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The Third Lebanon War has officially begun, according to Israel’s Army Radio, as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground forces crossed into Lebanon early Tuesday morning to remove Hezbollah outposts that threaten Israeli communities.

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have reportedly pulled back from Lebanon’s border with Israel, as Israel began shelling Hezbollah positions ahead of a ground assault.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will begin a “limited” ground war in southern Lebanon to remove Hezbollah bases near the border with Israel, according to multiple reports.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the running mates for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, respectively, will debate on Tuesday night on CBS News at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Sunday requiring major health insurance companies in the state to cover in vitro fertilization (IVF), a move that was deliberately aimed at affecting the national presidential election.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video Monday in which he addressed the people of Iran and expressed solidarity with them against their leaders.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Security Agency (ISA) announced Monday that they had killed Fateh Sherif, who led Hamas in Lebanon. He was also a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employee.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out airstrikes on Sunday targeting Hezbollah’s remaining officials, following the killing of leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, whom Israel said was killed with 20 other terrorist commanders.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law Thursday to reverse a policy that Kamala Harris championed to threaten the parents of truant schoolchildren when she was District Attorney of San Francisco and California Attorney General.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commandos have begun carrying out small incursions into southern Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah positions, ahead of a possible ground invasion, taking advantage of disarray in the terrorist organization.

President Joe Biden called for a ceasefire in Lebanon again on Saturday evening, hours after the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was confirmed, and Israel continued pounding Hezbollah leaders and weapons caches.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his nation on Saturday night, telling them that the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was a victory for Israel and a warning to Iran.

President Joe Biden issued a statement on Saturday welcoming the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, but repeating his call for ceasefire deals in Gaza and Lebanon, despite Israel’s advance toward victory.

The Associated Press published an obituary of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah that referred to him as a “pragmatist” and omitted Hezbollah’s role in murdering hundreds of Americans, among other terror victims.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared Saturday, and Hezbollah confirmed, that terrorist mass murderer Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in an airstrike Friday evening in his headquarters deep under civilian buildings in Beirut.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after warning residents of three residential buildings in Beirut to evacuate because the terrorist organization had built facilities underneath them.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and other “progressive” Democrats have introduced legislation to restore U.S. funding to the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) despite the fact that several of its employees participated in the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved Friday’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, from his hotel room in New York City prior to his speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday that it had targeted the underground headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut.

“In this swamp of antisemitic bile, there’s an automatic majority willing to demonize Israel on anything,” Netanyahu noted.

Hamas gunmen murdered an American aid worker in Gaza on Friday, firing at her car and killing her in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.

In victory, Israel can free Lebanon. As it does, it should fight carefully, and plant the seeds of future friendship.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel that fighting Hezbollah would only make it more difficult to return more than 60,000 displaced Israelis to their homes, as he pushed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a series of reparations bills on Thursday, including a formal apology for slavery, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface missile early Friday morning local time that had been launched at Tel Aviv by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had killed Hezbollah’s drone commander, Muhammad Hussein Srour, in a precision airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.

The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice has argued in federal court that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) who joined the October 7 terror attack are immune from lawsuits.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill this week to ban one-pound, single-use propane cylinders, meaning that only more expensive reusable cylinders will be available in the state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected reports Thursday that he had accepted the terms of a ceasefire in Lebanon proposed Wednesday by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden, among others.

President Joe Biden joined French President Emmanuel Macron and several other nations Wednesday evening in proposing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah — just as Israel had begun to destroy the terrorist organization.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first solo interview Wednesday on cable news as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, and failed to answer questions even in a friendly interview by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.

Former Trump administration Department of Justice official Jeff Clark said Wednesday that he cannot find evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris ever personally led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.

Newsom: “They’ve been gouging. They’ve been taking advantage of you. … They’re lying to you. … They’re the polluted heart of this climate crisis.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Wednesday that soldiers are prepared for a ground war in southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah weapons sites from the air.

The City of Johannesburg, South Africa, has decided to rename the street on which the U.S. consulate is situated after a notorious Palestinian terrorist who tried to hijack a commercial flight in 1970 before being subdued by passengers.

Hezbollah fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Netanya, and other coastal and central cities in Israel on Wednesday morning local time, setting off air raid warnings and sending residents scrambling to bomb shelters and safe rooms.