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With US unleashing attacks, Iranian official threatens that the Islamic Republic will deliver a ‘hard slap’

Another Iranian figure bluntly asserted, ‘Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit’

July 9, 2026 9:26am EDT / Fox News

CENTCOM shares footage of attacks against Iran

U.S. Central Command included this footage in a Wednesday press release announcing the completion of a new batch of strikes targeting Iran. (CENTCOM)

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An Iranian official warned that the Islamic Republic will deliver a “hard slap” while another blatantly threatened the U.S. that “if you strike, you’ll get hit,” according to automatic translations from the two men’s Persian-language posts on X.

Ebrahim Rezaei, whose profile on the social media platform indicates that he is a representative in Iran’s Parliament and the spokesperson for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote in a post on X, “The martyred Khamenei taught us not to fear America and showed that ‘falsehood will perish.’ Await the hard slap from the Iranians.”

The speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned, “America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit. Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats.”

Both of the men issued their posts on Wednesday after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced more strikes against Iran.

“At the direction of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command forces have started conducting additional strikes against Iran to further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States is holding Iran accountable for recent unjustified aggression against commercial shipping and civilian crews freely navigating a vital international waterway,” CENTCOM had noted in a post on X.

TRUMP SAYS IRAN CEASEFIRE DEAL IS ‘OVER’ AFTER NEW ROUND OF STRIKES

People gather at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla for a farewell ceremony for Iran’s late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 4, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.(Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

The U.S. military later provided more information about the attacks.

“U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed an additional round of strikes against Iran, July 8, to further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM noted on Wednesday night.

“U.S. forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline. The latest strikes follow successful execution of offensive strikes in Iran the night before,” the announcement noted. “CENTCOM forces hit approximately 80 Iranian military targets July 7, including more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats, to impose heavy costs for Iran violating the ceasefire by attacking three commercial vessels navigating the Strait of Hormuz.”

TRUMP DEMANDS END TO TRADE WITH KEY US ALLY, CALLS IT A ‘WASTED CAUSE’

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President Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that, as far as he was concerned, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding ceasefire was “over.”

Kuwait and Bahrain have both reported coming under attack.

The Kuwait Army noted in a Thursday post on X, which was written in Arabic, “The Official Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Major General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, stated that the armed forces detected, at dawn today, (3) ballistic missiles, (1) cruise missile, and (10) hostile drones within Kuwaiti airspace, which were successfully intercepted and dealt with.”

TRUMP SAYS ‘IRAN LIES AND CHEATS’ AS IRGC EMERGES AS DOMINANT FORCE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH US

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 8, 2026.(SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

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The Bahrain Defense Force noted in a post that was in Arabic, “The General Command clarifies that, with firm resolve and high combat readiness, the Bahrain Defense Force’s air defense systems confronted, intercepted, and destroyed several treacherous Iranian aerial attacks this morning, Thursday, July 9, 2026 CE.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleads not guilty to Reflecting Pool damage

2026-07-09T13:49:59.671Z / CNN

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Updated Jul 9, 2026, 10:43 AM ET

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Former olympian David Hearn stands with his attorney as reporters and protestors gathered at Moultrie Courthouse in Washington, DC, on Thursday, after Hearn’s arraignment.

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Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty in Washington, DC, Superior Court Thursday to damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prompting a raucous scene at the courthouse where supporters chanted his name and accused the Trump administration of abusing the justice system.

Hearn, 67, was indicted on July 2 on one count of destruction of property of more than $1,000 for allegedly damaging the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

The felony charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, if convicted.

David Hearn supporters show up to the former Olympian’s arraignment in DC Superior Court.

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David Hearn supporters show up to the former Olympian’s arraignment in DC Superior Court.

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Hearn’s indictment was a notably aggressive prosecutorial choice by DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, after he and several others were cited for tampering with the Reflecting Pool last month. Gawkers and critics of the president had gathered for days around the site on the National Mall after the Trump administration completed a $14 million restoration of the massive pool that added blue sealant to the bottom.

