UNITED NATIONS, April 15 (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief said on Monday he is concerned about Israel possibly targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, but that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of Iranian facilities would resume on Tuesday.

Israel's military chief said on Monday his country would respond to a weekend missile and drone attack by Iran, launched in retaliation for a suspected Israeli airstrike on its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1. This comes amid calls for restraint by allies anxious to avoid an escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
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I’d love to see them try arresting DJT at his son’s graduation!

Those optics ALONE will get him re-elected!!

#FAFO JUDGE MERCHAN

“A coalition of nearly 50 Republican House lawmakers on Monday filed legislation that would impose sanctions on 11 Iranian terrorist proxy groups operating across the Middle East, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.) and a coalition of his GOP colleagues filed the sanctions bill Monday evening following a weekend missile strike by Iran on Israel. Many of the missiles and drones fired by Tehran were launched by its allied militant groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

Steube’s legislation targets several of the most dangerous Iranian allies, and will require the Biden administration to formally classify them as designated terror organizations. Currently, Iranian-controlled groups operating in Iraq, Yemen, and Syria are not formally classified as foreign terrorist organizations, allowing them to do Tehran’s bidding while moving money and weapons across the Middle East.”

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-moves-to-sanction-iranian-terror-proxies/

Mike Johnson has just spoken with the House GOP conference on his plan to address national security supplemental legislation on the growing security crises.
 
This week, they will consider separate bills with a structured and germane amendment process to:

•Fund our ally Israel
•Support Ukraine in its war against Russian aggression
•Strengthen our allies in the Indo-Pacific
•Pass additional measures to counter our adversaries and strengthen our national security

https://x.com/speakerjohnson/status/1780005877132444038?s=46

The House rejected a final effort by hardline Republicans to block the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act over objections a measure was not included to prohibit warrantless searches by the federal government. 

Lawmakers voted 259-128 to table a motion to reconsider, paving the way for the House to send the FISA bill to the Senate ahead of its expiration date on Friday. The vote comes after a group of House Republicans, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), sought to impede its transfer to the upper chamber in protest of an amendment that was shot down that would’ve required the federal government to obtain a warrant before executing data searches of U.S. communications in the FISA 702 database.
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NEW - NASA confirms space station debris hit Florida man’s home

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576,000 Roku accounts hacked in second security incident in 2 months

The company said that this incident affected "a small fraction of Roku’s more than 80M active accounts."
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BREAKING: *Notre-Dame moment* Massive fire rages through the 17th-century old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark and its spire has collapsed.

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The cars are lined up outside of Trump Tower for day two

Ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal who claims she had a ten month affair with former President is cleared to testify at his hush-money trial

Five months before the 2016 presidential election, American Media Inc, the publisher of the National Enquirer, paid McDougal, 53, $150,000 in exchange for her tell all story. The interview was never published. 

The alleged affair became public knowledge in a subsequent interview that McDougal did with The Wall Street Journal in 2016. 

Trump denies McDougal's allegations. Her payment is not subject to criminal investigation but prosecutors say it will establish a pattern of behavior on Trump's part, something Trump lawyer Todd Blanche attempted to argue against. 

Judge Merchan said that the jury did not need to hear about the timing of the alleged McDougal affair, which according to the former model, occurred at the time Melania Trump was pregnant with Barron Trump. 
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Supreme Court to debate 'sleeper' case that could affect Trump federal prosecution

It is the "sleeper" case that could upend the most closely watched criminal prosecution in the nation. And how the U.S. Supreme Court decides the fate of an obscure Capitol riot defendant will have immediate legal and political implications for the former and perhaps future president.    

The justices on Tuesday will hold oral arguments in the appeal of Joseph Fischer, one of more than 300 people charged by the Justice Department with "obstruction of an official proceeding" in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington.
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