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CNN: Iran has reinforced Kharg Island with troops and air defenses ahead of a possible US operation.

U.S. forces are striking targets to degrade the Iranian regime's military infrastructure and capabilities that have threatened American troops and regional partners for decades.

ICYMI: TSA officials tell us ICE has "no practical use" in airports. Just about everything TSA screeners do require extensive classroom and on-the-job training that ICE personnel don't have. Exact nature of ICE duties unclear, but they're unlikely to free up staff. Details👇

The Cadets from Old Dominion University who stopped an active shooter, received 8 Meritorious Service Medals. Two of them received Purple Hearts…from the Sergeant Major of the Army and the Secretary of the Army. Absolutely amazing and well deserved.

NYT: The US Supreme Court appears poised to reject Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law as the six conservative justices expressed deep skepticism. The outcome would affect mail-in voting throughout the country.

Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan relayed messages between the U.S. and Iran over the past two days, Axios reports.

🚨🇶🇦 BREAKING: Qatar Gas CEO says 'We incurred a $20 billion loss at the facility we built for $26 billion two years ago.'

Last fall, as my 86-year-old father-in-law lay dying of cancer at his home in Lakeland, Florida, the pool guy told my wife—who was tending to her dad—that he was owed $2,000 for past services. He claimed that he’d left my father-in-law’s check “out in the rain” and it had been ruined. Although distraught over her father’s situation, my wife is a sensible person and asked to see the “ruined” check before writing a new one. Weeks pass, and the pool guy starts to get pretty aggressive about demanding payment, before he finally produces the “ruined” check on which he also claims to have spilled ink (!)—and shows her many other similarly “ruined” checks. My wife logs into her father’s bank account and sees that the check—in perfect condition—had been cashed by the pool guy months earlier. So he’s obviously trying to take advantage of her vulnerable situation to scam her. We were outraged and concerned that he’d pull this stunt on others, so we immediately contacted the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. We were assigned a Detective to whom we presented the evidence: emails demanding payment, the copy of the bogus “ruined” check, and the bank’s copy of the intact check that was cashed. Alas, they’ve now ghosted us since we last reached out 3 months ago asking for an update. And that brings me to my point: I don’t know what’s happened in our country, but our law enforcement agencies and prosecutors seem more interested in doing their paperwork than in actually enforcing the law. I hope we can change this before people stop bothering even to bring wrongdoing to the authorities’ attention, as has happened in many other countries. The rule of law requires enforcement of the law!