Air raid sirens blare in Israel and rescue and salvage teams deployed after deadly Iranian missile strikes

Washington is suing Kalshi, the crypto betting platform that allows its users to place bets on the results of future events such as the Iran war, Attorney General Nick Brown said.

In a post to X, Brown revealed that the state is taking legal action against Kalshi for ‘running an illegal betting operation.’

‘Kalshi tries to deceive governments and consumers by calling itself a “prediction market,”‘ Brown wrote.

‘If you spend a minute on their website, you’ll clock that this is a gambling site,’ he added. ‘They claim to offer a new financial product, but they’re just a bookie with a huge amount of venture capital.’

Kalshi operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace where users bet on the chances of events occurring, ranging from political elections to major sports matches.

But the site currently has several open ‘markets’ that let users speculate on events tied to Iran, including wagers on when – or whether – Washington and Tehran might reach a nuclear deal.

The FBI confirmed that a hacker group targeted Kash Patel after earlier reports said the Iran‑linked Handala Hack Team published dozens of emails and photos reportedly taken from the FBI director’s personal inbox.

FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson said: ‘We have taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity.’

He added that the data involved in the breach was ‘historical in nature and involves no government information.’

Material uploaded by the hackers seemed to include personal and work correspondence spanning 2010 to 2019.

The White House has been forced to deny rumors that the president is addicted to ‘war porn’ amid reports his daily workday routine includes regular screenings of ‘strike montages’.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has denied the claims of a ‘war porn’ addiction, stating, ‘That’s an absolutely false assertion coming from someone who has not been present in the room.’

‘Anyone who has been present for conversations with President Trump knows he actively seeks and solicits the opinions of everyone in the room and expects full-throated honesty from all of his top advisers,’ she added.

But she failed to deny that video briefings exist, which suggest that the claims are almost certainly true.

Megyn Kelly warned President Donald Trump that the ongoing war in Iran could hand Democrats victory at the polls for the next two decades.

The host of The Megyn Kelly Show, who endorsed the president ahead of the 2024 election, continued her skepticism toward the conflict Friday, saying it would completely break up the MAGA coalition.

‘We cannot send five to 17,000 troops into Iran and ever win a Republican election again for the next 10 to 20 years,’ she said.

‘He cannot do that. Everything he built, the entire coalition we were all part of, will be ruined.’

More than 70,000 residential units and nearly 300 health facilities across Iran have been damaged by ongoing airstrikes since the start of the war, according to the latest figures from Iran’s Red Crescent Society.

The society also reported that around 600 schools have been wrecked in the attacks.

President Donald Trump spoke about the ongoing war with Iran at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami Beach on Friday, saying that US operations were progressing ‘two weeks ahead of schedule.’

‘Tonight, we’re closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East that is finally free at last, from Iranian terror aggression and nuclear blackmail,’ he said.

He asserted that Iran’s 22 mine droppers are ‘gone’ and the nation’s leaders are dead.

Referring to Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Trump said the ‘son is either dead or in very bad shape because nobody has heard from him.’

The president then declared that the US has another 3,554 targets to hit, which he claimed will ‘be done pretty quickly.’

He reiterated the the nation is in good shape and has access to weapons ‘that nobody even knows about, except for a few of us.’

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has warned citizens and residents to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place following warning sirens.

The ministry did not provide further details on why the sirens were activated.

Hundreds of people attended the Friday funeral for a 22-year-old man who was killed during an overnight Israeli raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp area in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

During the funeral, masked mourners carrying weapons fired into the air, prompting the Israeli army to raid the camp for a second time. Another man was killed in the process, the ministry said.

In a separate incident on Friday, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead during a raid on the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem.

Meanwhile, Israel’s military said the ‘violent disturbances’ occurred during two separate incidents in the Qalandiya area, in which they claimed people threw stones at troops.

In a statement, the military said soldiers responded with live fire toward ‘key instigators, and hits were identified.’

The ‘No Kings’ protest movement is set to return on Saturday, with more than 3,000 gatherings planned across the United States.

Organizers told the Burlington Free Press that this weekend’s demonstrations could be among the largest days of protest in American history, with people rallying against everything from Trump’s immigration crackdown to the ongoing war with Iran.

More than 40 protests are planned across Vermont alone, a state with just 646,000 residents.

Other major protests are expected in Washington DC, Minneapolis, Chicago and San Francisco.

In June 2025, more than five million people attended a ‘No Kings’ protest, with attendance swelling to over seven million in October.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ‘gambling’ with America’s future, commenting in response to a news article about the slump in US stocks and bonds amid the ongoing war.

In a post shared to X, Araghchi wrote: ‘Netanyahu gambled with American taxpayer dollars and American lives.’

‘Having badly lost that gamble, he is now singlehandedly making sure that ordinary Americans, particularly retirees and those retiring in the next few years, will pick up the tab,’ he added.

The article, published by the Financial Times on Friday, was titled: ‘Stocks and bonds slump in tandem as Iran shock leaves investors “nowhere to hide.”‘

United Nations coordinator for the Strait of Hormuz, Jorge Moreira da Silva, announced that he will lead a new UN task force aimed at preventing ‘a massive humanitarian crisis.’

‘The UN Secretary General announced today the creation of a Task Force which I am very honored to coordinate,’ he said.

The task force will work to ensure that ships carrying fertilizers and related raw materials can safely transit the critical waterway.

‘Disruptions in maritime trade’ through the strait ‘risk creating ripple effects impacting humanitarian needs and agricultural production in the coming months,’ da Silva wrote on X.

‘We are standing by to support this lifesaving operation,’ he added. ‘It is urgent to prevent a massive humanitarian crisis in the Middle East and beyond including in Africa and Asia import-dependent on fertilizers.’

Iran’s state news agency Mehr reported that US and Israeli forces struck the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran in the early hours of Saturday.