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The three-man council running Iran is getting ready to introduce a new supreme leader. We don't know who that is nor exactly when this will be revealed but President Trump says that he needs to be involved in that. CNN's Nic Robertson joins us live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with ...  Show more

We start today with explosions in Tehran as another wave of Israeli strikes is underway. Israel is saying that they've taken out dozens of Iranian missile arrays. Meanwhile, the IDF says Iran launched missiles towards Israel. Iran also targeted three Amazon data centers in Bahrai ...  Show more

Government funding lapsed early Wednesday morning after the White House and lawmakers failed to reach a spending deal, triggering a shutdown that is expected to halt some federal services and put hundreds of thousands of federal workers on furlough.​​ WSJ’s Natalie Andrews takes ...  Show more

16 days into the government shutdown, services are unavailable and federal workers are facing instability. Both sides have dug in, with Democrats and Republicans pointing fingers at each other. WSJ’s Siobhan Hughes explains what it would take to end the shutdown. Ryan Knutson hos ...  Show more

Ben argues why Congress' worst decisions are made when they're on tight deadlines to keep the government funded. With multiple Republican members of Congress leaving to serve in the Trump administration, Speaker Mike Johnson will now have to manage an even narrower majority. In t ...  Show more

Congress left town without reaching a deal to avoid a shutdown after the Senate blocked competing Republican and Democratic proposals to keep the federal government funded until November 21st. The failure to reach a compromise before the weekend increases the likelihood of a shut ...  Show more