The sealant had been peeling extensively and algae was plaguing the pool at the time Hearn visited it and allegedly contributed to the damage by peeling up two square feet of the blue liner.

“The government’s evidence is weak,” Mary Dohrmann, an attorney for Hearn, said during the hearing Thursday.

His attorneys also invoked his right to a speedy trial, but the judge said she couldn’t hold a trial till February 2027 because of the court’s calendar.

No trial date was set. His next hearing is scheduled for August 5.

Hearn’s attorneys indicated he will challenge the legality of the case extensively before a trial.

After the brief court appearance, a large group of the well-known canoeist’s supporters gathered outside the courthouse carrying signs calling Hearn a hero. At least one carried a life preserver.

Abbie Endicott, the wife of one of Hearn’s previous coaches, becomes emotional after his arraignment.

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Protestors march before Hearn’s arraignment.

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“If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the Reflecting Pool, every American is at risk,” another attorney for Hearn, Norm Eisen, said outside the courthouse.

“That’s right!” a woman in the crowd yelled.

“We have confidence in our justice system to see through this misuse of government power,” Eisen said.

As he left, Hearn, smiling, raised his fist while supporters cheered his name.

The arrest of Hearn and others followed the Trump administration recasting the peeling bottom layer and algae growth in the Reflecting Pool shortly after its renovation as serious vandalism.

The US Attorney’s Office has already charged others with property destruction accusations that are less serious than Hearn’s.

Three other people accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of destruction of property. The legal difference between their citations and Hearn’s indictment is that the amount of damage to the pool they are accused of causing amounted to less than $1,000, according to court records.

Police had found one of those three people holding a piece of the blue sealant in his hand by the pool last month, and another had a piece in her purse, court records say.

All three were ordered to stay away from the Reflecting Pool.

The Washington Monument is seen past the fenced off Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, on Wednesday.

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Crews began draining the Reflecting Pool over the weekend to make repairs, according to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, for the second time in three months.

The move comes after weeks of problems — algae blooms, green-hued water, a chipping bottom and the administration’s allegations of vandalism — have plagued the iconic landmark.

Pirro, when announcing the indictment of Hearn last week with a press conference, framed the allegations against the former Olympian as a violent desecration of a national monument, and called him belligerent and rude toward the Park Police who had arrested him.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat whose congressional district Hearn lives in, said in a statement Thursday that Hearn “would never” desecrate or vandalize a federal landmark. The congressman called what Hearn has faced a “Kafkaesque arrest and Orwellian charges.”

“He is beloved in my district as a model citizen whether on water or on dry land. He is a great guy,” Raskin’s statement said.

This story is developing and will be updated.

德国研究所：热浪致德国5000多人死亡

2026年7月9日 21:55 / 联合早报

6月27日，旅客在酷热天气下，参观德国柏林勃兰登堡门。 （彭博社）

分析显示，今年迄今为止，德国已记录到约5120起与高温相关的死亡病例，其中大部分发生在6月下旬，当时平均气温远超20摄氏度。

路透社引述德国罗伯特·科赫研究所（RKI）星期四（7月9日）发布的周报说，约4270起死亡病例为75岁及以上的老年人。女性死亡人数多于男性，这主要是因为女性在老年人群体中的比例较高。

德国的数据加剧了欧洲严峻的高温形势。欧盟哥白尼气候变化服务中心星期四发布的一份公告称，西欧经历了有记录以来最热的6月，平均气温高达20.74摄氏度。

法国、比利时、西班牙和荷兰等国的国家当局报告称，在6月20日至28日的热浪期间，超额死亡人数达4700多人。

美伊继续交火局势紧张 伊朗强调海峡通行须由伊方主导

2026年7月9日 22:21 / 联合早报

伊朗星期三（7月8日）发布的视频显示，首都德黑兰一处建筑遭空袭严重损毁。伊朗最高领袖办公室称，这是已故最高领袖哈梅内伊的住所。哈梅内伊今年2月28日在美国和以色列发动的空袭中身亡。 （路透社）

