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Mar 12, 2026 - World

Rep. Nancy Mace said she went to Israel to rescue a South Carolinian family and ended up bringing back a total of more than 150 Americans.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

Iran’s new supreme leader issued his first message Thursday through Iranian state media and did not appear on camera or read the statement — a move that reveals he was wounded, a CNN correspondent said. CNN international reporter Nick Paton Walsh signaled that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could be seriously injured as a result of the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed his father and left several of his other family members dead. "It's what we didn't hear and what we didn't see," Paton Walsh said. "We didn't hear much Mojtaba Khamenei's voice and we did not see his face and we did not see this statement delivered on video," Paton Walsh explained. "And while it's important to point out that we have no evidence that he is incapacitated or deceased, this was a key moment where Iran really, I think, had to meet the doubts as to his health and his capacity to govern. It's clear that he has been injured in some way the part of the speech he talked about the loss of his wife, his sister, those close around him and how he visited the body of his deceased father. This is the man who President Trump has said he does not want to lead Iran, and his appointment clearly a way of hard liners thumbing their nose ultimately back at the White House."Mojtaba is not from a clerical background like his father and has not appeared on any video or in public view since the attack. "We are hearing a big vacuum still at the top of Iranian leadership," Paton Walsh said. "Here's a message, seven chapters, read on state television by a female anchor, no sign of him, no sign of his voice and the moment for the proof of life that many need, or proof of health, not met."

Mar 12, 2026 - World

The United States will intervene in the genocide case against Israel brought at the United Nations' highest court by South Africa, arguing that the accusations are false and warning that a ruling against Israel could undermine international law.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz showed no signs of easing Thursday as Iran's new supreme leader declared his country would continue to block the vital oil route and attack ships attempting to navigate it in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

During a discussion on Iran’s leadership going on the offensive with new threats after being attacked by the United States, MS NOW analyst David Rohde explained that Iran has a strategy and the strategy is working because Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has been shown to be unprepared.With US military officials conceding that they cannot protect oil tankers attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Rohde claimed the war-torn country, for the moment, has the upper hand.“It's shocking to me what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz, how effective the Iranian military is,” he stated before conceding, “And I don't understand it.”“We have a very large navy, and if we're going to go to war with Iran, we should be aggressive in sort of using our Nav,y” he elaborated. “And this is where, just in the last, I would say, 48 hours, I wouldn't say the war overall is somehow turning in Iran's favor, but it's definitely shifting. They've found their footing there.”“They're stopping the most important route for energy to get to the rest of the world, 20 percent of the world's supply and it amazes me that the US military has no answer to that,” he observed. - YouTube youtu.be