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Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Attack Against Israel, Bibi Says Jewish State ‘Facing Challenging Times as It Battles Iran’s Axis of Evil’

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White House says any assault from Tehran will ‘carry severe consequences’ Iranian missiles intercepted by Israel above Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images) Iran has launched a major ballistic missile strike on Israel, with American forces mobilizing to defend the Jewish state from an onslaught by Tehran and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of

Harris Won’t Say If She Still Supports Closing Private Prisons

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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is silent on her earlier advocacy for closing private prisons for citizens and illegal immigrants, a position she championed in her 2020 campaign and 2016 Senate race, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris’s campaign did not respond to Axios’s inquiry about her stance on closing private prisons and declined to make Harris

‘Staging Grounds for an Oct. 7-Style Invasion’: Israeli Officials Say Ground Assault Prevented Hezbollah Terror Attack, Admonish Biden-Harris Admin for Leaking Raid

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‘We didn’t like it, the leaks were a dangerous move, they endangered the fighting forces,’ senior Israeli official says (Erik Marmor/Getty Images) Hezbollah was preparing Lebanon’s borderlands with Israel for an “Oct. 7-style invasion” before the Jewish state’s special forces dismantled its underground tunnel system in “targeted ground raids,” the Israeli Defense Forces said Tuesday.

Thousands of East Coast Dockworkers Hit the Picket Line, Jeopardizing US Economy

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Thousands of port workers from Maine to Texas went on strike early Tuesday morning, which economists warn could spark nationwide shortages and higher prices for American consumers. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents 45,000 dockworkers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, walked off their jobs early Tuesday after failing to reach a

America’s Disorder Problem

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A similar pattern emerged in my recent report on crime in Washington, D.C. There, too, there are signs that disorder has risen, relative to both the pandemic and pre-pandemic, as the police have attended to it less. Unsheltered homelessness, unsanitary conditions, shoplifting, farebeating—all seem to have become more common in D.C. And those problems have come as

Biden-Harris Admin Pauses Oregon Offshore Wind Program One Month After Championing It as a Green Energy Success Story

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Oregon lease sale cancellation is latest black eye for Biden-Harris admin’s green goals (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The Biden-Harris administration cited the “undeniable enthusiasm for a clean energy transition” while announcing an offshore wind lease sale in federal waters off the coast of Oregon last month. But just weeks later, federal officials were forced to indefinitely

‘We Will Use All the Means That May Be Required’: Israeli Forces Enter Hezbollah’s Underground Tunnels Ahead of Likely Ground Assault

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Israeli forces have been quietly conducting cross-border raids in southern Lebanon, entering Hezbollah’s sophisticated underground tunnel network to prepare for a likely ground assault on the terror group’s remaining strongholds. The raids, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, are part of a broader effort to kneecap Hezbollah ahead of a ground assault teased by