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Troops use trebuchet to launch incendiaries at Lebanon

Middle ages-style catapult used to spark blazes on other side of northern border, where dense vegetation poses challenge to IDF

Footage circulating on social media on Thursday showed Israeli soldiers using a trebuchet to launch incendiaries at Lebanon, to spark fires on the other side of the border.

The Lebanon border area has dense vegetation, which poses a challenge to Israeli forces.

It is believed such fires are intended to aid the army in identifying terrorists trying to infiltrate Israel or carry out attacks on the border.

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Abortion Pill In Setback For Pro-Life Movement

It was the first major abortion case since Roe was overturned.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill in a significant setback for the pro-life movement.

In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the justices rejected a lawsuit from a group of doctors opposed to abortion who were pushing for more restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs frequently taken together to cause an abortion.

The ruling means mifepristone pills can continue to be mailed to patients without seeing a doctor in person.

Read more at: dailywire.com

Here’s what Russia’s warships in Cuba are capable of

Retired rear admiral says potential hypersonic anti-ship missiles could pose threat to US assets but that US fleet is well-equipped to respond

Russia’s fleet of warships in Cuba poses a “limited threat” to the U.S. mainland and its Navy, an expert said, but the move by Russian President Vladimir Putin is far from unprecedented.

Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery (ret.) told Fox News Digital that U.S. assets in the area are more than capable of outmaneuvering the three warships and lone nuclear submarine that arrived in Cuba on Wednesday.

U.S. Navy Forced To Medically Evacuate Crew After Cargo Ship Hit By Multiple Missiles

The United States Navy had to rescue a crew member on a cargo ship that came under attack by Iranian-backed terrorists on Thursday in the Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis hit the M/V Verbena — a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated bulk cargo carrier — with two anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM), causing damage and fires aboard the ship.

“The crew continues to fight the fire. One civilian mariner was severely injured during the attack,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. “Aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) medically evacuated the injured mariner to a partner force ship nearby for medical attention.”

Read more at: dailywire.com

Islamic Terrorists Fire Hundreds Of Rockets Into Northern Israel

Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in southern Lebanon, has fired well over 300 rockets into northern Israel over the last couple of days.

The dramatic escalation came after Israel took out one of the terrorist group’s top leaders earlier this week, senior commander Talib Abdullah, aka Hajj Abu Talib.

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Judge Blocks Biden’s Transgender Title IX Rules In 4 States

More than 20 states have joined lawsuits against the administration.

In a major blow to the Biden administration’s new Title IX guidelines forcing public schools to allow trans-identifying males in girls’ bathrooms and sports, a federal judge on Thursday blocked the rules in four states.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction against the rules, calling them an “abuse of power” by federal agencies and a “threat to democracy.”

Read more at: dailywire.com

Biden’s $320 Million Gaza Pier Removed From Area Again After Costly Repairs

President Joe Biden’s pier off the shore of Gaza experienced another blow this week and has to once again been relocated due to weather conditions.

The pier, which estimates have said costs up to $320 million, was forced offline late last month after it fell apart amid stormy sea conditions and sections of it washed up on the shoreline.

Read more at: dailywire.com

Another U.S. poultry farm goes UP IN FLAMES as sabotage ops target yet more food supply chain hubs

More than one million chickens are dead after a massive fire burned down Wabash Valley Produce Farm in Farina, a small town in southern Illinois.

According to reports, the fire broke out at approximately 6:30 p.m. on May 29. More than two dozen fire departments rushed to the scene to help put the fire out, but it was already too late: the facility was a total loss.

BRICS Summit Begins with Goal of Ditching U.S. Dollar

The foreign ministers of BRICS member nations – and another 13 countries interested in collaborating with the anti-Western bloc – convened in Russia on Monday for a meeting outside of the confines of the BRICS annual summit to discuss, among other issues, ways to expand trade without the use of the U.S. dollar.

“The proactive work is underway on fulfillment of decisions of the Johannesburg summit of the last year, specifically as regards improvement of the international monetary system and development of a platform for payment in national currencies in mutual trade,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

Pope Francis Lauds Pro-Gay Jesuit Father James Martin

Pope Francis has written a glowing forward to a new book by gay rights activist Father James Martin, calling him a “person who has fallen in love with the Word of God.”

Father Martin is rooted “firmly in the Ignatian tradition,” the pontiff writes in his preface to newly released Italian edition of Come Forth: The Raising of Lazarus and the Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle.