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Mar 5, 2026 - World

The Defense Department on Thursday reportedly designated artificial intelligence company Anthropic a "supply chain risk" to U.S. national security -- even as the firm's AI models are being used to support the U.S. war against Iran.

Mar 5, 2026 - World

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, warned Thursday about what President Donald Trump's next moves in the war against Iran could be. Himes told CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that after the Senate rejected a resolution to limit Trump's war powers without congressional permission—a measure also expected to fail Thursday in the House—lawmakers were now in a difficult position regarding military action against Iran, with few options remaining. "There's a really kind of dark answer to that question, which and the answer to that is, and I hate to be this blunt and honest with the American people, but it's true. The answer to that question is nothing," Himes said. "Even if the war powers resolution were to have passed the Senate and to have passed the House, there is no reason to believe that Donald Trump would have taken that into account."Himes argued that Trump would have vetoed the resolution regardless of what lawmakers said. He predicted what Trump would do. "And so what eventually is going to end this war is what we're beginning to see already, just in the fourth or fifth day of this war, gasoline prices are already up $0.22 a gallon on average across the country," Himes said. "They are now higher than they were when Donald Trump took office the stock market is stumbling today. And by the way, I should have put this first. But most tragically and most importantly, there are now six Americans dead in this war. Eventually the pressure of those losses in the context of the administration's inability to tell us how this ends, you know how or when this ends, eventually the American people are going to be even more sour on this war than they already are now. And I suspect what happens then is that Donald Trump just pulls the plug, declares victory, and walks away."And despite reports that Iranian military forces have weakened, that doesn't mean they're done fighting, Himes explained. "There's no question that the Iranians are being very badly hit right now most of their navy is gone," Himes said. "There's lots of almost MTV-quality videos that you can watch on an hourly basis being released by the White House and by the Department of Defense. The reality is that the Iranians maintain pretty shocking military capability and asymmetric capability. That's what we, you know, the fancy term for the terrorists that they have for generations now been planting in the region, and scarily outside of the region."He also described another troubling concern for American intelligence involved in the strikes against Iran — and how a move by the FBI could be putting troops at potential risk. "As this regime gets increasingly desperate, they are going to reach for those tools at a time, by the way, when the FBI has fired the people who are Iran counterterrorism experts and whatnot," Himes said. "So it is a very, very real danger. And I just pray that this administration sobers up, takes their eye off of their constant need to praise this president, and actually gets into the business of defending and standing for the security of the American people."

Mar 5, 2026 - World

PM also confirms that the first repatriation flight for Britons in the region has taken offShe says “we will always offer protection to genuine refugees” and outlines how the UK has taken in Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees.She says “restoring control at our borders is not a betrayal of Labour values”. She says we must attract high-skilled workers. And that “the privilege of living in this country forever must be earned”. Continue reading...

Mar 5, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump insisted that he be "involved" in picking the next leader of Iran after the United States assassinated Ali Khamenei in Operation Epic Fury.In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Trump revealed that he would not accept Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the former supreme leader."They are wasting their time," the U.S. president said. "Khamenei's son is a lightweight." "I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela," he added.Trump also said he would not accept a leader who would force the U.S. to strike Iran again "in five years.""Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran," he insisted.When pressed about a new Iranian leader earlier this week, Trump was unable to come up with a name."Most of the people we had in mind are dead," he said.

Mar 5, 2026 - World

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has come under fire over an explosive whistleblower complaint and allegations that she is protecting the Trump family — and that she even planted a mole to obstruct the investigation, according to an analyst Thursday. Salon's Jesselyn Radack described multiple problems and conflicts of interest that have surfaced around Gabbard's alleged mismanagement of the complaint, which are tied to claims that President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner influenced the president over Iran. The complaint itself was apparently "locked in a safe," according to a Wall Street Journal report last month."We don’t know the substance of the intelligence report underlying the whistleblower complaint, but the government claims it is 'exquisitely' classified, which raises an immediate problem: That’s not a real classification level," Radack wrote. "The report apparently involves an intelligence service intercepting a conversation between two foreign nationals about Iran and Jared Kushner’s influence on his father-in-law, the president. At the time, the Trump administration was considering a strike on Iran, which in fact occurred at the end of June 2025."Gabbard reportedly delayed investigating the complaint amid "ongoing rumors concerning the state of her relationship with Trump, which has appeared to be in constant flux," Radack explained. "Instead of providing guidance, Gabbard — the former champion of whistleblowers — apparently sat on the complaint for eight months and stonewalled the whistleblower and their lawyer," Radack wrote. She also reportedly made potentially "sinister" moves, "rather than innocent, bureaucratic snafus." "And worse, during this delay, she reportedly planted a mole in the ICIG’s office to snitch about the situation directly to her — obviously compromising the office’s independence," Radack wrote. Gabbard has appeared to be acting as a protector of the Trump family — instead of focusing on national intelligence concerns. "We don’t know why Gabbard continues to aggressively obstruct this whistleblower complaint," Radack added. "It sounds like she’s more concerned with protecting Jared Kushner, and perhaps Trump himself, than the public she’s supposed to serve. But we do know this: The ICWPA system for intelligence community whistleblowers depends on the knowledge, trust, credibility and good faith of the director of national intelligence. It’s a fatal flaw to make that person an intermediary, much less a gatekeeper, on a whistleblower’s path to congressional oversight."