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'Betrayal.' MAGA lashes out on Iran, prompting Trump pushback.

Hanging over the debate is the memory of previous Middle Eastern conflicts, which stretched for years and claimed the lives of many U.S. soldiers.

Zac Anderson | USA TODAY

Concerns about an extended conflict, the mounting U.S. death toll and a perceived lack of clarity about the mission’s purpose are contributing to MAGA backlash against President Donald Trump’s military operation in Iran, putting the president at odds with some of his most ardent supporters.

Hanging over the debate is the memory of previous Middle East conflicts, which stretched for years and claimed the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers.

Trump's presidential campaigns tapped into the American public’s disenchantment with the long and costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He described the Iraq war as a "disaster" and "one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country."

The president has launched a series of dramatic military operations in his second term, though. The first two in Iran and Venezuela were quick, and no U.S. soldiers died, limiting the blowback from his political base.

But Trump’s second attack on Iran has already resulted in the deaths of six American service members, and the president is warning that more lives could be lost in a conflict with an uncertain timeline. ...

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Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify in House Epstein probe, Comer says

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Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify before the House Oversight Committee for its probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., confirmed Lutnick's appearance in a statement sent to Fox News Digital and other outlets on Tuesday.

"Secretary Lutnick has proactively agreed to appear voluntarily before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform," Comer said. "I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee. I look forward to his testimony."

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Trump slams Starmer as ‘not Winston Churchill’ for refusal to back Iran strikes

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President Donald Trump blasted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Tuesday, saying "this is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with," amid a lack of support for the United States’ and Israel’s joint military operation against Iran.

The president spoke in the Oval Office ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Tuesday and took questions from reporters.

"By the way, I’m not happy with the U.K. either," the president said, referring to Keir blocking the United States’ use of U.K. bases to launch attacks on Iran.

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State Dept in 'constant contact' with congressional offices as Americans flee Middle East amid Iran strikes

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FIRST ON FOX: The State Department revealed communications with Congress on getting Americans out of the Middle East as Democrats on Capitol Hill say the department is "refusing to help people leave the region."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Digital that the department has been in "constant contact" with Congress, specifically related to getting stranded Americans back home.

"The State Department is in constant contact with members of Congress in order to provide American citizens in the Middle East with assistance and accurate...
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Mamdani putting NYPD 'between rock and a hard place' in move that could ultimately help his goal: expert

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent reactions to law enforcement, which some have interpreted as pushing back against the New York Police Department, likely won’t hurt him as much as previous mayors, a local crime expert told Fox News Digital, and could end up working to his overall political advantage.

"It may not hurt Mamdani in the way that it might hurt another mayor," Manhattan Institute Fellow Rafael Mangual.

"I do think that Zohran Mamdani is okay with being an opponent and a critic of the NYPD. I think he comes from a sort of...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Congress' options on hamstringing Trump's war powers in Iran

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WATCH: Clintons sharply divided on Trump testimony in closed-door House Epstein probe

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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave very different responses to House lawmakers last week when asked whether President Donald Trump should testify in their Jeffrey Epstein probe, newly released video shows.

Both testified to the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors for hours in their hometown of Chappaqua, N.Y.

Each was also asked by the Democratic side whether Trump should come before the committee himself, given his own known past ties to the late financier and sex trafficker.

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Trump’s Iran strikes get legal cover as scholars say Article II playbook spans Obama era and beyond

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President Donald Trump’s legal case for ordering strikes on Iran without prior congressional authorization is not novel, according to legal scholars, and instead tracks the modern Article II template that past presidential administrations have used to justify limited military operations abroad.

"Whether you agree or disagree with Obama or any of the other presidents who used military force, like in Haiti with 20,000 troops on the ground (in 1994 under the Clinton administration), this is what the founders anticipated when they divided the power,"...
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Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain over military base access

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Trump lashed out after Spain barred the US from using its military bases to carry out strikes on Iran.
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Zelensky fears Trump's Iran war could hurt Ukraine

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Ukraine fears what soaring oil prices and a shortage in air defences could mean for them.
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FBI agents Patel fired worked in counterintel, including on cases involving Iran

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Most of the FBI agents fired by FBI Director Kash Patel last week worked on counterintelligence cases, including cases pertaining to Iran, multiple sources told CBS News.

Approximately a dozen or so FBI employees, including agents, analysts and support staff, were abruptly terminated over a two-day period last week after Patel lashed out over the discovery that his phone records and those of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles were subpoenaed by the FBI as part of special counsel Jack Smith's probes into President Trump.

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Guns and ganja: Supreme Court skeptical of federal law banning firearm possession for regular marijuana users

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The Supreme Court expressed skepticism Monday about the federal government’s law banning people with a "habitual use" of marijuana from legally possessing a firearm, a Second Amendment case that could test the limits of creating exceptions to gun ownership.

But in two hours of spirited oral arguments over "guns and ganja," several justices — while seeing marijuana smokers as potentially less serious — expressed concern about allowing drug addicts and other illegal substance users who might pose a danger to society to have those weapons.

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Democrat in key Senate primary says she ‘regrets’ vote on Laken Riley Act, draws GOP backlash

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Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, running for a Senate seat in Minnesota, penned an article this week explaining her "regret" for voting for the Laken Riley Act, sparking criticism from conservatives online and from her Republican opponents.

