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Hegseth, military brass describe ‘incredible and overwhelming success’ of US strikes on Iran
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan «Razin» Caine held a press conference from the Pentagon early Sunday morning to relay details on the U.S. military’s successful strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
«Last night, on President Trump’s orders, U.S. Central Command conducted a precision strike in the middle of the night against three nuclear facilities in Iran Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in order to destroy or severely degrade Iran’s nuclear program,» Hegseth said Sunday morning from the Pentagon.
«It was an incredible and overwhelming success,» Hegseth continued. «The order we received from our commander in chief was focused. It was powerful, and it was clear we devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it’s worth noting the operation did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people for the entirety of his time in office.»
The press conference was held following President Donald Trump addressing the nation at 10 p.m. Saturday evening, just hours after he announced the successful strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine (right) arrive for a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«The mission demonstrated to the world the level of joint and allied integration that speak to the strength of our alliance and our joint forces,» Hegseth continued. «As President Trump has stated, the United States does not seek war, but let me be clear: We will act swiftly and decisively when our people, our partners or our interests are threatened. Iran should listen to the United States and know that he means it.»
Caine addressed the media and explained the strikes, dubbed «Operation Midnight Hammer,» included the use of submarines, dozens of Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, and the «longest B-2 spirit bomber mission since 2001.»
«At approximately 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time last night and just prior to the strike package entering Iran, a U.S. submarine in the Central Command area of responsibility launched more than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key surface infrastructure targets as often as the Operation Midnight Hammer strike package entered Iranian airspace,» Caine said. «The U.S. employed several deception tactics.»
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, right, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. (Getty Images)
«This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan,» he continued. «I’ll refer you to the graphic on the side as I walk you through some of the operational details. At midnight Friday into Saturday morning, a large B-2 strike package comprised of bombers launched from the continental United States as part of the plan to maintain tactical surprise. Part of the package proceeded to the west and into the Pacific as a decoy. A deception effort, known only to an extremely small number of planners and key leaders here in Washington and in Tampa.»
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a press conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Fox News / The Will Cain Show)
Trump announced the U.S. had struck a trio of nuclear facilities in Iran via a Saturday evening Truth Social post, which was not preceded by any media leaks of prior indication such strikes were imminent.
The president ordered U.S. B-2 stealth bombers to carry out the strikes against Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities.
Five to six bunker-buster bombs struck the Fordow nuclear site, Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity shortly after announcing the Saturday night strikes.
Trump later addressed the nation from the White House while flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where he announced Iran’s nuclear facilities had been «obliterated» and that the country has been backed into a corner and «must now make peace.»
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«Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,» Trump said. «And Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.»
Vice President JD Vance, from left, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during an address to the nation in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump had repeatedly urged Iran to make a deal on its nuclear program before striking its nuclear facilities, but the country pulled out of ongoing talks with the U.S. scheduled for June 15 in Oman and refused to return to the table in the days following. Israel pre-emptively ordered strikes on Iran June 12 as Israeli intelligence indicated Iran’s nuclear program was rapidly progressing.
«A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan,» Trump said during his address. «Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.»
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«For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America. Death to Israel.’ They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,» Trump continued. «That was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate in particular.»
The president said that the U.S. worked like a team with Israel in the lead-up to the strikes.
«I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu,» he said. «We worked as a team, like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.»
Caine told the media that the strikes Saturday evening were U.S.-led, while lauding Israel for its initial operations «degrading Iranian capabilities.»
«Israel had an incredible military success, especially at the beginning and ongoing in degrading Iranian capabilities, degrading Iranian launchers,» reusable ballistic missiles, Caine said. «It’s been incredible to watch what our ally Israel has been able to do.»
«But as it pertains to this strike, this was U.S.-operated and U.S.-led,» he added. «We took advantage of some of the preparatory work that’s been done over the past week and a half.»
Hegseth underscored that Trump is focused on securing peace in the Middle East following the strikes.
«As the president put put out last night, he wants peace,» Hegseth said. «There needs to be a negotiated settlement here. We ultimately demonstrated that Iran cannot have a nuclear capability. That is a very clear mission set on this operation.»
President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)
Israel launched pre-emptive strikes on Iran on June 12 after months of attempted and stalled nuclear negotiations and subsequent heightened concern that Iran was advancing its nuclear program. Netanyahu declared soon afterward that the strikes were necessary to «roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.»
The strikes were unexpected on Saturday evening, as Trump on Thursday said he would make a decision on Iran within the next two weeks, suggesting that such a strike would not unfold over the weekend. While six B-2 bombers that were spotted heading west from Missouri toward Guam on Saturday afternoon were decoys and part of the «misleading tidbits put out there to suggest that maybe President Trump had put off the decision,» Fox News Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin said during an appearance Saturday evening as news broke of the strikes.
«Those six B-2 bombers that were heading west toward Guam, they would not have made it to Iran in time to take part in this strike,» she said while speaking with Fox News’ Bret Baier Saturday evening. «So, that suggests to me that there was an additional B-1 package that perhaps flew eastward from Whiteman Air Force Base. Again, this was all part of the deception. There was a great deal of sort of misleading tidbits put out there to suggest that maybe President Trump had put off the decision and that this would happen two weeks from now.»
