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The IDF confirmed on Tuesday that the Israeli Air Force, acting on IDF intelligence, and through the integration of unique operational capabilities, conducted a precise strike on Monday that eliminated Ali Larijani, the Secretary of Iranian Supreme National Security Council, who operated as the de facto leader of the Iranian terror regime. The strike was conducted while he was located near Tehran. Throughout the years, Larijani was considered one of the most veteran and senior figures within the Iranian regime leadership and was a close associate of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Following the elimination of Khamenei, Larijani consolidated his...

We lost a few men. That IS combat. The Iranians have lost thousands and are STILL taunting us. We lose a very SMALL percentage and the communists want us to abandon the conflict. LOOK at the enemy within's tactics: Trying to discourage Americans from necessary conflicts in a needed war in which we must prevail. The leftists here who violently protest ICE lost two "foot soldiers" and more injured and I DO NOT HEAR THE MEDIA, DEMOCRATS OR ANY OF THAT SIDE SECOND-GUESSING THE ACTIONS OF THOSE KILLED OR SUGGESTING THEY SHOULD STOP!!! They are TOTALLY committed to what they...

Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Iran’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father just more than a week after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes. A statement from the Assembly of Experts — the panel of Shia clerics responsible under Iranian law for choosing the country’s top leader — said Mojtaba Khamenei had been selected as the third leader of the Islamic Republic, according to reports from IRIB state TV and the Fars, Tasnim and ISNA news agencies. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is widely viewed as a hard-line figure with close ties to the powerful...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has reportedly been killed in the military strikes, according to unconfirmed reports from Israel's Channel 12. Iran's Foreign Minister has denied these reports. GB News has not independently verified these claims and the situation remains developing. This comes as US and Israeli forces launched major combat operations against Iran, with explosions reported across multiple Middle Eastern countries including Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait.

A federal lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday aimed at cracking down on alleged fraud within a federal program that paid for dead people’s phone and internet service. Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is targeting the federal Lifeline program, which subsidizes the services for low-income Americans, after California was accused of taking in $3.8 million between 2020 and 2025 to cover the costs for 94,000 dead people. “While Californians are taxed to the grave and back, its governor especially can’t pass the buck when the state is allowing providers to enroll dead people in a federal program,” Ernst told The Post. A...

Two people have reportedly been found dead in the mansion of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner, which the LAPD is reportedly investigating as a murder. Multiple law enforcement sources told NBCLA that the bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman had allegedly been discovered inside the home, which is located in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood, a haven for celebrities. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide division were said to be on the case, and LAPD detectives reportedly told ABC7 said the deaths were being investigated as a homicide as a large number of officers were...

An alleged intruder armed with a hammer was shot dead Thursday morning around 7:00 a.m. by a Gulfport, Mississippi, woman who had a protective order against him. WLOX reported that two women were home at the time of the alleged intrusion and that both women had a protection order against the man. The alleged intruder entered through a window and attacked one woman, who was able to get to another room in the house to keep herself safe. The second woman grabbed a gun and shot the man, killing him. The Sun Herald noted that the alleged intruder, identified as...

A staff member at a Buddhist temple heard a knock while explaining to a relative how to get a death certificate.A 65-year-old Thai woman has just experienced everyone’s worst nightmare: waking up in a coffin. On Sunday, the Wat Rat Prakong Tham Buddhist Temple outside of Bangkok posted a video of a white, open coffin in the back of a pickup truck. Inside is an extremely thin woman dressed in an orange skirt and a white top, clearly moving her arms as bystanders watch in shock. Emergency workers then move her onto a gurney and load her into an ambulance....

A fifth person has died at a lavish Florida Disney World resort in a chilling string of deaths in less than a month that’s cast a dark shadow over the “Most Magical Place on Earth.” The unidentified guest was reportedly pronounced dead at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, just steps from Disney Springs, on Nov. 8, the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to The Post Wednesday. “Although there was a death at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort, we declined jurisdiction,” the Medical Examiner said in a statement, noting the body was ultimately turned over to...

