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First Thing: $37.5bn cost of Iran war revealed as senator warns of ‘another forever war’
Good morning. The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has told the Senate that the US-Israel war on Iran has cost $37.5bn so far, as he faced lawmakers furious over the conflict’s soaring price tag and the deaths last week of three American... Read more.
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