The wounded say they were left to fend for themselves. And Congress has had to piece together the war’s losses on its own, including 81 damaged or destroyed aircraft the Pentagon has largely refused to discuss.

Scientists say Trump’s research funding and staffing cuts have disrupted the science industry in America, accelerating the erosion of America’s edge over China in basic research.

some residents don’t trust the results even when the candidates they back prevail.

Shasta County offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in elections takes root in a community. Across the United States, both Democrats and Republicans have seen their confidence in elections wane, especially when their side loses. In Shasta County, the doubts run so deep that

Activists sued over election practices. And during this summer’s election, voters approved a measure that would require photo ID to vote, restrict mail ballots and mandate hand counts — policies that courts have blocked.

For years, Shasta County has been a center of election denialism. Citing debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines, its conservative county supervisors dumped their contract with Dominion Voting Systems and toyed with counting ballots by hand.

In another place or era, Curtis’s concerns would be dismissed as kooky. But in Shasta County in 2026, they have been taken seriously enough to spur FBI agents to show up with bolt cutters so they could take a look.

He nonetheless harbored doubts. Some ballots smelled too inky, he said. Some seemed too heavy. Some felt too rough.

He stashed the ballots in a storage room, slapped a padlock on the door, ordered subordinates to destroy the keys & reported his suspicions to President Trump’s administration.

As the registrar of voters for this Northern California community, Curtis was both election administrator and candidate this summer. After he lost, he certified the results as “full, true and correct.”

Vance not only spread lies, but also attempted to justify his telling of stories that might not be entirely true to reach, so to speak, a deeper truth. He made it clear he would continue to do so.

[From what McCurk says, noted earlier in the article, it appears that Biden may very well have been poised to take steps to reduce or eliminate certain additional arms going to Israel if it hadn’t been for the onslaught on Israel that came from Iran.]

“The deal could not have gotten done without Trump and Steve Witkoff,” he added. And at the same time, “the deal could not have gotten done without Joe Biden putting that deal on the table in the months of negotiations that set it up.”

to push the parties to finally accept the agreement that Mr. Biden had painstakingly crafted over the preceding months.

“We agreed to work together with zero daylight and we did,” Mr. McGurk said of Mr. Witkoff.

“You’d finally solve it and it was like unlocking a door to a hallway full of locked doors,” he said.

In the end, it took help from the incoming president, Mr. Trump, and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff,