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🔵 Massive Iran Explosion
Citizen Frank
April 26, 2025
Good morning. It’s Saturday, April 26.
4. Virginia Giuffre's Chilling Old Tweet Goes Viral After Death... ‘In No Way, Shape or Form Am I Suicidal'
At least five people were killed and more than 700 injured in a powerful explosion on Saturday that ripped through a vital port in southern Iran, state media said, with the blast purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant.
The blast, which the head of the Red Crescent Society’s Relief and Rescue described as “massive explosion,” occurred at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port, located in Hormozgan province on Iran’s southern coast.
The customs office at the port said in a statement carried by state TV that the blast probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazmat and chemical materials storage depot.
President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, joined other world leaders on Saturday in paying respects to Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday at age 88 after a series of health complications hospitalized him for weeks.
The pope’s funeral mass was held in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square, followed by a private burial at the St. Mary Major Basilica. Over 250,000 mourners gathered to view Pope Francis’s body over the course of three days in St. Peter’s Basilica before Saturday’s funeral, the Vatican said. His coffin was sealed on Friday.
The Vatican confirmed 164 delegations, including 54 heads of state and twelve monarchs, were in attendance. Among the world leaders who attended the funeral were French President Emmanuel Macron, British royal Prince William, Argentine President Javier Milei, and former President Joe Biden. Trump’s predecessor was the second Roman Catholic president behind John F. Kennedy.
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met face-to-face for the first time since their infamous Oval Office spat in February. They were attending Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome, though it is unclear exactly when they met.
Neither Ukrainian nor White House officials gave many details on the meeting; however, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said the leaders had “a very productive discussion.”
Zelenskyy later tweeted that the meeting was “very symbolic” and could potentially be “historic.”
Virginia Giuffre — who killed herself at her home in Western Australia — once sternly warned she would never commit suicide.
The Jeffrey Epstein victim turned whistleblower made the statement in a post on X in 2019, replying to another user who claimed the “F.B.I. will kill her to protect the ultra rich and well connected.”
“I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal,” she wrote. “I have made this known to my therapist and GP – If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me [quieted].”
The Justice Department is cracking down on leaks of information to the news media, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying prosecutors will once again have authority to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make “unauthorized disclosures” to journalists.
New regulations announced by Bondi in a memo to the staff obtained by The Associated Press on Friday rescind a Biden administration policy that protected journalists from having their phone records secretly seized during leak investigations — a practice long decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.
The new regulations assert that news organizations must respond to subpoenas “when authorized at the appropriate level of the Department of Justice” and also allow for prosecutors to use court orders and search warrants to “compel production of information and testimony by and relating to the news media.”
Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was a key figure in the administrations of three Democratic presidents and who has since continued serving on an advisory board at the Pentagon, got her latest marching orders this week.
In a move that at least one liberal media outlet called a “purge,” all members of the Defense Policy Board and other Pentagon advisory boards were informed that their services would no longer be required.
The Department of Defense published a terse, two-paragraph statement announcing the change Thursday.
The person who stole Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s handbag containing $3,000 in cash over the weekend was wearing a medical mask and snatched the bag from underneath her chair, officials said.
“She could feel this person as they snatched her bag, but thought they were her grandchildren playing until realizing a minute later that her bag was gone,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.
“Her bag was under her feet and the perpetrator hooked the bag with his foot and dragged it across the floor and put a coat over it and took it.”
Democrat Stacey Abrams is seriously considering a third-straight run for Georgia governor in 2026, a source familiar confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Abrams, a former Democratic Party leader in the Georgia state legislature and a nationally known voting-rights advocate, narrowly lost to now-Gov. Brian Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial election. She lost the 2022 rematch to Kemp by nearly eight points.
Kemp, the popular conservative governor, is term limited and cannot seek reelection in 2026. The Cook Political Report, a top nonpartisan political handicapper, ranked the race to succeed Kemp in the battleground state a “toss up” – teeing up a likely competitive race in the Peach State.
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