Thomas Watkins

Washington bureau chief @thenationalnews. Board member @ForeignPressUSA Previously Islamabad, Kabul, Paris, LA, London. Send me Marmite

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@Dovidcc @WhiteHouse That's not entirely accurate. They also get $300 billion

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

This aged like fine Cabernet Sauvignon

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[First Amendment Watch @FirstAmendWatch]

🎂250 years ago today, the Virginia Declaration of Rights included the first constitutional protection for press freedom in history — one that would eventually be enshrined in the Bill of Rights.📝

Read more on our commemoration page: https://t.co/rM2CxihFwz

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

The World Cup is officially here! CVS got the merch - $50 gets you a special pack consisting of: a reusable bottle that’s banned at the stadiums so Fifa can charge for bottled water, a polyester beanie hat for all those chilly games in Miami and Texas, and a foam trucker hat.

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Targeting the rescuers: Inside Israel’s war on paramedics in Lebanon

https://t.co/LqAzM7iRzQ

[Mina Al-Oraibi @AlOraibi]

Iran deal ‘largely negotiated’ and final details will be announced shortly, Trump says - @thomaswatkins reports https://t.co/U33k80NnAc

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

#Iran deal ‘largely negotiated’ and final details will be announced shortly, Trump says

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Rubio touts some progress in #Iran talks and says Strait of Hormuz tolls 'can't happen'

https://t.co/IrIvfVgKwT

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Prediction markets: The risks as users bet on war, politics and more https://t.co/hZnvSYHcRE via @YouTube

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to a Nato meeting in Sweden on Friday as tensions with the alliance soar over the Strait of Hormuz, US bases in Europe, spending and of course and #Ukraine

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@atrupar Reporting isn't treason. Also NYT's numbers are going up.

[The Fletcher School @FletcherSchool]

Professor Michael Glennon, who helped craft the 1973 War Powers Resolution, predicted the Trump administration would ignore the law and would "continue using the armed forces... in the Gulf.” @TheNationalNews @thomaswatkins

https://t.co/65cpNIDeJ4

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@richardaeden Hardly breaking news but yeah, Hershey’s shouldn’t really be called chocolate. It only has the legal minimum of cocoa solids (about 10%)

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@lrozen @atrupar I concur

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@GWR @LondonMarathon Amazing! Congratulations

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@atrupar If a drug is $100 and it rises by 600%, that drug would cost $700. Also this is insane.

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Israel kills yet another journalist in horrific 'triple-tap' attack in Lebanon
https://t.co/QnjuvWvPKX

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

@NoContextHumans Unless they've started using km/h in America, as appears on one of the signs, this is AI and we are all being engagement farmed

[Adla Massoud @Adlamassoud]

🚨🚨UN Security Council to start negotiations on Bahrain draft authorising force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen by @TheNationalNews
Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the 'zero' draft calls for the autorisation for member states, "acting nationally or through voluntary multinational naval partnerships” to use “all necessary means in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
#IranWar‌

[Thomas Watkins @thomaswatkins]

Gabbard: "The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the President.”

#IranWar‌