US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made comments about “stupid rules of engagement” on Monday, suggesting they may interfere with “fight[ing] to win” in Iran.
These remarks are concerning in light of Hegseth’s actions in the past year that have weakened US military posts and mechanisms intended to safeguard international humanitarian law.
My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
Last week, I was the first United States Senator to step foot in Ukraine since Russia's invasion. I saw indisputable, chilling evidence of Putin's war crimes everywhere.
Here's what I saw — warning it’s graphic:
Donald Trump — the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country — has convinced American voters to give him another term in the White House.
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BREAKING: A medical committee just confirmed the first officially-deemed “preventable” abortion-related death since Dobbs.
The post-Roe reality is very, very real—and dangerous.
An alleged assassination attempt by a mentally ill person using a gun is a terrible reason to vote for the man who made it easier for mentally ill persons to get guns.
For the record: You cannot have an abortion in the 9th month. You cannot have an abortion after birth. If we didn’t keep banning books, maybe we wouldn’t have to clear that up. #Debate2024
KAMALA HARRIS: We will reduce our reliance on foreign oil, give tax credits to young families, and restore Roe.
DONALD TRUMP: Illegals are eating the cats and doing transgender operations in prisons.
DAVID MUIR: Mr. President. Thank you.