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How State Department cuts to Middle East experts affect US handling of Iran war

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🔥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: diplomacy,Donald Trump news,Iran,iran attacks,marco rubio,middle east,State Department ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is usually at the center of the geopolitical dispute. The role of the office, usually headed by a veteran diplomat, is to coordinate American foreign policy across an 18-nation region, much of which has become a chaotic battleground marred by drone and missile strikes, as the United States and Israel remain in conflict with Iran. Read more: 'It takes…

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Watch the live broadcast: Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaishi at the White House

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,japan,Sanae Takaichi ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — A meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaishi at the White House on Thursday originally seemed like an excellent opportunity to get President Donald Trump's attention before he embarks on a trip to China. The President is expected to hold a bilateral meeting at 11:15 a.m. EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. But now, the war in Iran and Trump's unsuccessful call for Japan and other countries to help protect the Strait…

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WATCH LIVE: Gabbard, Patel and Ratcliffe testify at a House hearing on national security threats

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,iran attacks,John Ratcliffe,Kash Patel,tulsi gabbard ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Top U.S. intelligence officials will testify Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee in an open hearing on global threats, the second day of hearings on Capitol Hill focused on the intelligence community's release of its annual assessment of threats to national security. The House hearing on global threats is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 19. Watch the live stream in the player above. On Wednesday, Democratic senators pressed Tulsi Gabbard, the director…

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WATCH: Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Patel testify about global threats at Senate intelligence hearing

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Counterterrorism,fbi,Iran,iran attacks,John Ratcliffe,Kash Patel,tulsi gabbard ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators pressed the U.S. government's top intelligence official at annual global threat hearings Wednesday on war with Iran, including whether she advised President Donald Trump that Tehran would likely close the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passage for oil and gas from the Persian Gulf, if attacked. Watch in our video player above. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has repeatedly fielded questions about the intelligence she provided to the Republican president. This…

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What to know about the Jones Act as Trump administration unveils 60-day waiver

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,iran attacks,jones act,shipping ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran continues to upend energy markets and supply chains around the world, the Trump administration says it will temporarily waive requirements for ocean shipping under a more than a century-old law known as the Jones Act. The Jones Act requires that goods transported between U.S. ports be transported on U.S. flagged ships. Passed in 1920, the law aims to protect the American shipping sector — but it…

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The United States requires bonds of up to $15,000 for visa applications from 12 other countries

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✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: immigration,State Department,visas ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it will add 12 countries to an expanding list of countries whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for U.S. visas. From 2 April, passport holders from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Grenada, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles and Tunisia will be required to pay a bond, which is refunded if the visa application is rejected, or if granted, the person adheres to the terms of the…

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Cuban leader says US aggression will meet “invincible resistance”

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🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: cuba,Donald Trump news,marco rubio,Miguel Díaz-Canel 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Diaz has criticized Canel after US President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the Caribbean island and that Washington could take “imminent action” against it. Diaz-Canel said late Tuesday that the Trump administration "openly threatens" the Cuban government on an almost daily basis with overthrow, and any aggressive action "will meet with impenetrable resistance." These statements came after new threats made by Trump and US Secretary of State…

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Georgia was going to get rid of the voting machines that Trump hates. But then things got complicated

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🚀 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2026 Midterms,Dominion Voting Systems,Donald Trump news,election deniers,georgia,voting ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ATLANTA (AP) — The stars appear to have aligned with Republicans to take down their biggest target — touch-screen voting machines in Georgia. But the complex reality of changing voting systems has gotten in the way, despite the rise of 2020 election deniers to influential places in state government and Donald Trump's second administration. Instead, it seems increasingly likely that Georgia voters will continue to cast their ballots next November on machines from Dominion Voting Systems,…

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The cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries have tested their impact in Illinois. Things didn’t go well

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2026 Midterms,artificial intelligence,cryptocurrency,illinois,juliana stratton 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries spent big and often lost in the Illinois primary this week, an early setback for tech companies trying to reshape the midterms and establish themselves as powerful players in American politics. Corporations have flooded the state's Democratic primaries with millions of dollars to boost candidates they thought had a light touch when it came to regulating technologies that are beginning to upend the way people do their jobs and…

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The Japanese leader heads to Washington on a visit complicated by the repercussions of the Iranian war

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✨ Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran,iran war,japan,Sanae Takaichi,Strait of Hormuz 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaishi headed to the United States on Wednesday for a meeting she expects to be “very difficult” with U.S. President Donald Trump after he called on Japan and other allies to send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz. The three-day visit to Washington was originally expected to focus on trade and strengthening the US-Japan alliance as China's influence grows in Asia. It is now expected to be overshadowed…

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