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The Day Israel Lost America

 The Iran war sure looks like a breaking point. By Ross Barkan
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Hard Feelings

 By Narges Bajoghli The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.
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What We Know About the Strike on an Iranian Girls’ School

 By Nia Prater It’s still unclear who was responsible for a missile strike on a southern Iran school that left at least 175 dead, many of them children.
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What We Know About the Strike on an Iranian Girls’ School
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It’s still unclear who was responsible for a missile strike on a southern Iran school that left at least 175 dead, many of them children.
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The Approval Matrix: Operation Save Chet Hanks
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The Texas AG is going to the mats for Trump’s beloved SAVE Act, making it much harder for the president to push him out.

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