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Despite a second-term pledge to end US involvement in costly and destructive foreign wars, President Donald Trump has initiated a full-scale offensive to topple the Iranian government just more than a year after returning to office.The attacks on Iran, considered a violation of international law, mark the most aggressive escalation yet of Trump’s embrace of military power to pummel foreign governments and extract concessions demanded by his administration.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listDespite widespread scepticism among the US public about Trump’s military campaigns abroad, his administration has carried out brash attacks on the governments of Iran and Venezuela,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Bill Clinton has vigorously denied many of them, allegations of sexual improprieties have punctuated his career and repeatedly made questions about his character the focus of national attention.His truthfulness is again back in the national spotlight after lawmakers on Friday questioned Clinton about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein — the disgraced financier who died in 2019 while incarcerated on charges of sex trafficking minors.Clinton has not been implicated in any wrongdoing.Friday’s questioning, however, is just the most recent entry in a list of questions and controversies that stretches back almost…

At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient’s room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper’s pixilated blue eyes flashed a heart sign to indicate the task had been completed, it summoned an elevator and quietly rolled off to the hospital’s supply room to carry on with its next mission. Meet Moxi, a robot that is helping medical staff at Cedars-Sinai and roughly two dozen other hospitals around the U.S.”I don’t have to go take my 10,000 steps down into the belly of the hospital to go find…

Kimberly Birrell’s quest for a maiden WTA Tour title will move on after she was beaten in the ATX Open semi-finals by fourth-seeded hometown favourite Peyton Stearns in Austin, Texas.Trying to reach a third career final, the 27-year-old Australian fought back to claim the second set before the American triumphed 6-3 3-6 6-2 on Saturday.World No.80 Birrell had beaten her countrywoman Ajla Tomljanovic in quarter-finals.Birrell previously reached the final in Chennai last October and the Japan Open the year before, but was beaten in both.

KHAMENEI BECAME AYATOLLAH IN 1989Khamenei, 86, became Iran’s highest authority in 1989, following the death of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. As supreme leader, he held ultimate control over Iran’s political, military and religious institutions, shaping domestic policy and guiding foreign relations.Israel long saw him as a destabilising force in the Middle East, citing his backing for Iran’s network of militant allies, including Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.When Israel and Iran fought a 12-day air war in June 2025, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to assassinate him, saying the supreme leader “cannot continue to exist.”That war saw…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Iran’s Tasnim and Mehr news agencies report that Khamenei remains ‘steadfast and firm in commanding the field’.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 28 Feb 202628 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in Israeli-US attacks, according to Israeli media reports and a senior Israeli official.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there were “growing signs” that Khamenei was killed in the joint US-Israeli strikes, which were launched early on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe Reuters news agency, citing an unnamed senior Israeli…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is presumed dead after a massive U.S. and Israeli military operation Saturday, multiple Israeli official sources and a senior U.S. intelligence official told CBS News. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier Saturday that there are “growing signs” that Khamenei is “gone” after the mission. When asked if Khamenei had been killed, President Trump told NBC News by phone on Saturday that he had “spoken to a lot of people beyond and we feel certain, we feel, we feel that that is a correct story.”People are cheering in the streets of Tehran, according to a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that the university is working to bring three former women’s basketball players, including WNBA veteran Tiffany Mitchell, home from Israel as joint missile strikes with the United States against Iran continued. Staley shared a message on X revealing that Mitchell, who played last season for the Seattle Storm, along with former Phoenix Mercury forward Mikiah Herbert Harrigan and former Team USA guard Destiny Littleton, were all in Israel at the time of the strikes. Head coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks looks…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday that he has placed the bureau’s counterterrorism and intelligence teams on high alert as U.S. operations against Iran unfold.”Last night, I instructed our Counterterrorism and intelligence teams to be on high alert and mobilize all assisting security assets needed,” Patel wrote on X. “Our JTTFs throughout the country are working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats to the homeland.”Patel added that while the U.S. military is handling force protection overseas, the FBI “remains at the forefront of deterring attacks here at home”…

Iranians are fleeing cities in search of safety, stocking up on food and forming long queues at fuel stations as the attack by the United States and Israel spreads fear and panic throughout the country.When the strikes began on Saturday morning, explosions rocked Tehran and columns of smoke rose into the sky, shaking the city at the start of the Iranian working week.Israel said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the operation, but Iranian authorities have not confirmed his fate.Forty people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school, state media said. Reuters could not…