On Iran, Trump blinks first

Less than 24 hours after President Trump accepted an “indefinite ceasefire” proposed by Pakistan’s leaders so that Iran’s leaders could “come up with a unified resolution,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran refused to send any negotiator to Islamabad and did not make a single negotiator… Source…

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Two GOP senators break ranks on final Senate budget vote

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) broke ranks Thursday morning and voted against a budget proposal that could set the stage for ending the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Murkowski, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, opposed the budget proposal because it would lay the groundwork for……

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