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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We Americans have begun another Middle Eastern war based on dubious intelligence claims, and as in 2003, I fear we haven’t thought through the substantial risks and uncertain gains,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

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News Analysis: President Trump propelled himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.” The self-declared “president of peace” has since chosen to become the president of war, unleashing the full power of the U.S. military on Iran with the goal of toppling its government.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Warnings of American military involvement — traditionally viewed by commanders in chief as ‘break glass in case of emergency’ — have now become a weekly, if not daily, occurrence,” W.J. Hennigan writes about the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

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Two anonymous X accounts — one of which appears to be connected to the Republican Senate campaign of Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas — have spent months sharing strategic information in what may be an effort to sidestep campaign-finance law.

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Large crowds of Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran and other cities across Iran overnight, celebrating the news that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been killed during a day of coordinated U.S. and Israeli attacks.

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Iran confirmed that U.S.-Israeli attacks had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader who ruled the country for nearly 37 years. Follow live updates.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in more than three decades as Iran’s supreme leader turned the Islamic Republic into a regional power, brutally crushing dissent at home, and maintaining unswerving hostility to the U.S. and Israel, died on Saturday during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. He was 86.

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Before the American and Israeli bombs started falling on Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had planned for a transition of power in the event of his death. Here is what to know about his possible successors.

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The U.S. and Israel launched a major assault on Saturday that President Trump said had killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The bombing continued early Sunday, according to Iranians reporting new rounds of explosions in Tehran on social media. Follow live updates.

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President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for almost 37 years. The attack also killed several high-ranking members of Iran’s security leadership.

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The Los Angeles police are investigating the death of a student as a homicide, a spokesman said on Saturday, days after a family said a 12-year-old girl had died after she was hit in the head with a water bottle.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “came to govern with the hypervigilance and brutality of a man driven by the idea that much of his own society and the world’s greatest superpower sought to unseat him — which, in the end, it did,” Karim Sadjapour writes.

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President Trump’s decision to attack Iran pushed a new, unpredictable issue to the forefront of American politics just as the midterms were getting underway.

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During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

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President Trump made unsupported and exaggerated claims in a speech announcing the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Here’s a fact-check.

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About 1,600 flights to and from a wide corridor of the Middle East were canceled on Saturday after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Major airports, including Dubai International in the United Arab Emirates and Ben Gurion in Israel, have been closed.

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A founding father and slave owner whose statue in Delaware was removed in 2020 will be honored in Washington by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday, internal Interior Department documents show.

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Breaking News: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed during the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, President Trump said. Follow live updates. trib.al/STpqYhT

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During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com By attacking Iran, President Trump “is telling the American people and the world that he expects their blind trust,” the editorial board writes. “He has not earned that trust.”

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A retired U.S. Air Force officer who once trained American fighter pilots is facing federal charges for training Chinese military pilots to fly in combat operations, according to a criminal complaint in federal court.

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The Pentagon’s new inspector general has frozen a proposal to evaluate military targeting in the Trump administration’s strikes on boats suspected of smuggling cocaine from South America, telling his staff he wanted to consult department leadership before deciding whether the review should go ahead.

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Following the U.S. attack on Iran, Democrats and a few Republicans escalated their calls for swift votes on whether to curb President Trump’s power to continue using force against Iran without congressional approval.

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A small group of doctors who were compensated lavishly by Jeffrey Epstein gave VIP medical services to the sex offender and the young women around him. Some of them bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession, The New York Times found.

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The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault. In retaliation, Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel and targeted U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf. Follow live updates. trib.al/W8cBNxI

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Reactions to the U.S. attack on Iran largely broke along party lines on Saturday, with Republicans praising President Trump while Democrats warned that he was dragging the country into another protracted war in the Middle East.

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The U.S. and Israel launched a major assault on Iran on Saturday, with President Trump calling for a change of government in Tehran. Iran retaliated with strikes on Israel and U.S. interests in the Middle East. Here’s what to know. trib.al/yccJAc3

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Iran targeted U.S. interests across the Middle East on Saturday, as Tehran promised wide-ranging retaliation following coordinated strikes by the U.S. and Israel. Follow live updates. trib.al/Q6roMjl

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As the U.S. and Israel began a coordinated military offensive against Iran on Saturday, the country acted swiftly on its promise to retaliate, targeting U.S. interests across the Middle East. trib.al/TfuOShC

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