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Trump continues meetings with national security team over Iran
President Trump has held national security meetings at the White House every day since he returned early from the G7 summit to decide whether to commit U.S. forces to the rising conflict between Israel and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program. Source link
U.K. pulls embassy staff from Iran as countries work to evacuate citizens – National
The United Kingdom on Friday became the latest country to withdraw staff from its embassy in Iran amid a week-long conflict with Israel, as foreign governments scrambled to get their citizens out of the region. An updated U.K. travel advisory for Iran said the government had temporarily pulled diplomatic staff as a “precautionary measure.” It…
15 sets of twins are graduating from one New York high school
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — A high school in the suburbs of New York City will be seeing double on graduation day this weekend: Among the nearly 500 students in its graduating class, 30 are twins. It’s a tight knit group. Some of the students at Long Island’s Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School have known…
Wounded Gaza children find respite from war at Ohio summer camp
BUTLER, Ohio — Their bodies are maimed or burned. Their childhoods have been shattered. And their futures are filled with uncertainty as war rages in Gaza. But for one week, three dozen wounded Palestinian children and members of their families have found a respite from the fighting at a summer camp in Mohican State Park,…
Supreme Court allows terrorism victims to sue Palestinian entities
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that victims of terrorism can sue Palestinian entities in U.S. courts, upholding a law Congress passed that allows such claims to be brought. The court held unanimously that the 2019 law, called the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, does not violate the due process…
Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules | California
Fossil fuel companies are able to challenge California’s ability to set stricter standards reducing the amount of polluting coming from cars, the US supreme court has ruled in a case that is set to unravel one of the key tools used to curb planet-heating emissions in recent years. The conservative-dominated supreme court voted by seven…
Trump bombing Iran’s Fordo nuclear site would not be another Chernobyl
If President Donald Trump does decide to use the United States’ largest conventional bomb to destroy Iran’s fortresslike Fordo nuclear enrichment facility, the colossal force of the explosion would likely cause casualties among workers or anyone else still at the site. But it would not trigger a nuclear explosion or a widespread radiological or chemical…
Unifor asks feds to reject DHL’s request for strike intervention – National
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Unifor sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and cabinet ministers this week decrying a request from package company DHL to intervene in a strike. That request was made by DHL in a letter last week that was shared on the union’s website. The letter said…
Spain rejects proposed defence spending hike ahead of NATO summit – National
The success of a key NATO summit hung in the balance on Friday, after Spain announced that it cannot raise the billions of dollars needed to meet a new defence investment pledge demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump and his NATO counterparts are meeting for two days in the Netherlands from next Tuesday. He…
EU officials hold talks with Iran as conflict with Israel rages – National
Israel and Iran exchanged strikes a week into their war Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump weighed American military involvement and new diplomatic efforts got underway with Iran’s foreign minister arriving in Geneva for talks. Trump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain…