Pentagon used Anthropic AI to target Iran after Trump declared it a national security risk

AI company banned for refusing surveillance work; military used it anyway to pick targets

Tillis vows to block Senate nominees until Noem answers for 10 DHS inspector general violations

A Republican senator weaponizes the confirmation process against his own party's cabinet secretary

Top Labor Department aides resign as FMCS faces cuts

Senior DOL aides quit as the agency dismantles 75 years of labor mediation infrastructure.

Iran war sends gas prices to biggest single-day spike since Hurricane Katrina

Futures markets priced in war within hours before a single tanker was actually stopped

Spain bars U.S. from using NATO bases for Iran war; Trump threatens trade cutoff

NATO allies refuse base access as Trump launches a war without consulting them

Congress demands probe of prediction market trades placed before Iran war launched

Large Iran war bets placed on Kalshi and Polymarket hours before the strikes began

Military commanders tell troops Iran war is God's plan for Armageddon

Service members in every branch file complaints over Armageddon briefings

Netanyahu and MBS secretly lobbied Trump for weeks before Iran war

Private calls and Washington briefings pushed accelerated strike timeline

DHS enters 17th day of partial shutdown as Senate filibuster blocks deportation funding

Agency continues deportations despite 17-day funding lapse

900 Google and OpenAI workers demand employers keep AI ethics limits on military use

Tech workers invoke 2018 Maven cancellation and demand Google repeat it

Six U.S. service members killed in Iran war as interceptor missile stocks run low

Pentagon knew since 2019 that $20,000 drones could exhaust $4 million interceptors

DOJ drops then reverses its fight against law firms that beat Trump in court

Four courts found the orders unconstitutional. Then DOJ dropped them. Then it did not.