President Donald Trump’s nominees Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton testify in Senate confirmation hearings for attorney general and the Office of National Intelligence, respectively. Blanche told senators: “We watched the Justice Department turned against many of you and a former president, and it damaged the public’s faith in justice. We are fixing that.”
The United States ramps up its pressure on Iran, hitting the regime with multiple waves of strikes for a fifth day. Trump commented: “They don’t like what we’re doing, and they do want to settle. We’ll find out whether or not we settle with them, or we just finish it off.”…