Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed likened his past criticism of former President Barack Obama to second-guessing a parent during a Meet the Press interview Sunday, weeks before the two are set to campaign together in Detroit.
NBC moderator Kristen Welker asked El-Sayed whether he still sees Obama&#8217;s presidency as a failure. In a 2012 HuffPost <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/president-obamas-reelection_b_2090310">essay</a>, El-Sayed wrote that Obama &#8220;was not the right choice&#8221; and that &#8220;the list of his failures goes on.&#8221;
El-Sayed said Obama &#8220;was handed a really difficult set of circumstances, and he did his best.&#8221; He then asked Welker whether her parents were still living. She said they were.
&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have my life but for my dad&#8217;s efforts,&#8221; El-Sayed said. &#8220;At the same time, there&#8217;s a lot of things about my dad I would do differently, right?&#8221;
In hindsight, El-Sayed said, Obama looks like &#8220;a really capable leader,&#8221; and called the former president a &#8220;mentor.&#8221;
El-Sayed has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-said-obama-left-america-no-better-off-now-he-wants-his-help">criticized Obama repeatedly over the years</a>. At a 2020 University of Chicago panel, he said the country was not &#8220;better off&#8221; eight years after Obama&#8217;s election, &#8220;as someone who loves him deeply.&#8221; In a 2017 Vox interview, he said he disagreed with Obama on &#8220;a lot of things.&#8221;
His campaign said the earlier remarks do not reflect hostility toward Obama. El-Sayed used a similar line in an Instagram video this week: &#8220;Do you love your dad? Do you agree with everything your dad has ever done?&#8221;
Obama is scheduled to appear with El-Sayed and gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson on October 24, the day in-person voting begins in Michigan. El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers in the November 3 election. A YouGov poll this month had El-Sayed ahead 49% to 48%, and the two traded sharp attacks in a debate Thursday in Grand Rapids.
El-Sayed also again expressed regret in the interview for his March remarks after the Temple Israel synagogue attack, saying he wishes he had &#8220;thought twice&#8221; before making them.

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Shane Gillis used the F-word on live television Saturday night while hosting Saturday Night Live, then apologized twice before the broadcast ended.
The comedian, 38, played a defensive son in a Green Eggs and Ham parody on the episode. Mikey Day played his father. Andrew Dismukes, as Sam-I-Am, kept pushing the dish on him. Gillis stepped in to tell Sam-I-Am to back off, swore mid-line, them exclaimed &#8220;Jeez!&#8221; and waved to the laughing audience.
&#8220;Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?&#8221; Gillis said. &#8220;My dad said he doesn&#8217;t like green eggs and ham — drop it, walk away.&#8221;
&#8220;But he may like green eggs and ham!&#8221; Sam-I-Am replied.
&#8220;Bro, it&#8217;s a nonstarter. He told me — he said he doesn&#8217;t f*cking — jeez — like &#8217;em!&#8221;
Day worked the slip into the scene. &#8220;You said a bad word,&#8221; Day told him in character.
&#8220;Yes, I did,&#8221; Gillis answered.
Day returned to it later, telling his on-screen son: &#8220;You&#8217;re a loser, and you said a bad word!&#8221;
As the sketch cut away, Gillis could be heard saying &#8220;Sorry about earlier.&#8221; He repeated the apology during the closing goodbyes.
Saturday was Gillis&#8217;s third turn as host. SNL announced him as a cast member in 2019 and dropped him days later, before he appeared on air, after a podcast clip surfaced in which he used a racial slur against Chinese people. He first returned to host in February 2024. His Netflix series Tires was recently renewed for a fourth season.
The FCC restricts indecent and profane broadcasts between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., with Saturday&#8217;s episode starting at 11:30 p.m. Eastern.
SNL has no new episode for the next two weeks. It returns on Halloween with Obsession&#8216;s Inde Navarrette hosting and Gracie Abrams as a musical guest.