For the 25th annual Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife. In 2001, Elvis Presley topped Forbes’ first list tracking the highest-earning celebrity estates, and The King has appeared on every edition of the rankings in the 25 years since, earning over $1.2 billion during that span. Yet it’s another member of music royalty who has truly broken the paradigm for posthumous earnings—Elvis’ onetime son-in-law, Michael Jackson. The King of Pop’s estate has...

The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darkness of the great apostasy incorporated into the Christian faith, has supplanted the truth, so plainly taught in Scripture, that “the dead know not anything.” Multitudes have come to believe that it is spirits of the dead who are the “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history killed at least 132 people, public defenders said on Wednesday, as Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses found overnight, a week ahead of global climate events in the city. State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang the day before had been planned exhaustively for more than two months, designed to drive suspects into a forested hillside where a special operations unit was waiting in ambush. “The elevated lethality of the operation was expected but not desired,” Victor Santos, head of security for Rio state, told...

German actress Wanda Perdelwitz has apparently died, according to several media reports. According to the reports, the 41-year-old was riding her bicycle in the Rotherbaum district of Hamburg on September 28 when a car stopped in front of her to let the passenger out. According to the reports, Perdelwitz crashed into the open door, fell and suffered life-threatening injuries to her head. She was immediately taken to hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. People close to the actress confirmed the report.

First responders from multiple agencies responded Thursday to the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, after a helicopter crashed on a barge.

The death toll from a large Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Thursday has risen to at least 31 people. Five children — including a two-year-old — were among the victims of the strike which targeted several areas of the Ukrainian capital. Another 159, including 16 children, were injured, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike "vile" and said it "demonstrates the need for increased pressure on Moscow and additional sanctions." "In July alone, Russia used over 5,100 glide bombs against Ukraine, more than 3,800 Shaheds and nearly 260 missiles of various types...

Everybody was shocked — shocked! — when Stephen Colbert announced this week that CBS canceled “The Late Show.” The despondent media reacted like a meteor was about to smash into Earth. But how surprising was Colbert’s kibosh really? Did peoples’ jaws also hit the floor when Blockbuster Video called it quits in 2014? Were they muffling their screams when blimps were phased out for air travel in 1937? “What do you mean ‘no more silent films’?!” The end of “The Late Show” was every bit as writ-in-stone as any of those predictable downfalls. And it’s not only Colbert. The Grim...

One person was killed and multiple others were injured in a mass shooting during a Juneteenth celebration at a VFW in South Carolina Saturday night, according to officials. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office led a massive police response at the Veterans of Foreign Wars facility, outside of Greenville, where bullets flew Saturday before 11 p.m., WSPA reported. The VFW 1790 was hosting a Juneteenth celebration at the time of the shooting, Anderson County Sheriff’s deputies told the outlet.

Cain and Abel, meet David and Daniel. Ex-New York Gov. David Paterson is accusing his brother of cheating him out of his inheritance — by allegedly tricking their elderly mother into giving him over $7 million before her death. A bombshell lawsuit filed by the former governor claims his younger brother Daniel Paterson, 67, duped mom Portia into transferring the massive sum from her estate to his account through “undue influence, coercion and excessive persuasion.” The sneaky move allowed Daniel and his attorney wife Eloise to bypass a long-standing will ordering the brothers to split their mom’s estate 50-50 —...

CNN host Dana Bash said Friday on “The Situation Room” that during a phone conversation, President Donald Trump said the hardline negotiators he was dealing with in Iran were killed in Israel’s military strike. Bash said, “Well, my first question, it was a very brief conversation, but my first question was about the secretary of state’s remarks last night. His statement, which you mentioned in the open to the show, which explicitly said that the U.S. was notified about the Israeli strikes shortly before they happened, certainly warned Iran not to retaliate against U.S. assets. But the boilerplate language that...

Abandonment and neglect have always been crimes, particularly if they lead to the death of a child. However, following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion supporters are arguing that when the body of a baby is found, no investigation is necessary. In May, the remains of a baby were found in a dumpster in Ohio, and one vocal abortion advocate had a lot to say about it. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The body of a baby was found in a dumpster at a Toledo, Ohio, apartment complex. Abortion activist Jessica Valenti complained that the death should not have been investigated....