First Thing: Trump officials cite ‘new intelligence’ to back president’s claims of successful Iran strikes | US news

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Despite a leaked intelligence report that found that the development of Tehran’s nuclear program was postponed for just a few months, the Trump administration accelerated the defense of the US attacks on the weekend, saying that the new intelligence supports the first total success claim.

Donald Trump has moved away from accepting the previous doubts about the scale and severity of US strikes, by calling the intelligence “fruitless”. In a few hours, he described the attack in a very different way: “This was a destructive attack and stole them for a cycle.”

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said that Trump said on social media that “the new intelligence confirms” and that Iran’s reconstruction of the nuclear program would “probably take years”.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will soon inform the senators about strikes. Ours Liveblog latest.

• Where did this information come from? All we know is that Ratcliffe came from a “historically reliable yalık source.

• How did the White House react to the leak of the classified evaluation? It has been reported, trying to restrict the sharing of classified documents with the congress – and the management claims that the media uses it to politically harm Trump.

Pam Bondi refused to know that ice agents were wearing masks during raids despite video evidence.

The US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi rejected the immigration authorities, knowing that despite the widespread video evidence, they had hidden their faces while rolling undocumented people.

Michigan’s democratic senator Gary Peters on Wednesday at the Capitol Hill sub -committee challenged Bondi, at first claiming that it could be for self -protection, he seemed to defend the ignorance of the tactics before claiming that it could be for self -protection. Orum I know they are doxed… They are threatened, ”he said. “Their families are threatened.”

Peters accepted this point, but said that if people believe that they were kidnapped by an unknown attacker, they could increase the risk for civil servants who may be attacked. He said that the people are also at risk of being attacked by individuals who act as immigration sanctions.

• What other problems were brought up? Lisa Murkowski, a Republican Senator of Alaska, who criticized Donald Trump in the past, said that immigration sanction was given priority in fighting violent crimes.

He plans to open California’s largest immigrant prison

He plans to open a federal immigration detention center that expanded in the desert community in the California desert, and was greeted with anger from advocacy groups.

The US immigration and Customs Protection (ICE) contract Corecivic, a private company that runs several prisons in California to transform the old 2,500 -bed prison prison in California into the state’s largest immigrant detention center. The site was built by the company as a federal prison in 1999 and operates as a state prison from 2013 to March 2024.

• How was the news local? There were concerns expressed by some Southern California residents and advocacy groups, people were holding a city council meeting to share their views this week. While most of them opposed the detention centers, at least one local resident supported it to create business.

In other news…

• At least 16 people were killed and 400 injured in Kenya on Wednesday In a country -wide demonstration to commemorate those killed during the last year’s anti -government protests.

• Hundreds of people using weight loss injections in the UK reported pancreatic problems. To investigate leading medical officials.

• The Israeli forces killed three Palestinians after dozens of Israeli settlers attacked West Bank Town On Wednesday, don’t put a fire in the property.

• Chile will target fast fashion waste in a plan to regulate imports of used clothes. This is a Trouble of Textile Casting In the Atacama Desert.

Status of the Day: Approximately one -third of the citizens of Canvas enters the ballot to move the climate -related visa to Australia

One of the three citizens of the Pacific Nation of the Pacific Nation entered the ballot of Australian visas, which was presented as the rising sea levels threatened the island country. The climate visa program, where 280 visa will be presented to Tulalaans every year, is the first example of its species – but feared that Tuvahal could be evacuated from young, talented people.

Don’t miss this: Do we see the death of international law?

Increased number of academics and lawyers are afraid of the international legal system and the institutions intended to support it. “International law is always dependent on the goodwill of nation -states,” an international lawyer and former Minister of Justice in Pakistan said. “And this has overcome goodwill.” Linda Kinstler, such as institutions such as the UN Human Rights Council from the withdrawal of the United States, examines why experts have lost their faith in the system and whether there is a mistake of the states aiming to support it.

Climate Control: EU Return on Environmental Policy ‘Winning Momentum’

The European Union is gradually withdrawing its environmental policy, campaignists are speeding up for the deregulation that began in 2023. This tendency, which includes the protection of the wolf and the blindness of the pollution targets for automobile manufacturers, seemed particularly open this week after a legislative law was killed in the final stages of talks.

Last thing: Can a sex improve your sabbatic life?

One -quarter of American adults wants to get sex sabbatic – a kind of breaking of gender that increases your “emotional proximity” appreciation. However, you may want to buy these findings and relevant allegations with a pinch of salt, because the questionnaire was commissioned by a “sexual health” brand that mainly sells vibrators…

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