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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
DEVELOPMENTS TONIGHT RELATED TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH FOLLOWING THE FRIDAY FIRING OF THREE PENTAGON OFFICIALS WHO WERE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
THEIR FIRING LINKED TO THE USE OF A SIGNAL CHAT GROUP DISCUSSING PLANS RELATED TO THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN NOW UNDERWAY IN YEMEN.
FIRST THOSE OFFICIALS THIS WEEKEND SPOKE OF THEIR LOYALTY TO PRESIDENT TRUMP WHILE COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW THEY WERE SMEARED DURING THE PROCESS THAT LED TO THEIR FIRING.
THEN LATE THIS AFTERNOON THE NEW YORK TIMES WITH A REPORT LINKING THAT SIGNAL CHAT GROUP TO MR. HEGSETH'S WIFE, BROTHER AND PERSONAL LAWYER...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...
A FEW HOURS LATER PENTAGON SPOKESMAN JOHN ULLYOT RESIGNING SPEAKING ABOUT A 'MONTH OF TOTAL CHAOS'.
ULLYOT ALSO PROMOTING THE NOTION THAT MORE NEGATIVE STORIES RELATING TO MR. HEGSETH ARE SET TO EMERGE...BRIAN KRASSENSTEIN "X"...
LATE THIS EVENING PENTAGON SPOKESMAN SEAN PARNELL SPEAKING OF THE MEDIA BEING 'OBSESSED WITH DESTROYING ANYONE COMMITTED TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S AGENDA'...SEAN PARNELL "X"
"There will be political murder here. Jews will kill Jews"
THOSE WORDS TODAY FROM ISRAEL'S OPPOSITION LEADER YAIR LAPID.
MR. LAPID'S WARNING AS SHIN BET DOMESTIC SECURITY CHIEF RONEN BAR IS FILING AN AFFIDAVIT WITH ISRAEL'S HIGH COURT.
THE COURT CONSIDERING THE FIRING OF MR. BAR BY PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
THAT AFFIDAVIT EXPECTED TO PAINT ACTIONS OF MR. NETANYAHU IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT.
SUPPORTERS OF THE PRIME MINISTER SAID TO HAVE ISSUED DEATH THREATS AGAINST BAR ONLINE...(TIMES OF ISRAEL)...TIMES OF ISRAEL
"literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule"
That's some of the dissent from US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to the court's late Friday night decision preventing a deportation flight from Texas to El Salvador that was expected on Saturday...Julie Kelly "X"
IN MOROCCO A PROTEST IN THE PORT CITY OF TANGIER AGAINST A CARGO VESSEL SAID TO BE CARRYING FIGHTER JET PARTS FOR ISRAEL.
MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE PROTEST CALLING FOR THE SHIP TO BE BANNED AND FOR MOROCCO TO BREAK OFF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL ESTABLISHED UNDER THE 'ABRAHAM ACCORDS'.
THE SHIP DUE TO DOCK IN TANGIER TODAY...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Dozens hurt when bicycles crashed into each other during a bicycle race in Belgium. One person hurt seriously their injuries considered non-life-threatening.
Many bicycles broken in the pileup...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt) (Photo Embed)
AT LEAST SEVEN KILLED IN ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS IN LEBANON TODAY. OTHERS WERE WOUNDED INCLUDING A LEBANESE SOLDIER.
TARGETS LINKED TO HEZBOLLAH SAID TO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED...TASS RUSSIA
On Easter Sunday Israel's military releasing a report on the killings of 15 emergency workers in Gaza last month.
The report speaking of 'operational misunderstanding' and a 'breach of orders'.
A deputy commander of the unit dismissed for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report of the incident.
The Israeli military denying the commonly held belief that they were murdered in some cases execution style...BBC News
AT THE VATICAN A BRIEF MEETING BETWEEN US VICE-PRESIDENT JD VANCE AND POPE FRANCIS TODAY.
THIS WEEKEND MR. VANCE HAS HELD IN-DEPTH TALKS WITH OTHER TOP VATCIAN OFFICIALS...INDEPENDENT UK
IN THE UKRAINE WAR BOTH SIDES SPEAKING OF CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS TODAY. THIS FOLLOWS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF A 30-HOUR CEASEFIRE YESTERDAY...(BBC NEWS)
DHL Express suspending consumer shipments in excess of 800 dollars coming into the United States from foreign countries.
The threshold lowered from 2,500 dollars with the Trump Administration tightening customs rules for large packages impacting Chinese online retailers moving products to customers in the US.
DHL will work to bring in business shipments exceeding 800 dollars but there will be delays...BBC News
IN ROME TALKS BETWEEN US AND IRANIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSSING IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
THIS THE SECOND ROUND OF TALKS INVOLVING WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL ENVOY STEVE WITKOFF AND IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABBAS ARAGHCHI.
THE TWO SIDES WILL CONTINUE THEIR TALKS IN THE COMING DAYS IN OMAN...THE HILL USA...
MR. ARAGHCHI SAYING THE TWO SIDES HAVE REACHED GREATER UNDERSTANDNG...TASS RUSSIA
In a speech Saturday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking of removing Hamas from power in Gaza.
Netanyahu saying he will not end the war to get hostages freed. He described the position of Hamas on ending the war as 'capitulation conditions'.
A hostage family group said that Mr. Netanyahu has 'no plan' to return hostages and that the war must end.
Israel maintaining military pressure on Gaza with all humanitarian aid including food and medicine cut off leading to increasing desperate conditions...Times of Israel
US AIR ATTACKS ON FACILITIES LINKED TO THE HOUTHI MOVEMENT IN YEMEN CONTINUING SATURDAY EVENING...OSINTdefender "X"
China putting six satellites into orbit this weekend. The rocket carrying the six satellites launched from China's Taiyuan launch center.
The primary use of the satellites said to be studying the space environment and conducting technological experiments...Tass Russia
Early Saturday morning a US Supreme Court ruling 7-2 that a group of deportees about to be sent to a prison in El Salvador were entitled to due process.
The American Civil Liberties Union sought emergency relief from the high court.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting from the majority...US Supreme Court Order
Across the United States on Saturday the latest in the ongoing Saturday protests opposing President Trump's policies.
Hundreds of demonstrators outside the White House with other protests at various locations including Tesla dealerships, the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City and downtown Portland, Oregon...BBC News Story
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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