Soleimani Death, Iran Protests, Embassy Chaos

Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chairman is under criminal investigation by the Trump DOJ and openly at odds with the president who chose him for the job, but now wants him gone. Plus, more than 500 people have been killed in Iran, according to a US-based rights group, as the ...  Show more

For the first time since an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in her car in a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood, we have video that he recorded on his cellphone. Plus, the enormous challenges still facing so many people in Southern California, a year after some of the most destruc ...  Show more

Tommy and Ben talk about the fallout from Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. What do we know about Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on bases hosting U.S. troops in Iraq? How are the Iranian people responding? Why is Trump threatening to commit wa ...

In the days since the Trump administration ordered a lethal drone strike in Baghdad on Iran’s second-most powerful man, Qassem Soleimani, Iranian officials have promised “vigorous vengeance” against the U.S. and chants of “death to America” were heard in the Iranian parliament. O ...  Show more

The killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most formidable military and intelligence leader, displayed the fault lines in a fractious region. From Iraq to Israel, many victims of the commander’s shadow warfare celebrated his death; but in Tehran, thousands filled the st ...

Weeks before the U.S. election, the Trump administration has imposed crushing new sanctions that sever Iran from the global financial system and further threaten the import of humanitarian goods. The Israeli government and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-regime c ...  Show more