EPEmilio Perez Ibarguen

1. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Emilio Perez Ibarguen, Carlos Anchondo, Mike Soraghan

   Trump says midterms won’t impact his Iran war plan (opens the original)

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   President Donald Trump dismissed the idea that the upcoming midterm election could influence how he goes about fighting Iran, following over a week of escalating strikes and three U.S. soldiers being killed over the weekend. The president, taking questions in the Oval Office on Tuesday alongside Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, posited that Iran is “probably” trying to impact the results of the elections, before saying that “they won’t have any impact on me.” “No, the election — I can’t think abo

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2. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Emilio Perez Ibarguen

   Burgum doubles down on blaming vandals for reflecting pool woes (opens the original)

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   Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sunday aired his frustrations with the continued attention that the botched renovation of the reflecting pool has received and doubled down on the Trump administration’s claim that vandals are to blame for its condition. Speaking to Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Burgum said, “We’ve got all the photographs we can see” to prove that vandals cut portions of the pool bottom. The administration’s insistence that people have cut up the rubber bottom of the

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