Last year, President Donald Trump shocked many people when he instructed the government to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with China and Russia. This statement seemed to suggest that our adversaries were actively testing nuclear weapons, despite the fact that the United States has not tested one since 1992. Some went so far as to suggest that China and Russia weren’t testing nuclear weapons at all and that if the United States resumed nuclear testing, it would simply trigger its adversaries to do likewise. China, meanwhile, denied carrying out any kind of nuclear testing and called upon the United States to forgo its plan. As such, the United States and its allies should be very concerned about Chinese intentions.

President Donald Trump said last week that he wasn’t too concerned about gas prices going up as the conflict in Iran escalates. “We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. But there is no such thing as true “energy independence” in a globalized oil market, where oil prices anywhere impact oil prices everywhere. Back home, gas prices in the U.S. saw their steepest single-day rise last week since 2022, which came after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia was a major energy supplier for much of Western Europe, which led to bipartisan concern in the U.S. that Russia could use its energy dominance to coerce Western Europe during its invasion of Ukraine.

The Trump logic seems to run as follows: There are, broadly speaking, only two possible outcomes of the U.S.-Israeli air campaign. The overthrow of Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000 — the delayed reaction to a U.S.-led air campaign — is arguably the exception that proves the rule. The air campaign is intended to destroy the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s navy, air force, air defenses, missile capabilities and nuclear weapons program. Even if new leaders arise out of the old Islamic regime, they will have far less power to harm their neighbors or the United States. Stressing that America was only at war with those countries’ evil leaders, the president felt responsible to assist their people.

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Veteran Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of northern San Diego County, an incessant thorn in the backside of President Obama, has called it quits. And two Republican congressional incumbents find themselves in a political death match in a newly crafted district straddling Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. AdvertisementIn a neighboring Orange County district, Republican Reps. Young Kim and Ken Calvert are going to battle for control of the region’s only safe Republican seat post-Proposition 50. Republican “primary voters are looking for how to distinguish between two of the same flavor,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican political strategist. “Republican voters are going to like both of them, so how do you make that judgment?

But Trump on Friday said that the United States wouldn’t end the war until Iran surrenders unconditionally. Gas pricesAmericans have been fed up with the high cost of living, but one saving grace has been that gas prices have stayed relatively low. Gas prices surged after the US and Israel attacked Iran and the Strait of Hormuz was effectively shut down. Higher gas prices could have an outsized effect on Americans’ perceptions about their finances. Higher prices could hurt consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the US economy.

Jenzen-Jones, the director of Armament Research Services, said the apparent Tomahawk strike gives weight to the likelihood that the U.S. also hit the school. The Post verified the video by comparing the landmarks in the video with those visible in Google Earth and Google Maps. The distinctive sign and gate of the Shaheed Absalan Specialist Clinic next to the school is visible in the video. Each Tomahawk missile is around 3,000 pounds, according to experts. Walls separate the primary school for girls from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Naval Forces compound, which was targeted with multiple strikes, satellite imagery shows.

Iranians are expected to gather nationwide on Monday afternoon to pledge allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a hard-line regime insider deeply intertwined with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps whose rise sends a strong message of defiance against the United States. Hours after Iran named its new supreme leader, the IRGC announced more missile strikes across the region. On Monday, Israel said it had launched a new wave of “wide-scale” strikes across Iran, targeting Tehran, Isfahan and sites in the country’s south. Iran rallies behind new supreme leader Return to menuIran announced a nationwide gathering Monday to pledge allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Tehran on Feb. 28 — as the new supreme leader. Before the announcement, Trump said the new supreme leader “is not going to last long” without U.S. approval, and Israel’s military vowed to target any successor to the late ayatollah.

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A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon fired several shots into the Beverly Hills-area home of pop star Rihanna on Sunday, and a round penetrated a wall of the mansion, a law enforcement source told The Times. The pop star was home, the source said. The suspect, Ivana Ortiz, of Orlando, had several prior arrests in her home state, according to public records reviewed by The Times. Police found bullet holes in a gate at Rihanna’s home and in an RV parked in the driveway, he said. AdvertisementThe pop star reportedly lives in a colonial-style mansion in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood with ASAP Rocky.

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