The US said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran after Tehran struck a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it closed the waterway until further notice and warned of a severe response to US "aggression", according to state media. Read more
China has successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in a major breakthrough for the country's space programme, according to state media. Read more
Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week. "We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," he reported.
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New Mexico officials are accusing Donald Trump's Department of Justice of obstructing access to documents connected to the federal government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein as the state performs its own probe into the sex offender's alleged crimes at his Zorro Ranch property.
The state's Attorney General Ral Torrez is demanding immediate access to files requested by his office several months ago and suggested the Justice Department is now withholding those records despite what he called "verbal assurances" from the federal government.
Exxon Lawyer's Appointment at DOJ Shows Big Oil's Capture of Government Now Complete'
WASHINGTON, D.C. " Trump's Department of Justice is appointing Robert Levy, a senior attorney at Exxon Mobil, to lead the DOJ's newly-renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said that the American military stood ready to "completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran" in response to threats to his life. Trump made the post on Truth Social in the early hours of Saturday morning. Media reports indicate that Trump received intelligence briefings from Israeli authorities that the Iranian regime was targeting him for assassination. In the post, the president said that "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran" should the regime attempt to assassinate him. However, talks between Washington and Tehran are ongoing despite the recent hostilities. "PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!" added the U.S. president, signing off his social media post.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had "just finished" a physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, without specifying when the exam was conducted. It was not clear whether Trump had a new physical or he was referring to the one he had in late May, following which he said "everything checked out perfectly." "I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all " Got every question right," Trump, who turned 80 in June, wrote in a Truth Social post.
A federal judge in California Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation dispute against former Overstock.com CEO and 2020 election denier Patrick Byrne.
The Trump administration hit four New York Times journalists with subpoenas on Friday, after the outlet published a story outlining risks involving President Trump's Qatar-gifted Air Force One plane that recently entered into service.
The Times reported that the refurbished jet lacked some of the advanced security measures of the older aircraft used to transport the president.
Mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell's health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week. McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican's office has released only sparse updates, saying he is "continuing to improve" and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised. Read more
California saw $1.4 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program errors for Fiscal Year 2025. That accounts for $3.8 million every single day. That's part of a trend of Southwestern states having to repay the federal government for SNAP benefits. A payment error rate refers to instances of overpayment or underpayment to households. It is not inherently indicative of fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP for the federal government. Rather, according to the department, it often stems from households providing incomplete information or state data processing errors. Read more
A vote on a San Francisco supervisor's plan to convert neighborhood corner stores into publicly subsidized markets has been placed on hold. Supervisor Bilal Mahmoud announced the idea late last month and is now accusing Mayor Daniel Lurie of interfering with the Board of Supervisors' legislative process. "What happened is that the mayor called the budget chair and asked her to pull this to even before it could be voted on," Mahmoud said. "This has never happened in the history of the board in recent history." Mahmoud's plan is modeled after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's executive action to create government-owned supermarkets.
An indictment says Fahad Mohamed Nur's company received "more than $9.9 million fraudulently from sites or entities involved in the Federal Child Nutrition Program."
Iran is already a quagmire. As the bombing resumes, just how bad will it get? Read more
Victor Marx (R) who claims to do exorcisms by phone, says he killed a man at age seven, took credit for helping rescue 43 missing children in Florida, and that as a civilian he once called in a military airstrike that killed 70 fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group, is now the Republican gubernatorial candidate for Colorado.
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