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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

04.03.2026 22:40 👍 2890 🔁 1545 💬 127 📌 286
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New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

08.03.2026 17:20 👍 3233 🔁 1683 💬 89 📌 188
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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

08.03.2026 13:24 👍 12946 🔁 4907 💬 922 📌 695

the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving.

here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!

08.03.2026 01:16 👍 1106 🔁 512 💬 16 📌 18

Not good.

07.03.2026 20:16 👍 299 🔁 88 💬 19 📌 2

Good god.

08.03.2026 04:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 5744 🔁 2234 💬 164 📌 159

I love this for her.

08.03.2026 00:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's so clearly untrue, even Hegseth won't go along with it.

07.03.2026 23:48 👍 155 🔁 18 💬 13 📌 0

It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.

Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.

07.03.2026 08:28 👍 2626 🔁 1041 💬 24 📌 25

SITREP: Whitehouse staff leaking strategic information like a moribund rowboat and our antagonist of choice cutting a wrestling promo in response.

07.03.2026 12:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Biden-era rule sought to stabilize child care. Why Trump wants it gone The Trump administration has proposed repealing a Biden-era rule that required states to change how they pay out child care subsidies, citing the potential for fraud.

The Trump administration has proposed repealing a Biden-era rule that required states to change how they pay out child care subsidies, citing the potential for fraud.

07.03.2026 12:04 👍 188 🔁 82 💬 27 📌 7

Presumably, they threw those things away because they were trying to throw away their owners. Some CBP agent should have to sift through landfill garbage until they find the nail gun.

06.03.2026 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If USA Rosen is going to spend all week in show cause hearings anyway, it doesn’t sound like it will change the work flow much to hold him in a contemner’s cell until the department coughs up the property it stole from these individuals.

06.03.2026 01:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

05.03.2026 19:12 👍 13307 🔁 2575 💬 520 📌 343
March 5, 20263:09 AM GMTUpdated 7 hours ago



U.S. Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, poses in an undated photograph
U.S. Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, poses in an undated photograph in his uniform. O'Brien was killed March 1, 2026, at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait during a drone attack. U.S. Army Reserve/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
LOS ANGELES, March 4 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two more soldiers who were killed in the war ​against Iran.
The two Army Reserve soldiers died ‌on Sunday in a drone attack on a U.S. military facility in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait that also killed four other reservists.
The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.
The ​Pentagon said Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, of Iowa, ​was killed in the attack and announced ⁠the "believed death" of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. ​Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California. Positive identification of Marzan ​will be completed by the medical examiner, the Pentagon said.

March 5, 20263:09 AM GMTUpdated 7 hours ago U.S. Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, poses in an undated photograph U.S. Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, poses in an undated photograph in his uniform. O'Brien was killed March 1, 2026, at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait during a drone attack. U.S. Army Reserve/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab LOS ANGELES, March 4 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two more soldiers who were killed in the war ​against Iran. The two Army Reserve soldiers died ‌on Sunday in a drone attack on a U.S. military facility in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait that also killed four other reservists. The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. The ​Pentagon said Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, of Iowa, ​was killed in the attack and announced ⁠the "believed death" of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. ​Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California. Positive identification of Marzan ​will be completed by the medical examiner, the Pentagon said.

After Whiskey Pete threw a tantrum yesterday and then Karoline Leavitt attacked Kaitlan Collins because the media reported on the people Trump got killed in Kuwait, note that MOST outlets are not prominently covering IDs of fifth and sixth KIA, as Reuters did.

www.reuters.com/world/pentag...

05.03.2026 10:24 👍 699 🔁 295 💬 16 📌 4
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🇺🇸 The court ordered the Trump administration to begin refunding more than $130 billion in global tariffs, WSJ reported, - WSJ

Companies have filed more than 2,000 lawsuits seeking the refunds. The plaintiffs include giants such as Costco Wholesale, FedEx and Pandora Jewelry.

05.03.2026 10:34 👍 204 🔁 56 💬 7 📌 4
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President Zelenskуy: Putin “lost his winter operation.” Russia hit energy in freezing temps, tried to split society and stop the army—“but the plan collapsed. With warmth returning, hope returns.”

And it won’t work in spring, summer, autumn, or any winter after this.

05.03.2026 10:41 👍 130 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 1
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17180 🔁 5988 💬 515 📌 492

Secretary of State is reduced to the "I can't comment yet on the president's latest war, I haven't seen it" dodge.

04.03.2026 10:54 👍 240 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 1
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Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

03.03.2026 05:17 👍 1024 🔁 489 💬 59 📌 74

This is pretty hilarious. Retaliation *against* your attack really can't be the imminent threat that justifies your attack. I think the concept of linear time pretty much settles this question without the need for additional argument.

02.03.2026 21:59 👍 775 🔁 190 💬 43 📌 10

Awful big talk for a guy who lost three f-15s to friendly fire this morning.

02.03.2026 20:56 👍 2870 🔁 465 💬 103 📌 15

Alex Pretti should have been 38 years old today.

02.03.2026 10:29 👍 466 🔁 116 💬 4 📌 3

Les nouveaux pauvres.

01.03.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

28.02.2026 16:43 👍 3878 🔁 1270 💬 37 📌 42
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Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

01.03.2026 11:30 👍 5120 🔁 1499 💬 383 📌 96
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“We have friends everywhere”
The Rebel loon rises on the Wonderwall home opener tifo

28.02.2026 21:39 👍 195 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 8
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 👍 13987 🔁 4444 💬 471 📌 358
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

29.01.2026 15:29 👍 6268 🔁 2187 💬 166 📌 207