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US Strikes Tankers Tied to Iran Revolutionary Guard
The U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday
in response to the latest attacks on its warships and Tehran hit back
at American targets in Jordan, the latest burst of back-and-forth
strikes that have lurched the sides back toward open hostilities in a
more than 6-month-old war.
Following the latest American strikes, Iran launched missiles toward
U.S. targets in Jordan, Iranian state-run media said. U.S. Central
Command said it had no information to offer about the strikes on the
Jordanian airbase.
The latest strikes are part of a dual economic and military approach by
President Donald Trump as he struggles to bring an end to the war.
CENTCOM says Iran failed to hit US Navy destroyers as American forces destroy 10 Iranian tankers
U.S. Central Command on Wednesday rejected claims by Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps that it struck two U.S. Navy destroyers
operating in the Middle East, saying no American warship was hit.
“This is completely FALSE,” CENTCOM said in a post on X responding to the Iranian claim.
“No U.S. Navy warship has been struck; all IRGC attempted attacks failed,” CENTCOM said.
The IRGC claimed Wednesday that it attacked 10 ships — including two
U.S. vessels and eight oil tankers — attempting to cross what it called
a “prohibited and unsafe” area of the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters
reported.
Iran declares capture of US submarine near the Strait of Hormuz in major escalation
An unmanned underwater United States military submarine was captured
Tuesday by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy near the entrance
of the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media.
The IRGC Navy announced that it seized the underwater vehicle "as a
prize of war" through a complex intelligence and operational action at
"dawn" on Tuesday. The move comes days after the IRGC announced that it
targeted three U.S.-linked oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, as the
rogue Middle Eastern nation issued a bloodthirsty revenge promise.
"In the special grace of Almighty God, the IRGC Navy forces trapped one
of the most modern, smart and unmanned submarines of the terrorist U.S.
Army at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz during a complex
intelligence and operational action at dawn today," the IRGC Navy said
in a statement on Tuesday. It comes after Trump was pictured being
stuffed in something terrifying in a chilling new Iran billboard.
The IRGC Navy described the U.S. military submarine, added to the U.S.
Navy fleet in 2025, as being equipped with some of the world's latest
technology.
Earlier in the week, the U.S. Central Command confirmed the attack on Iranian tankers.
Anthropic researcher abruptly quits, chillingly warns AI ‘could kill us all’ — and current team leader agrees
A researcher for one of the largest and most valuable artificial
intelligence companies has publicly quit — while raising the alarm that
the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Jacob Coxon, who has performed pre-training research at Anthropic and
OpenAI for the last three years, posted on a wildly viral X thread that
“neither company is acting responsibly.”
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and
gambling with our lives,” he wrote late Tuesday, with others from the
company backing his terrifying warning.
Stunning numbers show how 9/11 rebuild turned Lower Manhattan into residential hotspot, doubling population to 70K
Downtown Manhattan had a remarkable transformation from a financial
services center into a vibrant “24-hour” residential hotspot in the 25
years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an eye-opening new report found.
The Lower Manhattan population around the reborn Ground Zero more than
doubled to 70,761 residents in 2024 from 32,446 in 2001, according to
the analysis issued Wednesday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Residential building space in the area that includes Wall Street and
Tribeca increased during the rebuild by a staggering 30.8 million
square feet, the report said.
The scene at ground zero of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Republicans Open First Midterm Convention in Dallas
Republicans open their first national midterm convention Wednesday with
President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Cabinet officials, and
congressional candidates gathering for a two-day event aimed at
energizing voters ahead of the Nov. 3 elections.
More than 100 speakers are scheduled to appear at the American Airlines
Center, with programming focused on taxes, immigration, healthcare, the
economy, and other Republican priorities.
Unlike a presidential nominating convention, the gathering has no
formal party business to conduct, reports The Wall Street Journal.
New York delegation gets shoved in the back at GOP midterm convention in downgrade from prime 2024 and 2016 seats
New York is getting the backseat treatment at the GOP midterm
convention this week, with its delegation being placed in the left rear
corner of the arena, marking a significant downgrade from the 2016 and
2024 party gatherings.
In the past, despite being a Democratic stronghold, New York seemingly
benefited from being President Trump’s native state and nabbed
prestigious convention seating. But this go-around, the Trump
connection isn’t delivering that.
Some New York Republicans in Dallas were surprised to hear of the rear seating, but tried to take the decision in stride.
Amazon cargo jet pilot reportedly told wife, 'My career is over' shortly after deadly crash
The Boeing 767 overshot the runway by at least 1,300 feet before crashing into vehicles, killing five people
After an Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport,
killing five people, one of the pilots reportedly told his wife over
the phone that his "career was over," according to a new report.
Abraham Altamar told CBS News that he had witnessed the fiery wreck on
Sunday while he was working in a nearby building. He did not identify
which of the two pilots he spoke with.
