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The ceasefire was always a bet. And Iran just called it in. Read More.

Two years ago today, a 20-year-old kid with a rifle climbed onto a rooftop 130 yards from the stage at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was there. People saw him. They called it in. And then Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight rounds at the President of the United States, one of which grazed his ear by millimeters. Read More.

This Fourth of July, as the United States marks its 250th anniversary, it is worth pausing on that observation. Not as a theoretical exercise. As a diagnostic tool. Read More.

Nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered on that September morning. Firefighters climbed into burning skyscrapers and didn't come back. Office workers called their families from 100 floors up to say goodbye. The country watched in real time as the towers fell. Read More.

In Federalist No. 70, Alexander Hamilton argued that "energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government." Read More.

Here's what the Supreme Court decided Monday. States can count mail-in ballots that show up after Election Day. Not a few minutes after. Not a few hours after. After. The day is over, the polls are closed, and somewhere out there, ballots are still making their way to county election offices — and they count. Read More.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of unlawfully retaining classified national defense information, according to reporting from the Washington Examiner and statements from President Donald Trump. Read More.

Trump just struck Iran. The ceasefire signed last week — the one everyone said was a diplomatic breakthrough — is now fraying. Iran attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. American aircraft responded with strikes on Iranian missile and drone storage facilities. Then Iran launched a drone assault on Bahrain and hit another ship. Read More.

A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton has sentenced a 28-year-old Minneapolis activist to no prison time following her conviction on charges of assaulting federal officers during an anti-deportation confrontation targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read More.

On the Fourth of July, 1826 — precisely fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence — two of its most distinguished authors died. John Adams in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, each within hours of the other, as if Providence itself had drawn a curtain on the Founding generation. Neither lived long enough to know with certainty whether the experiment they had launched would endure. Read More.

Tuesday night in New York City, the Democratic Party held its own funeral and didn't even notice. Read More.

Three Republican committee chairmen formally threatened to hold ActBlue in contempt of Congress on Monday, escalating a yearlong investigation into whether the Democratic fundraising platform failed to prevent fraudulent and potentially foreign political donations. Read More.

Here's something you're not supposed to notice. While vice presidents meet in Switzerland and diplomats talk about "technical negotiations" and "memoranda of understanding," the American president is threatening to literally take over the Strait of Hormuz. Not impose sanctions. Not write a strongly worded statement. Take. It. Over. Read More.

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that on her final day leading the U.S. intelligence community, she would declassify and release documents she described as "never-before-seen" materials linking former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, American taxpayer funding, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Read More.

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down a federal law that banned habitual marijuana users from owning firearms, ruling the statute unconstitutionally deprived individuals of their Second Amendment right to keep weapons in their homes. Read More.