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06-19-2025, 07:41 AM
MIDDLE EAST WAR
Quote:Iran blasted dozens of missiles at Israel Thursday morning, striking a key hospital and other civilian centers in the south in the latest back-and-forth airstrikes between the two countries, according to officials and reports.
The Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheba, the main hospital in southern Israel with 1,000-plus beds, took a direct hit and sustained severe damage, a video taken inside the facility shows.
“Dozens of ballistic missiles were launched at Israel in the last barrage from Iran, with several hits to civilian population centres (including the Soroka hospital in southern Israel),” an Israeli military official told The Post. “IDF Homefront Command Search and Rescue teams have been dispatched to several reported impact sites.”
Several people were injured in the attack, but an exact number was not immediately clear.
The attack came after Israel struck Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, according to Iranian state television.
Israel Defense Forces had blasted an evacuation warning across social media that included a satellite image of the nuclear plant, which sits in the city of Arak, in the middle of a red circle indicating a blast zone.
“Dear citizens, for your safety and well-being, we urgently request that you immediately evacuate the designated area in Tehran’s Area 18. Your presence in this area puts your life at risk,” the IDF Farsi wrote on X.
The facility was fully evacuated before the attack, according to Iran’s state-run station.
Thursday’s round of strikes also targeted several locations in Tehran and other areas across Iran.
Arak is home to heavy water nuclear reactors that produce a byproduct of plutonium, which can potentially be used in construction of nuclear weapons, The Times of Israel reported.
Quote:One of America’s “doomsday planes” made flight to Joint Base Andrews in Washington, DC Tuesday night as President Trump weighs whether to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The E-4B Nightwatch – which was designed to protect the Secretary of Defense and other national security officials and keep the government operating in the time of nuclear war – was spotted by flight trackers, and made a long, winding route to the capital.
The aircraft left Bossier City, Louisiana just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday and landed in Maryland at 10 p.m. after skirting the coast and looping around the border of Virginia and North Carolina, data from flight tracking site FlightRadar shows.
Confusion was sparked after the flight issued an unusual callsign, ORDER01 instead of the usual ORDER6, according to flight data.
The US fleet of four E-4Bs makes regular flights year-round to maintain military readiness.
The E-4B serves as an airborne command center for the President, Secretary of Defense, and the Chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ensure continued critical command, control and communication in case of emergencies.
Each E-4B Nightwatch can contain a crew of up to 112 people and has a range of more than 7,000 miles.
Their importance to the US Air Force is demonstrated in the fact that they feature unique capabilities which cannot be copied by any other US Air Force aircraft.
They are capable of withstanding nuclear blasts, cyberattacks and electromagnetic effects, and are equipped to fire retaliatory missiles.
Quote:The US Navy’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is set be deployed to the Mediterranean, according to a report.
It’s the latest public movement of military hardware to the region as the Iran-Israel conflict ratchets up.
The USS Ford, America’s flagship 1,100-foot nuclear-powered carrier, is expected to be sent to Europe as soon as next week, making it the third US aircraft carrier group in the region, CNN’s senior national reporter Zachary Cohen reported on Wednesday.
The $13 billion carrier’s deployment — likely to the Mediterranean Sea — had been scheduled last year, sources to the network.
But it will still be seen as an unmistakable sign of increased global tensions surrounding the ongoing airstrikes between Israel and Iran.
The Ford will join the USS Carl Vinson, which is already in the Persian Gulf, and the USS Nimitz — which the US announced it was sending from Southeast Asia earlier this week.
It comes after President Trump teased a possible US strike on Iran following the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejecting calls for unconditional surrender.
Several other US warships have left a US naval base in Bahrain as part of increased military movements around Iran, it was reported on Wednesday.
Aerial refueling tankers have also been sent to the region.
On Monday, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier left the South China Sea and set off for the Middle East amid soaring tensions in the region.
An “emergent operational requirement” saw the ship cancel a scheduled docking in Danang City, Vietnam, planned for later this week, the US Embassy in Hanoi said in a statement on Monday.
Quote:President Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “keep going” with airstrikes on Iran Wednesday after handing the regime in Tehran his “ultimate ultimatum” with a word of warning that it was “really late” to restart nuclear talks.
Trump repeated his demand for “unconditional surrender” by Iran without confirming any attack plans were in the works — wishing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei “good luck” and pronouncing him “totally defenseless” as Israel dominates Iran’s airspace after six days of attacks.
“Very simple — unconditional surrender,” Trump urged the ayatollah during a flagpole-raising event on the White House lawn.
“That means, ‘I’ve had it. I’ve had it. I give up, no more!’” the president told reporters.
“Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that’s all over the place there. They had bad intentions.”
That appears to be at least one part of Trump’s “ultimate ultimatum” to Iran, as he’s cooled to the anti-American theocracy’s alleged outreach following Israel’s surprise offensive.
“I said it’s really late. You know? I said it’s very late to be talking,” the president noted, revealing that Iranian officials have sought a White House meeting after blowing through a 60-day deadline to reach a deal limiting its nuclear program.
At least publicly, Khamenei has rejected Trump’s demand that he concede defeat and a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry warned that “American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region.”
“The US President threatens us,” Khamenei wrote on X. “With his absurd rhetoric, he demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. They should make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened. The Iranian nation isn’t frightened by such threats”
“It isn’t wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender. What should the Iranian nation surrender to?” the ayatollah asked. “We will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone.”
Asked about the ayatollah’s response, the president responded: “I say good luck.”
Trump has vacillated for days between wanting to agree to a deal and potentially joining Israel’s bombing of Tehran’s nuclear facilities — and appeared to do so again during a chat with journalists later in the Oval Office.
“I like to make the final decision one second before it’s due, because things change, especially with war. Things change with war. It can go from one extreme to the other,” he said.
“Don’t forget, we haven’t been fighting. We add a certain amount of genius to everything, but we haven’t been fighting at all. Israel’s done a very good job today, but we’ll see what happens.”
Quote:President Trump said Wednesday he rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to help mediate the Iran-Israel conflict — telling him to focus on brokering an end to the Ukraine war first.
“I spoke to Putin yesterday and he actually offered to help mediate,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn as he erected a large new flagpole.
“I said, ‘Do me a favor, mediate your own. Let’s mediate Russia first.’ I said, ‘Vladimir, let’s mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later.'”
Trump rejected the offer after attempting for months to force Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Putin to make peace — with the US leader left fuming last month when the “absolutely CRAZY” Kremlin chief instead continued to bomb civilian areas of his neighboring nation.
Russia and China are among the largest nations friendly toward Iran’s government, which is believed to be running low on supplies of rockets and drones less than a week into the conflict.
Tehran’s air defense capabilities have been largely knocked out — as Israel bombs notable Iranian nuclear facilities in an effort to block the development of nuclear weapons. The Jewish state also has assassinated leading Iranian military officials and scientists since Friday.
Trump is openly weighing US intervention in the conflict and threatened to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei if his government attacks American troops in the region.
Quote:The United States was working to organize evacuation routes for Americans in Israel — as the Jewish state and Iran continued to fire barrages of missiles at each other.
It comes after the embassy revealed it would be shut from Wednesday through Friday in order to comply with Israeli guidance.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem was working on the evacuation arrangements, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee announced in a post on X.
Huckabee urged US citizens still in Israel to sign up for updates through the State Department’s Smart Traveler program as tensions mounted.
The warnings came as intense Israeli airstrikes continued to pummel Iran’s capital early Wednesday — a day after President Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from the Islamic Republic’s leaders.
Quote:Israel’s military warned people Thursday to evacuate the area around Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor.
The warning came in a social media post on X. It included a satellite image of the plant in a red circle like other warnings that preceded strikes.
Israel’s seventh day of airstrikes on Iran came a day after Iran’s supreme leader rejected US calls for surrender and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them.” Israel also lifted some restrictions on daily life, suggesting the missile threat from Iran on its territory was easing.
The Israeli military said Thursday’s round of airstrikes targeted Tehran and other areas of Iran, without elaborating.
Already, Israel’s campaign has targeted Iran’s enrichment site at Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran and a nuclear site in Isfahan. Its strikes have also killed top generals and nuclear scientists.
