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Less than a week after the elimination of his predecessor, Ali Shadmani, the new commander of Iranian forces in the current war, was bombed in a command center in Tehran earlier today.

During my law enforcement career, I never saw what one might reasonably describe as an obvious act of courage on the part of any attorney, prosecutor, or public defender. Their lives and jobs were insulated from the gritty reality of day-to-day police work. It was a reality they experienced from the comfort of office chairs and argued in climate-controlled, guarded courtrooms. Such was not the case for US Attorney John A Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York on June 17, 2025 in Albany, NY. Graphic: Saul Morales-Garcia. Albany County Sheriff's Office. Public DomainLeaving his office in downtown...

James Bond is smiling. Among one of most astonishing revelations about Israel’s lightning military attack against Iran is its bold decision well before the war began to insert large, secret operational teams into the Islamic country. “Operation Rising Lion’s” clandestine operations will go down in military history as the most ambitious covert military offensive in modern warfare. The press has briefly noted it, but they are missing the real story. Israel’s secret Iranian operations led by Mossad, the country’s spy agency, have not stopped. They are ongoing. And only a few are talking about it. One who is talking about...

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee dismissed France’s potential upcoming recognition of a Palestinian state, calling the move “revolting” while Israel fights Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “It’s incredibly inappropriate in the midst of a war that Israel is dealing with to go out and present something that I think increasingly Israelis are steadfast against,” he told Fox News. Huckabee’s comments came after French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that recognizing a Palestinian state, with conditions, is “not only a moral duty, but a political necessity.” Macron also said that European countries should “harden the collective position” against Israel if...

BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force has struck the Ilam Petrochemical Plant in western Iran. It produces some of the chemicals used to propel Iran’s ballistic missiles.

🚨 JUST IN: The US Embassy in Jerusalem announced they will be CLOSED Wednesday through Friday, citing the “security situation”It’s not immediately clear how the security situation will be different tomorrow than it was today. pic.twitter.com/4oxRn1P2Lc— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 17, 2025

President Trump will cut short his trip to Canada for a meeting with world leaders and fly back to Washington late Monday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, citing "what's going on in the Middle East." Mr. Trump arrived in Canada on Sunday for the annual G7 summit, and met with the leaders of Canada and the United Kingdom earlier Monday. But Leavitt said on X Monday night that the president would leave early, seeming to refer to the Israel-Iran conflict. "Much was accomplished, but because of what's going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after...