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Israel launches retaliatory attack on Iran, explosions and smoke near Tehran

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TEHRAN, Iran — War in the Middle East escalated yet again early Saturday as Israel bombed targets in Iran in a spiraling pattern of attack and retaliation that has inflamed the region.

Israel said it was punishing the Islamic Republic for its missile barrage this month aimed at Israeli military installations and other sites. Those attacks ...Read more

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Israel launches airstrikes on Iran in fresh escalation

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Israel launched airstrikes on targets across Iran early Saturday, fulfilling its promise to retaliate for a missile barrage three weeks ago and fanning fear of open conflict between the two longtime adversaries.

Numerous explosions were reported across Tehran in what appeared to be a first wave of strikes. More than an hour later, Israel’s ...Read more

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Israel says it is conducting strikes on Iran military targets

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Israel said early Saturday it conducted “precise” strikes on military targets in Iran, in retaliation for a barrage of ballistic missiles earlier this month.

Numerous explosions were reported across Tehran. Early reports suggested that sites linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had been hit.

The latest clash between the two ...Read more

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Israel launches retaliatory aistrikes on Iran

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TEHRAN, Iran — War in the Middle East escalated yet again early Saturday as Israel bombed targets in Iran in a spiraling pattern of attack and retaliation that has inflamed the region.

Israel said it was punishing the Islamic Republic for its missile barrage this month aimed at Israeli military installations and other sites. Those attacks ...Read more

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Israel says 'precise' strikes on Iran military targets underway

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Israel said early Saturday that it is conducting what it called “precise” strikes on military targets in Iran, a salvo meant to retaliate for a barrage of ballistic missiles three weeks earlier.

“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces is ...Read more

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Israel launches retaliatory aistrikes on Iran

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TEHRAN, Iran — War in the Middle East escalated yet again Friday as Israel bombed targets in Iran in a spiraling pattern of attack and retaliation that has inflamed the region.

Israel said it was punishing the Islamic Republic for its missile barrage this month aimed at Israeli military installations and other sites. Those attacks came in ...Read more

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Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin are regularly in contact, report says

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Billionaire Elon Musk and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have reportedly had an ongoing relationship since 2022.

Putin and Musk, the latter of whom has been busily supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in recent weeks, have discussed topics including global politics, according to The Wall Street Journal, which said its story ...Read more

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Biden issues rare presidential apology over Indian boarding schools

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President Joe Biden apologized for the federal government’s role in running a system of Indian boarding schools that separated Native American children from their families and wreaked havoc on tribal communities.

“It’s a sin on our soul,” Biden said Friday at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, calling his formal apology “long...Read more

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Chaos erupts in Miami courtroom after man convicted of murdering teen leaps at her father

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MIAMI — Chaos erupted late Friday after a man convicted of murdering a teenage student during a botched robbery of Yeezy sneakers four years ago tried to attack the girl’s father during the sentencing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Adrian Cosby, 22, leapt from his chair as the father of Andrea Camps-Lacayo read from a prepared statement ...Read more

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GOP leaders say Harris calling Trump a fascist is 'irresponsible rhetoric'

Two key GOP leaders — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — made a pitch for civility on Friday, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of using "irresponsible rhetoric" and "escalating the threat environment" when she said she ...Read more

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Judge rejects motion to dismiss California Highway Patrol wrongful death lawsuit in Roseville park shootout

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento Superior Court judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges “reckless planning” by California Highway Patrol investigators serving a search warrant last year at a busy Roseville park, where a hostage was killed and two other people were wounded during an afternoon ...Read more

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Chaos erupts in Miami courtroom after man convicted of murdering teen leaps at her father

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MIAMI — Chaos erupted late Friday after a man convicted of murdering a teenage student during a botched robbery of Yeezy sneakers four years ago tried to attack the girl’s father during the sentencing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Adrian Cosby, 22, leapt from his chair as the father of Andrea Camps-Lacayo read from a prepared statement ...Read more

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Secrecy continues into Massachusetts military leaker Jack Teixeira's sentencing

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BOSTON — The former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who shared military secrets with fellow video gamers online is getting closer to sentencing — but attorneys are trying to keep even more details out of public view.

Jack Teixeira faces a maximum of 16 years and eight months for six counts of willful retention and transmission of ...Read more

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Chicago mayor won't say if he will return $150,000 from rapper Lil Durk, arrested for alleged murder-for-hire plot

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CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday refused to say whether he will return $150,000 Chicago rapper Lil Durk contributed to the mayor’s political committee, a day after the artist was arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Johnson suggested he had no immediate intention to give back the money when asked how he would handle...Read more

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NYC contract negotiations with NYPD sergeants falls apart; union requests outside mediator

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NEW YORK — Contract negotiations between New York City and NYPD sergeants — many of whom are now getting paid less than some police officers they oversee — have completely broken down, forcing the union to declare an impasse with city negotiators and ask for the assistance of an outside mediator, the Daily News has learned.

Vincent ...Read more

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Majority of border methamphetamine seizures occur in California, while fentanyl moves east

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SAN DIEGO — Seizures at the California-Mexico border accounted for nearly half of all illegal drugs encountered by U.S. border authorities along the Southwest border in the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement data released this week.

In all, CBP seized more than 275,000 pounds of illegal drugs along the ...Read more

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For the first time in years, a Las Vegas jury has sentenced a man to death

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LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, a jury sentenced a 54-year-old man to death for a 2012 murder — the first death penalty sentence a jury in Nevada has handed down in more than five years.

The jury found Robert Brown guilty of murdering his girlfriend, 29-year-old Nichole Nick, after breaking into her apartment, attacking her, shooting and ...Read more

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Defense takes aim at Idaho's death penalty ahead of Bryan Kohberger capital murder trial

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BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s defense beat back at prosecutors’ plan to give an Ada County jury the option to hand the University of Idaho homicide suspect a death sentence in the latest court filings of the closely watched case.

Kohberger’s attorneys this week filed more than a dozen briefs to support their ongoing effort to strike ...Read more

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McDonald's E. coli outbreak is just latest food scare. How can diners stay safe?

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The list of recalled foods and foodborne illness outbreaks has lately been a long one: Listeria in Boar’s Head deli meats, smoked salmon from Costco and frozen waffles from Aldi, Target and Walmart. E. coli in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Salmonella at Downtown Baltimore’s Fogo de Chao.

And, this week, a contaminated meal that sent dozens...Read more

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Jurors who'll decide fate of accused suitcase killer Boone to have additional options besides murder charge

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Jurors expected to begin deliberating the fate of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone on Friday evening will have additional options for convicting her besides the second-degree murder charge that put her on trial.

Boone, 47, charged in the February 2020 suffocation death of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., 42, inside a suitcase, ...Read more