Grabien Stories https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Grabien recent stories en tom@grabien.com Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:57:37 -0400 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:57:37 -0400 News 60 https://images.grabien.com/logo_header.png Grabien recent stories 60 60 https://grabien.com/stories/Feed City Hall Park ‘Deliverista Hub’ Opened in Lower Manhattan to Give Delivery Workers a Rest and Recharge Space Closed After 1 Week grabienrecentstories584164 https://grabien.com/story?id=584164 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:52:56 -0400 Gloria Romero: ‘I Have No Doubt the President and His Team Are Very Astute‘ on the Political Implications of the War ‘I think the president is adamant in making sure that timeline of four to six weeks is done’ grabienrecentstories584162 https://grabien.com/story?id=584162 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:47:59 -0400 Rebecca Grant: ‘President Trump Is Going to Want a Clear Path Toward Getting That Nuclear Dust Accounted For’ ‘So many options on how to do that’ grabienrecentstories584160 https://grabien.com/story?id=584160 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:40:04 -0400 Alex Vatanka: ‘Hopefully the Next Round of Talks Will Focus on … the Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in a Meaningful Way’ ‘It would be a huge operation if you had to go in and take it by force‘ grabienrecentstories584158 https://grabien.com/story?id=584158 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:37:44 -0400 Alex Vatanka: Iran’s ‘Main Leverage Was Their Nuclear Program … That Leverage Is Kind of Gone’ ‘The facilities were further struck over the course of the latest war‘ grabienrecentstories584154 https://grabien.com/story?id=584154 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:19:16 -0400 Rebecca Grant: ‘Iran Is Posturing Because They Have No Power in the Strait of Hormuz’ ‘The strait is controlled by the U.S. Navy‘ grabienrecentstories584152 https://grabien.com/story?id=584152 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:17:45 -0400 Alex Vatanka: ‘The Iranian Foreign Minister Come Out and Tweet That the Strait Is Open for Business’ ‘So clearly the Iranian side are worried about the optics‘ grabienrecentstories584150 https://grabien.com/story?id=584150 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:59:58 -0400 Rick Stengel: People Around the World Have Said ‘We Can’t Really Trust America Anymore’ ‘Trump has turned the ugly American into the immoral, venal American‘ grabienrecentstories584148 https://grabien.com/story?id=584148 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:30:45 -0400 Rick Stengel: ‘Orban Was an Autocratic Figure Who Had Far More Control of His Country Than Donald Trump Had’ ‘We have a free business community’ grabienrecentstories584146 https://grabien.com/story?id=584146 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:28:12 -0400 Barbara McQuade: ‘It’s Going To Be Tied Up in the Courts for at Least a Couple of Years’ Due to Expected Litigation and Appeals ‘The role of the national trust for historic preservation is unlikely to let this go’ grabienrecentstories584144 https://grabien.com/story?id=584144 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:00:07 -0400 Barbara McQuade: ‘There Is Career Prosecutor Who Looked Into This Case’ and Did Not Find Ample Justification for Charges ‘It does suggest to me that this lawyer has made perhaps an assessment that this case is not meritorious’ grabienrecentstories584142 https://grabien.com/story?id=584142 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:55:26 -0400 Barbara McQuade: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Very Likely’ That the Trump Administration’s Appeal Will Succeed in the Ballroom Case ‘This is an organization chartered by Congress that is supposed to oversee and approve any changes to historic buildings’ grabienrecentstories584140 https://grabien.com/story?id=584140 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:32:22 -0400 Cisco Aguilar on ICE Agents at the Polls: ‘It’s a Felony in Nevada to Intimidate a Voter’ ‘We have legal pleadings ready to go‘ grabienrecentstories584138 https://grabien.com/story?id=584138 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:32:08 -0400 Cisco Aguilar: ‘Secretaries Are on the Front Line of Protecting Voters All Across This Country From These Illegal Acts’ ‘They start to recognize the importance of the ballot box and why they need to elect officials like secretary of state who are going to fight for them every single day‘ grabienrecentstories584136 https://grabien.com/story?id=584136 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:29:13 -0400 Rep. Greg Stanton on Democrats Candidate in Arizona: ‘We’re Going to Have a Great Candidate Coming Out of That Race’ ‘We’re going to flip both of those seats’ grabienrecentstories584134 https://grabien.com/story?id=584134 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:28:16 -0400 Rep. Greg Stanton: Trump ‘Deserves the Negative Approval Ratings That He Has Because of His Horrific Policies’ ‘They know the insanity of his policy‘ grabienrecentstories584132 https://grabien.com/story?id=584132 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:27:21 -0400 Rep. Greg Stanton: ‘The Trump’s Promise of Lower Prices Have Been a Complete and Total Disaster’ ‘They’ve made