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Iran Got Trump All Wrong

We should not squander this moment, when Iran is uniquely weak and vulnerable and we hold all of the advantages — literally.

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The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.

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A satellite image shows black smoke rising and heavy damage at Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound, following strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, on Saturday.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Is Dead at 86

As Iran’s second supreme leader, he brutally crushed dissent at home and expanded Iran’s footprint abroad, challenging Saudi Arabia for regional dominance.

© Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled for more than three decades, shaped Iran’s Islamic revolution far more than the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Trump Decision to Strike Iran Opens Fissures in Midterms

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Par : Tim Balk
Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.

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President Trump on Friday. Across the country Saturday, midterm candidates released a flurry of videos, social media posts and statements responding to news of the strikes.
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How the BAFTAs Bungled Its Response to a Racial Slur

The awards show didn’t mention racist slurs when it told the audience that a man with Tourette’s might make “involuntarily noises.”

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The executive producer of the BAFTAs ceremony said that one racist slur was edited from the BBC’s broadcast but that another was missed.
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How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups

Exchanges between two X accounts appear to offer a vivid example of how campaigns may sidestep campaign-finance law to share strategic information.

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Representative Wesley Hunt, center, at a watch party for the State of the Union address Tuesday night in Georgetown, Texas.
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No Clear Endgame in the Conflict Between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan showed its overwhelming superiority in conventional warfare, but the Taliban have refined a lethal repertoire of guerrilla tactics.

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Pakistani airstrikes threatened to inflict major damage on cities in Afghanistan, which was already reeling from economic hardship and a humanitarian crisis.
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In the Northwest, Polyamory Finds Something New: Legal Protection

From big cities like Seattle and Portland, Ore., to small ones like Astoria, Ore., proponents of “nontraditional” romantic relationships are making headway in getting legal recognition.

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Seattle is one of several cities in the Pacific Northwest where local leaders are considering adding polyamory and other nontraditional family structures to city policy this year.
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Epstein Effort to Finance a Dick Cavett Film Undone by Background Check

Jeffrey Epstein joined Mr. Cavett’s wife in an effort to create a PBS documentary on the talk-show legend. But then the producers did a background check on the financier.

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Dick Cavett had an illustrious career as a talk-show host known for his probing interviews. When a documentary about him was in the early stages, Jeffrey Epstein took an interest.
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QAnon Faithful See Validation in the Epstein Files

The nearly decade-old conspiracy theory does not align neatly with the facts emerging from the documents. That does not seem to matter.

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QAnon followers see validation of their theories in some elements of the Epstein files. But other parts of their canon, including the existence of a deep-state pedophilia conspiracy, are not backed up by the files.
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