A Washington-based Iranian human rights group said at least 639 people, including 263 civilians, have been killed in Iran and more than 1,300 wounded.
In retaliation, Iran has fired some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel and wounding hundreds. Some have hit apartment buildings in central Israel, causing heavy damage.
The Arak heavy water reactor is 55 miles southwest of Tehran.
Heavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that can potentially be used in nuclear weapons.
That would provide Iran another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, should it choose to pursue the weapon.
Iran had agreed under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers to redesign the facility to relieve proliferation concerns.
In 2019, Iran started up the heavy water reactor’s secondary circuit, which at the time did not violate Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Britain at the time was helping Iran redesign the Arak reactor to limit the amount of plutonium it produces, stepping in for the US, which had withdrawn from the project after President Donald Trump’s decision in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw America from the nuclear deal.
Quote:Iran is rapidly burning through its ballistic missiles after having launched more than 400 since the start of the conflict on Friday, just 20 of which hit urban areas, per data shared with The Post by Israeli military officials.
Prior to the start of Operation Rising Lion, Israeli officials estimated Tehran had roughly 2,000 missiles — meaning it has launched nearly a quarter of its stockpile in just six days.
The strike rate of 400 fired to just 20 urban hits is largely due to the efficacy of Israel’s Iron Dome system, which is made up of multiple types of air-defense systems that work in conjunction to eliminate missiles often before they reach Israeli airspace.
Iran’s drones have an even worse strike rate, with none of the 1,000 launched having impacted Israel, according to the latest data from Israeli military officials.
In fact, just 200 of the 1,000 drones even entered Israeli airspace at all.
“All were either intercepted by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, or fell short before reaching Israel,” an Israeli military official said.
Still, 26 people have been killed and more than 500 have been wounded in the Iranians’ strikes, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
However, an Israeli military official told The Post that the total casualties “are far below what the IDF anticipated when it planned the operation against Iran.”
Iran’s barrages have shrunk dramatically as the war rages on, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
While Tehran came out of the gate on June 14 by firing 200 missiles, it launched less than half as many the next day with 75 launches, according to the report. That was followed by just 30 on June 15 and 65 on June 16.
Quote:Iran bluntly threatened the US on Wednesday that any involvement in its conflict with Israel would trigger an “all-out war” — as Tehran reportedly started prepping missiles for retaliatory strikes on American bases.
“Any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned in an interview with Al Jazeera.
The foreign ministry spokesman stopped short of elaborating, but thousands of American troops are based in nearby countries within range of Iran’s weapons.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei echoed the threat on Wednesday, warning that any US strike would have “serious irreparable consequences.”
Khamenei vowed too that Iran would never back down and said his country “does not answer well to threats” as he rejected President Trump’s earlier call for an unconditional surrender.
“Intelligent people who know Iran, the Iranian nation, and its history will never speak to this nation in threatening language because the Iranian nation will not surrender,” he said in a statement read out on state media.
“The Americans should know that any U.S. military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable damage.”
Iran’s spate of menacing remarks came after American officials told the New York Times that Tehran had already started preparing missiles to strike US bases in the Middle East if they joined the war — starting with those in Iraq.
Iran could also mine the Strait of Hormuz — a move that would trap American warships in the Persian Gulf, the officials said.
Quote:Iran on Wednesday called President Trump as “has-been warmonger” as its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defiantly declared that Tehran isn’t frightened by President Trump’s “absurd rhetoric” — rejecting the United States’ demand to surrender in its war with Israel.
“The US President threatens us. With his absurd rhetoric, he demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. They should make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened. The Iranian nation isn’t frightened by such threats,” Khamenei said in a statement on X.
Khamenei also vowed Iran would never back down and that any US strike would have “serious irreparable consequences.”
“The US entering in this matter is 100% to its own detriment. The damage it will suffer will be far greater than any harm that Iran may encounter,” he raged.
“It was already suspected that the US was involved in the malicious move carried out by the Zionist regime, but considering their recent remarks, this suspicion is growing stronger day by day.”
Hours later, the Iranian government — which is quickly running out of missiles — resorted to name-calling while denying the US president’s assertion Wednesday morning that it is still willing to negotiate with Washington and even proposed sending a delegation to the White House.
“No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted to X. “The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to “take out” Iran’s Supreme Leader.”
“Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance,” it added, referring to Trump.
The statements echoed remarks Khamenei made in a recorded speech played on state television Wednesday — hours after Trump demanded an “unconditional surrender” and warned the supreme leader that the US knew where he was.
“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” Trump had said in a Truth Social post.
“But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Quote:Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may be attempting to activate terrorist “sleeper cells” across the West as he repeatedly makes inflammatory statements rejecting President Trump’s calls for surrender, Middle East experts say.
As Iran is increasingly squeezed by Israel — losing far more than the Jewish state has in the nearly week-old war — Henry Jackson Society research fellow Barak Seener warned Wednesday that Khamenei may be seeking to awaken terrorist Iranian sympathizers across the world as he runs out of traditional resources.
“The very fact now that the Iranian regime is volatile, it’s targeted, and it’s highly vulnerable — that’s what actually makes it increasingly dangerous to the West, in that it has nothing to lose it has this about this sense of nihilism, and it affects the rational calculus,” Seener said during a call with reporters hosted the America-Middle East Press Association.
Khamenei on Wednesday rejected Trump’s demands that Tehran give up its nuclear program, calling the president’s demands “absurd rhetoric” while refusing to back down.
“The US entering in this matter is 100% to its own detriment,” he said.
“The damage it will suffer will be far greater than any harm that Iran may encounter.”
However, Iran is rapidly running low on ballistic missiles and missile launchers, making it exceedingly difficult for Tehran to follow through on any conventional threat to the United States, Israeli military experts say.
What’s more, Israel has effectively defeated Tehran’s proxy groups — such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon — since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, leaving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps relatively alone in its fight, Seener said.
“The very fact that Hamas and Hezbollah are sitting this one out is also a humiliation to Iran,” he said.
“They don’t have their proxies to insulate them, which they have previously had.”
“These proxies have been significantly degraded, opening the skies directly for Israel to get to Tehran. And as a result of that, where can the IRGC flex? The only place where it can really flex now is the international community to potentially activate sleeper cells and to conduct malign activities at an even greater capacity than it had beforehand.”
However, it’s unclear how much capability Tehran would retain if Israel manages to end the IRGC’s core components and officials.
The Israel Defense Force killed IRGC commander Hossein Salami on Friday, though he was later replaced by former Iranian Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi.
“To what end does it have its ability to activate its sleeper cells or IRGC networks internationally, if the IRGC is command and control has been decapitated? Who gives the orders? Is somebody willing to put themselves on the line to conduct a terrorist activity, if they may not even get paid for it, right?” Seener said.
Quote:Former President Bill Clinton called on President Donald Trump to “defuse” the current conflict between Israel and Iran during an appearance on “The Daily Show” on Tuesday.
So far, the U.S. has stayed out of direct action in the conflict, but it has helped Israel shoot down missiles from Tehran.
There are some indications, however, that the Trump administration could move to get more directly involved in the conflict.
While the former president expressed skepticism about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump’s intentions regarding peace in the Middle East, he urged the current president to calm the situation and end the “outright constant killing of civilians.”
“First of all — they’re not talking about negotiating peace in the Middle East because the Israelis have no intention of… under Prime Minister Netanyahu, of giving the Palestinians a state. And now, they’re too divided and crushed to organize themselves to achieve it,” Clinton said.
He continued, maintaining that Trump agrees with Netanyahu in believing that the Palestinians “shouldn’t have a state.”
However, he added that neither leader wants to trigger a full-scale regional disaster.
“Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office forever and ever. I mean, he’s been there most of the last 20 years,” the former president said.
“But I think we should be trying to defuse it, and I hope President Trump will do that.”
Clinton emphasized the importance of the U.S. protecting its allies in the region, while simultaneously advocating for restraint.
Flashback: Hillary Clinton’s State Department legacy tied to Iran deal
Nope, the nuclear deal didn't help neither Israel nor the US at all. And don't even think Iran's Arab neighbors felt very comfortable at home while that deal lasted.
