JD Vance is preparing to take on the most important assignment of his career: steering U.S. efforts to end a war he'd been concerned about waging in the first place.

The White House and the Pentagon are considering sending at least 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East in the coming days, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Republican senators tonight they need to "work together to ensure that DHS, including ICE and Border Patrol, is funded in a sustainable manner for the rest of the year."

A federal judge tonight paused the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, marking an early legal victory for the embattled company.

President Trump said tonight he'll sign an order to circumvent Congress and restore pay for TSA workers.

President Trump's political team is meeting with his Cabinet tonight to discuss plans for top officials to fan out across the U.S. to stress what the administration is doing to help the economy, sources tell Axios.

BREAKING: President Trump extended the deadline for negotiations with Iran and paused his threat to bomb Iranian energy facilities by another 10 days.

House Democrats chose not to force a vote this week to block President Trump from unilaterally waging war with Iran in part out of fear that they still lacked the votes to pass the measure, Axios has learned.

SCOOP: House Republicans, White House spar over key surveillance bill

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SCOOP: Nancy Mace tells Axios she plans to break from Republicans on future Iran war powers vote.

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NEW: The Pentagon is developing military options for a "final blow" in Iran that could include ground forces and a massive bombing campaign. A dramatic military escalation will grow more likely if no progress is made in diplomatic talks.

Hakeem Jeffries and some rank-and-file Democrats are articulating increasingly discordant ideas of what "due process" looks like for Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

Senate Republicans and Democrats are in a high-stakes staring contest over funding DHS, with Democrats refining their demands to include "guardrails" on money authorized in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Americans and lawmakers alike continue to signal their discomfort over the U.S. military strikes against Iran, even as the Trump administration directs more troops to the region.

The White House is indefinitely postponing its selection of a permanent Centers for Disease Control director, leaving acting head Jay Bhattacharya overseeing the agency past a key deadline.

Over 450 TSA agents have quit in the nearly 6 weeks since the partial government shutdown began, resulting in the "highest wait times in TSA history," a top DHS official told a House committee today.

The Army is allowing more people to enlist, but that doesn't mean a draft is coming.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to call on Iranians to flood the streets to protest their government last week, but President Trump told him it was just too risky, 2 U.S. officials and an Israeli source said.

A jury on today found Big Tech giants Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media trial, awarding $3 million in compensation to a woman who argued the companies were to blame for her social media addiction.

JUST IN: SCOTUS sides with Cox in landmark music piracy case

NEW: Iran rejects Trump's 15-point plan to end the war, according to Iran's Press TV.

An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets. It's precisely the kind of alleged corruption Trump built his political career railing against.

More strangers are gathering over cake and tea to chat — about dying.

Iranian officials told the countries trying to mediate peace talks with the U.S. they've been tricked twice by President Trump and "we don't want to be fooled again," per a source with direct knowledge of those discussions.

Venezuela's shadowy dealings with the first Trump administration were laid bare by Marco Rubio when he testified against his longtime friend David Rivera today.

Democrats tonight flipped a Republican-leaning Florida state House seat that encompasses President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, per AP.

Momentum toward reopening DHS evaporated today as Democrats drew a hard line on reforms to ICE, swiftly rejecting a proposal that Republican senators had only just persuaded President Trump to entertain.

Elon Musk wants to build an underground tunnel in New Orleans through his Boring Company.

Organizers across the U.S. are planning more than 3,000 local events Saturday for No Kings Day of Nonviolent Action.

A federal judge today called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic "troubling" as the AI company urged the court to pause the Trump administration's designation of the firm as a supply chain risk.

House Democrats have clamped down on internal divisions ahead of an expected vote to constrain President Trump's ability to wage war with Iran, Axios has learned from lawmakers familiar with the matter.

ICE officers arrived at more than a dozen airports this week to help TSA — but the specifics of their role remains unclear. Here's what they can and can't do.

NEW: The U.S. and a group of mediators are discussing the possibility of holding high-level peace talks with Iran as soon as Thursday, but are still waiting for a response from Tehran.

NEW: Microsoft and Nvidia are teaming up for an "AI for nuclear" initiative to break nuclear power bottlenecks.

For years, the Federal Reserve policy discussion has been all about interest rate cuts: when they'll arrive, how big, how many. The Iran war's energy price shock have flipped the script.

The Economist Group is bringing its enterprise products together under one brand

This account access through AI chatbots was "one of the most commonly requested features on X and LinkedIn," CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk tells Axios.

TikTok introduced a slew of new ad products designed to tell stories beyond what they could do on traditional TV or standard mobile video ads.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: AI's gains won’t be evenly distributed. In fact, it's creating a new form of economic inequality: AI fluency.

The Department of Defense announced a new media policy today, days after a federal judge ruled Trump administration restrictions on Pentagon journalists were a First Amendment violation.

NEW: Markwayne Mullin was confirmed to succeed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a vote mostly along party lines this evening.

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington is in informal talks with his Senate counterpart, Lindsey Graham, about a 2nd reconciliation bill to fund the Pentagon — and potentially DHS.

The race to replace retiring former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has turned ugly over immigration.

President Trump teased today that he's moving closer a deal with Iran to end the war. Here's which Iranian leaders are still alive and could influence a peace deal.

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The latest: Trump told reporters that his envoys held talks with a senior official in the Iranian leadership. An Israeli official told Axios that Witkoff and Kushner had been speaking with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

BREAKING: Trump suspended his plan to strike Iran's power plants, citing progress in negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Weapons of war are combining with the the speed of Silicon Valley.