{"id":69253,"date":"2026-03-17T21:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:01:24","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: calls for former counter-terror chief to face Congress after quitting over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Democrat calls for Trump ally and far-right political figure Joe Kent to testify after resigning from his post<\/p>\n<p>A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about why he resigned from his job over the war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California representative Ro Khanna\u2019s call came after Kent, a supporter of Trump, wrote on X that \u201cI cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation\u201d before blaming Israel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/17\/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest-updates-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Democrat calls for Trump ally and far-right political figure Joe Kent to testify after resigning from his post A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about why he resigned from his job over the war on Iran. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: calls for former counter-terror chief to face Congress after quitting over Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: calls for former counter-terror chief to face Congress after quitting over Iran war\">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-69253","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\/69253","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=69253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}