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Rubio holds ‘constructive’ meeting with Pope Leo after Trump sends hard-line Iran message to Vatican

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo at the Vatican for “constructive” conversations on Thursday following heightened tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo over the U.S.-Iran conflict. “The conversations today were friendly and constructive,” a State Department official told Fox News Digital. Rubio, a Catholic, held a … Read more

DeSantis targets ‘jihad’ with hardline Florida terror crackdown

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday creating a state process to designate terrorist organizations and penalize universities that support them, part of what he described as a crackdown on Islamic extremism in Florida. DeSantis, standing behind a sign denouncing Sharia law, said during the bill signing … Read more

Who is set to be in charge in Iran now that Khamenei is dead? A powerful hard-line military corps

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The Revolutionary Guard demonstrated its fealty to Khamenei most recently by orchestrating the crackdown in January that left thousands of anti-government protesters dead. Now, after his killing, it has the opportunity to seize even more power in the country, some experts say. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency put the number of people killed … Read more

Iran’s hard-line supreme leader is dead after major military strikes, Trump says

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Khamenei, 86, one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders and a lifelong foe of both the U.S. and Israel, took power in 1989. In the nearly 40 years that followed, the ideological hard-liner ruthlessly put down public demonstrations and silenced dissidents who challenged his rule. In recent months, Iran had been gripped by nationwide protests fueled by … Read more