（华盛顿／德黑兰综合电）美国与伊朗持续交火，双方围绕霍尔木兹海峡控制权的争夺愈演愈烈。美国总统特朗普警告，若伊朗继续袭击途经这一战略水道的船只，将面临更严重后果；伊朗则迅速还击，并强调海峡通行必须由伊方主导。

美军星期三（7月8日）连续第二天对伊朗实施军事打击。伊朗南部沿海多地传出爆炸声，美军也发射巡航导弹袭击伊朗北部的两座铁路桥。这是自美伊4月8日达成停火协议以来，美方首次袭击伊朗基础设施。

据伊朗媒体周四（9日）报道，伊朗西南部阿瓦士（Ahvaz）郊区遭袭，造成三人死亡。空袭也迫使首都德黑兰和东部城市马什哈德（Mashhad）的火车服务暂时中断。马什哈德位于德黑兰以东约800公里，是已故最高领袖哈梅内伊的家乡。哈梅内伊周四在当地下葬。

此外，伊朗布什尔省（Bushehr）副省长周四说，该省多个地点当天下午遭遇美军袭击，包括布什尔核电站周边区域。伊朗卫生部官员则通报，美军周二与周三的袭击已造成14人死亡、78人受伤。

作为回应，伊朗革命卫队周四迅速反击，攻击科威特、卡塔尔和巴林的美军基地，包括美军部署在科威特的爱国者导弹拦截系统。伊朗警告，若美国继续打击伊朗，将把还击范围扩大至中东地区其他美军基地。

伊朗外交部周四谴责美国发动袭击是严重的战争罪行，并称美国政府“邪恶及精神变态”。伊朗首席谈判代表、议会议长卡利巴夫同日在社交媒体X平台上发文称，霍尔木兹海峡只有在“伊朗的安排”下，才会开放。他说：“美国至今仍未吸取教训，霸凌和背信弃义已不能再免于惩罚。若你们发动攻击，必将遭到回击。”

特朗普周三在自家社媒平台Truth Social发文称，美军继续打击伊朗，是对伊朗前一天轰炸船只的报复。“如果再发生这类事件，后果将严重得多！”

美军中央司令部周三说，美军这次行动攻击约90个伊朗军事目标，包括沿海导弹和无人机储存设施，以及军事后勤设施。美方指此次空袭是为削弱伊朗军队威胁霍尔木兹海峡航行自由的能力。此前一天，美军已空袭80多个伊朗目标。

联合国秘书长古特雷斯呼吁各方保持最大克制，调解方巴基斯坦也发出类似呼吁。

华盛顿智库中东研究所高级研究员瓦坦卡（Alex Vatanka）指出，伊朗以强硬姿态袭击商船，是在押注特朗普不希望战事全面升级。他说，伊朗自认比美国及波斯湾国家更能承受痛苦，意在迫使国际社会承认伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的实际控制权。

美国国务院前中东谈判代表米勒（Aaron David Miller）则认为，美伊战争开打至今，特朗普已让自己陷入困境，“无论是通过军事还是外交手段，他似乎都无法从伊朗那里捞到太多好处”。

美伊继续交火局势紧张 伊朗强调海峡通行须由伊方主导

2026年7月9日 22:21 / 联合早报

伊朗星期三（7月8日）发布的视频显示，首都德黑兰一处建筑遭空袭严重损毁。伊朗最高领袖办公室称，这是已故最高领袖哈梅内伊的住所。哈梅内伊今年2月28日在美国和以色列发动的空袭中身亡。 （路透社）

（华盛顿／德黑兰综合电）美国与伊朗持续交火，双方围绕霍尔木兹海峡控制权的争夺愈演愈烈。美国总统特朗普警告，若伊朗继续袭击途经这一战略水道的船只，将面临更严重后果；伊朗则迅速还击，并强调海峡通行必须由伊方主导。

