Flipping the House and Senate wouldn’t grant Democrats unilateral power to end the war in Iran, but it would hand them more tools to leverage the Trump administration to bring the conflict to a close.
Ending the war is one of Democrats’ top campaign promises heading into the midterm elections Tuesday as they try to persuade voters to give them control of Congress to put a check on President Trump.
The Ohio Senate race is just one of countless contests where Democrats are campaigning against the war. Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said ending the conflict becomes a “mandate” if his party wins control of Congress.
Meanwhile, for Republicans, President Trump is leaning into rallies to try and motivate GOP voters.
This election cycle, the president has doubled down on rallies to hype up the Republican base and get out the vote as his party faces the prospect of losing their majorities in the House and Senate.
The president hit the campaign trail despite poll numbers showing his approval rating in the 30s. Trump scheduled 26 rallies in October, matching the pace of the month leading up to the 2024 presidential election.
The war in Iran has supercharged a debate among foreign policy analysts, military scholars and defense industry leaders about what “air superiority” and “air dominance” really mean in the age of drones.
Many say those terms must be reimagined for a world in which attack drones outnumber traditional military aircraft.
U.S. forces were quickly conducting bombing, reconnaissance and other operations at will over Iran at the beginning of the war Feb. 28. Still, that hasn’t stopped Iran from successfully targeting U.S. military bases across the Middle East by using drones and ballistic missiles.
Fraudsters are inventing “ghost” students who enroll in college, never show up, but pocket thousands of dollars in federal financial aid.
The FBI said the scams are often tied to overseas operations in Africa and have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars since 2021.
Scammers steal identities and use artificial intelligence to fill out enrollment and financial aid applications in those names.
They paid people in foreign countries to sit in front of a screen to demonstrate attendance for online courses and use AI to complete and submit homework. The scams chiefly targeted community colleges with low tuition rates.
And finally … Camp Humphreys is America’s biggest overseas military base, located in South Korea.
But the government of President Lee Jae-myung is determined to regain wartime operational control of South Korean troops from the U.S. by 2030.
Experts warn that the move will kill the joint command structure and possibly trigger reductions in America’s only footprint on the Asian mainland.
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