Quote:China has begun evacuating its citizens from Iran and Israel as tensions grow in the region over the escalating bombardments in both nations.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry called on its citizens to board chartered flights out of Iran and Israel on Tuesday following President Xi Jinping’s call for a cease-fire between the warring states.
“Military conflict is not a way to solve problems, and the escalation of regional tensions is not in the common interests of the international community,” Xi said in his first public comment since the conflict broke out on Friday.
China’s evacuation order coincided with flights out of Israel for 139 people from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with the Tourism Ministry offering to help any foreigners coordinate flights out of the Jewish state.
Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová confirmed that a plane carrying 66 Czech nationals landed in Prague on Tuesday morning after they were transported by bus to an Egyptian airport.
“It was not possible to send the army plane straight to Israel,” the ministry said, due to the airspace closure around the Jewish state over Iran’s retaliatory attacks.
A Slovakia-bound plane carrying 73 passengers — mostly Slovaks but also Poles, Czechs, Austrians, Slovenians and others — landed in Bratislava overnight, said Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar.
Among the Slovak evacuees were five family members of diplomats working in Tel Aviv, officials added.
Quote:Chinese President Xi Jinping has broken his silence on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, expressing deep concern a day after Beijing urged its nationals to leave Iran amid waves of Israeli bombardment.
His statement, delivered Tuesday on the sidelines of a summit in Kazakhstan, came just hours before President Donald Trump appeared to signal impending American military involvement—prompting criticism that such action would violate his "no new wars" campaign pledge.
Why It Matters
Iran received diplomatic support from China—a longtime strategic partner and leading export market—during the more limited exchanges of missile fire with Israel in both April and October of last year.
The latest crisis began Friday with Israel's surprise strikes on a range of Iranian targets, including nuclear facilities, missile batteries, senior military leaders and nuclear scientists. Iran responded with retaliatory missile and drone attacks.
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What To Know
Beijing is "deeply concerned" about the surging tensions in the Middle East created by Israel's military strikes, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Xi's remarks during a meeting with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the China-Central Asia Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
"We oppose any act that infringes upon the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of other countries," Xi said, adding that escalation is "not in the common interest of the international community."
The Chinese leader reiterated his call for de-escalation and said Beijing is ready to "play a constructive role" in restoring stability to the Middle East.
These were Xi's first public remarks on the current hostilities. On Monday, the Chinese embassy in Iran advised Chinese nationals to leave the country as soon as possible, designating four border crossings—with Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—as priority routes.
It's curious how both of Xi's declarations sound quite incomplete for one article includes details the other omitted for some reason.Quote:The foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Britain plan to speak with their Iranian counterparts later this week with a goal to sit down on Friday in Geneva, according to Reuters, who cited a German diplomatic source.
Newsweek reached out to the French Embassy to the United States, the German Federal Foreign Office, the British Foreign Ministry, and the European Union External Action Office by email Wednesday for comment.
Why It Matters
Israel last week struck Iran with a wave of airstrikes, which it described as a "preemptive" offensive based on "high-quality intelligence" that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon.
The strikes hit a variety of Iranian targets, including military personnel and nuclear scientists, in what Israeli leadership has called "Operation Rising Lion." Iran quickly retaliated, setting off six days of exchanges that has left Iran and Israel bloodied.
Israel's strikes have killed at least 585 people in Iran - including 239 civilians - and wounded another 1,300, according to a human rights group that has long tracked the country, Washington-based Human Rights Activists.
Iran's government has not offered overall casualty figures. Israel has said 24 people have been killed since Friday and 500 more have been wounded, according to Israeli officials.
Israel has also attacked Iran's state-run television network and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to rule out killing Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Both developments further fueled concerns among those on the left and the right that Israel is aiming for regime change in Iran, a charge Netanyahu has denied, though he's said Israel would welcome a collapse.
What to Know
The meeting will follow another planned meeting with the European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas at the German permanent mission in Geneva.
The source said the talks are not happening in a vacuum but will take place in coordination with the United States with the goal of convincing the Iranians to provide concrete guarantees that the regime will only seek "civilian purposes" for its nuclear energy program.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz earlier this week said the Israeli attacks on Iran had significantly weakened Iranian leadership and may have undermined any chance to regain its former strength, leaving the country's future "uncertain."
Merz had also underscored his nation's commitment to a diplomatic solution even as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to escalate, saying: "If a new situation were to arise, we would again be prepared to provide diplomatic assistance, as we were until last Thursday."
German Foreign Minister Johan Wadephul also appealed to Iranian leadership to end the conflict and assure that Tehran will not seek nuclear weapons, saying that it's "never too late to come to the negotiating table."
Brad McGurk, a former Middle East & North Africa coordinator for the National Security Council, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that he has "low expectations" that the meeting between European and Iranian officials will produce a result, but he urged Iran's leadership to find a "diplomatic offramp" for the conflict.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:An American citizen was among at least 16 people killed in a deadly overnight Russian strike on Ukraine's capital, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's military launched 175 drones, 14 cruise missiles and two ballistic missiles against Kyiv and the surrounding area overnight, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said. It marked Russia's deadliest attack on the city so far this year.
Newsweek has reached out to the State Department and the Kremlin for comment by email.
Why It Matters
The aerial assault marked the latest of a series of attacks by Russia in recent weeks. Efforts led by Washington to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine are faltering, and both sides have launched large-scale onslaughts, with Russia intensifying nighttime strikes with long-range weapons across Ukraine.
What To Know
Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine's interior minister, told reporters that a 62-year-old U.S. citizen had died from shrapnel wounds.
Earlier, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on his Telegram channel that a 62-year-old American was found dead in a house opposite where medics were providing assistance to victims of Russia's overnight strike.
At least 16 people were killed and 124 others were wounded in the attacks.
Quote:Russian troops were killed in a strike by Ukraine's forces on a convoy next to an abandoned gas station using a U.S.-supplied HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), it has been reported.
The Telegram channel ASTRA said the strike took place in Makiivka, within the occupied Donetsk region last week and posted video that purportedly showed the aftermath of burning vehicles on the side of the road.
Newsweek could not independently verify the footage and has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.
Why It Matters
Ukrainian media outlets reported the strike, which shows the continuing role that the U.S-supplied weapon still plays on the battlefield. It comes as Kyiv's forces made gains near Makiivka, according to the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
What To Know
ASTRA reported that the Ukrainian HIMARS hit the Russian convoy in a strike in Makiivka on June 13 around 20 miles from the front line in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. The strike also destroyed a Russian Defense Ministry bus, and military vehicles.
The wheeled HIMARS fired several rockets and hit the convoy with hundreds of thousands of tungsten fragments, according to a clip of the incident's aftermath posted by X account WarTranslated.
Ukrainian media reports said eight Russian servicemen were killed and another 12 were injured. Most were in military unit 71443.
Two civilians were also killed, ASTRA said next to footage filmed from a vehicle driving past the scene, which shows a column of cars, a large fire and a hole in the road.
In its update on Sunday, the ISW said that geolocated footage published showed that Ukrainian forces had recently advanced northwest of Makiivka.
Ukraine continues to use HIMARS on the battlefield. In February this year, the weapon was reported to be behind a strike on a Russian military headquarters in Selydove in the Donetsk region, which killed a large number of commanders.
Overnight Monday, a Russian attack on Kyiv killed at least 15 people and injured 124 others during a nine-hour long barrage of kamikaze attack drones, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles.
US
Quote:Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter’s most recent job was extracting eyeballs from corpses at a funeral home, according to a pal.
Boelter — a 57-year-old married dad who allegedly murdered Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded another Minnesota pol and his wife early Saturday — was carrying out his gruesome extraction work as part of an organ donation program, said the friend and sometime roommate David Carlson.
“I knocked on his door, and I said, ‘Hey Vance, are you there?’ ” Carlson recalled of his interaction with the accused killer around 7 p.m. Friday — just hours before Boelter unleashed his carnage.
“He goes, ‘Yeah, I’m in bed, and I’m trying to get some rest for work,'” Carlson said from the home in north Minneapolis where Boelter rented a room from him.