美军星期三（7月8日）连续第二天对伊朗实施军事打击。伊朗南部沿海多地传出爆炸声，美军也发射巡航导弹袭击伊朗北部的两座铁路桥。这是自美伊4月8日达成停火协议以来，美方首次袭击伊朗基础设施。

据伊朗媒体周四（9日）报道，伊朗西南部阿瓦士（Ahvaz）郊区遭袭，造成三人死亡。空袭也迫使首都德黑兰和东部城市马什哈德（Mashhad）的火车服务暂时中断。马什哈德位于德黑兰以东约800公里，是已故最高领袖哈梅内伊的家乡。哈梅内伊周四在当地下葬。

此外，伊朗布什尔省（Bushehr）副省长周四说，该省多个地点当天下午遭遇美军袭击，包括布什尔核电站周边区域。伊朗卫生部官员则通报，美军周二与周三的袭击已造成14人死亡、78人受伤。

作为回应，伊朗革命卫队周四迅速反击，攻击科威特、卡塔尔和巴林的美军基地，包括美军部署在科威特的爱国者导弹拦截系统。伊朗警告，若美国继续打击伊朗，将把还击范围扩大至中东地区其他美军基地。

伊朗外交部周四谴责美国发动袭击是严重的战争罪行，并称美国政府“邪恶及精神变态”。伊朗首席谈判代表、议会议长卡利巴夫同日在社交媒体X平台上发文称，霍尔木兹海峡只有在“伊朗的安排”下，才会开放。他说：“美国至今仍未吸取教训，霸凌和背信弃义已不能再免于惩罚。若你们发动攻击，必将遭到回击。”

特朗普周三在自家社媒平台Truth Social发文称，美军继续打击伊朗，是对伊朗前一天轰炸船只的报复。“如果再发生这类事件，后果将严重得多！”

美军中央司令部周三说，美军这次行动攻击约90个伊朗军事目标，包括沿海导弹和无人机储存设施，以及军事后勤设施。美方指此次空袭是为削弱伊朗军队威胁霍尔木兹海峡航行自由的能力。此前一天，美军已空袭80多个伊朗目标。

联合国秘书长古特雷斯呼吁各方保持最大克制，调解方巴基斯坦也发出类似呼吁。

华盛顿智库中东研究所高级研究员瓦坦卡（Alex Vatanka）指出，伊朗以强硬姿态袭击商船，是在押注特朗普不希望战事全面升级。他说，伊朗自认比美国及波斯湾国家更能承受痛苦，意在迫使国际社会承认伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的实际控制权。

美国国务院前中东谈判代表米勒（Aaron David Miller）则认为，美伊战争开打至今，特朗普已让自己陷入困境，“无论是通过军事还是外交手段，他似乎都无法从伊朗那里捞到太多好处”。

面临高温天气 法国卢浮宫再次缩短开放时间

2026年7月9日 23:07 / 联合早报

6月26日，法国首都巴黎市中心天气酷热，旅客在卢浮宫博物馆外排队时纷纷撑伞遮阳。 （彭博社）

法国巴黎的卢浮宫博物馆发公告说，鉴于新一轮高温天气来袭，馆内部分区域温度攀升影响游客参观，博物馆将于7月10日至13日提早闭馆。

卢浮宫（Louvre Museum）星期四（7月9日）发布公告说，闭馆时间将从原来的傍晚6时提前到下午4时，观众的最后入场时间也相应提前至下午2时。此外，隶属于卢浮宫的国家欧仁—德拉克洛瓦博物馆也将执行相同的时间安排。

新华社引述公告说，近期博物馆面临强烈的高温和日照，馆内7.3万平方米展览空间的部分区域温度升高，无法保证游客和工作人员的舒适度。尤其在人员密集的下午时段，热量积聚最为明显。

卢浮宫曾于6月24日至27日，因高温天气将闭馆时间提前至下午4时。

据法国媒体报道，法国本轮高温天气预计至少持续至7月14日。目前，卢浮宫团队正密切监测温度，并根据实际情况调整展厅开放时间。

Trump seeks do-overs at a Supreme Court that rarely grants them

2026-07-09T15:29:55.536Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/trump-supreme-court-rehear-birthright-citizenship

When it comes to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has become a believer in unlikely second chances.

