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Trump: 'I don't want to do a ceasefire' in Iran war

Published Fri, Mar 20 2026 3:48 PM EDT Updated 12 Min Ago President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday he is not interested in a ceasefire with Iran."We could have dialogue, but I don't want to do a ceasefire," Trump said from the White House before departing for Florida. "You know you don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side." "They don't have a navy. They don't have an air force. They don't have any equipment," Trump continued. ...

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Trump issues executive order requiring CFP to avoid broadcasting conflicts with Army-Navy game

Updated 2:26 PM EDT, March 20, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday barring College Football Playoff and other postseason games from airing during the annual Army-Navy matchup in December. Trump directed the commerce secretary and the FCC chairman to coordinate with the playoff committee, the NCAA and media rights partners to ensure an exclusive broadcasting window for the storied rivalry traditionally played the second Saturday each December. Trump’ ...

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Norway's crown princess says she was 'manipulated and deceived' by Epstein

March 20, 2026, 6:49 AM EDT / Updated March 20, 2026, 7:43 AM EDT / Source: Reuters Norway‘s Crown Princess Mette-Marit said on Friday she regretted her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, seeking to contain one of the biggest scandals to hit the country’s royal family. The U.S. Justice Department’s release of millions of Epstein documents has sent shockwaves around the world, revealing the disgraced financier’s ties to prominent people, including the crown princess and top ...

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UK allows US to use bases to bomb Iranian sites targeting ships in Strait of Hormuz

LONDON -- The U.K. government said Friday that it will allow the U.S. to fly missions from British bases in order to bomb Iranian missile sites that are targeting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. A Downing Street spokesperson said ministers meeting Friday afternoon had "confirmed" that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's agreement for the U.S. to use British sites for defensive operations includes actions to "degrade the missile sites and capabilities being used to attack ships in the ...

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Street preacher gets Supreme Court go-ahead for fight to protest at concerts

March 20, 2026 WASHINGTON (CN) — Despite a 30-year-old precedent by originalism’s chief architect, the Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow an evangelical street protester’s lawsuit against a city ordinance that limits protests around concert venues. Heck v. Humphrey , a 1994 ruling authored by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, typically bars defendants from using civil rights claims to undermine prior convictions. But Gabriel Olivier asked the Supreme Court to greenlight his suit against a Bra ...

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Millions More Americans Uninsured After Lapse Of Premium Subsidies

(Huff Post) Millions of Americans have lost health insurance after lawmakers let enhanced federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans expire following last year’s government shutdown battle, a study released Thursday found. About 1 in 10 Americans who were enrolled in an ACA plan last year now have no health coverage, according to surveys by the health care research nonprofit KFF. That amounts to around 2 million people.

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Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job

(NBC News) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive. “What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said. One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week. Simmons recalled his exchange differently. “I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday.

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Boebert Comes Out Swinging Against Trump Admin. Request for Iran War Money: 'I'm Not Doing That'

(Mediaite) Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said she will not support any supplemental funding bill to pay for the Iran war, no matter what the price tag is. The Department of Defense is seeking $200 billion in supplemental funds to keep paying for the war on Iran, which President Donald Trump launched on Feb 28. The war is costing American taxpayers about $1 billion a day, to say nothing of skyrocketing gas prices.

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GOP senator warns gutting Senate filibuster to pass SAVE America Act is a 'foolish and lazy idea'

(CNN) Sen. Thom Tillis on Thursday blasted talk of ending the Senate filibuster to pass the “SAVE America Act” as a “foolish and lazy idea” and warned his party that pushing the president’s priority through the so-called talking filibuster would hand control to Democrats. “I have made it crystal clear that I will never vote to do this. Eliminating the filibuster is a foolish and lazy idea pushed by politicians seeking short-term gain at the expense of causing irreparable long-term harm to our nation,” Tillis said in a statement.

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Americans Think Trump Will Send Troops Into Iran And Really Don't Like It: Poll

(Huff Post) Some 65% of Americans believe U.S. President Donald Trump will order troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran and just 7% support that idea, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday found. The Trump administration has mulled deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The possible deployments could use air and naval forces to secure safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, or could involve deploying U.S. troops to Iran’s shoreline.

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