🔵 ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN

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Citizen Frank
June 12, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, June 12.

The Israeli Air Force conducted dozens of strikes in Iran on Thursday targeting what it said were nuclear and missile sites.

Israel is directly attacking its biggest and best-armed adversary, without clear backing from the U.S.

President Trump publicly opposed an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites on Thursday, saying he still believed a nuclear deal was possible.

 
 

Police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and pushed him to the ground Thursday after forcibly removing him from a press conference Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding in Los Angeles.

Padilla had entered the room and interrupted Noem as she was speaking about her department’s plans to continue deportation efforts in California, even as the Trump administration’s recent immigration enforcement operations have stirred a wave of protests there.

The senator said after the incident that he was not arrested or detained. DHS blamed Padilla for the altercation, but said he and Noem later held a 15-minute meeting.

House Republicans have narrowly advanced a request from the White House to claw back $9.4 billion that lawmakers have already approved for public media and more than a dozen accounts across the State Department focused on foreign assistance.

The 214-212 vote is a major victory for President Donald Trump, who had been lobbying hard for lawmakers to pass the legislation, including in a social media post shortly before members went to the floor.

“For decades, Republicans have promised to cut NPR, but have never done it, until now,” Trump said, in part. “The Rescissions Bill is a NO BRAINER, and every single Republican in Congress should vote, ‘YES.’ MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

A British passenger on board the doomed Air India flight that crashed just seconds after take-off has miraculously walked away from the wreckage.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was sat in seat 11a on the flight — which crashed into a doctor’s hostel in Ahmedabad, India — and suffered “impact injuries” on his chest, eyes and feet, he told local media.

He was in India for a few days to visit his family and was going back to the UK along with his brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, who is feared to have tragically died in the crash.

The CIA released 1,450 additional pages of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on Thursday, including 54 previously classified documents and revealing records on his killer — and no evidence of a wider conspiracy.

The files shed more light on the motivations of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian-born Jordanian citizen convicted of Kennedy’s murder after the June 5, 1968, shooting in Los Angeles — and contain a psychological profile of the gunman as well as his handwritten notes.

A July 8 personality assessment by the feds declared that “under no circumstances would we have predicted that [Sirhan] was ‘capable’ of doing what he did.”

Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, both independents, on Thursday will introduce legislation that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers – including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media, the WSJ reports.

The proposal would mark a sweeping shift in the U.S. advertising landscape, where pharmaceutical companies are among the largest spenders. Prescription drug brands accounted for roughly 13 percent of all ad spending on linear television in 2025, totaling approximately $2.18 billion so far this year, according to iSpot data. In 2024, the industry spent $3.4 billion on traditional TV ads between January and August alone, according to ad-tracking data.

“The American people don’t want to see misleading and deceptive prescription drug ads on television,” Sanders said in a statement. “They want us to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and ban these bogus ads.”

Argentina’s monthly inflation rate has fallen below 2 per cent for the first time in five years, a boost for libertarian President Javier Milei in his war against the country’s chronic price pressures.

Consumer prices rose 1.5 per cent in May from the previous month, the country’s statistics agency said on Thursday. This compares with 2.8 per cent in April and a 25.5 per cent high in December 2023, when Milei took office. However, annual inflation is still 43.5 per cent, one of the highest in the world.

“We have the best president in the world,” economy minister Luis Caputo said on X as he shared the figure.

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