NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 3/3/2026*LUTNICK TO TESTIFY OVER EPSTEIN TIES*GOP SENATOR SLAMS DHS SECRETARY*POLISH PRIME MINISTER SEEKS NUKE WEAPONS*TRUMP DENIES NETANYAHU FORCED WAR*CLINTON'S COMBATIVE UNDER EPSTEIN QUESTIONING*IRAN WAR COVERAGE*IRAN DEATH TOLL NEARS 800*US MARINES DEADLY SHOOTING OF RIOTERS IN PAKISTAN
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING)
News of the Iran War throughout this summary at various spots but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
(UPDATED) THE TEXAS US SENATE PRIMARIES TONIGHT COMPETITIVE RACES INVOLVING BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN US SENATOR JOHN CORNYN AND MAIN CHALLENGER TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON HEADED TO A RUNOFF ELECTION.
THE RACE AMONG DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT AND TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE JAMES TALARICO TOO CLOSE TO CALL...NBC NEWS RESULTS PAGE
IRAN WAR NEWS 3RD SUMMARY
(OTHER SUMMARIES, LINKS LATER IN POST)
(SOME UPDATING)
ISRAELI AND US AIRSTRIKES IN IRAN TONIGHT INCLUDING THE USE OF B-2 BOMBERS BY THE UNITED STATES.
SIRENS ACTIVATED IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR INCOMING MISSILES FROM IRAN. ONE MISSILE INTERCEPTED NO INJURIES REPORTED.
INCIDENTS TONIGHT INVOLVING SHIPPING IN WATERS OF THE ARABIAN SEA SOUTH OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
LATER OFF THE EASTERN COAST OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THE STEEL PLATING OF A VESSEL DAMAGED BY A PROJECTILE...UNITED KINGDOM MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS "X"
IRAN HAS PROCLAIMED 'FULL CONTROL' OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BY THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS NAVY...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
LATE TONIGHT HEZBOLLAH CLAIMING A ROCKET ATTACK ON A CONCENTRATION OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL. SIRENS WERE ACTIVATED IN THE AREA WARNING OF AN ATTACK...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
CNN REPORTS THAT THE US HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE PROBING JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS SEEKING SEVEN MORE WITNESSES FOR TESTIMONY.
THEY INCLUDE BILLIONAIRE BILL GATES AND WALL STREET LAWYER KATHRYN RUEMMLER WHO WORKED AT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE...OSINTdefender "X"
US COMMERCE SECRETARY HOWARD LUTNICK AGREEING TO VOLUNARILY APPEAR BEFORE THE US HOUSE GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
THERE IS RENEWED CONTROVERSY OVER LUTNICK'S TIES TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN FOLLOWING RELEASE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
THEY REVEALED A DEEPER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LUTNICK AND EPSTEIN THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN PUBLICLY OR ADMITTED TO BY MR. LUTNICK...THE HILL USA
"We're beginning to get the American people believing that deporting people is wrong. It's the exact opposite...
The way you go about deporting them is wrong, the fact that you cannot admit to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going to prove that Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti probably should not have been shot in the face and neck..."
At a US Senate hearing today those are some of the words used by outgoing Republican US Senator Thom Tillis who delivered a scathing criticism of US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
His criticism aimed at mistakes he sees in the mass deportation policies of the DHS including the officer involved killing in Minneapolis and the numerous detentions of American citizens.
Tills stressing the need for 'quality' instead of 'quantity' in the deportations he also slammed the quashing of independent internal probes by an inspector general within the department...The Hill USA
POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK SPEAKING OF POLISH 'NUCLEAR DETERRENCE' THAT IS 'AUTONOMOUS'.
POLAND IS HOLDING TALKS WITH FRANCE AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOLLOWING FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COOPERATION WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
IN HIS SPEECH MR. MACRON ALSO SAID FRANCE WILL BUILD MORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS PART OF AN 'ADVANCED DETERRENCE' PROGRAM...REUTERS
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 403.51 points or .83 percent.
The NASDAQ fell 232.17 points or 1.02 percent.
At 453 pm New York Time the price of oil 74 dollars 62 cents a barrel up three dollars 39 cents or 4.76 percent.
