President Donald Trump's Iran war is straining corporate America's tolerance, with CEOs largely silent due to fear of presidential retribution, according to Fortune's Diane Brady reporting from CERAWeek in Houston.

Despite their fears, mounting economic damage may force business leaders to break ranks.

The White House has blocked the release of a joint intelligence bulletin warning state and local authorities of elevated terror threats stemming from Trump's military assault on Iran, according to the Daily Mail.

A five-page report compiled by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center was scheduled for Friday release but has been indefinitely held up by Trump officials.

The U.S. economy expanded by just 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, a significant downgrade from the initial 1.4% projection and well below economist expectations, according to an NBC News report.

The sluggish growth represents a sharp decline from the third quarter's 4.4% and second quarter's 3.8% growth rates. A 43-day government shutdown accounted for at least 1.16 percentage points of the decline through reduced federal spending.

President Donald Trump claimed at a Kentucky rally that U.S. and Israeli military operations have "virtually destroyed Iran," and "we won," but CNN correspondent Nic Robertson's reporting from Kuwait contradicts the narrative.

Within hours of Trump's statements, Iran struck two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and attacked locations across the Middle East. Robertson documented residential buildings blown apart, injured civilians, and multiple overnight attacks on Kuwait, including strikes on Kuwait International Airport.

President Donald Trump may have already passed the point of no return in Iran and walked headfirst into an “escalation trap” — with one senior White House official “practically” admitting as much, Axios reported Monday.

Trump first authorized strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 and appeared hopeful that the operation — purportedly aimed at toppling the Iranian government — would be swift, much like the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela in January or its strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last summer.

President Donald Trump's search for a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in limbo, reported The New York Times, because he can't find anyone who supports some modicum of mainstream science on vaccines and embodies vaccine conspiracy theorist Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.

The issue is that a CDC director who opposes vaccines is unlikely to have the votes in the Senate, said the report, greatly constraining Trump's ability to nominate someone who could work well with his Cabinet secretary.