Taegan Goddard

“U.S. military strikes on Iran will intensify next week if Tehran does not cooperate in peace talks in the coming days, President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday,” CNBC reports.

“A central issue in acting attorney general Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday will be the extraordinary protection from Internal Revenue Service investigations he granted President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“The latest Senate debate over a Trump health appointment kicks off Wednesday with a less polarizing nominee than some of the president’s previous picks — but that doesn’t mean controversies around vaccines and public health are over,” Axios reports.

“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first-in-the-nation data center moratorium could provide a playbook for other Democrats confronting one of the midterms’ most heated issues,” Axios

“House GOP leaders on Wednesday released a budget blueprint that would allow them to bypass Democratic opposition and provide $73 billion in additional military funding amid the war in Iran and $12 billion for farmers, as well as authorize severe voting restrictions championed by President Trump,” the New York Times

“Ruby Rippey-Gibney — the former San Francisco City Hall aide whose affair with Gov. Gavin Newsom nearly upended his political career — will tell her side of the story for the first time in an upcoming Vanity Fair piece,” the New York Post reports.

“Todd Blanche likely fueled the most potent criticism against him Wednesday with a gaffe that may haunt him beyond his ongoing confirmation hearing to become the next attorney general,” Politico reports.

“Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general nominated by President Trump to oversee the Justice Department, faced pointed questions during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday from Senator John Cornyn, a Republican on the committee whose support would be crucial,” the

War on the Rocks: “While the United States and Israel waged a war they believed would be defined by military force, Iran had a theory of victory its adversaries never understood: a regime built for survival, manipulating global perception and economic levers, and converting military inferiority into geopolitical leverage. The result was a fragile ceasefire during which Tehran negotiated from a position of greater leverage than it held before the war began…”

“Ukraine said it has hit more than 110 Russian vessels in nine days in the Sea of Azov, making it one of the most concentrated series of attacks on shipping ever to take place,” the Financial Times reports.