The US has amassed an arsenal of military assets in the Middle East that would allow it to launch an aerial bombing campaign against Iran<\/p>\n
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We start with reports that Donald Trump is considering an early strike to force the Iranians to the negotiating table. An early strike could likely target specific government buildings or military sites and may be limited enough so as not to provoke a full-scale retaliation from Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong>, who is definitely not mad that his more popular predecessor Barack Obama<\/strong> got a lot of attention for saying<\/a> last weekend that aliens \u201care real, but I haven\u2019t seen them\u201d, announced<\/a> that he is directing the defense department and other agencies to release whatever files they have on the search for alien life.<\/p>\n Sky Roberts<\/strong>, the brother of the late Virginia Giuffre<\/strong>, told CNN that Trump \u201cis potentially implicated\u201d by the Epstein files, \u201cand he may have to answer some questions\u201d. The US president has denied any wrongdoing and yesterday claimed he was \u201cexonerated\u201d by the Epstein filed.<\/p>\n The English far-right activist Tommy Robinson<\/strong>, who was repeatedly denied entry to the US in the past, spent Thursday in Washington DC, meeting people close to Trump according to images and video posted on his social media accounts.<\/p>\n FBI Director Kash Patel has jetted off to Italy to watch the men\u2019s ice hockey medal matches, sticking taxpayers with a bill as high as $75,000, according<\/a> to multiple<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n The husband of Trump\u2019s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer<\/strong>, has reportedly been barred from the labor department\u2019s headquarters in Washington DC after at least two female staff members accused him of sexually assaulting them, the New York Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump told supporters in Georgia that there had been less media coverage of the cost-of-living crisis in the past weeks \u201cBecause I\u2019ve won, I\u2019ve won affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US has amassed an arsenal of military assets in the Middle East that would allow it to launch an aerial bombing campaign against Iran Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and I\u2019ll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}