“He’d always said, ‘I need rest for work so I’m sharp’ because he was extracting eyeballs. You gotta be sharp for that,” Carlson said.
That day, Boelter also eerily thanked Carlson and their other roommates for their friendship, the New York Times said.
It wasn’t unusual for Boelter — who once worked in the food industry and also as a manager at a 7-Eleven — to go to bed so early so he could be on call for work.
Boelter was on call for 12 hours between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. on the night he allegedly murdered the Hortmans at their Brooklyn Park home and tried to assassinate Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in nearby Champlin.
Quote:The Brooklyn Park home of murdered Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband was broken into overnight Tuesday, police said.
The house has been boarded up since Sunday following the grisly double murder, allegedly at the hands of accused political assassin Vance Boelter.
The former Minnesota house speaker and her husband, Mark, were gunned down after Boelter allegedly shot and wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
“The home was once again processed by crime scene investigators for evidence of the burglary,” cops said. “The home appeared to have been searched by an unknown individual; however, the family has indicated that they don’t believe anything is missing.”
Authorities are asking neighbors to review their surveillance cameras for any sign of the intruder and to contact police with any information.
Boelter is facing federal charges including stalking and murder for allegedly hunting down lawmakers and their spouses in the North Star State. Cops said he had a cache of automatic weapons in his car and a hit list of 45 elected officials and abortion providers in the state.
Quote:Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seemed to cry and talked about having faced discrimination himself — but refused to condemn the anti-Israel “globalize the intifada” rallying call Tuesday
Mamdani faced fierce backlash and a backhanded slapdown from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for defending the slogan that has been denounced for allegedly stoking antisemitic violence after he defended its use on a podcast, saying it should be seen as a call to stand up for Palestinian human rights.
He further tried to downplay its hateful associations on The Bulwark podcast by contending the museum used it to describe the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Polish Jews against the Nazis.
“I think what’s difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means struggle,” Mamdani said.
But Mamdani’s hand-waving assertion only inflamed critics, including fellow mayoral contender Andrew Cuomo and several Jewish leaders, who view the Queens state Assemblyman as harboring dangerously antisemitic views.
It also inspired a pointed subtweet from the museum itself, which noted it stemmed from 1987’s violent First Intifada by Palestinians against Israel.
“Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’ is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors,” the museum tweeted. “Since 1987 Jews have been attacked and murdered under its banner. All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history.”
While the subtweet didn’t mention Mamdani, a US Holocaust Memorial Museum spokesman confirmed it was referring to the liberal Democrat.
“Any claim that ‘globalize the intifada’ is not antisemitic or calling for violence against Jews is false and must be denounced,” museum spokesman Andy Hollinger said in a statement.
Mamdani emotionally responded to the backlash during a Wednesday news event – first repeating that antisemitism has no place in New York City or the US, before calling out the “dehumanizing language” he has faced as a Muslim candidate for mayor.
His eyes then filled with tears and he choked up as he spoke about Islamophobic death threats he has received.
The function of racism is “distraction,” he said.
“Antisemitism is such a real issue in this city,” he said. “It has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it, but rather as a pretext to make political points.”
The intifada outrage is the latest controversy that Mamdani has faced over his vocal anti-Israel stance — and comes a week before the June 24 primary, in which he is vying to become mayor of the nation’s largest Jewish city.
Quote:A father and son have both died after robbing a Connecticut bank and then being found with gunshot wounds following a six-hour standoff with police, according to authorities.
Shaun Fallon, 56, and his 27-year-old son Zachary Fallon wore medical masks as they threatened a teller at the Chelsea Groton Bank in Groton at around 10:30 a.m. last Thursday, fleeing with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to police.
Cops finally found the getaway car at a nearby Super 8 Motel around six hours later — sparking a standoff as the father and son claimed they “were armed with both firearms and explosives and refused to surrender,” Groton police said
“Two gunshots were heard inside the suspects’ hotel room” around six hours into the standoff, police said, with drones confirming that “both suspects were incapacitated by apparent gunshot wounds.”
A bomb squad finally cleared entry to the room, hours after the motel had been cleared of other visitors.
However, no explosives were found, police said, without detailing what weapons the pair had.
The father and son — both from Charleston, Rhode Island — were rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where Zachary Fallon was pronounced dead hours later.
The father was hospitalized for several days but later died from his injuries on Monday, police told the Connecticut Post.
An official cause of death for both father and son will be determined by the medical examiner’s office.
Quote:The arson suspect accused of torching nearly a dozen NYPD cop cars in Brooklyn was identified Wednesday as an anti-Israel troublemaker with a string of protest-related arrests, cops said.
The NYPD blasted out Jakhi Lodgson-McCray’s photo on social media as they continue to hunt for the 21-year-old “Free Palestine” protester who they said set fire to 11 cop cars last week — causing at least $800,000 in damage. He is also accused of wrecking a statue during a rowdy Columbia University protest.
“There is zero tolerance for anyone who attacks the NYPD,” the department said on X.
“We believe that he acted alone,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said of the fiery June 12 incident near the Patrol Borough Brooklyn North headquarters.
“We have him on video for about 40 minutes prior to the incident. He is by himself, and, like I said, a substantial video canvass after the fact, where we track him all the way back to Manhattan.
“Several times during his escape, he changes his clothing,” Kenny said. “He’s wearing a hoodie cinched up so you can’t see his face, and wearing a mask. But we do believe that he acted alone, and obviously he targeted this location because it is a police facility.”
Police tracked down surveillance footage and identified Lodgson-McCray four days later, the chief said.
But the cop car caper isn’t the only reason police want to nab him.
“He’s also wanted for a criminal mischief incident in Columbia University back in September, where he disguised himself as a student and caused over $1,000 of damage to a statue on the campus,” Kenny said. “We believe, based on his social media, that he’s very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”
Quote:Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee skewered Democrats for burying their heads in the sand once again over the question of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline by skipping a hearing about the alleged abuse of the aging president’s autopen authority.
“Not a single Democrat is here today because not a single one of them gives a damn about the fact that they lied to the American people for four years,” erupted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
“They knew. Every one of them knew that Joe Biden was mentally not competent to do the job,” he added. “And they’re not here because they can’t defend themselves.”
During the hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” Republican senators voiced concern that the presidential autopen had been used for executive orders and pardons without Biden’s knowledge.
GOP committee members also lampooned prominent Democrats who ran cover for the oldest-ever president’s public slip-ups by playing a montage of their embarrassing evasions.
“I can’t even keep up with him,” said ex-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who has since left the Democratic Party, in one clip. “He is sharp. He is on top of things”
“He has knowledge. He has judgment. He has strategic thinking,” House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at another point in the video footage — despite having been part of the push to remove Biden from the 2024 Democratic ticket.
“Many elected officials, including some in this chamber, have used autopens — a mechanical device that replicates a signature. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, so long as we’re the ones actually making the decisions,” said Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).
“But under President Biden, the autopen became a troubling symbol,” he added. “A symbol of an absentee president and an executive branch directed by nameless, faceless, aides that no one outside of Washington DC had ever heard of and no one ever voted for.”
Quote:Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could see historic boosts to his nation’s economy from the US-brokered minerals deal could discourage future Russian aggression.
“I always say economic security is national security,” Bessent told Post columnist Miranda Devine during an interview on her new podcast “Pod Force One,” adding that when the conflict ends, the US-Ukraine minerals deal could create post-Cold War growth levels for Kyiv’s markets.
Bessent explained that after the Iron Curtain fell, the Polish and Ukrainian economies were similar sizes, but that the Polish economy is now three times larger.
With the help of the minerals deal, Bessent is hopeful that Ukraine’s economy will gain similar momentum.
“If the Ukrainian economy could grow at that rate,” Bessent said, “I think the Russians might be afraid of them at that point.”
The long-awaited deal was finally agreed to in April, with Bessent signing on behalf of Washington.
The US-Ukraine partnership includes the establishment of a Joint Reconstruction Investment Fund, which will allow both nations to acquire oil, gas and critical mineral licenses and split any profits 50/50.
American military assistance to Ukraine will also be counted as a financial contribution to the fund, allowing Washington to continue supporting the war effort without dipping into taxpayer money.
