Nik Popli
Political Reporter at TIME
Politics reporter @TIME, covering Congress and the White House | @UVA alum 📩: [email protected]
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks at a press conference in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2025.
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A member of Israeli security forces checks the apparent remains of an Iranian ballistic missile on the outskirts of Qatzrin, Golan Heights, Israel, on June 23, 2025. Credit - Michael Giladi—Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesAmerican military and diplomatic outposts across the globe are on high alert after a U.S. bombing raid on Saturday struck three of Iran’s most sensitive nuclear facilities, prompting vows of retaliation from Tehran and raising fears of a widening regional war.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) listens during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2025. Credit - Kayla Bartkowski—Getty ImagesShe wasn’t elected and she doesn’t cast votes. But over the past week, Elizabeth MacDonough, the quietly powerful Senate parliamentarian, may have had more influence over Donald Trump’s legislative agenda than anyone else in Washington.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the press during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, on June 16, 2025. Credit - Brendan Smialowski—AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that the United States military carried out airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, joining Israel’s bombing campaign in an effort to cripple Tehran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump Administration to release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration detention center where he had been held for more than three months, ruling that his confinement was likely an unconstitutional punishment for his political speech.
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I asked @POTUS why he's creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority in South Africa, but not for others from places like Sudan or the DRC. "Farmers are being killed," he said. "They happen to be white." Here's his full response:
REPORTER: Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners but not others? TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. https://t.co/8LV3VmZ296
“Yesterday was a very bad day for the dictator and war criminal, Vladimir Putin,” Sen. Wicker (R-KS) tells me. “The door is now open for more aid.” W/ @ByBrianBennett & @shustry on how the minerals deal is raising hopes of the GOP uniting behind Ukraine: https://t.co/LyY1uCEIYT
Speaking in the Oval Office, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he has no intention to release Kilmar Abrego García, who was mistakingly deported to the country. "The question is preposterous," Bukele says. "I don't have the power to return him to the United States."
