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Trump threatens to "obliterate" Iran's energy and water infrastructure if talks fail

President Donald Trump says if a peace deal is "not shortly reached" with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen immediately, the U.S. will completely obliterate "all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island." It comes just a day after Trump said he’s weighing whether to seize Kharg Island, telling the Financial Times he wants to “take the oil in Iran.”

Major US airports return to normal as TSA workers get paid

After weeks of chaos in U.S. airports, the Transportation Safety Administration said Monday that most of its officers received much of their backpay Monday for working during the shutdown.

Student Shoots a Teacher and Then Fatally Shoots Himself at a Texas High School, Authorities Say

Michigan synagogue attack was act of terrorism inspired by Hezbollah, federal officials say

The attack earlier this month on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was “a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism purposely targeting the Jewish community and the largest Jewish temple in Michigan,” the FBI said in a news conference Monday.