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President Donald Trump on Thursday is set to receive a briefing from U.S. Central Commander Adm. Brad Cooper and other military leaders on potential strikes in Iran, Axios and Reuters reported overnight. The reported briefing comes on the eve of a key deadline in the war: a 60-day legal timer requiring Trump to withdraw U.S. armed forces unless Congress authorizes the military action, which it has not done. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in Senate testimony Thursday that he believes the countdown clock, laid out in the 1973 War Powers Resolution , "pauses or stops in a ceasefire." The U.S