Angus King: “It is hard to beat free. It comes out of the sky.”

National Veterans Suicide Prevention Day is a solemn reminder of our responsibility to the veterans we have lost, and to the families who carry their memory forward.

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.

That's not as dire as some of the AI officials who have suggested that there was a 10 percent chance of wiping out all of humanity.