Trump earned bipartisan praise from Congressional lawmakers for taking action to prevent Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, from achieving nuclear capabilities.
Other members of Congress, however, simultaneously criticized Trump for not asking for Congressional approval ahead of the military strikes and raised concerns of the risk of war.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has yet to comment on the strikes. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, however, said that diplomacy is an unlikely option in the wake of the U.S. strikes.
Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
«Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy. This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy,» Araghchi wrote on X. «What conclusion would you draw?»
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Araghchi said he’ll travel to Moscow later Sunday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Iran enjoys «a strategic partnership.»
Hegseth said on Sunday during the press conference that correspondence with Iran is being conducted both publicly and privately to pursue a deal for peace.
«I can only confirm that there are both public and private messages being directly delivered to the Iranians in multiple channels, giving them every opportunity to come to the table. They understand precisely what the American position is. Precisely, what steps they can take to allow for peace,» the secretary of defense said. «And we hope they do so.»
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Former special counsel Jack Smith is standing by his 2023 decision to subpoena several Republican lawmakers’ phone records, calling the move «entirely proper» and consistent with Justice Department policy.
Smith said through his lawyers in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital that the subpoenaed data, known as toll records, belonging to eight senators and one House member were carefully targeted to support his investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 election.
«As described by various Senators, the toll data collection was narrowly tailored and limited to the four days from January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021, with a focus on telephonic activity during the period immediately surrounding the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol,» Smith’s lawyers wrote Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an unsealed indictment, including four felony counts against President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Toll records do not reveal the contents of phone calls but instead reveal when calls were made and to whom.
Smith’s lawyers said that although Grassley, who brought the subpoenas to light, has not reached out to Smith, they felt compelled to write to the chairman to address claims from Republicans that Smith improperly spied on lawmakers.
Grassley responded to the letter, saying he would continue an unbiased probe into Arctic Frost, the name of the FBI investigation that led to Smith’s election-related prosecution of Trump.
«I’m conducting an objective assessment of the facts&law like he says he wants So far we exposed an anti-Trump FBI agent started the investigation/broke FBI rules &only REPUBLICANS were targeted SMELLS LIKE POLITICS,» Grassley wrote on X.
The targeted senators included Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
In addition to the eight senators, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday that he recently discovered Smith also attempted to subpoena his toll records but that his phone company, AT&T, did not hand them over.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The Republicans have broadly claimed they were inappropriately spied on, and compared Arctic Frost to the Watergate scandal.
Smith’s lawyers emphasized the normalcy of seeking out phone records and said that public officials are not immune from investigation.
Smith brought four criminal charges against Trump alleging he illegally attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but he dismissed the charges after Trump won the 2024 election, citing a DOJ policy that discourages prosecuting sitting presidents.
Former special counsel Robert K. Hur testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on March 12, 2024, in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Former special counsel Robert Hur sought toll records during his investigation into former President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. The DOJ subpoenaed phone records of former Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who is serving prison time after he was convicted in 2024 of corruption charges.
The first Trump administration subpoenaed phone records of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and then-Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and dozens of congressional staffers from both parties as part of a leak investigation.
Former DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz warned in a report about the leak probe that lawmakers’ records should only be subpoenaed in narrow circumstances because it «risks chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch.»
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Smith’s lawyers also disputed FBI Director Kash Patel’s accusations that he attempted to hide the subpoenas «in a lockbox in a vault,» noting that the former special counsel mentioned subpoenaing senators’ records in a footnote of his final special counsel report.
«Moreover, the precise records at issue were produced in discovery to President Trump’s personal lawyers, some of whom now serve in senior positions within the Department of Justice,» Smith’s lawyers said.
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Incluso M. Night Shyamalan —conocido por hacer películas más oscuras como Sexto sentido y Señales”— a veces busca la luz. “Acabo de terminar tres películas realmente oscuras, Viejos, Llaman a la puerta y Trampa, que son historias muy intensas donde los personajes son súper, súper oscuros y complicados, y quería hacer algo diferente”, dijo el director.
Encontró una oportunidad interesante para colaborar en una nueva novela de romance sobrenatural llamada Remain junto a Nicholas Sparks. Sí, ese Nicholas Sparks: el rey de los dramas románticos como Diario de una pasión y Un paseo para recordar.
Los libros coescritos son una tendencia candente en el mundo editorial en este momento. Reese Witherspoon y Harlan Coben tienen una nueva novela. James Patterson se ha asociado con Bill Clinton y Dolly Parton en libros. Sin embargo, esta colaboración es diferente en que Shyamalan escribió el guion y Sparks aceptó escribir una novela basada en esa historia. Una película de Remain —protagonizada por Jake Gyllenhaal y Phoebe Dynevor— ya terminó su producción y se estrenará el próximo año.
