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The IRGC-affiliated news outlet Tasnim has released footage purportedly showing the test launch and impact strike of Iran’s “Fattah-1” hypersonic missile, which comes as the “Fattah-2” was unveiled over the weekend in Tehran. Iranian state media claims that the Fattah-1 “has a range of 1,400 kilometers and hits the target at a speed of Mach 13 to 15.” The system consists of a first stage booster derived from what is likely a Kheybar-Shekan solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile and a maneuverable reentry vehicle (MaRV) powered by a sustainer motor.

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A San Francisco jury delivered a guilty verdict this week for a gruesome murder involving torture. The victim, 23-year-old George Randall-Saldivar, was hung by a noose from a ceiling, sodomized, suffocated, and injected with a lethal dose of fentanyl, according to prosecutors. The victim was still alive when he was stuffed into a suitcase and left to die, prosecutors said.

Way back in October 2012, climate alarmist and activist Michael Mann brought a libel suit against Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg for allegedly defamatory blog posts that the two had written a few months previously. The case has gone through an incredible history of procedural twists and turns since then, a few of which I have covered in prior blog posts, for example here on March 20, 2014, and here on March 26, 2021. The trial finally started on January 16. Probably most readers here are familiar with the case to at least some degree, and many may even be...

U.S. Senators pushed for direct military action against Iran on Sunday after news broke that at least three U.S. soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack carried out by an Iranian-backed terrorist group. U.S. Central Command said in a statement that “three U.S. service members were killed and 25 injured from a one-way attack [Unmanned Aircraft System] that impacted at a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border.” Subsequent reporting said that more than 30 U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack. President Joe Biden said in a separate statement that the attack was “carried out by radical Iran-backed...

Tesla, Inc. will recall almost 200,000 vehicles over a software issue affecting the rearview cameras which could lead to crashes, authorities said Tuesday. Tesla informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Monday of the safety recall of 199,575 2023 Model S, X, and Y vehicles in which software instability could prevent the display of the rearview camera, the NHTSA acknowledged in a letter. “A rearview image that does not display while in reverse decreases the driver’s visibility and increases the risk of a crash,” the letter noted. The vehicles affected were equipped with full self-driving computer 4.0 and ran...

Here in Boston, we know just how corrupt the FBI can be. For instance, framing innocent men for murders they did not commit, or providing explosives for gangsters to use to kill reporters. Or taking payoffs to set up informants to be rubbed out by serial-killing cocaine dealers, and then after committing such crimes being promoted to director of the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia…. I could go on and on about the Boston FBI office. But you get the picture. Still, as bad and as overrated as the G-men have always been, they’re worse now. And the feds’...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea Monday without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official. Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the group fired a missile at the USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. The Puller, which serves as a floating landing base, had been earlier stationed in the Arabian Sea as part of American efforts to curtail Houthi attacks on commercial shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Houthi attacks will continue “until the aggression is stopped, and the...

During an appearance on this week’s “Fox News Sunday broadcast,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) pushed back against critics of his efforts to secure a deal on a border security package. The Oklahoma Senator said the language of the bill had not been finalized and attributed speculation to “Internet rumors.” “The challenge that Senator Cruz has and a bunch of other folks is they’re so waiting to be able to read the bill on this and this has been our great challenge of being able to fight through the final words to be able to get the bill text out so...

The North’s second known launch event of the year adds to a provocative run of weapons tests in the face of deepening nuclear tensions with the U.S., South Korea and Japan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military says North Korea fired several cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, adding to a provocative run of weapons demonstrations in the face of deepening nuclear tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that the U.S. and South Korean militaries were analyzing the launches. It did not immediately confirm the...

