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There are contradicting reports that suggests an Iranian assassination threat against President
“Trump force him to leave Air Force One and change to a military aircraft last month”
as he was leaving a native summit in Turkey. The Washington Post reports this was a clandestine mission not previously known to reporters and somewhat held staff and PR has not yet independent confirmed this. Here's Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal speaking on CNN. "There has to be a congressional briefing because it involves not just the safety of
the President, I want to know what precautions were taken to make sure that all of the passengers on that Air Force One, which was judged two dangerous for the President plot to fly on, what precautions were taken to keep the staff and reporters on that plane suit." Senator Blumenthal called this matter surreal and added that the U.S. Israeli war against Iran has made the world less safe.
Authorities in Columbia say the death toll from Monday's powerful earthquake is expected
to climb as rescuers scramble to reach people still trapped under the rubble, at least 130 people have died.
“Over night, curfews have been imposed in several cities as Imperial Security Con reports.”
The hardest to air in western Columbia include cities in the country's coffee axis. Mayor Mauricio Salasanoff, per day that choked that tears to local media saying the city of half a million will "continue for it with the hand of God." In both Piededa and nearby Cali, Columbia's third largest city and overnight curfew has been imposed to prevent looters and keeps streets and roadways clear for first responder.
Police Mayor Alejandro Edder says 40 buildings collapse, there, including three hospitals speaking to reporters alongside Columbia's newly inaugurated far-right president, Edder said 1,000 troops will lead deployed throughout the city. Kerry Con and PR news, Rio de Janeiro. He's Syrian court has sentenced to post-president Bashar al-Assad and his brother to death
in absentia in Piededa Roth reports. The Damascus court said it found al-Assad and his brother Mahar al-Assad, guilty of ordering killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest that amounted to crimes against humanity.
“Bashar al-Assad and his family fled to Russia as opposition fighters closed in on Damascus”
in December 2024. The court also sentenced to death an ex-security official and a cousin of the deposed president Attif Najib. Najib, who was present for the trial, was a security official in Dara province, where the uprising against the regime began.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians disappeared and were believed to killed by security forces in the country's 14-year-long civil war, Jane Arath and Pyrenees Baghdad. And this is NPR from New York City. The Trump administration has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals since last January.
The State Department says, quote, "the majority of the revoked visas had to do with criminal activity, including fraud, child abuse, or driving under the influence. But federal data shows of those detained by immigration and customs agents, over 70% had no criminal convictions." In California, tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in the
state.
Then Piers Bobby Allen reports Google co-founder Sergei Bryn has spent more than $100 million
to fight the ballot measure. An November ballot measure known as Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on California residents worth more than $1 billion. If past the tax would fund health care programs in the state, leaving the fight against the taxes, a coalition, including Google co-founder Sergei Bryn, who has so far spent $102 million
to blank at the state with ads and commercials condemning the ballot measure. And has compared the tax to the Soviet-style socialism his family fled in the late 1970s. He has moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe to avoid the tax. But it is also supporting two competing ballot measures in November that would effectively avoid the billionaire's tax.
Bobby Allen and PR news Los Angeles Ukraine has struck another oil refinery in Russia's far east using a drone attack, apparently targeting the retailer wild berries. Meanwhile Russia attacked Ukraine's Zaporysia region where the governor there said at least six people died.
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