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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) intends to step down from his position as the Senate GOP leader this November, concluding his almost twenty-year tenure in the high-profile role.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has warned the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon that it will “pay a very high price” if it continues firing rockets at Israeli communities, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

A pastor in Nepal is seeking to be given a fine instead of the one-year prison sentence he has received for proselytizing, despite being ordered by the Nepalese Supreme Court to begin his jail sentence pending appeal, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A U.S. District Court handed Texas its first win in a lawsuit challenging the validity of an omnibus spending package Congress passed in late 2022 that it argued would create an undue burden on the state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that American support was waning for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and that a ceasefire should be reached by next week.

A Dutch court has sentenced the head of a violent Dubai-based “super cartel” that supplied a third of Europe’s cocaine to life imprisonment over several murders and attempted killings.

Moscow on Tuesday warned Ukraine’s allies that sending troops to fight in Ukraine would lead to the “inevitability” of war between Russia and the NATO military alliance.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are planning to exploit the upcoming Ramadan period as a catalyst for escalating the war, saying that it was planning “the second stage of October 7.”

Hezbollah, the terrorist organization backed by Iran, launched 60 Katyusha rockets across the Golan Heights in what the group stated was a retaliatory move against Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah claimed the rocket barrage aimed at an Israeli military base in the Golan was a direct response to “Zionist aggression” near Baalbek, a city located over 62 miles from the border, earlier that day.  The strikes near Baalbek marked the deepest confirmed Israeli attacks since the onset of cross-border hostilities.

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., face a partial government shutdown deadline this week and another separate shutdown early next week, setting up a chaotic Congress and frantic dealmaking, or lack thereof, before Friday.