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US-Israeli airstrikes kill Iranian top leader
IN THE NEWS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was Iran's top leader for decades and sought to turn the Islamic republic into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crushing democracy protests, was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. He was 86.
Iranian state media reported his death early last Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran's leader as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day. He ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei, a front-runner to replace his father.
Tehran kept up retaliatory missile and drone strikes across the Gulf, disrupting travel and driving up oil prices, and the conflict spread to Lebanon.
WAR POWERS: Republicans in Congress voted down efforts to halt President Donald Trump's war against Iran on Wednesday and Thursday, demonstrating early support for a Middle East conflict with no clear U.S. exit strategy.
TARIFFS: A federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court are due refunds. Several states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new global import taxes President Donald Trump imposed after his Supreme Court loss.
SHOOTING: A gunman in Texas opened fire on a crowded bar in Austin last Sunday, killing three people and wounding more than a dozen others in an attack that authorities are investigating as a possible act of terrorism. Police shot and killed the suspect.
TRUMP FIRES HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY NOEM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears Tuesday at an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington. President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Noem and said he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., in her place. Criticisms of Noem's execution of immigration enforcement and her handling of federal disaster response paved the way for her ouster.
BIG NUMBER
$243 million
The amount Minnesota sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding in Medicaid spending, with the state warning it may have to cut health care for low income families if the funding is held back.
HE SAID …
"Getting the chance to wear that (USA uniform) across my chest is going to be pretty powerful. I think a lot of people have a lot of pride for their country."
— U.S. and New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge said of playing in the World Baseball Classic, which began Thursday.
THE WATER COOLER
GUTHRIES: Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance Thursday at NBC's "Today" show studios to thank colleagues for their support since her mother, Nancy, 84, went missing from her Arizona home Feb. 1. The "Today" show said Guthrie plans to return to the air at some point but "remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home."
GUESS WHO: Original guitarist Randy Bachman and singer keyboardist Burton Cummings, two principal songwriters of The Guess Who — the band that crafted the hit song "American Woman" — will tour the U.S. this year for the first time in more than two decades, they announced Tuesday.
LOU HOLTZ (1937-2026): College Football Hall of Fame coach Lou Holtz, who led Notre Dame to a national championship and won 249 games over 33 seasons at six different schools, died at age 89. Notre Dame announced Wednesday that Holtz died in Orlando, Fla., surrounded by his family; the family did not provide the cause of death.
PARENT CONVICTED: A jury convicted Colin Gray, who gave his son a gun linked to the killing of two students and two teachers at a high school, the latest U.S. parent taken to court when a child is accused of violence. He was found guilty of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
House panel votes to subpoena AG Bondi
IN THE NEWS
— Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department's handling of files regarding the sex trafficking investigation of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., a sign of continued frustration among conservatives with the department's review and release of Epstein documents.
The move came a week after the Justice Department said it was looking into whether it improperly withheld documents from the files after news reports that some records involving uncorroborated accusations a woman made against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.
TRUMP: The White House attributed a large red spot on President Donald Trump's neck, photographed Monday at a ceremony, to a skin cream he is using but didn't elaborate on what condition it was treating.
ELECTIONS: Tuesday's Democratic primary contest was marred by voting issues in Texas' second-largest county, which caused confusion around ballot eligibility. One incumbent Congress member lost reelection.
BOAT ATTACK: Cuba said Wednesday it filed terrorism charges against six suspects it claims were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island's north coast the prior week.
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