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Nov 11, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's war victory claims drew jeers after one of his top officials quietly went into hiding.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has left his Washington-area home for a military base after Iran threatened his life, The New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.Bessent has spearheaded the administration's effort to strangle Tehran's finances since August, a role the Times' sources said put him high on Iran's target list. He's the latest in a string of senior Trump officials, including White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, to trade a private home for a military base or other guarded housing.The news landed awkwardly for a president who launched the war on Feb. 28 and has repeatedly promised to end the widely unpopular conflict, the Times noted.Former State Department lawyer Brian Finucane needled the administration on Bluesky."One thing I really appreciate about the Trump administration is the fearless leadership by alpha males," he wrote. "Also, if Trump has 'won' the war with Iran, what is there to be afraid of?"Political analyst Anthony LaMesa was among those who found the development unsettling."It's a bit scary how drone warfare has led to a situation where now people need to move to little fortresses to be safe," he posted on X. "Like back in medieval times."Hawks in Trump's orbit, meanwhile, turned their fire on the administration for not escalating.Far-right activist Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, raged that "all of our cabinet secretaries have to cower in fear and live on military bases because our country just won't finish the damn job in Iran," calling the situation “f— pathetic."She added that she "preferred living in America when we bombed Islamic terrorists and made playing cards with their faces on the cards."Two officials told the Times that U.S. intelligence shows Iran's hard-line leaders are determined to keep power whatever the cost, a sign that financial pressure alone may not topple them.

Nov 11, 2026 - World

A top member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet has abandoned his Washington-area home as a foreign plot targeting U.S. officials intensifies.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has relocated to a military base following Iranian threats against his life, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.According to the report, U.S. officials determined in recent weeks that Iran's scheming against current and former American officials had moved into a more advanced phase, a conclusion drawn partly from intelligence about threats to Bessent.Since August, Bessent has steered the Trump administration's push to cut Tehran off from the global economy through harsher sanctions and limits on trade routes. The Times' sources said that work has put him near the top of the list of officials Iran would most like to harm.It's unclear how serious the threats against Bessent are. U.S. officials have acknowledged Iran has limited capacity to pull off large-scale attacks on American soil, but they've treated some targeted plots as credible, including an alleged murder-for-hire scheme against Trump during his 2024 campaign.A Treasury spokesperson told the Times that Bessent "will not be deterred by the Iranian regime's threats" and remains committed to the campaign.Bessent is far from the first senior Trump official to trade a Washington-area home for a military base or other secured housing. At least six did the same last year, among them Stephen Miller, who is now White House chief of staff, and Pam Bondi, who was attorney general at the time. Threats against Bondi reportedly spiked after U.S. forces seized former President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and flew him to New York to face criminal charges.Bessent's move comes weeks after the U.S. ordered staff across the Middle East onto heightened alert and began shrinking embassy and consulate staffing, citing intelligence that Iran was well along in planning attacks on Americans.

Nov 10, 2026 - World

As President Donald Trump continues to seek an exit to his deeply unpopular war against Iran, a foreign leader has been calling him “every day” to urge him to resume the fighting, and war skeptics inside the White House are scrambling to push back, an insider told the Financial Times.The war has sent costs soaring in the United States and dealt Republicans a heavy blow during last week’s midterms. Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ electoral losses squarely on the conflict, saying “The reason we lost is the war,” and Trump called that assessment “largely true.”Nevertheless, a person briefed on the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Financial Times that Israeli interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been calling Trump “every day [to urge him to resume the war],” sparking pushback from war skeptics within the White House.“Those who don’t want a war within the White House and outside have been trying to combat that,” the person said. “The regional leaders [in the Middle East] are telling [Trump] not to escalate and prioritise negotiations.”Netanyahu’s push comes as his own grip on power slips. In Israel’s Oct. 27 election, his coalition shrank from a peak of 68 seats to 53. Netanyahu is also the first sitting Israeli prime minister to stand trial for corruption, with Middle East analyst Yossi Mekelberg warning that Netanyahu’s policies are “very much intertwined with his corruption trial and retaining power,” and that “creating a crisis is not beyond the realm of possibility, including with Iran.”Netanyahu, who has pushed for the United States to attack Iran since at least the 1990s, was also issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, being accused of intentionally targeting civilians and using starvation as a method of war in Israel’s ongoing military bombardment of Gaza, which countless human rights groups and a United Nations committee have labeled a genocide.“Arab and Muslim leaders have also been alarmed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s persistent lobbying for Trump to mount a new offensive,” the Financial Times’ report reads. “There is consensus among Arab and Muslim leaders that any renewed escalation would plunge the region into a deeper crisis amid fears that the conflict would elicit a ferocious Iranian response that would target their states.”

Nov 10, 2026 - World

Countries clash over Sea Lion project as Hamburg tribunal risks deepening sovereignty disputeThe people of the Falkland Islands face “devastating consequences” if Argentina is successful in blocking development of its offshore oilfield, the attorney general for England and Wales has told an international tribunal.Ellie Reeves, representing the British government at a hearing of the international tribunal for the law of the sea (Itlos), said billions of pounds vital to the future of the British overseas territory would be lost. Continue reading...

Nov 10, 2026 - World

The U.S. Army raised eyebrows Tuesday after it touted the restoration of a memorial to a Nazi-era German tank regiment, without once mentioning World War II.In a report published Monday, U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart — the Army command that runs U.S. military bases in and around Stuttgart, Germany — praised a local Scouting America project that restored the 8th Panzer Regiment Memorial on Panzer Kaserne — a U.S. military installation — in Böblingen, Germany.The report’s author, U.S. Army Public Affairs Specialist Balmina Sehra, called the weathered monument “a piece of local history” and framed the restoration as a symbol of German-American friendship. As flagged by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, however, Sehra left out a critical detail regarding the memorial.“Uh, why is the U.S. Army celebrating the restoration of a memorial to a panzer regiment from Hitler’s Wehrmacht??” Klippenstein asked in a social media post on X to his more than 560,000 followers.“Army says the ceremony ‘recognizes the soldiers of 8th Panzer Regiment in anticipation of Veteran’s Day.’ That regiment fought Americans at Kasserine Pass in 1943. But the Army’s announcement makes no mention of World War II!”The regiment served in the 15th Panzer Division, part of the Deutsches Afrikakorps, and the division took part in the battle of Kasserine Pass against inexperienced U.S. forces in February 1943.Journalist and podcast host Jane Coaston also weighed in, writing that the episode had “real ‘Bonzo Goes to Bitburg’ energy.” The line refers to the Ramones’ 1985 song mocking President Ronald Reagan’s visit that year to a West German military cemetery in Bitburg that held the graves of Waffen-SS soldiers.uh, why is the U.S. Army celebrating the restoration of a memorial to a panzer regiment from Hitler’s Wehrmacht??Army says the ceremony “recognizes the soldiers of 8th Panzer Regiment in anticipation of Veteran’s Day." That regiment fought Americans at Kasserine Pass in 1943. But the Army’s announcement makes no mention of World War II !— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 10, 2026