Overnight the price of oil in a steady rise in New York a 7.5 percent increase since yesterday's close the price per barrel over 76 dollars 70 cents by morning...Marketwatch
IRAN WAR DAY FOUR
(MORE WAR NEWS AND WAR NEWS LINKS LATER IN SUMMARY)
(UPDATES INSIDE THIS SECTION POSSIBLE)
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYING THE US WILL ESCORT OIL TANKERS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IF NECESSARY
HIS COMMENTS CREATING POSITIVE MARKET CHANGES INCLUDING A SLOWING OF THE INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF OIL.
MEANWHILE IRAN VOWING NOT TO ALLOW ANY VESSELS THROUGH THE STRAIT.
EXPLOSIONS HEARD IN THE NORTHERN IRAQI CITY OF ERBIL THIS EVENING.
MISSILE LAUNCHES FROM LEBANON ON ISRAEL MOST OF THE MISSILES INTERCEPTED.
MORE BRITISH WARPLANES SENT TO CYPRUS FOLLOWING A DRONE ATTACK THE OTHER DAY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED FROM LEBANON.
ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATIONS UNDERWAY IN LEBANON AGAINST HEZBOLLAH INCLUDING A GROUND INCURSION INTO SOUTHERN LEBANON.
THERE HAVE BEEN ISRAELI AND AMERICAN ATTACKS ON IRAN THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV TALKING WITH IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABBAS ARAGHCHI.
LAVROV SPEAKING OF RUSSIA'S WILLINGNESS TO CONTRIBUTE TO A POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC SETTLEMENT.
THERE WAS A STRONG EXPLOSION REPORTED IN DUBAI IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THIS EVENING.
AIRCRAFT FLYING TO DUBAI WERE DIVERTED AT AROUND THE SAME TIME.
IRAN'S DEFENSE MINISTRY SAYS THE US AND ISRAEL WILL BE FORCED TO END THE WAR IN THE COMING DAYS. THIS IS AN APPARENT REFERENCE TO STOCKPILES OF MUNITIONS POTENTIALLY RUNNING OUT.
US PRSIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS IRAN'S NAVY, AIR FORCE AND AIR DEFENSES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS DENYING THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU FORCED HIM INTO THE IRAN WAR.
MR. TRUMP SAYING THAT HE 'MIGHT HAVE FORCED ISRAEL'S HAND'.
MR. TRUMP SPEAKING AT THE WHITE HOUSE ALONGSIDE VISITING GERMAN CHANCELLOR FRIEDRICH MERZ.
TRUMP ALSO SAYING IRANIAN 'LUNATICS' WERE 'GOING TO ATTACK FIRST'..TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Ukraine War continues with 200 drones used by Ukraine to attack the Belgorod Region of Russia on Ukraine's border.
One person killed in the latest drone attacks...Tass Russia
THE VIDEOS OF THE CLINTON'S UNDER QUESTIONING BY A REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THEIR TIES TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN REVEAL FEISTY ARGUMENTS.
BOTH BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON DENYING ANY KNOWLEDGE OF WRONGDOING BY EPSTEIN.
MRS. CLINTON EVEN MORE COMBATIVE THAN MR. CLINTON. SHE BANGED A TABLE ON OCCASION.
BILL CLINTON DID LINK HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EPSTEIN TO POLITICAL FUNDRAISING...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
IRAN WAR NEWS
(UPDATED AS ABLE DUE TO PERSONAL COMMITMENTS)
SOURCES FOR NEWS INCLUDE:
ISRAEL EXPANDING ITS EVACUATION ORDER LIST TO INCLUDE 80 NEW TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN LEBANON.
ISRAEL WIDENING ITS MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN LEBANON AGAINST HEZBOLLAH.
IRAN'S RED CRESCENT SOCIETY REPORTS 787 KILLED IN THE WAR IN IRAN SO FAR
IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON LOCAL TIME A NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS BY IRAN ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.
IRAN SAYING THIS WAVE OF ATTACKS IS THE 15TH WAVE SINCE THE WAR BEGAN
IRAN SPEAKING OF THE NOTION OF FALSE FLAG ATTACKS ON EMBASSY BUILDINGS TO BE BLAMED ON IRAN
US MARINES GUARDING THE US CONSULATE IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN OPENED FIRE ON ATTACKING RIOTERS SUNDAY.
10 KILLED IN THE GUNFIRE WITH OTHER PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES PARTICIPATING.
THE RIOT IN OPPOSITION TO SATURDAY'S ASSASSINATION OF IRAN'S AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI BY ISRAEL...Reuters
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