Officials of Canada’s Liberal Party recently had a collective cow during a meeting while discussing a January 24 event in Alberta that featured a speech by Tucker Carlson. For example, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St. Onge, stated: “What happened yesterday is completely deplorable. To have a conservative Canadian politician invite an American extreme right Tucker Carlson to come here to Canada, holding forth in a completely unacceptable way in particular with regard to their attempts to have a much more violent political climate as we see Tucker Carlson doing, for example, putting targets on Canadian politicians’ backs.”Huh? And Randy...

The Czech Republic’s government signed an agreement with the United States on Monday to acquire 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets as part of a deal worth about 150 billion Czech koruna ($6.6 billion), the biggest single purchase for the Czech military. Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová and U.S. Ambassador Bijan Sabet signed a memorandum of understanding for the deal. The Czechs also signed a letter of offer and acceptance, the final step in completing a contract between the governments, the Czech Defense Ministry said. ... The first of the 24 fighter jets should be delivered in 2031, with the rest...

An almost fully-automated restaurant in Pasadena, California, is using robot cooks and AI-powered ordering kiosks. Joy Benedict has the story.

As a lead prosecutor in her Georgia state case against Donald Trump, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade, a married man with whom, despite being given every opportunity to do so, she has not denied having an affair. He is unqualified, apparently never having handled a major felony case. She claims to have paid Wade at the same rate she paid the other lead prosecutors. In fact, she paid one of the other prosecutors $100 per hour less than Wade, despite the other prosecutor's incomparably better credentials. She paid her apparent paramour in excess of $650,000 of...

In France, Inès Corbière, the far-left daughter of two far-left members of the French National Assembly, has been very active recently on social media, enthusiastically vilifying Israel and Jews. She was caught on camera saying the same kind of things she has been posting; when she realized she was being recorded, she told the cameraman to stop filming her. And then she yelled at the cameraman that “I am an antisemite. I don’t give a damn.” She has now been arrested for her “pro-terror” media posts.According to her parents, she was misunderstood. She really meant to say the very opposite...

CINCINNATI, Thursday, Jan. 28. A special dispatch from Chattanooga to the Commercial says JOHNSTON'S army has fallen back from Dalton. Col. BURKE, of the Tenth Ohio Regiment, with a tag of truce went out forty-five miles, and could find no enemy. Rebel advance pickets are at Kingston, forty miles south of Dalton, probably to cover the retreat. CHEATHAM's Division went to Kingston on Wednesday. Several unimportant cavalry raids have been made to cover this retreat. A special dispatch to the Gazette, from Nashville, says, persons who left Knoxville on Saturday, report skirmishing between LONGSTREET's Cavalry and ours. No doubt is...

Key Republican and Democrat Senators are nearing a compromise agreement with the Biden White House on a border security package linked to more money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This is shaping up to be a dangerous deal that would compromise the American people’s safety and well-being. Instead of continuing to insist that major immigration policy changes and more funding to fully enforce U.S. border security are the first priorities, above any further foreign entanglements, some Senate Republicans are getting cold feet. They appear willing to accept a half-baked deal with Senate Democrats and an open border administration who cannot...

For years, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been the nation’s most effective Islamic group, and its list of accomplishments is long: it has normalized the term “Islamophobia” and the stigmatization and silencing of honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence. It has helped solidify an alliance between the left and Muslim Brotherhood groups in the U.S. and has been instrumental in turning the left against Israel to the extent that leftists will demonstrate for a bloodthirsty jihad terror group. Recently, however, CAIR has hit an unprecedented bad patch that could even mean its downfall. What...

Randi Weingarten is really ramping up the rhetoric against parents in the fight for school choice. She would, wouldn’t she? Her position as a union boss -- president of the American Federation of Teachers -- has been credited with accelerating the abysmal decline in education for children nationwide. Parents, for years, have been on to her union tactics, and that of her colleagues. They can hardly take seriously Ms. Weingarten’s latest meltdown asserting that parents “undermine democracy,” in their efforts to remove their children from failing schools. Who can blame Weingarten’s sense of panic? Those undermining parents are making tremendous...

<p>Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.</p><p>It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million. The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.</p>