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The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy ships were targeted by missiles.

U.S. Central Command said it struck the vessels after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched two ballistic missiles at two Navy warships patrolling the sea. CENTCOM said a U.S. aircraft carrier and missile destroyer "successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks" and that no American personnel were injured.

"Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours," CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said in a statement posted on social media. "We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet."

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday, Sept. 4, to provide 48 hours’ notice before moving forward with work on the site of a planned 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the administration must inform the court “before engaging in any activity on Memorial Circle other than on-site information gathering” to identify underground cultural artifacts.

Chutkan reinforced her order a day after Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced plans on Sept. 3 to break ground at the site of the arch in the coming days.

“We are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery,” Burgum wrote on X. “This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.”

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Microsoft signed a contract worth more than $100m with the Israeli government in 2024, according to documents published on the Israeli Ministry of Finance’s Hebrew-language website, Middle East Eye can reveal.

The multimillion-dollar deal appears in Israel's annual budget-execution report for 2024, which was published by the finance ministry's accountant general in March 2025.

However, details of the Microsoft agreement were obscured within a lengthy list of procurement commitments and only surfaced following close analysis of the budget report by MEE.

Buried in the report is a list of the defence ministry's largest procurement commitments. One entry records an agreement signed in 2024 with Microsoft "for the purchase of software licensing", worth approximately 464 million shekels (about $125.4m).

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Maryam and Ziaeddin were meant to spend the most memorable night of their lives surrounded by their loved ones. They had no idea that their wedding would become the darkest moment of their lives and one of the most painful nights of the war for Iranians.

On the evening of Tuesday 1 September, around 350 people gathered in Kuhestak, in Sirik county, on the east coast of Iran’s Hormozgan province, for the wedding of Maryam Mallahi and Ziaeddin Khoshrish.

In keeping with local tradition, the celebration was held in two houses: the men gathered at a relative’s home, while the women waited at the bride’s family home. Coloured lights had been put up, the guests wore traditional clothing, and everyone was waiting for the bride and groom to arrive.

At around 9pm, as the United States launched a new wave of attacks across southern Iran, a series of explosions was heard in Kuhestak.

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In a dramatic conclusion to a trial that has gripped, saddened and divided the nation, the judge declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admits to killing her three children in 2023.

The trial collapsed without a verdict after the jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours but could not reach a consensus over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the killings. The nine women and three men had twice already told the judge earlier this week they couldn’t reach a unanimous decision and had been sent back to deliberate further. But today, they came back once more, declaring that “with a heavy heart” they could not “and will not be able to” reach a consensus.

After a last-ditch appeal to the state’s highest court from the defense was denied, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. He thanked the jury, which was split 11-1, for their efforts and hard work in serving on such a difficult case, and set a status hearing for 29 September.

The Plymouth county district attorney said it would not make a decision on whether to pursue a retrial today. Tim Cruz told reporters outside the courthouse that this case was “not about the healthcare system or how women are treated in it”. The case, he said, “was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies. We’re here at this courthouse today because those children are not.”

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Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace when she led the department, a scathing watchdog report released Thursday found.

An investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General said Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April, regularly drank alcohol during the workday, failed to properly report expensive gifts she had received and had an “inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship” with a member of her security detail.

The report comes nearly five months after Chavez-DeRemer left the Trump administration amid allegations of misconduct and abuse of power. She was the third member of President Trump’s Cabinet to step down.

Investigators interviewed at least 38 witnesses who consistently described the secretary’s office as “toxic,“ according to the report. Senior officials allegedly berated staffers in front of colleagues, discussed inappropriate personal matters and threatened to terminate employees.

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At about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2023, Fraser Bohm had just picked up an order of tacos and was heading to meet friends, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY. Bohm, a college baseball prosect who lived in a $2.5 million Malibu home with his mother at the time, was driving the 2016 BMW his parents gave him shortly before they filed for divorce in 2017, court records show.

Accounts vary wildly about what led up to the crash. Prosecutors have said Bohm acted out of "complete and reckless disregard" for the lives of others, his attorneys have always asserted Bohm crashed while fleeing from a road rage driver. The man Bohm identified as the other driver, Victor Calandra, has testified he saw Bohm driving erratically and thought the 22-year-old was texting when he caught up to him at a stoplight.

"Hey, you need to be careful, you're going to hurt yourself," Calandra testified he told Bohm just before the young man floored the gas pedal and crashed seconds later, according to the Pepperdine Graphic, the university newspaper that has been following the case.

Bohm's previous and current attorneys have given varied accounts about whether he was texting just before the crash. Bohm, described as dazed after the crash, told police he "must have been texting" but didn't remember. Bohm's attorney at the time, Michael Kraut, told reporters Bohm was texting a friend at the stoplight "and the guy next to him began to become irate.

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