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A 15-year-old Jaden Pierre was brutally beaten by a group of teens and then fatally shot to death in broad daylight at a Queens playground The incident began as a dispute on the basketball court that escalated into a fight Pierre was punched and kicked by multiple attackers before one pulled a gun and shot him once in the chest at close range. NYPD officers responded to a 911 call and found the teen gravely wounded. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The U.S. Department of Defense has begun relocating air-defense systems, including MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Batteries with the U.S. Army, from Osan Air Base and other sites in South Korea to the Middle East, amidst the ongoing conflict with Iran, despite protests from the Korean Government and President Lee Jae Myung. According to Yonhap, a senior defense official claimed that U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) remain focused on ensuring a “combat-credible” force posture in South Korea, despite reports suggesting that a large number of air-defense systems are being withdrawn from the country, with nearly all components of THAAD Batteries assigned to USFK having been redeployed to the Middle East, in addition to several “Patriot” Batteries and MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS).

The Trump Administration is preparing for a major war with Iran that would likely consist of a massive, weeks-long campaign by Israel and the United States that would look more like full-fledged war than last month’s pinpoint operation in Venezuela, sources tell Axios, with one Trump advisor stating, “The boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks.”