Prior to its April signing, Zelensky had wavered on whether or not to join the deal, prompting a fiery exchange between himself, President Trump and Vice President Vance earlier this year.
That Feb. 28 meeting had devolved into a shouting match, derailing plans to sign the minerals bill into effect.
Quote:A 25-year-old illegal immigrant was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for trafficking guns to Mexico’s vicious Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Texas prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jorge Alberto Morales-Calvo pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that he and a cohort used a cartel broker to buy heavy-duty arms for the narcotraffickers — including a Barrett .50-caliber rifle and a FN Herstal Belgium 5.7X28 caliber pistol, the feds said.
“The Department of Justice is looking to hit the cartels from every angle and at every opportunity, which includes vigorously prosecuting not just the member of these terror groups, but those that enable them as well,” Nicholas Ganjei, US attorney for Southern Texas, said in a statement.
“Those that arm or otherwise empower the cartels are going to the meet the full force of the federal criminal justice system,” he said.
On the day the $16,000 deal was due to go down, Morales-Calvo waited in a car outside while co-defendant Homero Arteaga, 45, inspected the guns to complete the sale — when the feds moved in.
Prosecutors said the Mexican national tried to flee but didn’t make it out of the parking lot.
He pleaded guilty on Jan. 8 and was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison this week — and will be turned over to immigration agents for deportation when he gets released.
Arteaga pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 and was sentenced earlier to nearly five years in prison.
Quote:Gov. Kathy Hochul took a moment Tuesday to flaunt state spending on immigrant legal services that was already announced and secured in this year’s budget after City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Brad Lander was detained by ICE.
“(Immigrants) don’t have the attention, they don’t have the lawyers, and that’s why the state of New York is providing $50 million to cover legal services for people who are finding themselves in this situation,” Hochul trumpeted outside a Manhattan courthouse after coming to Lander’s aid.
In making the comments, however, Hochul lowballed the figure as the state budget currently includes $64.2 million, not $50 million, for immigration legal aid.
And though the governor seemed to seek praise for the legal funding enacted into the new budget, Lander and his lefty allies have been pushing state officials for a much higher dollar amount.
During a press conference last week, Lander — who was escorting migrants from court hearings when he was detained Tuesday by federal agents at ICE headquarters — called for more than $134 million in additional funding for legal services for immigrants.
The detainment of the city’s chief financial officer sparked an outpouring of support from fellow progressives and prompted Hochul to come to his defense, blasting Lander’s arrest as “bulls–t.”
She later escorted Lander out of 26 Federal Plaza when he was released about four hours later after his charges were dropped.
Lander was cuffed on allegations he assaulted law enforcement, but video of the wild encounter does not appear to back up those claims.
Quote:A gun-toting crew of nine suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers unleashed chaos at a Colorado apartment complex — just one year after the notorious Venezuelan gang seized properties across the state and sparked a wave of violent crime.
Chilling doorbell footage captured the disturbing moment the violent thugs brandished firearms and repeatedly knocked on the door of a Potomac Street apartment in Aurora on June 9, Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain shared during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
The heavily armed group pestered the complex for about a minute before they left, the footage showed.
“There is, without question, gang involvement in this,” Chamberlain said, explaining how the terrifying incident is “very reminiscent” of what the city experienced in the past at another apartment building.
“I look at these individuals like a cancer — not a benign cancer — they are a cancer that is causing victimization, they are a cancer that must be addressed, they must be cut out and they must be stopped.”
Two of the gang’s members, Larry Galbreath, 23, and Jordan Green, 22, have since been arrested, as police work aggressively to pursue the remaining individuals involved, who are all believed to be Venezuelan.
Cops also recovered a gun matching one seen in the video from a tatted and marked Galbreath, who also lived in the same building his crew allegedly targeted.
“I want everyone to understand and to know that we are ahead of this,” the police chief assured.
Quote:A gang of illegal migrants running amok in Queens’ “Market of Sweethearts’’ — extorting brothels, beating rivals and selling drugs and phony IDs to finance an illicit network based in El Salvador — has been busted.
Eight members of the notorious “18th Street Gang” were named in a federal indictment unsealed Monday — part of a criminal roundup that put a dent in the seedy migrant prostitution operation along Roosevelt Avenue that has plagued the Big Apple for years, according to prosecutors in bombshell court papers.
“These violent members and associates of the 18th Street gang allegedly relied on violence—including assault of innocent civilians and rival gang members—to exert and maintain control over a busy commercial corridor along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher Raia said in a statement.
“Those arrested today acted and behaved with callous and cruel disregard for those around them.”
At least seven of the criminals are in the US illegally, prosecutors said.
According to the indictment, migrant gangbangers with street names such as “Pinocchio, Loco and Tanke” have been reigning over the Queens strip with the 18th Street offshoot “54 Tiny Locos.” Their crimes have included at least three mob beatings and exerting iron-fisted control over the sleazy sex-peddling market.
The gang — a rival to the notorious MS-13 gang — has trafficked drugs, strong-armed prostitution rings and peddled phony immigration documents, passports and driver’s licenses to fund the illegal operation, federal prosecutors said.
Quote:A 25-year-old illegal immigrant was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for trafficking guns to Mexico’s vicious Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Texas prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jorge Alberto Morales-Calvo pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that he and a cohort used a cartel broker to buy heavy-duty arms for the narcotraffickers — including a Barrett .50-caliber rifle and a FN Herstal Belgium 5.7X28 caliber pistol, the feds said.
“The Department of Justice is looking to hit the cartels from every angle and at every opportunity, which includes vigorously prosecuting not just the member of these terror groups, but those that enable them as well,” Nicholas Ganjei, US attorney for Southern Texas, said in a statement.
“Those that arm or otherwise empower the cartels are going to the meet the full force of the federal criminal justice system,” he said.
On the day the $16,000 deal was due to go down, Morales-Calvo waited in a car outside while co-defendant Homero Arteaga, 45, inspected the guns to complete the sale — when the feds moved in.
Prosecutors said the Mexican national tried to flee but didn’t make it out of the parking lot.
He pleaded guilty on Jan. 8 and was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison this week — and will be turned over to immigration agents for deportation when he gets released.
Arteaga pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 and was sentenced earlier to nearly five years in prison.
“Trafficking firearms on behalf of violent cartels is not just illegal, it fuels deadly cycle of violence on both sides of the border,” said Special Agent in Charge Michael Weddel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“This case demonstrates how seriously we take these crimes and how we are using every tool and resource available to disrupt the illegal flow of weapons, dismantle cartel networks,” he said.
Quote:A US Attorney for New York was allegedly chased by a knife-wielding illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who threatened to slit his throat on the streets of Albany Tuesday night, prosecutors said.
John Sarcone, the Trump-appointed US Attorney for the Northern District of New York, was allegedly chased and threatened outside the Hilton Hotel in Albany by Saul Morales-Garcia — an illegal migrant from El Salvador who was previously deported, WNYT reported, citing Albany County prosecutors.
Morales-Garcia, 40, allegedly aggressively advanced toward Sarcone with his weapon in hand — gesturing that he would slit the attorney’s throat as he lunged at him before chasing the US attorney down the street outside the hotel just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, that report stated citing local police.
Sarcone was uninjured, and nearby Albany County sheriff’s deputies picked up Morales-Garcia just moments after the alleged attack, according to local cops.
The alleged attempted slasher was previously convicted of a felony in El Salvador and has been deported from the United States at least once in the past, WNYT reported, citing investigators.
Albany County prosecutors said the incident appeared to be a “random” street encounter.
Morales-Garcia is currently in the country illegally and has a criminal record in at least three other states outside of New York, prosecutors said.
It is not known when Morales-Garcia entered the US or where he allegedly crossed into the country.
Quote:Hundreds of dangerous illegal migrant criminals have been shipped out of a New Jersey detention center, leaving the controversial ICE facility at just 20% capacity — after four violent detainees escaped last week during an “uprising.”
The 1,000-bed Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark — the largest of its type on the East Coast — is now holding only roughly 200 migrants, a Homeland Security official told The Post.
The facility has been a lightning rod of controversy, with Newark Mayor and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka arrested by the feds during a protest at the center last month and four detainees escaping last week during a revolt.