Altamar was on FaceTime with his wife when he said the pilot approached him.
"He was, like, shaking and, and a little injured in his forehead and
his hand," Altamar said. "I was like, 'Hey, you want me to call 911?'
He's like, 'No, we already called them.'"
Lindsay Clancy juror defends lone holdout, makes surprising admission about others on the panel
A female juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has defended the lone
male holdout – admitting that he “was not the only one that was
unwilling to see things from the other side.”
The woman, who spoke to WBZ-TV on condition of anonymity, served as
juror No. 5 in the high-profile Massachusetts trial, which ended Friday
in a hung jury with an 11-1 split.
She said from the start of deliberations the majority of jurors – made
up of nine women and three men – were trying to convince the lone
holdout to change his vote.
Netanyahu to sue ‘Haaretz’ for defamation over claim UAE warned him prior to Oct. 7 massacre
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he had
instructed his lawyers to file a defamation lawsuit against Haaretz,
journalist Shlomi Eldar and others over the newspaper’s claims that the
United Arab Emirates had warned him ahead of the Oct. 7, 2023,
Hamas-led massacre.
Netanyahu said reviews by the Prime Minister’s Office, National
Security Council and military secretariat found no record of a
conversation between him and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al
Nahyan from the beginning of September through Oct. 7, 2023.
He also said entry records showed no visit by an Emirati representative
who, according to Netanyahu, would have been required to facilitate
such a call.
Obama judge's peculiar Trump rebuke ignites fury over 'unprofessional' language: 'Embarrassment'
DC Circuit panel ruled the agency likely violated federal tax privacy law by handing data to immigration enforcement
Critics took aim Tuesday at a federal appeals court after a judge
dismissed the IRS’ argument in an ICE data-sharing case as "weak
sauce," drawing immediate backlash over the unusual language in the
ruling.
"That argument is ‘weak sauce’ where the district court has permitted
the IRS to file any necessary notifications ‘under seal,’ thereby
shielding any criminal investigative activity from disclosure," wrote
D.C. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard, who was appointed by former
President Barack Obama in 2013.
"Weak sauce" is slang for something that falls flat and lacks substance.
The lawsuit centers on whether the IRS violated federal
tax-confidentiality law by sharing tens of thousands of taxpayer
addresses with ICE after receiving requests for information on more
than 1 million suspected illegal immigrants. The case was heard by a
three-judge D.C. Circuit panel composed entirely of Obama appointees:
Pillard, Patricia Millett and Robert Wilkins.
Trump-Backed PAC Unleashes $47 Million Midterm Blitz
A new PAC created by President Donald Trump's political operation on
Tuesday and Wednesday reserved at least $47 million in advertisements
to help Republicans in half a dozen key battleground races.
The newly formed No Going Back PAC Inc. is financially backed by MAGA
Inc., Trump's main super PAC, according to The New York Times, citing
two people familiar with the spending plans.
The reservations mark the most significant deployment yet of MAGA
Inc.'s more than $400 million war chest as Republicans fight to retain
their congressional majorities in November.
We cannot let the left rewrite what happened on 9/11
I was in New York City on 9/11 and I recall the horror of the buildings collapsing, knowing what it meant for those left inside
By Liz Peek
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, there are many in our
country who want us to pretend that the greatest attack on the United
States since Pearl Harbor never happened. They want us to look away
from the Muslim terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, and who drove another plane full of innocents to
their deaths in a grassy Pennsylvania field. They want us to forget
that on that day in 2001, Americans came under attack for reasons that
few understood, from a far-away people who loathe our culture, our
freedoms and our country.
When Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., dismissively says, "Some people did
something," she is trying to erase the truth. She wants us to forget
who it was who purposefully killed 2,977 people who were going about
their daily lives, unaware of the Saudi jihadis who schemed and plotted
for years to cause as much death and suffering as possible to our great
nation.
Sorry, Ilhan — I remember.
I remember my young daughters calling home terrified that the planes
had hit their father's office, which was across the street from the
Twin Towers. I remember my husband's colleagues witnessing the panicked
souls jumping to their deaths from the towers, and the rain of ashes
that blanketed the entire downtown area. He was in midtown at the time
of the attack, but his co-workers were not so lucky, navigating the
pitch-dark stairwells of the neighboring building and wading through
the debris-darkened chaos. Some walked miles to our uptown apartment,
stranded by the closure of the city's bridges and tunnels; they arrived
frightened and exhausted, covered head to toe in ashes.
Mamdani is twisting the law to socialist limits — and you’re his next target
By Betsy McCaughey
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is abusing the apparatus of city government to
crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the US
Constitution and fundamental fairness.
If you’re not a landlord, you may think this doesn’t affect you — but think again.
Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in this socialist mayor’s crosshairs.
He ignores the limits of government power and his duty to govern for all the people.
