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Israel launched another wave of strikes across Iran on Tuesday, March 24, escalating its military campaign after Defence Minister Israel Katz said operations would continue “with full force.”

The Israeli military said it hit regime-linked production facilities, including targets in Isfahan, a city that is home to one of Iran’s key nuclear sites.

The Israel Defense Forces said the latest attacks were part of a continuing effort to degrade Iran’s ballistic missile manufacturing network and broader defence industrial base.

The fresh strikes came amid intensifying rhetoric from both sides, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warning that it would target Israeli military positions in Gaza and northern Israel if what it called “crimes against civilians in Lebanon and Palestine continue.”

In a statement, the IRGC said “gathering places” of “enemy forces” would face “heavy missile and drone attacks.” It also accused the Israeli military of exploiting the regional conflict to carry out “war crimes” against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

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A Russian drone strike hit central Lviv on Tuesday, March 24, injuring at least two people and damaging residential buildings, local officials said.

Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said the attack struck the city center and may have affected a UNESCO-listed heritage area.

Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said a residential building was damaged in the strike, adding that emergency services were working at the scene.

Separately, explosions were reported in Ternopil, according to Mayor Taras Pastukh, who urged residents to remain in shelters.

In Lviv,  Sadovyi later reported another drone strike hitting a residential building in the Sykhiv district, on Chervonoi Kalyny Avenue.

He added that a third location was recorded near the beginning of Bandera Street, where debris was found.

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A New Mexico jury determined Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, a verdict that signals a changing tide against tech companies and the government's willingness to crack down.

The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial, and as jurors in a federal court in California have been sequestered in deliberations for more than a week about whether Meta and YouTube should be liable in a similar case.

New Mexico jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — prioritized profits over safety, and violated parts of the state's Unfair Practices Act.

The jury agreed with allegations that Meta made false or misleading statements and also agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children.

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A series of trades worth $800 million made minutes before a Truth Social post from Donald Trump sent markets swinging is an act of treason, one of America's most prominent economists has said.

An entity or several entities traded heavily on S&P 500 and oil futures, making an immense sum of money in the process.

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman lashed out at the mystery traders.

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that's insider trading — which is illegal," Krugman wrote.

"But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential information regarding national security — such as plans to bomb or not to bomb another country — exploit that information for profit.

"That word is 'treason'."

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Democrats are projected to deliver a blow to Florida Republicans and flip a state House seat in President Trump’s backyard, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Democrat Emily Gregory, a health fitness small business owner, defeated Trump-backed Republican Jon Maples, a financial advisor, in a race for the open Florida District 87 state House seat, which includes part of Palm Beach County and the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, Gregory garnered just over 51 percent of the vote, while Maples had just under 49 percent backing with over 95 percent of the vote in.

Gregory and Maples faced off in the contest after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) tapped Republican Mike Caruso in August to become the county cleark and comptroller. Trump voted by mail in Tuesday’s election.

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The state of Minnesota is suing the Trump administration for access to investigative materials related to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the two Minneapolis residents fatally shot earlier this year by federal agents during the administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the state.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that state officials were shut out of efforts to gather evidence in the shootings by high-level Trump administration officials. It also claims officials halted any federal investigation into Good’s killing.

Beyond Good and Pretti, the suit also cites the nonfatal shooting of a third Minnesota resident, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, by federal agents.

“These shootings are just three examples of the violent actions committed by federal agents in Minnesota during the Surge,” reads the lawsuit. “Federal agents also carried out illegal stops, sweeps, arrests, and dangerous raids in sensitive public spaces. The Surge created widespread fear among Minnesota residents, both citizens and noncitizens.”

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A Georgia judge set a $1 bond for a woman facing murder charges tied to allegations she used abortion pills to end a pregnancy, potentially paving the way for a possible reduction or dismissal of charges.

Alexia Moore, 31, was arrested by police in Savannah earlier this month on a warrant that echoed a 2019 Georgia law banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected.

Moore was charged with murder after police determined she had been pregnant beyond six weeks “based on the medical staff’s knowledge that the baby had a beating heart and was struggling to breathe”.

Moore’s case is believed to be one of the first occasions of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy in Georgia since it passed a law banning most abortions and criminalized medical or hospital staff for aborting a fetus older than six weeks.

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The Defense Department will issue new press credentials but is still looking to keep some reporters out of the building by closing its media offices after a federal judge ruled last week that the Pentagon’s restrictive press policy was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., sided with The New York Times, which had sued the Trump administration for banning journalists who refused to sign a contract that put limitations on how they could solicit or report on information on the military.

The nonprofits’ case was consolidated with a similar suit brought by a group of 14 states last year.

The groups brought four claims, including that DOGE staffers lacked legal authority to carry out the firings and grant eliminations and violated the separation of powers in doing so. They also alleged Musk violated the Constitution by exercising “the power of a principal officer without having received Senate confirmation.”

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