It is unclear exactly how many illegal migrants have been moved out, but sources said they are all hardened criminals, including killers and rapists.
The detainees have been taken to other detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania.
Insiders have largely blamed the private contractor running Delaney Hall — which only reopened in May — for the prison break.
GEO Group needs to properly “ensure security and staffing” and put in place “proper procedures” before it can “repopulate” the massive center, a source said.
“But for now, it’s going to be brought down to lower-level detainees until they get to the bottom of what exactly happened and hold them accountable for where they failed,” the insider said.
ICE awarded GEO Group a 15-year, $1 billion contract to operate the detention center in February.
The detention center had “a large amount” of violent illegal migrant criminals because “Newark is a cesspool of crime” and a sanctuary city, the source groused.
The four illegal migrants who fled the facility were behind bars for assault and burglary charges — and one of the escapees is still on the loose, sources said.
Quote:New York City has no plans to mow down the multi-million-dollar contracts it has with the owner of a landscaping company who was just convicted in a $2.4 million bribery scheme and a separate bid-rigging con.
Glenn Griffin, who owns Westchester County-based Griffin’s Landscaping, will get to keep the tree planting contracts he secured with the Parks Department — which total about $25 million — despite more than two dozen Big Apple councilmembers and other officials demanding that the city cut off its relationship with the landscaper.
Griffin, 56, was sentenced to two years in prison last Wednesday after he bribed a Town of Cortlandt employee to illegally dump truckloads of “harmful” concrete, soil and other unauthorized materials on public property, federal officials said.
He was also sentenced last week for conning the nearby village of Croton-on-Hudson by making “sham, non-competitive, and inflated bids” for entities that he didn’t work for to ensure he would be the lowest bidder each time, the feds added.
Still, Griffin’s Landscaping will be hired to help the Parks Department meet its goal of filling “every available” street tree planting location in less than a decade, with about 18,000 trees added each year.
The company has been one of the department’s highest-performing contractors since 2017. A Parks Department representative told The Post that the pool of qualified vendors for the work fulfilled by Griffin’s Landscaping is limited compared to other types of contracts.
The representative also defended the decision to keep the tree planting contracts with Griffin and his company, stating that it was “appropriate within the procurement rules and in the best interest of New Yorkers” — as long as the operations continue to be overseen by the city’s Department of Investigation.
Quote:FBI Director Kash Patel has declassified and shared documents with senators that he says "detail alarming allegations" about potential Chinese interference in the 2020 election.
Why It Matters
China has denied any nefarious involvement in swaying the election results in 2020, and again in 2024. Trump allies have alleged that China rigged the 2020 results in Joe Biden's favor, invigorating hardcore supporters to march on the Capitol, leading to the riot on January 6, 2021.
What To Know
Patel shared the update on alleged election fraud in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and potentially others are alleged to have been involved in interfering with the 2020 election outcome.
He also said he has turned over documents to Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican and chair of the Judiciary Committee, for further review.
"Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots—allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public," Patel told Just the News.
Newsweek reached out to the FBI for comment.
On Tuesday, Grassley sent a letter to Patel seeking additional records and information related to the document, an Intelligence Information Report (IIR) that originated in the FBI's Albany Field Office in September 2020, a Grassley spokesperson told Newsweek.
"Chairman Grassley is in receipt of an FBI document responsive to a request he made based on legally protected whistleblower disclosures," the spokesperson said. "The document alleges serious national security concerns that need to be fully investigated by the FBI.
"Grassley is requesting additional documentation from the FBI to verify the production and is urging the FBI to do its due diligence to investigate why the document was recalled, who recalled it and inform the American people of its findings."
Grassley's letter, also shared with Newsweek, requests all communications between and among agents and intelligence analysts. Also, he asks Patel "to describe all investigative steps the FBI has taken, or will take, to determine the veracity of the allegations in the IIR as well as who recalled the IIR and the basis for the recall, if that basis extends beyond the request for the source to be re-interviewed."
The declassification of these reports now come years after they were allegedly not fully investigated and recalled from intelligence agencies by former FBI Director Chris Wray in the lead-up to Biden's 2020 victory over Trump.
Quote:U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been asked by a Republican congressman to investigate "credible claims" that an elections service provider breached protocols during the 2024 election.
Representative Abe Hamadeh of Arizona requested an investigation into the handling of ballots by Arizona-based Runbeck Election Services in several western states, according to a news release from his office.
Newsweek has contacted the Department of Justice (DOJ) for comment via a contact form on its website as well as Hamadeh's office and Runbeck Election Services via email.
Why It Matters
Hamadeh's call for a federal investigation comes as election integrity remains a concern for voters and elected officials following the 2024 election, in which Republican former President Donald Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
The DOJ has taken action in recent weeks to address concerns about election integrity, including demanding election records dating to 2020 from Colorado. FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday that he has shared documents with lawmakers that reportedly detail "alarming" though unsubstantiated allegations about potential Chinese interference in the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, a legal challenge questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward.
What To Know
In his letter to Bondi, Hamadeh pointed to what he said were credible reports that boxes of printed blank ballots from several states were improperly mixed with returned mail ballots that were in the process of being prepared for tabulation in Runbeck's warehouse.
He did not provide any details about the origin of the allegations, which have not been confirmed.
He requested that the DOJ investigate the circumstances surrounding the mixing of the ballots at the warehouse, security measures that were in place to prevent such incidents and whether they were followed and the potential impact on the accuracy of election results in Arizona's Maricopa County and elsewhere.
Hamadeh's office also pointed to Patel's turning over of documents about an alleged plan for China to mass-produce fake driver's licenses and ship them to the U.S. to make fake mail-in ballots.
Quote:President Donald Trump’s administration is considering significantly expanding its travel restrictions by potentially banning citizens of 36 additional countries from entering the United States, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters.
Earlier this month, the Republican president signed a proclamation that banned the entry of citizens from 12 countries, saying the move was needed to protect the United States against “foreign terrorists” and other national security threats.
The directive was part of an immigration crackdown Trump launched this year at the start of his second term, which has included the deportation to El Salvador of hundreds of Venezuelans suspected of being gang members, as well as efforts to deny enrollment of some foreign students from US universities and deport others.
In an internal diplomatic cable signed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the State Department outlined a dozen concerns about the countries in question and sought corrective action.
“The Department has identified 36 countries of concern that might be recommended for full or partial suspension of entry if they do not meet established benchmarks and requirements within 60 days,” the cable sent out over the weekend said.
The cable was first reported by the Washington Post.
Among the concerns the State Department raised was the lack of a competent or cooperative government by some of the countries mentioned to produce reliable identity documents, the cable said. Another was “questionable security” of that country’s passport.
Some countries, the cable said, were not cooperative in facilitating the removal of its nationals from the United States who were ordered to be removed. Some countries were overstaying the US visas their citizens were being granted.
Other reasons for concern were the nationals of the country were involved in acts of terrorism in the United States, or antisemitic and anti-American activity.
INTERNATIONAL
Quote:The owners of the doomed Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic, where 236 people were buried alive earlier this year, ignored obvious warning signs and building safety laws, leading to the catastrophic collapse, a bombshell new government report reveals.
Sibling club owners Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, who were arrested last week, overloaded the building’s roof, made structural changes without permits and refused to call off the ill-fated April 8 bash despite obvious signs of danger hours earlier, the report said, according to Dominican Today.
“The defendant Maribel Espaillat, aware of a falling debris incident hours before the collapse and in response to a request to suspend the activity, refused to do so, citing the absence of the defendant Antonio Espaillat López and the impossibility of stopping the party, prioritizing economic gain over the safety and lives of people,” the Public Ministry document said.
“The nightclub, originally a movie theater, underwent a change of use that involved an inadequate structural adaptation,” investigators said.
“A key column in the structure was subsequently removed, significantly affecting the roof’s stability, without any professional assessment or permit to support the modification, demonstrating high-risk behavior.”
The nightmarish mishap came in the midst of a celebration at the former hot spot, with the victims including popular performer Rubby Perez, the party’s headliner, and former MLB relief pitcher Octavio Dotel.