“No creo que nadie haya hecho lo que acabamos de hacer, que fue tomar la misma historia e ir simultáneamente a hacer nuestras cosas por separado”, dijo Sparks. “No es de manera lineal. Son dos personas haciendo dos formas de arte diferentes a partir de la misma historia. Confié en él al 100% para hacer la mejor versión cinematográfica posible de esa historia y él confió en mí”.
Ambos se cruzaron hace años cuando le preguntaron a Shyamalan si querría adaptar la novela de Sparks El diario de una pasión en una película. El trabajo terminó en manos de Nick Cassavetes, pero Shyamalan dijo que la obra de Sparks “siempre representó algo mágico para mí”. Significaba algo para él que le confiaran una historia tan querida.
En una entrevista conjunta, Nicholas Sparks y M. Night Shyamalan hablan sobre trabajar juntos, películas de terror y ensalada de pollo. Las respuestas han sido editadas por claridad y brevedad.
—Al principio, ustedes dos trabajando juntos parece una pareja poco probable, pero los géneros sobrenatural y romántico tienen mucho en común.
SPARKS: No somos los primeros en incursionar en esto. La película más grande de 1990 fue Ghost. Shakespeare solía poner fantasmas en sus obras.
SHYAMALAN: Creo que el amor es un concepto sobrenatural. Es una mitología en la que todos creemos, pero sigue siendo una mitología, una mitología sobrenatural de que existe “el indicado”. El “destinado” que conoces en la cafetería y sabes que estaba destinado a ser, y luego todas las cosas que suceden porque se conocieron.
—Night, dices que te acercaste a Gyllenhaal a principios de año para este papel. Cuando lo hiciste, ¿le dijiste que también habría una novela escrita por Sparks?
SHYAMALAN: Debo haberlo hecho. Pero fue un momento tan inusual porque había terminado de escribir el guion, presioné guardar, corrí para subirme al auto e ir a Nueva York para el cumpleaños de mi hija. En el auto suena el teléfono, y es Jake. Y yo, “¿Qué pasa, amigo?” No habíamos hablado en cinco años, o más. Y él dice, “Me encantaría estar en una de tus películas”. Y yo respondí, “Eso es tan raro. ¿Dónde estás?” Y él, “Estoy en Nueva York”. Le dije, “Bueno, yo voy a Nueva York. ¿Quieres tomar un té?”
Tuve la corazonada de que el universo estaba haciendo algo. Así que llamé a mi asistente. Le dije, “Imprime el guion”. Así que solo estábamos tomando té y poniéndonos al día. Y él me contaba lo enamorado que está y lo feliz que está y enamorado. Y le dije, “¿Sabes qué? Toma”. Se quedó en shock. Me llamó dos días después y dijo, “Estoy dentro. Me encanta”. Fue una especie de cosa extraña y hermosa.
—¿El libro sigue el guion al pie de la letra o viceversa?
SPARKS: Como cualquier adaptación, no. Lo primero que dije cuando leí su guion fue, “Oye, esto es genial. Por supuesto, no se parecerá en nada a mi novela. Es completamente diferente”. Night dijo básicamente lo mismo.
SHYAMALAN: Creo que para el público será muy interesante. Podrán señalar las diferencias y preguntar, “¿Por qué Nicholas hizo eso con el personaje y la historia de fondo? ¿Por qué Night hizo esto?” Nuestro diálogo no es el mismo.
—Night, estamos en temporada de Halloween. ¿Hay alguna película —además de las tuyas— que recomiendes ver?
SHYAMALAN: El exorcista, por supuesto, siempre está ahí. Está Juego de inocentes. La casa embrujada, la película de 1963 de Robert Wise. Y la película japonesa Cure.
Fuente: AP
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Australian prime minister’s plane makes emergency landing in St Louis after leaving Washington
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The plane carrying Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had to make an emergency landing Tuesday night after leaving Washington, D.C.
The aircraft, a Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A, diverted and landed safely at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri, an Australian Defence spokesperson confirmed to Fox News.
«Our highest priority is providing support to the injured member and request that their privacy be respected,» a statement said.
Officials told local FOX 2 that a crew member was struck in the head by luggage, and it was believed to have fallen from an overhead bin.
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President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, October 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Evan Vucci)
That crew member reportedly suffered a concussion and was taken to the hospital.
Albanese’s plane had left Joint Base Andrews at 5:15 p.m., FOX 2 reported, and the emergency landing happened around 7:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump and Albanese signed a critical minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the U.S. had been eyeing the continent’s rich rare-earth resources. This, at a time when China is imposing tougher rules on exporting its own critical minerals abroad.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gestures during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 12, 2024. (Mark Baker, File)
The two leaders described the agreement as an $8.5 billion deal between the allies. Trump said it had been negotiated over several months.
«In about a year from now we’ll have so much critical mineral and rare earth that you won’t know what to do with them,» said Trump, boasting about the deal. «They’ll be worth $2.»
Xenotime is a rare earth element that can be found in Australia. (Getty Images )
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Albanese added that the agreement takes the U.S.-Australia relationship «to the next level.»
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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