New polling on the Iran war; Janet Mills drops out; the beauty in cow burps; and more
The 7
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Friday briefing: Iran war poll; Maine Senate race; border wall construction; Camp Mystic; cow burps; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Just two months after it began, President Donald Trump's war in Iran is as unpopular as the wars in Iraq and Vietnam. |
| 0:12.5 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, May 1st. |
| 0:18.9 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:24.6 | A new poll from the Washington Post ABC News and Ipsos asked Americans how they are feeling about the war in Iran. |
| 0:33.2 | The results were stark. Sixty-one percent said that using military force against Iran was a mistake. |
| 0:41.1 | Support for the war among self-identified Republicans remains high, but overall, fewer than |
| 0:46.9 | two in ten Americans believe that the U.S. actions in Iran have been successful. |
| 0:53.1 | Trump has indicated that the current stalemate with Iran could |
| 0:56.4 | last for an extended period. He and Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth have both recently referenced |
| 1:02.7 | the length of other wars, like Iraq and Vietnam, trying to make the case that it's too soon |
| 1:08.3 | to give up in Iran. Now, the Iran War has something in common |
| 1:12.7 | with those previous battles. It is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War was in 2006 and the |
| 1:20.1 | Vietnam War was in the early 1970s. This wide disapproval comes amid growing economic pain and fears of terrorism as a result of the U.S. Israeli military campaign. |
| 1:33.1 | Today is the 60-day legal deadline for the Trump administration to seek the consent of Congress to continue hostilities. |
| 1:40.6 | But Hegeseth argued yesterday that the temporary Iran ceasefire pauses that |
| 1:46.3 | deadline. Number two is a post-exclusive. A Medicare portal database exposed the social security numbers of health providers. |
| 2:05.1 | Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created a directory to help seniors |
| 2:10.6 | look up which doctors and medical providers accept which insurance plans. The Trump administration |
| 2:17.0 | framed it as an overdue improvement, |
| 2:19.9 | part of an initiative to modernize healthcare technology. But post reporters found a big issue with it. |
| 2:26.5 | A publicly accessible database used to populate the directory contained some healthcare providers |
| 2:32.9 | social security numbers linked to their names |
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