Pete Hegseth spent nearly six hours in front of the House Armed Services Committee defending the $25 billion Iran war, and the cracks showed every time lawmakers quoted him back to himself.
King Charles becomes only the second British monarch to address US Congress, Starmer survives a Commons vote on the Mandelson row, and NIESR warns of a £35bn hit to the UK economy. Here are Wednesday's five biggest stories.
US Congressman Thomas Massie tells BBC Newsnight that men implicated in the Epstein files need to be 'perp-walked in handcuffs,' as millions of documents have been released but no arrests made in America.