Authorities in Great Britain have arrested five men in an alleged terrorist bomb plot near a military base used by U.S. forces to launch strikes against Iran.
British police said the men were arrested on “suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act” in the southwest England village of Whelford.
The men, aged 23 to 35, are residents of north or northwest London, the U.K. Counter Terrorism Policing agency said.
The incident happened at a delicate moment in the U.S.-Iran conflict and will raise new questions about whether Iran is targeting U.S. military facilities far from the Middle East.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran will not back down on the terms of a seven-day ceasefire offer rejected by President Trump, “even if it comes to a doomsday war.”
Araghchi said he is waiting for the president, through U.S. mediators, to officially respond to Iran’s terms for a ceasefire.
Trump rejected the offer, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday that the president doesn’t trust the Iranians to hold up their end of the deal.
The Iranian offer would first require the United States to release at least $12 billion in frozen assets, lift Iranian oil sanctions and end the blockade of Iranian ports, among other conditions.
Ten thousand households that earned more than $1 million collected unemployment benefits in 2024, according to data from Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst.
Engineers were the most common claimants, followed by lawyers, executive managers and salespeople.
High-tax, Democratic-led states topped the list of locations where the claimants lived. California ranked first, followed by New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington.
Although states administer unemployment insurance and set payment rates, a 1964 Labor Department rule prohibits them from using income to limit eligibility, forcing states to pay benefits regardless of earnings.
Perennial third-party candidate Ted Brown might be the last person Attorney General Ken Paxton wants on the Texas ballot right now.
The Libertarian candidate is finding some traction this time around in the U.S. Senate race, and Paxton is struggling to bring Republican voters back into the fold.
Republican voters in Texas often flirt with third-party candidates early and then drift back to the Republican nominee as Election Day nears, out of fear of handing a Democrat the seat. But that usual pattern hasn’t kicked in.
And finally… A Northern Virginia software CEO deceived U.S. defense agencies by claiming his company was American when Russians actually owned and operated it and wrote the code, new court files show.
Oxygen Forensics of Alexandria sold the exported Russian digital forensics software to the Pentagon and to key branches of the Department of Homeland Security, including the Secret Service.
The Russian-built software could crack passwords and retrieve data from digital devices without leaving a trace.
The Moscow-based developers sold the same software products to high-ranking Russian agencies under different branding than the versions sold to the Secret Service.
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