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A former Russian senator who appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files and reportedly called Ghislaine Maxwell a "friend" has been found dead in Moscow, Russian state media has reported. Umar Dzhabrailov, 67, was discovered in a residential complex in the center of the capital on Monday with a gun next to him after what unnamed law enforcement agencies called a "suicide," TASS reported.
OpEd: The Justice Department filed an emergency motion to the 6th District Court that was rife with basic spelling errors, including spelling voters as "votors," United States as "United Staes," and emergency as "emeregency."
The "big wave" is yet to come in the war with Iran, US President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday. "We haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't even happened. The big one is coming soon," said the US leader. His statement comes after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there were currently no American troops on the ground in Iran, but left the option open, saying "we'll go as far as we need".
Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: tucked next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl resting peacefully on a shelf.
... at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...
The Trump Organization eyes real estate deal in Saudi government development (November 2025)
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... The Trump Organization is in talks to build a branded property in one of Saudi Arabia's largest government-owned real estate developments.
The chief executive of the Saudi company leading the development told The New York Times that a deal between the Trump Organization and Diriyah development would be announced "soon".
"Nothing announced yet, but soon to be," Jerry Inzerillo said, adding it was "just a matter of time" before the Trump Organization reached a deal.
Diriyah is the original home of the ruling Al-Saud family and includes a mud brick village that is a listed Unesco World Heritage site. The city, a 20-minute drive from Riyadh, is undergoing a $63bn development into a luxury destination with hotels, restaurants, shops, and museums. US President Donald Trump toured the site in May during his visit to the kingdom.
"It turned out to be a good stroke of luck and maybe a little bit clever of us to say, OK, let's appeal to him as a developer' - and he loved it," Inzerillo told the NYT. ...
@#15 ... "Lindsey Graham: "If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home."" ...
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Lindsey Graham Names 'Next' Country On Trump's Hit List: 'Their Days Are Numbered'
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... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News' Trey Gowdy on Sunday that the U.S. under President Donald Trump will next target the communist-led Caribbean island for regime change.
"Cuba is next," said Graham. "They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered."
Graham, a Trump sycophant, suggested the U.S. president was the right leader for the job as he highlighted how the question of how to deal with now-removed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro had been discussed by "everybody," but it was Trump who "got him in jail" on narco-terrorism charges after having him captured and brought to New York.
On the U.S. military operation against Iran, which began on Saturday, Graham said: "President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do. ... The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone cold dead." ...
@#15 ... Lindsey Graham: "If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home." ...
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Lindsey Graham Names 'Next' Country On Trump's Hit List: 'Their Days Are Numbered'
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... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News' Trey Gowdy on Sunday that the U.S. under President Donald Trump will next target the communist-led Caribbean island for regime change.
"Cuba is next," said Graham. "They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered."
Graham, a Trump sycophant, suggested the U.S. president was the right leader for the job as he highlighted how the question of how to deal with now-removed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro had been discussed by "everybody," but it was Trump who "got him in jail" on narco-terrorism charges after having him captured and brought to New York.
On the U.S. military operation against Iran, which began on Saturday, Graham said: "President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do. ... The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone cold dead." ...
House Oversight Committee releases videos of Clinton depositions on Jeffrey Epstein
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... The House Oversight Committee on Monday released videos of its interviews last week with former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its probe into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
NBC News is reviewing the videos, which are about four-and-a-half hours each. The footage was posted days after the Clintons sat for interviews with the Republican-led committee to answer questions about Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. ...
Attack on Iran Could Disrupt Global Fertilizer Markets
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... Agri-Pulse's Kim Chipman and Oliver Ward reported that "a prolonged military conflict in the Middle East could potentially upend key commodity markets due to Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important trade routes.
America's crop growers could see fresh price spikes for inputs like fertilizer while battling a multi-year downturn in profitability, experts warned ahead of the attack."
"Prior to the attack over the weekend, certain fertilizer prices were near historic highs for this time of year, said Josh Linville, vice president of fertilizer at StoneX," Chipman and Ward reported.
"A military conflict 'could be devastating' for the global nitrogen and phosphate markets, Linville said in a note late last week prior to strikes on Iran by the U.S. and Israel.
'If that strait shuts down, the world will focus on oil/gas/energy impacts, however, it would have a massive impact on nitrogen and phosphate values,' he said." ...
... without offering much in the way of specifics. ...
Pentagon offers no evidence to support claim it attacked Iran in defense
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... The Trump administration is making the case that it ordered expansive, deadly strikes to stop an imminent threat from Tehran, but is providing no evidence Iran had such plans. ...
Trump warns of longer Iran War
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... President Donald Trump signaled Monday that US strikes on Iran could go much longer than originally predicted, as his administration sought to counter criticism about conflicting messages on the war's goals.
In his first public comments since launching the military operation, the president who long campaigned for "no new wars" laid out what he said were four key objectives for hitting Iran.
Trump also said that the timeframe he initially gave could drag out, raising fears among right-wing supporters in particular of a return the Middle Eastern entanglements he once opposed.
"From the beginning we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that," Trump said at the start of a medal presentation event at the White House.
Trump however said that the United States was "substantially ahead of our time projections", citing the killing of Iran's top leadership in the initial wave of strikes on Saturday.
The US president for the first time clearly laid out four explicit goals for Operation Epic Fury, saying it was the "last, best chance" to hit Washington's decades-long arch-foe.
"First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities... Second, we're annihilating their navy... Third, we're ensuring that the world's number-one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
"Finally we are ensuring the Iranian regime can't continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders."
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Trump had previously made different and sometimes contradictory comments on the conflict in a series of telephone interviews since the strikes began on Saturday. ...
Iranians overcome with emotion, celebrate in Times Square rally
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... Many were overcome with emotion as it all sank in - a time many Iranians in New York City thought they would never see freedom.
Hundreds gathered near the United Nations and made their way west, ending up in Times Square, where they celebrated.
"The person is killing my people for 47 years, American and Israel - they illuminated him," said Amir.
The death of the Supreme Leader, many are hoping will spark a seismic shift in leadership in Iran.
"When the government is over, they will join the people who are free," said rally organizer Reza Ebrahimi.
It was a sentiment shared by those around the world.
"Everyone who loves justice and peace on this planet needs to stand up to the Islamic terrorists that is the Islamic regime in Iran," said Harry Brodsky.
Brodsky, who is Jewish and lives in West Orange, like others, fears potential backlash from Saturday's military strikes, but says he is determined to show up.
"It's the littlest thing we could do to be brave and yes come despite the fact that there is a little bit of risk, we're going to come anyway," Brodsky said.
Doran Pooladi, who grew up in Shiraz, says she cannot wait to go home. ...
@#2 ... As a born-and-bred Staten Islander ...
Hey, me too.
But I haven't been back to the Isle of Staaten in about 50 years or so ...