In the days since the court’s term ended last week with a flurry of high-profile opinions, the president and his legal team have floated the idea of invoking a longshot request to have the justices reconsider decisions they just made — a procedure that, in some cases, hasn’t worked in more than half a century.

Trump’s lawyers have already filed for a rehearing of the court’s decision to deny an appeal over a $5 million verdict finding that he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. And on Wednesday, Trump vowed to ask the court to re-do its decision shutting down his birthright citizenship order.

“The Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong,” Trump posted on social media. “I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.”

Supreme Court rules technically allow parties to file for a rehearing within 25 days of a decision. But in practice, the court usually only grants such requests when a significant development comes to light in the aftermath of a ruling, not because the losing party simply disagrees with the outcome.

The court voted 6-3 on June 30 to invalidate Trump’s effort to end automatic birthright citizenship through executive order. A five-justice majority concluded that the order violated the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment and a sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, reasoned that the order was constitutional but was nevertheless barred by federal immigration law.

The last time the Supreme Court entertained a request to review a decision in an argued appeal was in 1965. That case, Maryland v. US, involved a 1958 airplane crash between a commercial plane and a Maryland National Guard training flight and the question dealt with whether the plaintiffs could seek damages against the United States government. The court ruled in 1965 that the pilot was an employee of the state of Maryland, not the federal government.

But the plaintiffs argued that the lower courts had reviewed only the liability of the pilot, not government air traffic controllers. And so the Supreme Court, in a brief order, allowed that separate issue to move forward in lower courts.

Almost a decade earlier, the court granted a request to rehear a case involving the court martial of two civilian wives who killed their military husbands overseas — one in England and the other in Japan. On rehearing, the court concluded that the women could not be tried by court martial. To this day, it remains the only time the Supreme Court ever reheard a case it had decided and reversed itself.

“It is extremely rare for the court to grant reconsideration,” said Michael Dorf, a constitutional law professor at Cornell Law School.

“When it does so, it is typically because some vital information was not before it originally,” Dorf told CNN. “Simple attempts to re-litigate a decided issue invariably fail.”

The Department of Justice did not respond to questions about Trump’s promise to seek a rehearing.

Trump’s odds, based on past practice, might be slightly better in the case of Carroll — but it’s still highly unlikely.

The president’s attorneys urged the Supreme Court this week to reconsider its decision to deny his appeal of the $5 million verdict in the Carroll case. And they have subsequently asked lower courts to delay that payment so the justices may consider that request.

Trump has noted that he will soon appeal a separate case involving Carroll and it has suggested the Supreme Court should wait to consider the two cases together. But the president’s lawyers already made that suggestion in a letter to the court last month. The court nevertheless denied the appeal last week without dissent.

Lawyers for Carroll declined to comment for this story.

Reconsiderations of decisions to deny an appeal are somewhat more common than rethinking a final decision, though they almost always involve a significant change in circumstances since the court acted. The last time the Supreme Court granted such relief was more than a year ago, in a case involving a federal anti-doping law for the horseracing industry. There, the Supreme Court sent the dispute back to a federal appeals court for additional review after a different federal appeals court drew the opposite conclusion of the law’s constitutionality.

In asking a lower federal court to withhold payment to Carroll, Trump’s attorneys cited about a dozen cases — dating back to in 1940 — in which the Supreme Court had reconsidered a decision to deny an appeal.

