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The Hill
an hour ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Schiff: ‘Too many unknowns' to claim ‘victory' in stopping Iran nuclear weapons
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said it's 'premature' for anyone to be claiming that Iran will not try to continue its nuclear program in Friday comments on ABC News Live. 'The Iranian regime had not made a decision to build a bomb, was not pursuing the mechanism of a bomb, even though it was enriching uranium,' he said. Over the past week, there has been heavy debate over whether the U.S. strikes in Iran on June 21 were necessary, and how successful they were at setting back or eliminating Iran's nuclear program. 'Do they now want to be more like North Korea and be a nuclear state than a nuclear threshold state? We don't know, and it will take time before we do know. So, I think it's very premature for Senator Cotton or anyone else to be claiming victory here. There are just too many unknowns,' Schiff continued. The New York Times and CNN reported that a preliminary classified intelligence report claimed that the strikes merely set back Iran's nuclear capacities by months, contradicting President Trump's claim that the strikes 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear program. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been on the defensive this week and lashed out at a Fox reporter who asked where the enriched uranium was. Trump also called to fire CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand for her reporting on this preliminary report. Schiff is responding to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who claimed on June 22 that Trump's attacks 'severely damaged Iran's nuclear infrastructure.' There has not been solid proof yet that the strikes completely destroyed Iran's nuclear program or Iran's stockpiles of enriched uranium. On Friday, the House and Senate received a classified briefing, but Democrats still question the attacks' success. 'I would say that that particular briefing left me with more concerns and a true lack of clarity on how we are defining the mission and the success of it,' said Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.). The administration has been adamant that the strikes were successful. Trump said he would consider bombing Iran again if new intelligence finds that the strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear enrichment capacities.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration
For years, the common belief has been that if you need to get hydrated, water is the best bet. However, a study says that is not the case. According to CNN's Lisa Drayer, the study done by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland that compared the body's hydration responses to different drinks discovered that water did not produce the best results. Instead, it was drinks that contained a bit of protein, fat and/or sugar. Now, that's not to say that water isn't good for hydration, but there are better alternatives, the study says. Surprisingly, milk was one of those alternatives. The reasons behind that have to do with lactose, which is a sugar, and milk's protein and fat. Those three things help to slow down fluid emptying from the stomach. In addition, sodium and potassium also aid in keeping the body hydrated. The study warns that not all drinks with sugar, like juice and soda, are created equal when it comes to hydrating. Drinks that contain higher levels of concentrated sugar are found to be worse hydration methods than water. Such beverages stay in the stomach for longer, but also pull water from the body as it processes the sugar. When it comes to alcohol, stronger forms, like whiskey, for example, actually dehydrate, while beer shows better results. Coffee can be effective at hydrating, also, but that depends on how many milligrams of caffeine are consumed. The sweet spot is approximately 80 milligrams of Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 27, 2025
Newsweek
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
Republican Says 'Most' of Iran's Uranium is Still There
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Republican Representative Michael McCaul of Texas told CNN on Friday that "most" of the enriched uranium is still in Iran after U.S. airstrikes hit the country's Fordow and Isfahan nuclear sites. McCaul said to CNN, "There is enriched uranium in the facilities that moves around, but that was not the intent or the mission. "My understanding is most of it's still there." He continued, "So, we need a full accounting. That's why Iran has to come to the table directly with us, so the (International Atomic Energy Agency) can account for every ounce of enriched uranium that's there. I don't think it's going out of the country, I think it's at the facilities." Nuclear experts now believe Iran relocated more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium—enough for 10 nuclear weapons—to a secret location, a move that has left U.S. and international inspectors unable to verify the material's whereabouts. This is a breaking news story. Updates to follow.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
US did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran's nuclear sites, top general tells lawmakers, citing depth of the target
The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran's largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US' top general told senators during a briefing on Thursday. The comment by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, which was described by three people who heard his remarks and a fourth who was briefed on them, is the first known explanation given for why the US military did not use the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb against the Isfahan site in central Iran. US officials believe Isfahan's underground structures house nearly 60% of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, which Iran would need in order to ever produce a nuclear weapon. US B2 bombers dropped over a dozen bunker-buster bombs on Iran's Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites. But Isfahan was only struck by Tomahawk missiles launched from a US submarine. The classified briefing to lawmakers was conducted by Caine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Spokespeople for Caine did not return requests for comment. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy told CNN on Thursday night after receiving the briefing that some of Iran's capabilities 'are so far underground that we can never reach them. So they have the ability to move a lot of what has been saved into areas where there's no American bombing capacity that can reach it.' An early assessment produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency in the day after the US strikes said the attack did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program, including its enriched uranium, and likely only set the program back by months, CNN has reported. It also said Iran may have moved some of the enriched uranium out of the sites before they were attacked. The Trump officials who briefed lawmakers this week sidestepped questions about the whereabouts of Iran's stockpile of already-enriched uranium. President Donald Trump again claimed Friday that nothing was moved from the three Iranian sites before the US military operation. But Republican lawmakers emerged from the classified briefings on Thursday acknowledging that the US military strikes may not have eliminated all of Iran's nuclear materials. But they argued that doing so was not part of the military's mission. 