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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) buzzed the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah omluvhin Beirut on Sunday as crowds chanted “Death to Israel,” reminding the Iran-backed terror group that Israeli warplanes killed Nasrallah in September. As Breitbart News reported at the time, Nasrallah and several of his aides, who had survived the “pager” attack several days before, were killed in a surprise bombing that took out his underground headquarters in Beirut. Nasrallah’s funeral was delayed until his body could be recovered, and until after Hezbollah had accepted a ceasefire. He was buried alongside his purported successor, Hashem Saffiedine, whom Israel...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco may finally have built its own masterpiece of modern architecture -- a towering $200 million cooper-clad museum near the Golden Gate bridge. That would mark a big development in a city known for hilly Victorian neighborhoods and historic cable cars and where residents have long focused on preservation rather than embracing the kind of modern architecture symbolized by the new de Young museum, its supporters say. So far, the de Young, which opens on Saturday, has struck the chord its backers had sought with critics hailing it as a "museum for the 21st century"...