“Rehearing is not some legal impossibility,” Trump’s lawyers told the lower court this week. “The court must not ignore the grave and irreparable consequences of disbursing funds that may never be recovered.”

The federal judge in that case rejected that argument on Wednesday, ordering the release of the funds to Carroll.

Trump quickly appealed. A federal appeals court quickly denied the request Wednesday for immediate relief while it considers Trump’s ask for a longer pause on the payment.

CNN’s Kara Scannell contributed to this report.

Jeb Bush praises Trump for crippling Iran’s military, but warns of ‘threat’ to US from reported drones in Cuba

July 9, 2026 8:37am EDT / Fox News

Rep Carlos Gimenez and ex-UN Ambassador Mark Wallace joined Bush at the United Against Nuclear Iran event

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Jeb Bush praises Trump for crippling Iran’s military, while warning of threat posed by drones in Cuba

Jeb Bush, chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran, praised his former political rival President Donald Trump, for how he has handled the ongoing conflict with Iran.

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised President Donald Trump for his efforts in crippling the Iranian regime, but warned that Cuba is now believed to have hundreds of explosive drones from Tehran.

Bush made the statement at a United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) event on Wednesday, standing next to an Iranian Shahed-136 drone. The Shahed family of drones are cheap but effective kamikaze weapons that Iran has used extensively in the Middle East, in addition to shipping them to Russia for use against Ukraine.

“We have decimated Iran’s capability to make mischief in the region. There’s no doubt about it,” said Bush, who is UANI’s chairman, adding that he applauds the Trump administration for their work.

“I also want to point out that the press reports are that there are 300 of these in Cuba,” Bush said, gesturing toward the drone.

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Jeb Bush, chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran, spoke at an event where a recovered Iranian Shahed drone was on display at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., on July 8, 2026. Bush addressed recent reports that Cuba is in possession of hundreds of the drones, and the threat this poses to the U.S.(Ronn Blitzer/Fox News Digital)

“We have very good defense capabilities, so this is not a press conference to scare the bejesus out of people. The United States does have capabilities of defending the homeland, for sure,” Bush qualified before saying the drones nevertheless pose “a threat.”

Bush was joined at the event by Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who warned attendees that while Shahed drones are a “terror weapon,” they are also the future of how wars are going to be fought.

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“This is the face of warfare,” he said of the drone, noting that AI capabilities were drastically advancing the effectiveness of drones. “This is how war is going to be carried out in the future, and it’s being carried out right now.”

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Gimenez emphasized the effectiveness of drones in the war in Ukraine, where Kyiv’s forces have manufactured millions of small explosive drones for their defense, and to great effect.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mark Wallace, now CEO of UANI, also spoke at the event, calling the Shahed drone “the ubiquitous terror weapon of mass destruction in modern warfare.”

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“This drone has struck our allies across the region, killed American troops, our allies across the region … and has been raining terror across the Middle East at our bases and the like,” Wallace said.

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Wallace told Fox News Digital that the drones in Cuba were transferred years ago, before the current conflict between the U.S. and Iran.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events.

Judge orders Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to answer questions on whether there was a quid pro quo

2026-07-09 10:08:22 EDT / CBS News

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A federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to answer questions about whether there was any sort of quid pro quo made in connection with the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss criminal foreign bribery and securities fraud charges against him.

In a court filing early Thursday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis told Adani he has until July 15 to answer whether he is aware of “anything promised, offered, sought, received, agreed to, or accepted, by anyone in connection with the dismissal of the indictment” and whether he knows of any “agreement exchanging anything for the dismissal of the Indictment.”

The demand represents an escalation between the Justice Department and the court, after senior politically-appointed DOJ officials sought to dismiss all the charges against Adani and other executives over an alleged scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to secure solar energy supply contracts.

The decision to dismiss the case has raised eyebrows and sparked questions from Garaufis. Two career prosecutors who were involved in the case withdrew from the matter after the motion to dismiss was filed. Additionally, politically-appointed officials — the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and Trent McCotter, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General — were the only signatories on the motion to dismiss.

