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Israel attacking government sites in Iran as Trump floats regime change

Israel said it is carrying out attacks on Iranian government sites and “regime targets” — including the notorious Evin Prison — as President Trump muses publicly about a regime change in ...

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Russia ready to help Iran: Kremlin spokesperson

Russia stands ready to help Iran in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, but Tehran first needs to articulate its requests, a Kremlin spokesperson said Monday. Russian presiden...

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Leavitt: 'High degree of confidence' strikes hit Iran's stored enriched uranium

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the Trump administration has a “high degree of confidence” that its strikes against Iran hit locations where enriched uranium was ...

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Iran state media: Fordow nuclear site struck again

Israel bombed Iran's Fordow nuclear bunker site south of Tehran again Monday, following the U.S.'s strikes on the secretive underground facility over the weekend, according to media outle...

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Bank hacks, internet shutdowns and crypto heists: Here’s how the war between Israel and Iran is playing out in cyberspace

The war between Iran and Israel has already expanded from the battlefield into cyberspace.The conflict between the two Middle East adversaries has so far largely played out in public view, with hun...

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Trump Changed. The Intelligence Didn’t.

Whenever Donald Trump has contemplated confrontation with Iran, his decisions have been guided less by the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community than by his own calculation of risk and rewar...

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Trump opens door to regime change in Iran

President Trump on Sunday suggested regime change could be possible in Iran if the current one is “unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN.” “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ...

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Threat of sleeper cells in US has 'never been higher': CBP

The threat of sleeper cells in the U.S. has “never been higher," though there are no current specific threats, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A memo sent Sa...

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Senate parliamentarian greenlights state AI law freeze in GOP megabill

The Senate’s rules referee late Saturday allowed Republicans to include in their megabill a 10-year moratorium on enforcing state and local artificial intelligence laws — a surprising result for th...

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Satellite images show strikes' impact on Iran nuclear sites

Satellite images released Sunday show the impact of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, which President Trump announced on Saturday evening. Using B-2 bombers dropping "bunker b...

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Legal dramas would trail Andrew Cuomo to City Hall

NEW YORK — A thicket of court cases and a legal strategy that silences critics will follow Andrew Cuomo into City Hall if he’s elected mayor of the nation’s largest city.Playing out against the bac...

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The DREAM is real: Progressive donors hedge against Cuomo, Adams in NYC mayoral race

NEW YORK — The campaign against ranking Andrew Cuomo for mayor — and supporting Mayor Eric Adams, in general — has been quietly playing out for months in New York City.A POLITICO analysis of campai...

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Rubio: 'No planned military operations' against Iran unless they attack Americans

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the United States currently has no military operation planned against Iran but left the door open for future strikes if the country does not demon...

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With Iran Strikes, Trump is ‘Unchained’

Remember when Donald Trump was an isolationist?Yes, once upon a time, that’s how many in the national security realm described this president. Plenty of his moves — from his digs at NATO to his use...

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US warns of 'heightened threat environment' after strikes on Iran

The United States is warning of a “heightened threat environment” after President Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday evening. The Department of Homeland Securit...

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Massie on Iran strikes: 'No imminent threat' to US authorizing that

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Sunday slammed the United States's recent strikes against Iran, saying there was “no imminent threat” to the U.S. to authorize them. In an interview on CBS's "F...

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Strait of Hormuz becomes flash point in US-Iran conflict

The Iranian Parliament on Sunday approved a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz after the United States bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. The strait, located between Iran and O...

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Former Centcom commander: US 'certainly vulnerable' to attacks in Iraq, Syria

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), said on Sunday that he thinks U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria are "certainly vulnerable" to retaliatory attacks by...

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Ron Johnson: US has 'no beef with the Iranian people'

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday that the United States has “no beef with the Iranian people” following Saturday’s announcement by President Trump that the U.S. had bombed three Iran...

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Iran's 'proportionate response' to US strike will be set by military, envoy tells UN

Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, condemned the United States's involvement in its conflict with Israel and said the nation's military would determine its respo...

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US attack on Iran creates dividing line in final days of New York mayoral race

NEW YORK — New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani condemned the United States’ bombing campaign in Iran Saturday, while rival Andrew Cuomo raised red flags about the Middle-Eastern country....

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