{"id":72855,"date":"2026-04-30T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-faces-further-grilling-over-war-costs-as-iranian-supreme-leader-releases-fresh-us-threats-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:57:13","slug":"hegseth-faces-further-grilling-over-war-costs-as-iranian-supreme-leader-releases-fresh-us-threats-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-faces-further-grilling-over-war-costs-as-iranian-supreme-leader-releases-fresh-us-threats-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth faces further grilling over war costs as Iranian supreme leader releases fresh US threats \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary to be quizzed in Senate as Khamenei says foreigners have no place in Gulf \u2018except at bottom of its waters\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The ruling from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a> destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation by two titans of the court\u2019s rightwing majority, chief justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting as an unspoken double act, the duo have chipped away at what has been called the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. Wednesday\u2019s ruling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2025\/24-109\">Louisiana v Callais<\/a> is the fifth major supreme court decision authored by the two justices that have slowly but surely strangled efforts to protect the democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/30\/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-iran-war-oil-king-charles-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary to be quizzed in Senate as Khamenei says foreigners have no place in Gulf \u2018except at bottom of its waters\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a &#8230; <a title=\"Hegseth faces further grilling over war costs as Iranian supreme leader releases fresh US threats \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-faces-further-grilling-over-war-costs-as-iranian-supreme-leader-releases-fresh-us-threats-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hegseth faces further grilling over war costs as Iranian supreme leader releases fresh US threats \u2013 US politics live\">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-72855","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\/72855","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=72855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}