Trump heads to Beijing with fewer cards to play

After scoring a crushing victory over Hezbollah in 2024, Israel is finding its ongoing campaign in Lebanon much more difficult, in large part due to its adoption of the war in Ukraine’s deadliest innovation. After suffering embarrassing losses against Israel in 2024, Hezbollah sought to rearm and regroup quickly as it awaited the inevitable next […]

⛳ Plus: Saudis yank LIV Golf funding, leaving golf stars in limbo {beacon} It’s Thursday. We have a new Wall Street acronym, folks! Instead of TACO (Trump always chickens out), we now have … NACHO, which stands for “Not a chance Hormuz opens.” Thank you to Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas for letting us all know. ...

Two nonpartisan election handicappers identified seven districts that could be at risk of being redrawn to favor Republicans following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts. Both Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is published by the University of Virginia’s Center for...

The House overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the farm bill Thursday that would allow hot rotisserie chicken to be bought using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR), passed 384-35 just before the full farm bill passed. “Currently, participants can buy a rotisserie chicken if it’s cold, but not if […]