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The red map paints a clear picture as Vivek Ramaswamy wins every county in Ohio during the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary. Ramaswamy swept the state from corner to corner and says he wants everyone in Ohio to experience the blessings his family has had: “My faith teaches me that we have a moral duty to use those blessings, to use these gifts that we've been given, to leave this state and this country better than we found it.”

The sooner we recognize this hard truth—that there’s no military solution to the conflict with Iran—the better off the United States will be. Sheer military force cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without escalating the war and sucking us into another endless, bloody quagmire that delivers zero benefit to our people. We can’t get rid of the emboldened government in Tehran, regardless of how many leaders we kill. If we try we will end up with a government or failed state, worse than what we have now. The inevitable reality is this: we will have to cut a deal with Iran. We can be pragmatic and do it now on our own terms, or we can keep listening to the same neocons and the Israeli government who got us into this mess, only to cut the same deal after we’ve lost even more. Recognizing that we have hit the point of diminishing returns and pulling out now is not weakness. It is strength—and it’s the right thing to do for the American people.

The surprising task of moving quarried marble with wheel loaders.

The helicopter that rescued the downed USAF F-15E pilot was hit by Iranian small arms fire, wounding crew members on board -CBS