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Convicted murderer Christa Pike has returned to prison and is recovering from her failed execution, according to a statement from her attorneys.
Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and sent back to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, Tennessee, her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell, Kelly Gleason, Luke Ihnen, and Randy Spivey, said in a statement Saturday.
“Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years,” her attorneys said in the statement. “She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery.”
Pike, who tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, had been in the hospital since September 30 after a botched execution. She is the first known person to survive after execution drugs were actually administered, <a href="https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/DPI-Statement-on-Tennessees-Failed-Execution-of-Christa-Pike.pdf">according</a> to a statement by the Death Penalty Information Center.
The state previously confirmed there is no pending order for another execution attempt, but the possibility is still on the table, The Daily Wire <a href="http://after-an-execution-went-wrong">reported</a>.
Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, said she did not “get justice for my daughter” after the failed execution, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christa-pikes-lawyer-paints-a-mixed-picture-of-recovery-after-botched-execution">reported</a>.
“It doesn’t matter what I think,” Martinez <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/christa-pike/christa-pike-conscious-speaking-after-failed-execution-her-attorneys-say/51-ed86d8fd-0d09-453f-b8fe-6655e94c5ca5">told</a> WBIR when asked if she thought Pike would ever be executed. “They’re going to do what they’re going to do.”
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christa-pikes-lawyer-paints-a-mixed-picture-of-recovery-after-botched-execution">paused</a> all executions in the state until the end of the year and ordered an investigation into the failed attempt. A judge has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-judge-gives-tennessee-new-orders-after-an-execution-went-wrong">ordered</a> the state to preserve all evidence related to the botched execution.
Pike and her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp were convicted in 1996 of killing Slemmer after inviting her into the woods near Knoxville and torturing her with a box cutter and a meat cleaver. Pike killed her by dropping a piece of asphalt on her head. The pair also carved a pentagram into Slemmer’s forehead and chest, <a href="https://wpln.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/09/Pike-execution-stay-denial-Tennessee-Supreme-Court-092326.pdf">according</a> to court documents.
Pike kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull and was arrested after showing it off to others. She was 18 at the time of the murder, and her death sentence made her the youngest woman condemned in Tennessee since the modern death penalty era began, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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A Philadelphia police officer died Saturday after a gunman shot him and another officer who had answered an overnight call about an armed man in West Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, a ten-year veteran with a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter, was hit three times. The second officer, 33 and a father of five, was struck 12 times. Bethel said that officer is stable but &#8220;not out of the woods yet,&#8221; 6ABC News <a href="https://6abc.com/post/philadelphia-police-officer-dies-shooting-another-cop-injured/19926939/">reported</a>. Both were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
Officers from the 19th District were sent to the scene just after 12:20 a.m. for a report of a man with a gun on the porch, <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/live/philadelphia-police-shooting-suspect-officers-updates-20261010.html">according</a> to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The shots came soon after the officers reached the porch, about half an hour after dispatch. The gunman then reportedly ran through an alley and fired at other officers, missing them. Police found him in a tree and arrested him.
Investigators recovered a shotgun and two handguns. One of the handguns had been taken from a wounded officer, Bethel said.
Seiber&#8217;s wife and relatives were with him at the hospital when he died. &#8220;He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today,&#8221; Bethel said. Police sources <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-police-officers-shot-today-52nd-street/">told</a> CBS News Philadelphia that Seiber had recently finished SWAT training and hoped to join the unit.
Mayor Cherelle Parker, who said the officers were &#8220;badly wounded,&#8221; used the briefing to urge state lawmakers to expand Pennsylvania&#8217;s involuntary commitment law to cover substance use disorder and other behavioral conditions. &#8220;I don&#8217;t apologize for it,&#8221; she said. Officials have not tied the suspect to either.
Police have not publicly named the man in custody or said what prompted the shooting. Law enforcement sources have identified him to the Inquirer as Eric Lewis, a Philadelphia Water Department employee.

