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Bureau: Washington
The March 3 drone strike on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was far worse than disclosed: three floors gutted, CIA station hit, twelve-hour fire -- and the government said 'minor damage.'
An American weapons systems officer is missing inside Iran, the IRGC has offered a 'special commendation' for his capture, and thirty-six days of abstraction just became one face.
Senator John Curtis became the first Republican to publicly declare he will not support military operations in Iran beyond the sixty-day War Powers window, hitting April 29.
The DHS shutdown hit day fifty -- the longest in American history -- as Trump signed an order to pay DHS employees while his own budget proposes cutting TSA funding and privatizing screeners.
Politico reports the Pentagon is running out of strategically significant targets in Iran, with remaining missile stockpiles buried in bunkers that air power alone cannot reach.
On the day Iran shot down an F-15E and an A-10, with one crew member missing and feared captured, the president's first public statement was a four-word Truth Social post about oil.