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Decision Time: President Trump will announce whether the U.S. will remain in the nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday afternoon. His decision has high stakes: As one simulation conducted by regional-security experts concluded last fall, reinstating the sanctions against Iran that were lifted as part of the deal could result in the country’s resuming its nuclear program as well as in greater instability. Yet does the existing deal do enough to guarantee the opposite? Reuel Marc Gerecht and Philip Gordon debate the pros and cons of withdrawal.

As West Virginians and Indianans prepare to vote in their states’ Republican Senate primaries on Tuesday, candidates with footholds in the Washington, D.C., establishment are facing —yet those outsiders could hurt the party’s chances in in the role. And while Rudy Giuliani continues to act as a spokesman for the president’s legal-defense team, it’s not clear what his role is, and

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