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What recent conflicts are escalating in the Middle East?
Fighting continues. I'm Deborah Valentine, Fox News. Iran's parliamentary leader accusing the U.S. of secretly planning a ground invasion in Tehran as fighting continues. Fox's Jonathan Hunt reports from Tel Aviv, Israel.
The missile slammed into southern Israel near the town of Beersheba. sending a huge plume of grey smoke over the area. Apparently it was some sort of chemical facility that was hit. Local residents were told to keep their windows shut and their air conditioning off because of the toxic fumes produced as a result. of that strike. Meantime, the U.S. continues to hit targets throughout Iran, missile launchers and military manufacturing installations as those 2,500 Marines arrive aboard the USS Tripoli.
How is the U.S. responding to missile attacks from Iran?
But Iranian officials are saying they are ready for whatever the U.S. does next.
President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have not ruled out ground operations. Pakistan's foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran. Senate Democrats calling a House-passed contingency bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security debt on arrival.
House Democrats say they'll fund DHS with no more money for ICE. There's been no vote on that bill. Democratic Representative Adam Smith said they have agencies such as TSA in mind. pay them, pay the Coast Guard, pay FEMA. We put it on the table. Why won't Mike Johnson allow a vote? Because tell you something, if he allowed a vote, it would pass.
GOP Senator Tom Cotton said a House bill funding DHS for two months sits before senators, making their goal... A new budget bill that will fund ICE and CBP for probably five or ten years, because we don't think the Democrats will ever fund them again.
That's Fox's Grinnell Scott with that report on DHS funding. America's listening to Fox News.
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Kim Jong-un has reportedly overseen the testing of a rocket engine that could carry long-range missiles into the U.S., Fox's Jill Nader reports.
North Korean media says the dictator witnessed the test of a new high-thrust solid-fuel rocket engine. That engine described as part of a new defense plan to upgrade the country's... strategic strike capabilities. Solid fuel systems can be launched more quickly and with less warning than older liquid fuel missiles, and that makes them harder to detect. However, there are still challenges before they can create a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile, like ensuring a warhead can survive atmospheric reentry. Both South Korea and the U.S. say they're monitoring North Korea's weapons developments.
The first American Pope's first Holy Week is underway.
Holy Week at the Vatican looks slightly different under Pope Leo. Of course, there are intense days of prayer and celebration as the Roman Catholic Church builds up to Easter Sunday. Events began yesterday with the Pope conducting Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. But unlike Pope Francis, who on Holy Thursday would visit prisons and wash the feet of inmates, Leo will bring that day's Mass back to the Cathedral of Rome. It was on Easter Sunday last year that Francis made his final public appearance. He passed away the very next morning. Jonathan Savage, Fox News.
In Israel on Sunday, Catholic officials were banned from privately praying at the holiest Christian sites in Old Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christians believed Jesus was crucified, buried, and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. Catholics were stopped from praying by Israeli police, citing security concerns involving the conflict in the Middle East. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee calling the move an unfortunate overreach and difficult to understand or justify. I'm Deborah Valentine. This is Fox News.
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