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State Department defends ‘proactive’ evacuation efforts against Dems’ claims of diplomatic chaos

Nearly 28,000 Americans have returned from the Middle East, according to the State Department, which outlined a large-scale evacuation effort as Senate Democrats escalated criticism over the conflict in Iran. A top State Department official, in a letter to Senate Democrats first obtained by Fox News Digital, noted that since fighting in Iran escalated following

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US-sanctioned Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s next supreme leader after father’s death: reports

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, according to reports. Iran International cited sources who claimed the decision was made ‘under pressure’ from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is the second-eldest son of Ali

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Trump warns Iran’s new leader won’t ‘last long’ without his approval

President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s new leader is ‘not going to last long’ without U.S. approval as Operation Epic Fury continues into its second week. ‘He’s going to have to get approval from us,’ Trump told ABC News in an interview. ‘If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last

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Private security firm helping Americans evacuate the Middle East amid war with Iran

MCLEAN, Va. – As Americans are stranded in the Middle East amid the U.S. and Israel war with Iran, government and private agencies are working around the clock to conduct evacuations. In addition to the U.S. Department of State’s 24/7 task force aimed at evacuating Americans, private security firm Global Guardian is also working around

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Before-and-after satellite imagery offers a rare look at damage inside Iran

Fresh satellite images give a rare aerial view of the damage across Iran after U.S.-Israeli strikes and what Tehran’s retaliation left behind across the region. Planet Labs satellite imagery captured burning ships and damaged facilities at the Konarak base in southern Iran, as well as significant destruction at Iran’s naval headquarters in Bandar Abbas on

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GOP senators says Trump’s strikes ‘significantly degraded’ Iran but emphasize attacks not ‘forever wars’

. – One week into the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, two Republican senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee say the military operation has ‘degraded’ Tehran’s ability to strike back. But in exclusive interviews with Fox News Digital, Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Ted Budd of North Carolina emphasized that the fighting

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Trump says ‘hatred’ between Putin, Zelenskyy blocking Ukraine peace deal

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the ‘hatred’ between Russia and Ukraine is getting in the way of reaching a peace deal in that conflict, where the death toll is getting worse.  Trump, speaking at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral, Fla., told world leaders assembled there that, ‘The hatred between Putin and

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Tech company at odds with Pentagon warns its AI possibly gained consciousness, Elon Musk gives 2-word response

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amodei claimed in an interview that he isn’t sure if his company’s AI models have gained consciousness. ‘Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety,’ read a post on X

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Noem thanks Trump for new Shield of the Americas special envoy role after DHS ouster

During the Shield of the Americas summit in Florida on Saturday, outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem thanked President Donald Trump for appointing her to a newly created role after she was ousted from overseeing the agency. Noem, who is moving to the newly created position of special envoy for the Shield

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Trump touts US has ‘tremendous’ amount of Venezuelan oil, vows to ‘take care’ of Cuba after Iran focus

President Donald Trump declared Saturday that the U.S. is ‘taking out tremendous amounts of oil’ from Venezuela while vowing to ‘take care’ of Cuba’s regime following America’s focus on Iran.  The president, speaking at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Florida, prefaced his remarks by saying that since the January operation to capture former

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