đŸ”” India Plane Crash

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Citizen Frank
June 12, 2025

Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 12.

A Boeing passenger plane bound for London crashed soon after taking off in India on Thursday, likely killing all 242 onboard and likely many more on the ground as it crashed in a fireball in a busy residential neighborhood.

Air India Flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad — a city of about 5 million people — just 30 seconds after taking off heading to London Gatwick, according to alarming video of it taking off then crashing.

“It appears there are no survivors in the plane crash,” Commissioner G.S. Malik said, adding that “some locals would have also died” in the buildings it crashed into.

 
 

Israel is considering taking military action against Iran, most likely without US support, in the coming days, five sources told NBC on Thursday.

This comes shortly after a CBS report in which multiple sources stated that Israel has told US officials that it is “fully ready to launch an operation into Iran.”

Iran’s military has begun drills earlier than planned to focus on “enemy movements,” state media reported later on Thursday afternoon.

A large number of protesters continued to march Wednesday evening on downtown Los Angeles streets, violating the second night of a 10-hour curfew.

The defiance came following a day of marches and hundreds of demonstrators gathering in Grand Park, the 12-acre open green space that has the 27-story-high Los Angeles City Hall as its dramatic backdrop. That’s where Los Angeles Police Department officers, including many on horseback, charged into the crowd with rods late Wednesday afternoon and evening to clear the park, according to media reports. Before that happened, some protesters were seen with lit fireworks, which has been what demonstrators threw at police during the weekend’s riots.

Police reportedly fired crowd control projectiles.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had harsh words for the White House on Wednesday after he said he was “uninvited” from its annual picnic, a snub that came amid the Kentucky Republican’s vocal opposition to President Trump’s tax cut and spending package.

Paul — who has criticized the debt limit provision in the “big, beautiful bill,” along with its impact on the deficit — said he had planned to attend the White House picnic on Thursday with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and 6-month-old grandson, but he was informed on Wednesday that he was no longer welcome.

“I’ve just been told that I’ve been uninvited from the picnic; I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic,” Paul told reporters. “The White House is owned by the taxpayers, we are all members of it, every Democrat will be invited, every Republican will be invited, but I will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the White House.”

Hamas has reportedly named a veteran terrorist known as the “Ghost of al-Qassam” as its latest leader in Gaza — after his two predecessors were wiped out by Israel.

Ezzedin al-Haddad, who helped plan the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, was recently handed control of Hamas’ Gaza operations, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing multiple sources.

He is the group’s third leader in just seven months after Israeli eliminated his two predecessors — Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar and then, last month, his brother Mohammed Sinwar, who took the reins after him.

The Trump administration is barred from deporting and continuing to detain anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

New Jersey federal Judge Michael Farbiarz issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting federal officials from booting the Columbia University rabble rouser from the country, arguing that the admin’s reasoning that Khalil’s continued presence would pose a risk to foreign policy was not sufficient, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

Farbiarz ordered that the legal US resident be freed from custody as early as Friday, asserting that his continued detention is causing irreparable harm to his career, his family and his constitutional right to free speech.

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that social media companies can be held accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms.

The decision could clear the way for the companies to face potential fines for not removing some users’ posts in Brazil.

A slim majority of six out of 11 Supreme Court judges backed the ruling, but they did not agree on what types of content would be considered illegal.

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