"I never thought the Laken Riley Act was a perfect bill, as it allowed for detention of certain violent as well as nonviolent offenses," Craig wrote in the Minnesota Star Tribune this week about the legislation, named after a nursing student who was murdered during a jog on the University of Georgia’s campus by an...
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State Department has helped over 130 Americans evacuate Israel during war with Iran, official says

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The State Department has so far helped more than 130 Americans evacuate Israel during the war with Iran, an official told Fox News on Tuesday.

"Hundreds of American citizens have left Israel since the start of the conflict. Over the last few days, the State Department has assisted over 130 American citizens [in departing] Israel, with an additional 100 American citizens expected to depart today," the State Department official said.

"The Department is in direct contact and aiding nearly 500 American citizens [with arranging] travel out of Israel...
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DHS sweeping Biden-era interviews with border crossers to identify potential homeland threats

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday said the department is reviewing interviews with some individuals who crossed the border under former President Joe Biden to identify potential threats following the conflict with Iran.

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned Noem during a DHS oversight hearing, asking about the "millions of people" who entered the U.S. under Biden’s "open border policy" and what steps Homeland Security has taken to protect against potential Iranian sleeper cells and related terrorism.

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Trump says Iran is 'running out of launchers' as regime is 'being decimated'

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Iranian regime is "running out of launchers" as its forces are "being decimated."

The president made the remarks despite saying that the Iranian military is expected to "keep lobbing missiles for a while," according to Politico. The State Department is urging Americans to depart immediately from more than a dozen countries across the Middle East, warning of "serious safety risks" as the Iran war intensifies.

"They’re running out, and they’re running out of areas to shoot them, because they’re being...
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New charges for son of Norway's crown princess on trial for rape

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Marius Borg Høiby now faces a total of 40 charges at his trial and denies the most serious allegations.
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DHS blasts Spanberger on potential release of illegal migrant with 30+ arrests currently charged with murder

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The Department of Homeland Security blasted Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger after a criminal illegal migrant with over 30 arrests was accused of stabbing a mother in the Washington, D.C.-area and now could be released from custody.

Abdul Jalloh, 32, was recently arrested for allegedly stabbing a 41-year-old woman to death at a bus stop in Fairfax County, Virginia in late February. He was charged with murder, but Spanberger's office reportedly indicated she would not honor a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer. A...
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Reporter's Notebook: Congressional Republicans stand by Trump on Iran military action despite campaign promise

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Sir Isaac Newton postulated that for every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction. It’s Newton’s Third Law of Motion and one of the most important rules in all of science.

And Newtonian physics can tell you a great deal about reactions in politics.

We don’t yet know the dimension or the impact of the war in Iran. But there will be a political reaction of great importance as we head toward the midterms. It’s just too early to understand how the war will go, what unexpected twists it may take and how its consequences might reverberate through
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Trump says Iran’s succession bench wiped out as Israeli strike hits leadership deliberations

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President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on Iran have eliminated much of the regime’s anticipated leadership succession bench, raising new questions about who will emerge to lead the Islamic Republic following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"Most of the people we had in mind are dead," Trump told reporters Tuesday. "So, you know, we had some in mind from that group that is, is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in. Pretty soon we're not...
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Pentagon official flags return of 'Cold War mentality,' as Trump admin reshapes NATO alliance

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Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby told lawmakers that the administration's latest defense strategy proposal does not sideline the U.S.'s European allies, but rather it aims to go back to a "Cold War mentality" with an emphasis on "burden sharing."

The Pentagon policy chief was grilled on Tuesday as members of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned the 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS).

The strategy outlines a shift in U.S. priorities to keep Washington engaged in Europe while also prioritizing defense of the "U.S. Homeland...
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Trump defends war with Iran as conflict widens

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Israel sent troops into Lebanon as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran widened, and some of Iran's Gulf neighbors warned that Iran's retaliatory fire could draw them into the spreading conflict.
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DOJ reverses course, will now defend Trump executive orders targeting law firms

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Washington — The Justice Department is walking back its move to end its appeals of lower-court decisions that invalidated President Trump's executive orders targeting four law firms — just hours after it said it would drop its defense of the directives.

The Justice Department informed the U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that it is now seeking to withdraw its request to voluntarily dismiss the appeals. Lawyers for the four firms oppose the move, calling it an "unexplained about-face," according to the filing.

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Anthropic's Claude AI being used in Iran war by U.S. military, sources say

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Two sources familiar with the U.S. military's use of artificial intelligence confirm that the U.S. used Anthropic's Claude AI model over weekend for the attack on Iran — and is still using it.

The Pentagon has not said exactly how the AI tool is being deployed, but it's being used despite a government-wide ban on the technology after a dispute last week with the Pentagon. The conflict centered around Anthropic's push for guardrails that would explicitly prevent the military from using Claude to conduct mass surveillance on Americans or to power...
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Steve Scalise rips Democrats for 'playing political games' with DHS shutdown amid Iran threat

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Nikki Haley slams Democrats who say Iranian regime 'was no threat to America': 'Absurd'

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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed Democrats who claim that the Iranian regime was not a threat to the U.S., calling the notion "absurd."

"It’s absurd for Democrats to say the Iranian regime was no threat to America. For decades, they targeted American troops, made the spread of terrorism a priority, relentlessly pursued nuclear weapons, built missiles aimed at our bases, and plotted assassinations against President Trump and other U.S. leaders — myself included — on American soil," Haley said on X.

"When they chanted 'Death to...
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