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Iran State TV to Trump: 'You Started It, and We'll Finish It'

But how Tehran responds militarily to the US strikes was not immediately clear

(Newser) - How Iran will respond to the US strikes on three of its nuclear facilities remains unclear, but a commentator on state TV delivered a stark warning, reports the Times of Israel :
  • "You started it, and we'll finish it."
  • The male commentator also declared that every US citizen
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Trump Addresses Nation After Bombing Iran

'Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace'

(Newser) - President Trump gave a brief address to the nation Saturday night to explain his decision to have US bombers strike three Iranian nuclear sites —and he warned that more strikes would follow unless Iran acquiesced. "Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace," he said,...

US Bombed Nuclear Sites in Iran, Trump Announces

'All planes are safely on their way home,' president posts

(Newser) - US warplanes dropped bombs on nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced, ending the global uncertainty about his intentions in the Israel-Iran conflict that he had said might last another two weeks. He posted online that the planes had left Iranian airspace after striking three targets. "All...

Vance Calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose,' Rips Cali Leaders

Gov. Newsom, LA Mayor Bass push back as National Guard deployment sparks a legal fight

(Newser) - Vice President JD Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday, sharply criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass for their opposition to recent federal immigration raids. Vance accused both leaders of making it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs and claimed their rhetoric encouraged violence...

Trump: My Intel Chief Is 'Wrong' on Iran's Nukes

Tulsi Gabbard, meanwhile, says her testimony in Congress on the matter was taken out of context

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday said that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" when she previously said that the US believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, suggesting it would be "very hard to stop" Israel's strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a...

Judge Gives Harvard a Win on Foreign Students

School can continue to host them as case proceeds in court

(Newser) - A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration's efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students, per the AP and the Harvard Crimson . An order from US District Judge Allison Burroughs preserves the ability of Harvard to host foreign students while the case is decided. It marks...

Noonan: Trump Has a Smart Play to Make on Iran
Noonan: Amid Iran
Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear
OPINION
Jun 20, 2025 11:25 AM CDT

Noonan: Amid Iran Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear

Before 'epochal' decision, Trump should give Congress a say in the matter

(Newser) - "The price a government or party pays for being dramatically wrong can have foreign-policy reverberations that last generations," writes columnist Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . She's referring to the "epochal" year of 2003, when the US blundered into war with Iraq. Two decades later,...

Trump: I Want Special Prosecutor for 2020 Vote

President insists again that he won

(Newser) - President Trump said earlier this year that missing out on the chance to serve consecutive terms has worked out OK in the end for him. But he's still not about to let the 2020 election results rest. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the president called for a...

Trump Deploys His Favorite Deadline: 'Two Weeks'

President has frequently used it over both his administrations on difficult matters

(Newser) - When President Trump informed the world on Thursday that he would make his decision on whether to bomb Iran within two weeks , it was a familiar tactic. "As almost everyone in Washington is by now aware, 'two weeks' is one of Mr. Trump's favorite units of time,...

Court Sides With Trump on Use of National Guard Troops in LA

Trump can keep control of troops as lawsuit continues to unfold

(Newser) - An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids, the AP reports. The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition...

Stumped Players Have Awkward Trump Session

Soccer team sidesteps presidential question about women playing on men's teams

(Newser) - Instead of being allowed the usual preparation time before a match that evening, an Italian team of soccer stars was shepherded into the Oval Office on Wednesday to meet President Trump—a 16-minute session that covered Iran, the US Civil War, and transgender athletes and overall was, one player said,...

This Time, Trump Is Silent About Juneteenth

White House had promised a proclamation

(Newser) - President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He once claimed to have made it "famous." But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to...

Leavitt: Trump Will Decide on Iran Strike Within 2 Weeks

President pushes back against WSJ report

(Newser) - President Trump is still considering whether to join Israel's war on Iran, and Americans shouldn't expect a decision straight away, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing Thursday. The Hill reports that she read out a statement from the president: "Based on the...

Trump Ready to Pull Trigger on Iran Attack: Report
Trump Ready
to Pull Trigger
on Iran Attack:
Report
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 19, 2025 6:01 AM CDT

Trump Ready to Pull Trigger on Iran Attack: Report

They say he has OK'd plans to strike, is waiting on final order to see if Tehran balks on nukes program

(Newser) - What will come of President Trump's "ultimate ultimatum" to Iran remains to be seen, but according to a new report, Trump is ready to strike when that moment comes. The president has told senior aides that he has given the green light on attack plans against Iran, though...

With TikTok Deadline Nigh, Trump Punts Again

White House plans to grant 90-day extension to work on deal

(Newser) - President Trump plans to give TikTok another extension, delaying a US ban on the app for the third time since taking office. The move comes more than five months after a federal law was supposed to block TikTok unless it separated from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. Trump told reporters...

Trump: 'Stupid' Fed Chief Probably Won't Cut Rates

'He's a political guy who's not a smart person,' president says of Powell

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its key interest rate steady today, and President Trump didn't wait for the announcement to attack Fed chair Jerome Powell. "So we have a stupid person. Frankly, you probably won't cut today," Trump told reporters outside the White...

Trump Says He Gave Iran the 'Ultimate Ultimatum'

But he didn't elaborate

(Newser) - Iran's supreme leader may not be into the idea of an unconditional surrender, but the Wall Street Journal reports President Trump didn't back down on the demand for one on Wednesday. In comments to reporters outside the White House, Trump described Iran as having "a lot of...

Iran Leader's Response to Trump Is a Defiant One

'The Iranian nation will not surrender'

(Newser) - President Trump's Tuesday demand for Iran's "unconditional surrender" fell on defiant ears. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday made what the Guardian reports were his first public comments since Friday. In a speech read on state TV, he had this to say, per the Guardian and...

Trump Demands Iran's 'Unconditional Surrender'

President also says the US knows there the nation's supreme leader 'is hiding'

(Newser) - President Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Iran in significant fashion on Tuesday, with a demand for the nation's "unconditional surrender" as its conflict with Israel unfolds, reports the Wall Street Journal . Trump issued the all-caps demand on Truth Social. He also delivered an unambiguous threat to Supreme...

Trump, Tucker Carlson Spat Illustrates a Bigger Debate
Trump, Tucker Carlson Spat
Illustrates a Bigger Debate
the rundown
Jun 17, 2025 11:05 AM CDT

Trump, Tucker Carlson Spat Illustrates a Bigger Debate

Pundit says president has lost sight of 'America First' ideals with support of Israel against Iran

(Newser) - President Trump and Tucker Carlson are having a public fight about the Iran-Israel conflict, and the Hill sees it as a "microcosm" of a dispute within MAGA about "America First" principles.
  • Carlson has been loudly criticizing Israel's preemptive strike and warning that the US shouldn't get
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