health care way, way more expensive, double and tripling premiums‘ grabienrecentstories584130 https://grabien.com/story?id=584130 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:24:32 -0400 Rep. Adam Smith: Trump’s ‘Ability to Bless the World and Get Them To Buy Into It Is Otherworldly’ ‘It’s beyond anything that I’ve ever seen before, but reality does ultimately intrude‘ grabienrecentstories584128 https://grabien.com/story?id=584128 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:55:26 -0400 Rep. Adam Smith: ‘Donald Trump Doesn’t Have Direct Conversations With Any Iranians’ ‘The only time that happened is when J.D. Vance went over to Pakistan‘ grabienrecentstories584126 https://grabien.com/story?id=584126 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:49:07 -0400 Rep. Adam Smith: ‘We’re Not Anywhere Close to Back to Where This Strait Was Before the War Started’ ‘Insurance companies have to trust that it will be open‘ grabienrecentstories584124 https://grabien.com/story?id=584124 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:37:21 -0400 Rep. Adam Smith: ‘Iran Has Not Agreed to Any of the Things That Trump Said’ ‘The Strait of Hormuz is not actually open like it was before the war started‘ grabienrecentstories584122 https://grabien.com/story?id=584122 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:26:28 -0400 Chai Komanduri Slams Pete Hegseth Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ Quote: ‘He Was Engaging in Macho Posturing’ ‘He chooses, at the end of that movie, non-violence’ grabienrecentstories584120 https://grabien.com/story?id=584120 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:42:26 -0400 Christina Greer on Ceasefire with Iran: Wall Street Is Rallying Because, You Know, Trump Said He Feel It in His Bones ‘And we know that, you know, the billionaire class, the millionaire class always make money off of war’ grabienrecentstories584118 https://grabien.com/story?id=584118 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:37:56 -0400 Chai Komanduri Slams Trump Over Iran: He Was Arrogant, Showed Terrible Judgment and Thought This Would Be So Easy ‘To go into this country of 90 million people, to try to topple a regime’ grabienrecentstories584116 https://grabien.com/story?id=584116 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:33:45 -0400 Grieving Mom Calls Out Dems After Rep. Johnson Dismisses Them: We Can’t Pick a Headstone, But You Can Tell Us What Kind of Hearing This Should Be ‘Our tragedies are disgusting, I still wait for my children to come home, it’s not real to me’ grabienrecentstories584114 https://grabien.com/story?id=584114 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:55:11 -0400 Grieving Mother Jen Heiling Pushed Back on Comparisons Between Her Late Son and Renee Good: ‘She Made a Choice’ ‘Joshua didn’t get a choice’ grabienrecentstories584112 https://grabien.com/story?id=584112 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:47:47 -0400 Rep. Gill Torched Rep. Johnson Over Grieving Families: ‘What the Hell Is Wrong with You Guys,’ They’re Here Because of Your Open Borders Policies ‘That was one of the most disgusting testimonies I ever heard’ grabienrecentstories584110 https://grabien.com/story?id=584110 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:10:26 -0400 British Amb to the U.S. Turner: We‘re Worried About the Enriched Uranium, Iran Is Not to Return to a Nuclear Program and Receive Economic Benefit in Return ‘We all want to support American efforts to get it done’ grabienrecentstories584108 https://grabien.com/story?id=584108 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:07:41 -0400 British Amb to the U.S. Turner on Ceasefire: The Lebanon Deal Being Done, the Straits Are Now Open, We’re Hoping It Paves the Way ‘The talks, as Nic was just reporting last weekend, appeared to cover a lot of ground in a short space of time’ grabienrecentstories584106 https://grabien.com/story?id=584106 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:03:36 -0400 Dr. Sanjay Gupta Says Medical Cannabis Is on the Rise for Women: Associated with All Kinds of Harms, Low Birth Weight, Preeclampsia ‘This was perhaps the most surprising, even shocking part of our investigation’ grabienrecentstories584104 https://grabien.com/story?id=584104 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:01:15 -0400 CNN: Former Staffer at Kennedy Center Claims Chaos During Trump’s Takeover of the Institution ‘Renaming the center after himself’ grabienrecentstories584102 https://grabien.com/story?id=584102 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:41:18 -0400 Rep. Josh Gottheimer on Iran’s Alternative Fact Claims After Trump’s Announcements: ‘It’s a Negotiation,’... ‘There’s a Lot of He Said, She Said’ ‘So there are a lot of things on the table, and there‘s a lot of back and forth’ grabienrecentstories584100 https://grabien.com/story?id=584100 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:36:56 -0400 Watters on Dems Saying Iran War ‘Is Not Worth It’: ‘The War Only Lasted 38 Days, It Was So Quick Dems Blink and They Missed It’ ‘U.S. senators are supposed to look out for the national interest’ grabienrecentstories584098 https://grabien.com/story?id=584098 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:27:38 -0400 Mike Sarraille: How Can You Not Be Proud of Our President and Being American Right Now? ‘Pure mayhem’ grabienrecentstories584096 