Israel claimed on Wednesday to have killed a third senior Iranian figure in 24 hours, stating that its forces had eliminated Tehran's intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, in an overnight strike. If confirmed, his death would follow those of Ali Larijani, the head of the supreme national security apparatus, and the commander of the Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani.
His first wife wasn't in the CIA, and didn't know he worked for the government agency. He couldn't tell her where he'd actually been that day or why he'd sometimes come home late. Even harmless details he couldn't share with her, he said. He'd come home, and she'd ask how his day was, what he'd done, and who he'd interacted with, and he recalled only giving one-word answers like "great," "nothing," and "nobody."
Israeli spies hacked nearly every traffic camera in Tehran for years in order to monitor the movements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an unprecedented intelligence-gathering campaign, according to a report. Officials surveilled highly trained and loyal security guards, bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials to pick up on their "pattern of life".
When the people who are after me get here, they'll arrest me and put me on trial, or they'll disappear me to some black site. Or they won't bother with any of that and they'll just kill me. All of these seem like plausible outcomes, but in the novel's prologue, the narrator seems much more confident of her success: I am a fucking genius, a gorgeous fucking genius, and the only thing left to do is sit down and write.
Asif Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign - a plot that was quickly disrupted by American investigators before it had a chance to proceed. A jury in Brooklyn convicted Merchant on terrorism and murder for hire charges.
The UK has today exposed the chilling truth behind the death of Russia n opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison. Laboratory tests confirm that epibatidine, a lethal toxin found in the skin of Ecuadorian dart frogs, was in Navalny's body - and almost certainly caused his death. "Only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin during Navalny's imprisonment - and we hold it responsible for his death," said the UK government. Epibatidine is not naturally found in Russia, nor can dart frogs in captivity produce it. There is no innocent explanation for its presence in Navalny's system.
BAIER: So that was May 2025. I mean, I don't think we, the public, have a more robust picture of that shooter. PATEL: Well, I think that's an unfair supposition. We, the FBI, have put out all the information that we possibly and legally can, while protecting any ongoing matters that are unrelated to him. BAIER: But he's dead. PATEL: Well, yes. He's very much dead.
"Eagle" Ed Martin, the Trump loyalist that even this Republican Senate found too incompetent to confirm when he sought to head the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C., has managed to find a new way to confirm that skepticism. Earlier this week, we heard that the DOJ relieved Ed of his tasks as the driving force behing the DOJ's anti-weaponization initiative - the ironically named group working to actively weaponize the DOJ against Trump's political enemies. Every accusation really is a confession, as they say.