Although the Adani case in the Eastern District of New York previously survived a DOJ and Securities and Exchange Commission review ordered by the White House into all Foreign Corrupt Practices pending prosecutions, the decision was later reversed by McCotter.

McCotter made the determination after he and other government officials met with Jamie McDonald, Bob Giuffra and Andrew DeFilippis of Sullivan & Cromwell who represented Adani, sources previously told CBS News. McDonald has since been nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He returned to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan this week to help lead it until its current top prosecutor, Jay Clayton, is confirmed by the Senate to oversee the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

In one of these meetings at the Justice Department about the Adani case, Giuffra made a presentation that disputed evidence of the alleged bribery scheme, according to sources familiar with the matter and records reviewed by CBS News. One slide touted how one of Adani’s companies is “powering India’s progress,” and another slide said the Trump administration “would not have brought the case.”

If prosecutors were to drop the charges, Giuffra also said at the meeting, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy, sources told CBS News.

McCotter, in a recent letter to the court, aggressively pushed back against any effort by the judge to question the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss the charges.

“Demanding the rationales for dismissal will hurt defendants—not just the defendants here, but untold other defendants in future cases—by potentially chilling the Department from seeking dismissal of criminal charges it determines are not in the interests of justice,” he wrote in a July 4 filing.

McCotter also addressed the media reports about the offer by Adani to invest in the U.S. economy, telling the judge that those stories were leaked by current and former prosecutors and had no bearing on his decision-making.

“Current or former department attorneys who unethically fed those stories have suggested that I sought dismissal of the securities charges at least in part because of some promise by those defendants to invest money in the United States. That is false. Before that topic first arose, I had already firmly concluded I would seek dismissal of the securities charges no matter what, because they were so indefensible,” he wrote.

Garaufis on Thursday highlighted those comments in his order, saying they raised fresh concerns about the potential for an improper quid pro quo.

The statement”raises-for the first time- the specter of a possible agreement (involving one or multiple defendants) in connection with the dismissal of the indictment that has neither been memorialized nor previously brought to the attention of this court,” he wrote.

This is not the first time that the Justice Department has had a standoff with a federal judge over the dismissal of criminal charges.

Last year, a federal judge in New York’s Southern District raised questions after senior political officials sought to dismiss public corruption charges against former New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The move sparked resignations in protest from 11 federal prosecutors in New York and Washington, and it raised questions about whether the Trump Justice Department was dismissing the case in exchange for Adams’ cooperation with the president’s immigration priorities.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho forced the government to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it could not be brought again, and said the entire thing “smacks of a bargain.”

面临高温天气 法国卢浮宫再次缩短开放时间

2026年7月9日 23:07 / 联合早报

6月26日，法国首都巴黎市中心天气酷热，旅客在卢浮宫博物馆外排队时纷纷撑伞遮阳。 （彭博社）

法国巴黎的卢浮宫博物馆发公告说，鉴于新一轮高温天气来袭，馆内部分区域温度攀升影响游客参观，博物馆将于7月10日至13日提早闭馆。

卢浮宫（Louvre Museum）星期四（7月9日）发布公告说，闭馆时间将从原来的傍晚6时提前到下午4时，观众的最后入场时间也相应提前至下午2时。此外，隶属于卢浮宫的国家欧仁—德拉克洛瓦博物馆也将执行相同的时间安排。

新华社引述公告说，近期博物馆面临强烈的高温和日照，馆内7.3万平方米展览空间的部分区域温度升高，无法保证游客和工作人员的舒适度。尤其在人员密集的下午时段，热量积聚最为明显。

卢浮宫曾于6月24日至27日，因高温天气将闭馆时间提前至下午4时。

据法国媒体报道，法国本轮高温天气预计至少持续至7月14日。目前，卢浮宫团队正密切监测温度，并根据实际情况调整展厅开放时间。