats or federal judges who blocked the moves, but Trump's own senior staff.The key figure was Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary and a Harvard-trained lawyer who had helped build the legal arguments behind Trump's presidential immunity victory at the Supreme Court. Scharf was no moderate. He had embraced the most contentious elements of Trump's agenda and believed the former president had been politically persecuted after 2020, but he drew a line on these radical proposals.In a confidential memo dated April 29, 2025, addressed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Scharf laid out a meticulous legal case against suspending habeas corpus — the centuries-old right allowing individuals to challenge their imprisonment before a judge.The memo traced the right to the American Revolution, noted it had been formally suspended only four times in U.S. history, all during wartime, and warned that any attempt to suspend it without congressional authorization would almost certainly be struck down in court, creating a costly and self-inflicted legal crisis."Denial of habeas corpus rights was a key grievance underlying the American Revolution," Scharf wrote, adding that all three branches of government had historically been reluctant to interfere with the right "only in the direst of circumstances."Miller, the administration's immigration hard-liner, had been pushing the idea as a way to bypass federal judges who were slowing deportations. The president was receptive, asking advisers about Abraham Lincoln's Civil War-era suspension of the writ. But Scharf's memo, combined with skepticism from White House Counsel David Warrington, helped stall the proposal. Some West Wing officials privately called the idea "insane."The second confrontation came in late January, when Vance walked into a senior staff meeting and pressed for immediate invocation of the Insurrection Act following protests in Minnesota, where federal agents had shot and killed two American citizens during immigration enforcement operations. Vance argued swift action would deter future unrest and Miller supported the move.Scharf again pushed back, arguing the law simply did not fit the circumstances, and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair reinforced the point politically, asking the room what the Insurrection Act would actually achieve that existing powers could not. Nobody had a convincing answer, and White House communications director Stephen Cheung expressed his concerns about the public relations emergency the move would present.The meeting ended without a decision. The Insurrection Act was not invoked.However, the reporters noted that the notion of suspending habeas corpus has not been set aside and remains in consideration by some White House insiders who see the law as a potent way to test the limits of presidential power.
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough dumped cold water on an agreement President Donald Trump has reached to end his war in Iran.Iranian officials confirmed an agreement has been finalized, and Trump has said Strait of Hormuz will reopen Friday once the deal has been signed, but the "Morning Joe" host slammed the president for starting the war in the first place and questioned what had been gained in relation to the steep cost."Everybody around these talks believe that 60 days in, they're going to start charging tolls, and then you look at the sanctions relief they're going to get, which, again, the Trump administration, as you know, constantly berated Joe Biden's administration for lifting sanctions against Iran from time to time," Scarborough said. "They're going to do it, and we have talk of reconstruction. If Iran behaves well down the road, I mean ... and again, the devil's in the details. We're really glad there's a possibility that this war, which should have never started, comes to an end.""But let's just tell it like it is, whether if people want to be lied to, go to another channel because I can tell you which channel to go to," Scarborough added. "They will be lying through your teeth to you right now telling you how wonderful this is. But if you want to know the truth of what's happening right here, the fact is, people in the neighborhood around Iran have every reason to be scared to death right now because this is a more radical, a more enraged and soon to be richer Iran thanks to this war."Co-host Jonathan Lemire agreed and echoed Scarborough's comments. "Yeah, well, tell it like it is," Lemire agreed. "This is a defeat for the United States. Iran is stronger now than they were at the beginning of the war. We heard, how often [have] we heard not just President Trump complaining about the sanctions relief that the Biden administration gave Iran, but think about how the pallets of cash that he would blast the Obama team for sending Tehran, that's going to be dwarfed by the amount of money that's likely going there now on the Strait of Hormuz. Not only is A., after 60 days, Iran has indicated they believe they'll charge for tolls, but B., despite President Trump's celebration last night about the strait being open and free for everyone to use. That obviously, that's temporary, but also it already was before the war. That was the status quo that's how things existed. He made things worse.""We now have a hardline regime, embittered and certainly no reason to ever trust the United States again because we keep bombing them during the midst of negotiations," Lemire added. "Let's think about the cost here, not just the billions upon billions in terms of dollars the United States spent, but also the lives lost civilians, including a girls school and the first hours of the war. This is a significant you know, the United States looks significantly weaker right now in that region than before, and Iran's ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hit its neighbors seems, you know, unchecked." - YouTube youtu.be
Israel vowed on Monday it will continue rooting out Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and said it will hit Tehran with “all our might” if the clerical regime attacks – just hours after President Trump announced a deal to end the three-month-old war had been reached. Defense Minister Israel Katz refused to say when Israeli...