How Operation Epic Fury by US Department of War and Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion began raining bombs on Iran
The strikes on Iran, which have been called Operation Epic Fury by the so-called US Department of War and Operation Roaring Lion by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), reportedly hit multiple cities across the country. The impact, targets and damage caused by the strikes was not immediately clear.
Ex-US President Bill Clinton, like his wife Hilary, wants Trump grilled on links to sex pest Epstein
Bill Clinton’s deposition in Chappaqua, New York, came one day after his wife, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sat with lawmakers to give her own testimony. She told the lawmakers on Thursday that she did not recall ever meeting Epstein and had nothing to share about his sex crimes, calling for US President Donald Trump to appear before the panel.
Hillary Clinton accuses US lawmakers of distracting attention from Trump’s criminal trail in Epstein sex-trafficking probe
The statement came before she was due to deliver a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Chappaqua, New York. Her husband, former US President Bill Clinton, will appear for a similar deposition on Friday, which will be the first time for a former president to testify before Congress since 1983.
US rules out ‘sunset provision’ in nuclear talks with Iran as latter warns Washington against military build in Middle East
US Special Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate developer and friend of US President Donald Trump, arrived for the talks. However, tensions between the United States and Iran date back decades, and a single round of talks cannot address all the concerns.
UK data agency fines social media platform Reddit $20m over children’s privacy failures
The move followed Britain’s recent considerations to tighten restrictions on children’s use of social media platforms.
Covid justice: US civil societies seek to prevent repeat of ‘most awful period of our lives’
Jeffrey Tucker, president and founder of the Brownstone Institute, helped spearhead and draft the Covid Justice Resolution. He told The Defender the idea for the resolution “came from a burning desire for some accountability, some statement, some restitution, some conclusion to the most awful period of our lives.”
China tells US to stop scapegoating, honour commitment of suspending nuclear tests
China urges the United States to abide by the moratorium on nuclear testing, uphold the global consensus on nuclear test ban, and stop finding false justification for resuming nuclear testing.
Questions linger over Africa-US trade future as punitive Trump tariffs clip possible benefits of AGOA extension
According to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the extension applies retroactively from September 30, 2025, when the programme expired. Implemented in 2000, AGOA provides duty-free treatment for selected products such as textiles, agricultural goods and vehicles from designated sub-Saharan African countries.
Era CIA acted God: For 70 years, US spy agency via Project Artichoke considered hiding mind-control drugs in vaccines
The proposals contained in the document were part of the CIA’s top-secret Project Artichoke, which ran from 1951 to 1956, according to The Daily Mail. The document, declassified in 1983, recently circulated on social media. However, it was not published in the CIA’s online reading room until last year.
Why US judge blocked release of report on Trump’s classified documents case
Smith charged Trump in 2023 with 40 counts of illegally retaining classified US national defence information at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and obstructing government efforts to retrieve the materials.