Quote:The ill-fated Air India Boeing may have had its emergency power systems activated when it crashed and killed more than 270 people last week — according to a new report that comes as the bruised-and-battered sole survivor helped carry his brother’s coffin after his sibling died in the tragedy.
Preliminary findings revealed the London-bound 787 Dreamliner’s emergency power generator was likely running when it plunged in Ahmedabad last Thursday — casting new doubt on whether the plane’s engines were functional during takeoff, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people close to the probe.
The doomed aircraft went down only 30 seconds after taking off for London Gatwick Airport.
The emergency power source, called the ram air turbine, automatically generates electricity and hydraulic pressure to keep critical flight systems running when the engines fail or hydraulic pressure drops, according to the report.
Pilots can also manually deploy the backup generator, if needed.
“In commercial aviation, a dual engine failure is extremely rare,” Anthony Brickhouse, a US-based aerospace safety consultant, told the outlet.
“Our engines today are more efficient and more reliable than ever.”
Boeing and engine maker GE Aerospace did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The 12-year-old plane was carrying 242 passengers and crew when it reached an altitude of 650 feet before crashing into a residential building, killing 30 people on the ground in the Indian city.
Quote:A rapper with the Israel-hating Irish band Kneecap appeared in a UK court Wednesday to face a terrorism charge for allegedly raising a flag of Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah — and saying “up Hamas” at a show.
Mo Chara, real name is Liam O’Hanna, was charged under the Terrorism Act last month for waving the flag of the banned group during a London gig in November 2024 while allegedly saying “up Hamas, up Hezbollah.”
O’Hanna arrived at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court with his fellow band members Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí.
He was released on unconditional bail until a hearing on August 20.
Kneecap gained prominence earlier this month when they performed at Coachella in front of a backdrop that read, “F–k Israel Free Palestine.”
However, prosecutor Michael Bisgrove insisted at Wednesday’s brief hearing that the case against O’Hanna was not about his “support for the people of Palestine or his criticism of Israel.”
The rapper is “well within his rights” to throw his support behind Palestine — but not defy a law that makes it illegal to display something giving reasonable suspicion of support of a known terrorist group, the prosecutor stressed, according to the BBC.
“The allegation in this case is a wholly different thing and deals with a video recording showing [Mo Chara] wore and displayed the flag of Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist organization, while saying ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah,'” Bisgrove alleged.
The Belfast-based musicians, who rap in Irish and English and regularly display pro-Palestine messages during their gigs, previously said the flag had been thrown on stage by someone else.
Quote:The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism.
It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries.
Thousands of stranded and confused visitors, tickets in hand, were corralled into unmoving lines by I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid.
“It’s the Mona Lisa moan out here,” said Kevin Ward, 62, from Milwaukee. “Thousands of people waiting, no communication, no explanation. I guess even she needs a day off.”
The Louvre has become a symbol of tourism pushed to its limits. As hotspots from Venice to the Acropolis race to curb crowds, the world’s most iconic museum, visited by millions, is hitting a breaking point of its own.
Just a day earlier, coordinated anti-tourism protests swept across southern Europe. Thousands rallied in Mallorca, Venice, Lisbon and beyond, denouncing an economic model they say displaces locals and erodes city life. In Barcelona, activists sprayed tourists with water pistols — a theatrical bid to “cool down” runaway tourism.
The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions.
It’s rare for the Louvre to close its doors. It has happened during war, during the pandemic, and in a handful of strikes — including spontaneous walkouts over overcrowding in 2019 and safety fears in 2013. But seldom has it happened so suddenly, without warning, and in full view of the crowds.
What’s more, the disruption comes just months after President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a sweeping decade-long plan to rescue the Louvre from precisely the problems now boiling over — water leaks, dangerous temperature swings, outdated infrastructure, and foot traffic far beyond what the museum can handle.
But for workers on the ground, that promised future feels distant.
“We can’t wait six years for help,” said Sarah Sefian, a front-of-house gallery attendant and visitor services agent. “Our teams are under pressure now. It’s not just about the art — it’s about the people protecting it.”
Quote:Anti-Israel activists clashed with Egyptian authorities and fed-up locals during a doomed attempted march to the border of the Gaza Strip by a disorderly rabble of protesters.
Naive demonstrators taking part in a sit-in at a checkpoint outside the city of Ismailia, some 130 miles from the Rafah border crossing into the Palestinian territories, fought with both cops and Egyptian locals on Friday and Saturday, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Footage over the weekend showed activists wearing keffiyehs — the checkered calling card of the pro-Palestinian cause — clashing with fed-up Egyptian locals, some of whom could be seen hurling clubs and water bottles at the hapless protesters.
Frustrated Egyptians, some little more than children, could be seen pulling the activists off the road as they staged a sit-down at the checkpoint.
One clip showed “Free Palestine”-chanting activists — who were waving several different countries’ flags — being attacked by who they claimed were plainclothes officers.
Other protesters could be seen breaking down in tears as they pleaded with an unmoved line of helmeted Egyptian riot cops to let them through.
At least 88 foreign activists were detained or deported from Egypt over the weekend, Egyptian security sources confirmed.
Cops stopped vehicles some 20 miles outside Ismailia, en route to Rafah, and forced passengers with non-Egyptian passports to get out, protest organizer Global March to Gaza said in an Instagram post on Friday.
“There are now reports of force being used against participants with some being detained, harassed, physically harmed and deported,” the post read. “Hundreds of peaceful international participants of the Global March to Gaza remain in limbo as negotiations continue with Egyptian authorities.
Quote:Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted on Tuesday, spewing towering columns of hot ash into the air. Authorities raised the eruption alert to the highest level and expanded the danger zone to 8 kilometers (about 5 miles) from the crater.
Indonesia’s Geology Agency said in a statement it recorded the volcano unleashing 10,000 meters (about 32,800 feet) of thick grey clouds on Tuesday afternoon, following significant volcanic activities, including 50 in two hours, rather than the usual daily 8 to 10 activities.
The ashes expanded into a mushroom-shaped ash cloud that could be seen from the cities located 90 kilometers (about 56 miles) to 150 kilometers (nearly 93 miles) from the mountain.
There were no casualties reported.
Residents were warned to be vigilant about heavy rainfall triggering lava flows in rivers originating from the volcano
An eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki in November killed nine people and injured dozens.
The 1,584-meter (5,197-foot) mountain is a twin volcano with Mount Lewotobi Perempuan in the district of Flores Timur.
Indonesia is an archipelago of 270 million people with frequent seismic activity. It has 120 active volcanoes and sits along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
Quote:A family trio behind a Michelin-starred restaurant in Japan that had a steep fall from grace was arrested after nearly 80 diners reported coming down with food poisoning in February.
Hirokazu Kitano, 69, his wife Noriko, 68, and son Hirotoshi, 41, who all run the Kiichi restaurant in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture were arrested on Monday. Authorities suspect that they violated the Food Sanitation Act, which requires food industries to implement basic hygiene and safety standards.
In early February, Kiichi was ordered to suspend its services after a staggering 33 customers reported symptoms aligning with food poisoning and norovirus, including diarrhea, stomach pain and vomiting, Kyodo News reported.
Unperturbed by the mass illness tied to their restaurant, the Kitano family allegedly continued to operate behind closed doors and sold 11 traditional Japanese lunch box meals on Feb. 16 that investigators believe were contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms.
Even more people became sick in the following days. Norovirus was detected in the restaurant’s food for a second time, as another 23 diners reported food poisoning, all before the end of February.
The restaurant’s suspension was extended through March as police began to suspect that the food poisoning and norovirus cases were a result of poor management behind the scenes.
Eventually, Kiichi admitted to not enforcing strong hygiene practices among its staff.
“We take this series of incidents seriously and deeply regret it. We will work to ensure food safety by strengthening and thoroughly implementing our hygiene management system to prevent a recurrence,” the restaurant wrote on its website in late March.
Quote:Japan—an ally of the United States—intercepted two groups of Russian warships sailing off its coast over the weekend, as Russia's Pacific Fleet began a large-scale drill in the Far East.
