Ed Baxter Newsteria

What is the Iran strategy? The Ayatollah is dead. A new Supreme Leader is being selected. What will the retribution be? What is the US strategy moving forward? Will it affect the oil supply in the West? How much death will there be?

Iran’s Supreme Leader is dead. This is a major joint effort of the US and Israel. It is a huge moment in a decades long struggle for the Iranian people and the Middle East. For the US is raises paradoxical questions.

An impasse has occurred in talks between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says it cannot give up some kind of guardrails on how it is used. Secretary Hegseth says he needs unfettered control. Is this dangerous?

Fed Ex has filed suit to get refunds of tariff charges after the Supreme Court ruling. Trump says he’ll fight it. The process will be tricky. Will businesses and consumers ever see the refunds?

Did President Trump really update Congress on the State of the Union? Or was it more like cotton candy at a carnival? He says the US is in a golden age. Will voters look at their pocketbooks and say tariffs are bad? Was it just a show?

The hate addicted US citizens pitting Olympic athletes Gu and Liu against each other carry a position filled with BS. They might have a problem with a US born athlete competing for China, but why the comparison. This is an opinion piece.

President Trump has imposed a new 15% worldwide tariff. This comes after the Supreme Court struck down his others. Will the result of this be more global disdain? Will it mean high prices for the US. Does it look like he’s throwing a tantrum?

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Trump tariff policy. Trump has attacked the integrity of the Justices he nominated calling them disloyal and lapdogs. He is imposing a 10% international tariff. Is this verbal attack of Justices unprecedented?

Canada’s PM Carney says the country cannot rely on the US as much anymore. He is forming new alliances for security and economy, including China. A Politico poll shows 76% of Canadians say they don’t know if they can rely on the US.

Eileen Gu skating under the Chinese flag has become quite the controversy in these Olympics. Vice President JD Vance has jumped in. Who is she? Why is she doing what she is doing? Is there anything wrong with it?

Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer say they are finding it harder to research and produce vaccines. Moderna says it has been shutdown by the FDA in a new flu vaccine. Pfizer says RFK Jr’s anti vaccine approach is more cult like. Who is right?

The DOJ failed in its attempt to prosecute six lawmakers for telling military members to disobey illegal orders. Not one grand juror voted for the case to go to trial. Will this slow President Trump down in his efforts to prosecute critics? Is this the way a dictator operates?

President Trump is preparing US troops for the possibility of prolonged war in Iran. He says if nuclear talks now fail, it will be bad for Iran. Critics say he is using deflection, what is called Diversionary War Theory to deflect from his troubles at home.

President Donald Trump has had a bad week. From ending Metro Surge, to AG Bondi, Tariff rejection, Kennedy Center funding, Health policies, Bad Bunny to his polling in general. Does he need to shift policies?

AG Pam Bondi in front of the House Judiciary Committee. She was accused of contempt and she spent her time defending President Trump using the Dow. She refused to apologize for her lack of investigations to survivors in the room.

President Trump in the past few days has angered Canada, Denmark, the Governor’s conference and called an Olympian a loser for expressing displeasure with US policy. He is meeting with stronger blowback now. Will the US rise above Trump?

Ghislaine Maxwell took the fifth before Congress today. Members say she is apparently playing to have President Trump grant her clemency or a pardon. She says she has more information if her desire is met. What will Trump do?

Was the NFL decision to book Bad Bunny genius? The halftime show has been a much bigger topic of conversation than the game. Has President Trump inadvertently pumped up interest to his dismay by making it political?

President Trump has declined to apologize for the racist Obama meme. He says he didn’t see the entire video. Who secures the content? Is he ignorant of the implications, is he racist, or can he just not say he is wrong.

A Trump post memes the Obamas as Apes. The administration says it just shows Trump as the lion king with democrats bowing to him. Is this racist, is it good to portray Trump as King?

What have the Epstein files showed us so far? Nothing tying the President to criminal activity, but a lesson in how some rich, famous and powerful men view women. Our society has a long way to go.

ICE is withdrawing 700 agents from Minnesota. It says it is the start of full withdrawal. Minnesota will stop protecting what ICE calls hardened criminals. 2,000 ICE still remain. Anything make sense here?

President Trump wants the federal government to take over the operation of elections. If he wants to amend the constitution, is it time to move to a pure democracy, abolish the Electoral College and let majority rule?

Some of the Grammy acceptance awards were very much anti ice anti Trump. Bad Bunny says Ice out. Trump says he will sue host Trevor Noah. Should we care what recording artists think? Is it the start of a larger movement?

The DOJ says over three million pages from the Epstein files have been released. Deputy AG Blanche says no one was protected or not protected including Trump and Clinton. Rep Ro Khanna says the victim interviews must be in there or it is a coverup.