https://grabien.com/story?id=584096 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:19:14 -0400 Fmr. Pence Aide Troye Says Trump and Allies Threaten to Kill Her and Slams Admin’s Policies: I Would Be Raising Serious Concerns ‘I‘m also very concerned about this war on Iran that I believe is completely unjustified’ grabienrecentstories584094 https://grabien.com/story?id=584094 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:44:05 -0400 Fmr. Pence Aide Troye on Bid for Congress as a Dem: I Had to Fight Stephen Miller and Kash Patel in Terms of Their Extremism on Certain Things ‘I’ve been very vocal since then as a Trump critic, especially after Jan. 6th., and then I went on and campaigned for Kamala Harris’ grabienrecentstories584092 https://grabien.com/story?id=584092 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:49 -0400 Evan Perez on Prosecutor Removed from John Brennan’s Probe: They Believe That the Case Is Weak and That There’s Not Enough Evidence ‘Todd Blanche is now the acting attorney general, and he wants to keep this job, as you know, permanently’ grabienrecentstories584090 https://grabien.com/story?id=584090 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:29:02 -0400 Jason Rezaian on Hostages: A Good Way to Test if Iran Is Ready to Negotiate in Good Faith, Is Letting Those People Out Right Now ‘I do think that that should be first and foremost’ grabienrecentstories584088 https://grabien.com/story?id=584088 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:27:03 -0400 Jason Rezaian on Peace Talks: If What Iran Is Offering Similar to Obama’s JCPOA, Then It Doesn‘t Seem Like a Major Step Forward ‘Many other top officials were killed, but they are all part of the same apparatus, adhere to the same ideology’ grabienrecentstories584086 https://grabien.com/story?id=584086 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:23:51 -0400 Beth Sanner on Unfreezing $20B for Uranium Deal with Iran: It’s Not Good, Iran Has Advanced Its Nuclear Program So Much ‘It‘s going to be complicated’ grabienrecentstories584084 https://grabien.com/story?id=584084 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:19:53 -0400 Continetti on U.S. Blockade of Hormuz: We’re on the Verge of a Transaction That Could Shape the Middle East and Make the World a Safer Place ‘The markets are leading indicators, and they are pointing to confidence that we soon may be able to strike a deal’ grabienrecentstories584082 https://grabien.com/story?id=584082 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:13:10 -0400 Leslie Marshall on Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: We’re Hurting Iran’s Economy, but This Will Hurt the Allies’ and the U.S. Economy ‘U.S. energy prices, if this remains in effect, this blockade, it will hurt us in the long run’ grabienrecentstories584080 https://grabien.com/story?id=584080 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:10:49 -0400 Trey Gowdy on Strait Hormuz Amid U.S. Blockade: The Stock Market Likes What’s Happened, Fingers Crossed but You’re Dealing with a Terrorist Regime ‘We’ve got to make sure all the mines are out of there but that should tell you something about Iran’ grabienrecentstories584078 https://grabien.com/story?id=584078 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:08:28 -0400 Dem Rep. Ayanna Pressley: ‘1 in 5 Healthcare Workers Are Haitian,’ Some Removed by a Care Giving Crisis ‘This would separate families and send people back into a country that’s been ravaged’ grabienrecentstories584076 https://grabien.com/story?id=584076 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:03:21 -0400 NYC Mayor Mamdani Brushes Off Trump Attack over His Tax-the-Rich Scheme ‘I’m deeply supportive of taxing the rich’ grabienrecentstories584074 https://grabien.com/story?id=584074 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:39:24 -0400 Gallagher: Texas Gov. Abbott Threatens to Cut Millions of Dollars in State Funding to Three Major Cities If They Refuse to Cooperate with ICE ‘Houston’s mayor has set up a special meeting for next week to reconsider this policy’ grabienrecentstories584072 https://grabien.com/story?id=584072 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:33:12 -0400 NYC Mayor’s Family Dodges Property Taxes on Uganda Luxury Compound ‘That’s the hypocrisy of Zohran Mamdani and his family’ grabienrecentstories584070 https://grabien.com/story?id=584070 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:24:26 -0400 Chad Pergram: House and Senate Finally Sinking Up on FISA, the Bill Passed but Only for 13 Days ‘From the president’s demand of an 18-month FISA renewal to a five-year re-authorization which lawmakers blocked’ grabienrecentstories584068 https://grabien.com/story?id=584068 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:15:29 -0400 RFK Jr. Grilled over Trump’s Threats to Wipe out Iran Civilization ‘Absolutely not’ grabienrecentstories584066 https://grabien.com/story?id=584066 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:13:22 -0400 Cowan: After the World Was Exposed to Charlie Kirk Getting Shot, His Accuser Tyler Robinson Doesn’t Want Cameras on Him During Trial ‘TV news figures have speculated on everything, from Robinson’s body language to the evidence, potentially tainting jurors’ grabienrecentstories584064 https://grabien.com/story?id=584064 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:07:14 -0400