'There is enriched uranium in the facilities that moves around, but that was not the intent or the mission,' Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas told CNN. 'My understanding is most of it's still there. So we need a full accounting. That's why Iran has to come to the table directly with us, so the (International Atomic Energy Agency) can account for every ounce of enriched uranium that's there. I don't think it's going out of the country, I think it's at the facilities.' 'The purpose of the mission was to eliminate certain particular aspects of their nuclear program. Those were eliminated. To get rid of the nuclear material was not part of the mission,' GOP Rep. Greg Murphy told CNN. 'Here's where we're at: the program was obliterated at those three sites. But they still have ambitions,' said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. 'I don't know where the 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium exists. But it wasn't part of the targets there.' '(The sites) were obliterated. Nobody can use them anytime soon,' Graham also said. Weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies Jeffrey Lewis told CNN that commercial satellite images show that Iran has accessed the tunnels at Isfahan. 'There were a moderate number of vehicles present at Isfahan on June 26 and at least one of the tunnel entrances was cleared of obstructions by mid-morning June 27,' Lewis said. 'If Iran's stockpile of (highly enriched uranium) was still in the tunnel when Iran sealed the entrances, it may be elsewhere now.' Additional satellite imagery captured on June 27 by Planet Labs show the entrance to the tunnels were open at the time, according to Lewis. The preliminary DIA assessment noted that the nuclear sites' above ground structures were moderately to severely damaged, CNN has reported. That damage could make it a lot harder for Iran to access any enriched uranium that does remain underground, sources said, something that Graham alluded to on Thursday. 'These strikes did a lot of damage to those three facilities,' Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat, told CNN on Thursday night. 'But Iran still has the know-how to put back together a nuclear program. And if they still have that enriched material, and if they still have centrifuges, and if they still have the capability to very quickly move those centrifuges into what we call a cascade, we have not set back that program by years. We have set it back by months.' Caine and Hegseth on Thursday said the military operation against Fordow went exactly as planned but did not mention the impacts to Isfahan and Natanz. CNN's Manu Raju contributed to this report.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Shooting the messengers': Trump tears into media over Iran report
President Donald Trump has escalated his longstanding assault on the mainstream media, denigrating individual reporters and threatening legal action against major outlets over their coverage this week of US military strikes on Iran. Trump has staked significant political capital on the success of last weekend's strikes, which he ordered despite criticism within his own support base for breaking his campaign promises to avoid foreign military interventions. The president has blasted press coverage of a preliminary classified report from his own administration that suggested that Trump's claim that Iran's nuclear facilities were "obliterated" was overstated. The unusually scathing attack on reporters underscores what many observers view as Trump's effort to put the media -- already battling record low public trust -- on the defensive and stifle scrutiny of the bombing raid. "Having made the decision to join the fight against Iran, being able to claim that the intervention was brief and successful has obvious political upside for Trump in repairing rifts within his coalition," Joshua Tucker, co-director of the New York University Center for Social Media and Politics, told AFP. "The discussion by the media of the preliminary intelligence report therefore complicated the president's preferred narrative about the US attack." The preliminary intelligence assessment, first reported by CNN and The New York Times, then picked up by other mainstream media, suggested that the strikes may not have destroyed the core parts of the nuclear sites and had set back Iran's nuclear program by only a few months. Trump said CNN should throw the reporter on the story out "like a dog." He said CNN and New York Times reporters were "bad and sick people" attempting to demean American pilots involved in the strikes. At a televised news conference on Thursday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reiterated the president's complaints and pushed back on the findings of the report -- issued by the US Defense Intelligence Agency –- but did not deny its existence. - 'Increasingly ugly' - Both news outlets have stood behind their journalists and defended their reporting. "President Trump and his administration are going after shooting the messengers in an increasingly ugly way," said CNN's top political anchor Jake Tapper. "They're calling journalists 'fake news' for true stories," he added. Trump has also threatened to sue The New York Times and CNN over their coverage of the intelligence report. In a letter, the president's personal lawyer said the New York Times had damaged Trump's reputation and demanded that it "retract and apologize" for its report, calling it "false," "defamatory" and "unpatriotic," according to the newspaper. The newspaper said it had rejected those demands. "Trump is killing the messenger," Todd Belt, director of the political management program at George Washington University, told AFP. "He's taking it out on the press because he knows that the press are unpopular," particularly among his core Make America Great Again (MAGA) base, he said. "Additionally, he and others in the administration are using the attack line of patriotism to bolster their side against the press." - 'Peace through strength' - The anti-media rhetoric escalates Trump's longstanding battle with the press. Since the beginning of his second term, his administration has sought to target the finances of media organizations -- already struggling in an increasingly tough commercial climate -- by cutting government agencies' news subscriptions. He has also targeted news outlets with multi-million dollar lawsuits. Trump's latest attacks come amid a public relations campaign to portray himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East, while retaining the support of his core MAGA base. On Friday, Trump doubled down on his stance, stating that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "got beat to hell" in the hostilities involving the United States and Israel, while exhorting Tehran to return to the negotiating table. "If his 'peace through strength' single attack didn't work and the conflict gets drawn out, this undermines his claim as a peacemaker," said Belt. "If the public believes the single strike didn't work, then he will either have to attack again or negotiate from a position that recognizes that Iran still maintains fissile material, which may not work." ac/sms
