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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.

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.

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.”

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

President orders prompt investigation after one train derails in collision in al-Ayyat about 50km from CairoSeven people were killed and at least 125 injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials said.The crash occurred in al-Ayyat district in Giza province, about 50km (30 miles) south of Cairo, when a train travelling to Fayoum province crashed into the rear of a train heading to the southern province of Aswan, according to the transport ministry. Continue reading...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking heat from parts of the right after he told a Mar-a-Lago crowd that President Donald Trump launched the Iran war “for you.” Some of Trump’s own supporters say the line may have sunk Rubio’s ambitions, and the party with them.Rubio spoke Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s “Gathering of Visionaries” at Trump’s Palm Beach club, days after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. Trump himself has acknowledged that the war’s unpopularity cost the party.“He did it for you. Not for him. Not for anybody else,” Rubio said of Trump’s decision to confront Iran, according to a clip shared by Fox News host Sean Hannity, who presented the moment approvingly.Conservative podcast host Kacee Allen summarized Rubio’s message: that “we all owe him deep gratitude because previous presidents ‘ignored’ the threat.”“Meanwhile the GOP just got wiped in the midterms due to this very” war, Allen wrote.Some on the right were blunter about it.“Rubio just destroyed his 2028 presidential hopes by essentially echoing Trump’s statement that the destruction of the GOP was worth it to fight the Iran War and these jokers applauded him,” wrote David Pyne, editor of The Real War newsletter and a former Army headquarters staff officer. “None of them care that they just handed the keys to controlling the US to the Democrat socialists for the next decade or two.”Pyne went further and called on Trump, Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “resign in disgrace or be impeached and removed from office.”“@MarcoRubio just killed any chance he had to win the presidency in 2028,” wrote Pat Dollard, a former Hollywood talent agent and Breitbart writer.Some of Trump’s own base saw a bigger reckoning. One X user, whose bio describes her as a “TradCatholic” nationalist who puts “God, Family, Country” first, said Trump had betrayed the voters who put him in office.“It’s over! We wanted Trump to burn the establishment, he burned down the conservative Repub party by showing who he really is,” she wrote. “It will take decades to come back, if we even have a country left.”Writer Sean Colarossi pointed to Rubio’s history with Trump. “It’s amazing how much @marcorubio has beclowned himself for a guy he once accurately called a con man,” he wrote. During the 2016 Republican primary, Rubio called Trump a “con artist.”Rubio has been widely discussed as a potential 2028 contender. On Friday he also flew to Florida with Trump on Marine One, alongside newly named chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is promising that Congress will dig into the Trump administration’s ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, after a New York Times report that a Chinese businesswoman close to Huang was an asset of Beijing’s top spy agency.“The more I learn about the insane relationship between the Trump Administration, Chinese spies, and AI billionaires, the more I’m convinced there is nothing this administration does that isn’t corrupt,” Coons wrote on social media on Saturday. “Congress will investigate and get answers.”Coons’ post drew nearly 300,000 views. His threat carries more weight after Democrats won control of the Senate on Tuesday, which will give them subpoena power and committee gavels in January.The Times reported that a memo circulated among top Trump administration policymakers last spring cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, was working for China’s Ministry of State Security. The two are not related.According to people briefed on the intelligence, Alice Huang was recruited to collect intelligence on the Nvidia chief. It was part of a drive by Beijing to learn more about American AI chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.The Times previously reported that Trump was briefed last year about Huang’s relationship with the woman “but chose not to do anything about it.”Jensen Huang is one of Trump’s most influential allies in the tech world. In 2025, he persuaded Trump to roll back a ban on AI chip sales to China, according to the Times. The two later struck a deal allowing Nvidia to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China, with the U.S. government taking a 25% cut of sales.Alice Huang’s company, Megaspeed, began a multibillion-dollar purchase of advanced AI chips in 2024. It has built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Chinese internet giant Alibaba, which the Times described as “a backdoor way” for China to access advanced Nvidia chips it can’t buy directly.Republicans are paying attention too. On Thursday, the GOP leaders of three House committees asked Jensen Huang to appear at a closed-door briefing later this month about his interactions with Alice Huang.Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo told the Times that the company does not share classified information with customers, and that Huang’s interactions with Alice Huang were “not unusual.” A spokesman for the Chinese embassy called the reporting “unsubstantiated” and “nothing but smears against China.” The White House and CIA declined to comment.Susan Rice, who served as national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, sounded the alarm, too. “This is insane. Huge national security threat. WTAF?” Rice wrote on social media, sharing a post from Chris McGuire, a former national security official, that recapped the reporting on the alleged spy operation.

Attorneys for a group of Iranian nationals in ICE custody say the Trump administration was preparing to deport them back to Iran on a pre-dawn flight Sunday, in apparent violation of a federal court order.In an overnight filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund said it learned Saturday evening that ICE planned to remove 11 Iranian nationals, 10 men and one woman, at about 4 a.m. Sunday.According to the filing, the group was to be flown to Islamabad, Pakistan, with a refueling stop in the country of Georgia, then transferred to Iran on Tuesday. The detainees had been issued 15-day temporary visas to Pakistan, the filing states.The group submitted the filing as a “notice of apparent violation” of an Oct. 15 order in its lawsuit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other officials.The plan came to light through the U.S.-citizen wife of one of the detainees, according to the filing. She told attorneys that her husband learned the details in person on Friday, when an official of the Iranian government met with him and six other detained men at a detention facility in Arizona, “announced the schedule, and, on request, showed him the flight list bearing his name and the names of ten other Iranian nationals.”The man has been in ICE custody since October 2025, according to the filing. He was moved from Georgia to Louisiana on Oct. 28 and then to Arizona on Nov. 1.Politico’s Kyle Cheney, who flagged the filing, noted that it “follows a similar planned flight of Afghan nationals stopped last week by a court.”It was not immediately clear whether the flight took off or whether the court has intervened.OVERNIGHT: Attorneys for Iranian ICE detainees say the Trump administration was seeking to hurriedly deport 10-11 Iranian nationals back to Iran (via Pakistan) in violation of court orders. This follows a similar planned flight of Afghan nationals stopped last week by a court. https://t.co/jOYgpxsT76— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 8, 2026