Collins Breaks GOP Unity on Iran War Vote

Sen. Susan Collins bucked her party by voting with Democrats to curb the Iran war, marking the first Republican defections on the campaign and signaling growing GOP resistance as the 60-day War Powers clock looms; the measure failed, underscoring division over U.S. action in the Middle East, while the day’s feed also runs through a quick 45-day extension of surveillance powers, a Maxwell/Epstein interview update, a ban on Senate prediction-market trading, a dropped gun-charge case against a Booker staffer, and ongoing DHS funding and farm-bill developments.