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Japan forms part of the First Island Chain—a defensive line of islands in the western Pacific Ocean—along with Taiwan and the Philippines, under a U.S. maritime containment strategy aimed at restricting Russian and Chinese naval activities in the region in the event of war.
While fighting Ukrainian forces in Europe, Russia continues to flex its military power in the Indo-Pacific region by deploying naval task groups. This comes against the backdrop of an unresolved territorial dispute with Japan over a group of islets in the Russian Far East.
What To Know
A pair of Russian warships was spotted transiting the La Pérouse Strait—known in Japan as the Soya Strait—eastward into the Sea of Okhotsk from the Sea of Japan (referred to as the East Sea in South Korea) on Saturday, the Japanese Defense Ministry revealed on Monday.
The Russian vessels were identified by their hull numbers as the destroyer Admiral Tributs and the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, both assigned to the country's Pacific Fleet. The La Pérouse Strait lies between Russia's Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido, the northernmost Japanese main island.
Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry announced that, starting Monday, the Pacific Fleet would carry out a planned exercise in multiple areas across the Pacific Ocean—including the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan—lasting through the end of the month, Tass reported.
Ships assigned to the Pacific Fleet have been departing from their bases for designated areas, according to the report, which added that the exercise would involve up to 40 vessels, more than 30 aircraft and helicopters, over 5,000 personnel, and Bastion coastal missile systems.
A second group of Russian naval vessels passed through the Tsushima Strait—which lies between Japan and the Korean Peninsula—on Sunday, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry. The group transited northeast from the East China Sea toward the Sea of Japan.
Quote:Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington is on patrol in the western Pacific, where China has been expanding its naval presence.
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The George Washington is one of the U.S. Navy vessels homeported in Japan. The aircraft carrier, which is equipped with F-35C stealth fighter jets, returned to Yokosuka naval base near Tokyo in November 2024 after undergoing maintenance and upgrades in Virginia.
The George Washington's first patrol since returning to Japan comes as two Chinese aircraft carriers were deployed simultaneously to the wider western Pacific for the first time earlier in June, marking a major milestone in China's efforts to challenge U.S. naval dominance.
Another U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz, has been redeployed to the Middle East from the western Pacific amid the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict. This leaves the George Washington as the only U.S. aircraft carrier currently positioned to help keep China in check as of Monday.
What To Know
Officially released photos show the George Washington and its carrier strike group transiting the Philippine Sea on Monday. The U.S. Navy said the aircraft carrier is currently on patrol in the Seventh Fleet's operating area, which covers the western Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The Philippine Sea lies east of the First Island Chain—a defensive line formed by Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines as part of a U.S. containment strategy aimed at restricting the Chinese navy—the world's largest by hull count—in the western Pacific in the event of war.
In addition to the George Washington, which left its home port on June 10, the carrier strike group includes two other warships—the cruiser USS Robert Smalls and the destroyer USS Shoup.
It remains unclear whether the George Washington will also be sent to the Middle East, should the situation there worsen. The Nimitz is expected to relieve its sister ship, USS Carl Vinson, in the region, allowing the latter to return home, U.S. Naval Institute News reported.
The Chinese aircraft carriers CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong remained underway in waters east of the Philippines as of Monday, each leading a naval task group and transiting westward, according to a map provided by Japan's Defense Ministry.
Quote:A pair of Chinese aircraft carriers are continuing operations in the broader western Pacific near United States allies as part of efforts to expand Beijing's naval presence in the region.
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China has the largest navy in the world by hull count, with more than 370 ships and submarines, including three aircraft carriers. Two of them—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong—are in service, while the third, CNS Fujian, is the most advanced, but has yet to be commissioned.
The Liaoning and the Shandong have been operating simultaneously in waters east of Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines—which form the First Island Chain under the U.S. containment strategy aimed at restricting China's naval activities.
While China flexes its naval power through a rare dual aircraft carrier deployment, the U.S. maintains only one aircraft carrier—USS George Washington—in the western Pacific, after USS Nimitz was redeployed to the Middle East as tensions rise amid the Iran-Israel conflict.
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Japan's Defense Ministry issued an update with a map on Tuesday regarding China's carrier deployment. As of Monday, the Liaoning and the Shandong remained in the Philippine Sea, each leading a naval task group and transiting toward the Philippines.
Between June 8 and Monday, June 16, the two vessels conducted a total of 290 and 230 aircraft takeoffs and landings, respectively, involving their fighter jets and helicopters. Both aircraft carriers were monitored by three Japanese warships, according to the update.
The map provided by ministry suggests that the aircraft carriers did not sail in formation while underway in the Philippine Sea. They were observed operating together during their first dual operation in the South China Sea last October.
While the warships remained outside Japan's territorial waters—which extend up to 13.8 miles from the coastline—they were tracked transiting within Japan's 230-mile-wide Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) during segments of their voyages.
The Liaoning became the first Chinese aircraft carrier to operate on the eastern side of the Second Island Chain—a defensive line centered on Guam that stretches from Japan to New Guinea in the south—when it was spotted within Minamitorishima's EEZ, Japan's easternmost territory.
Quote:Taiwan—a key security partner of the United States—has begun sea trials of its first indigenous submarine following its unveiling nearly two years ago.
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Communist China has long claimed Taiwan—a self-ruled, democratic island—as part of its territory, despite never having governed it. Beijing has vowed to achieve unification with the island, by force if necessary. U.S. officials believe Chinese leader Xi Jinping has instructed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to be capable of taking Taiwan by 2027.
China has the world's largest navy by hull count, including numerous amphibious vessels capable of projecting air and land power from sea to shore during a potential island-landing campaign across the Taiwan Strait. In response to China's growing naval threat, Taiwan has been arming itself with anti-ship weapons—both U.S.-supplied and domestically developed.
Taiwan forms part of the First Island Chain under a U.S. containment strategy aimed at restricting China's naval activities in the Western Pacific during wartime. Meanwhile, the Taiwan Relations Act obligates Washington to provide the island with defensive weapons.
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The Taiwanese navy submarine Narwhal, also known as Hai Kun, conducted "navigation tests" on Saturday and "floating navigation tests" on Tuesday in Kaohsiung Harbor, located in the southern part of the island, according to shipbuilder CSBC Corporation, Taiwan.
During the floating navigation tests, the submarine's systems—including propulsion, rudder, electricity, communication, and navigation—were evaluated, the shipbuilder added. These systems will be fine-tuned based on the test results prior to the next stage of sea trials.
The submarine, unveiled in September 2023, is scheduled to undergo three stages of trials at sea: floating navigation, shallow-water diving, and deep-water diving. The diving tests will require the submarine to be fully submerged at progressively greater depths and pressures.
Quote:The Philippines' defense chief has again pushed back against China's claim that hosting U.S. missiles in the country amounts to a provocation.
"It's none of China's business; it's for Philippine defense," Gilberto Teodoro said in a recent interview with 60 Minutes when asked to respond to Beijing's objections.
Why It Matters
China asserts sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, citing historical rights—a position that puts it at odds with competing claims by the Philippines and several other neighbors. In recent years, Manila has stepped up its response to China's growing presence within the Philippine maritime zone.
Fierce clashes between Chinese and Philippine forces near disputed reefs have, on several occasions, left Philippine sailors injured. These incidents have put Manila's Mutual Defense Treaty with Washington in the spotlight, raising questions of whether U.S. forces could be drawn into a conflict with nuclear-armed China.
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What To Know
On the latest episode of 60 Minutes, which aired Sunday, Teodoro compared China to "the proverbial schoolyard bully." "It just muscles you over," he said.
The conversation turned to the Mid-Range Capability, or "Typhon" missile launcher, which the U.S. Army deployed to the Philippines ahead of joint military drills in April.
The system can be equipped with Tomahawk missiles—whose maximum range of 1,200 miles puts much of China's east coast within reach—as well as shorter-range Standard Missile 6s. Army officials have said the SM-6 is the only U.S. missile currently capable of intercepting a hypersonic missile, such as those possessed by China and Russia, in late flight.
China has repeatedly called for the Typhon to be removed from the Philippines.
Asked by interviewer Cecelia Vega whether the missiles are there to stay, Teodoro said he could neither confirm nor deny such a plan.
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