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The man wounded by ICE agents during an attempted arrest in the Bronx on Thursday is a Dominican national who federal officials say entered the country illegally and was freed by local authorities despite an immigration detainer, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/09/us-news/man-shot-by-ice-in-bronx-is-illegal-immigrant-with-rap-sheet-of-alarming-crimes-and-absolutely-not-a-new-yorker-neighbors-said/">according</a> to the New York Post.
Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck after plainclothes agents approached his parked Honda SUV in Marble Hill around 4 p.m. Marcos Charles, who leads ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said Belgal drove into two of the agents as he tried to get away. Belgal&#8217;s 5-year-old son was in the back seat and was not physically hurt. Belgal was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and later moved into federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Court records <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/10/09/dhs-debunks-new-york-sanctuary-politicians-lies-about-ice-shooting-illegal-alien">show</a> Belgal was arrested in late 2023 and accused of holding up two passengers in his car at gunpoint on Morris Avenue. He was later released without bail, later pled guilty to a reduced charge of fourth-degree grand larceny, and was sentenced to a month in jail and five years of probation. In August 2025, he was arrested again on charges of selling fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. The case remains open. Federal officials said ICE filed a detainer after the drug arrest, but the city did not honor it.
Thursday&#8217;s encounter was ICE&#8217;s second attempt to take Belgal into custody. Officials said he evaded agents in September. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the press release that federal investigators believed Belgal had &#8220;direct or indirect knowledge&#8221; of the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in Fort Washington Park.
Two Dominican nationals in the country illegally were charged in that attack, in which the officer was shot in the face and arm and returned fire. ABC7 reported both were sentenced in federal court this week.
Mullin blamed New York&#8217;s sanctuary laws. &#8220;Sanctuary politicians create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for American citizens to be safe,&#8221; he said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1749713782768411">has called</a> for abolishing ICE, referred to Belgal as &#8220;a New Yorker.&#8221; He said the agents&#8217; masks and construction vests left &#8220;no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents.&#8221; Gov. Kathy Hochul <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/person-shot-during-ice-interaction-marble-hill-manhattan/19922531/">said</a> residents &#8220;deserve to know exactly what happened.&#8221;
Mullin said the agents were wearing body cameras, but DHS has not released the footage.

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Former NFL head coach Jon Gruden spoke at President Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, urging voters to back Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH).
Gruden was born in Sandusky and played quarterback at the University of Dayton. He told the crowd at Vandalia-Butler High School that his home state was what brought him there.
&#8220;I came back for one reason,&#8221; Gruden said. &#8220;I&#8217;m from Ohio. My mom and dad are from Cleveland. I was born in Sandusky and I went to the University of Dayton and I&#8217;m damn proud of it, man!&#8221;
Gruden won Super Bowl XXXVII with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He and Husted played together on Dayton&#8217;s 1985 team. Gruden described the senator as a skilled defender — &#8220;He intercepted 17 passes on the gridiron&#8221; — and said Husted&#8217;s work ethic carried over into public life. &#8220;He will never quit on you or anybody,&#8221; Gruden said.
He then made a pitch for turnout. &#8220;Early voting starts Tuesday,&#8221; Gruden said. &#8220;Get your friends and get their friends and their friends and let&#8217;s get Husted back in action!&#8221;
Trump has golfed with Gruden and called him &#8220;one of my favorite coaches in the whole world.&#8221; He also called him &#8220;a winner.&#8221; Trump joked that he hadn&#8217;t known about Husted&#8217;s football career until Gruden brought it up. &#8220;Nobody told me you were a great athlete,&#8221; the president said.
The stop was part of Trump&#8217;s pre-midterm tour, which has taken him to Oklahoma and Alabama this week. Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy also spoke. He faces Democrat Amy Acton, Ohio&#8217;s former health director.
Husted was appointed in January 2025 to the seat Vice President JD Vance left open. He is now in a close special election against former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost Ohio&#8217;s other seat to Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024. Brown&#8217;s campaign drove a mobile billboard around Dayton on Saturday blaming Husted for higher gas prices tied to the Iran war.
The appearance was a rare move into electoral politics for Gruden. He resigned as Las Vegas Raiders coach in October 2021 after the publication of emails he had written years earlier that contained non-politically correct language. He later sued the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, alleging that the league leaked the messages to force him out. The league denies this, and a jury trial is scheduled for May 2027 in Las Vegas.

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The co-pilot accused of attacking his captain aboard an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight last week used the cockpit&#8217;s own emergency crash axe and was attempting a terrorist attack, United Arab Emirates authorities said Saturday.
UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi <a href="https://www.emirates247.com/uae/uae-attorney-general-terrorist-plot-behind-flydubai-flight-fz1073-incident-co-pilot-attacked-pilot/6297">told</a> the country&#8217;s state news agency that investigators had determined the co-pilot set out to commit a &#8220;terrorist act&#8221; aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30. It was the first time officials had identified the weapon. Initial passenger accounts had reportedly pointed to a knife.
Large commercial aircraft generally carry a crash axe that crews can use to cut their way out of the cockpit during an emergency.
About two and a half hours into the trip, the Boeing 737 MAX dropped sharply and broadcast a general emergency code before switching to the code for unlawful interference, or hijacking, Israel scrambled fighter jets, and once the cockpit was secured the plane diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. There were 174 passengers on board, 27 of them children, nearly all of them Israeli, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLPZ1NJav4o">according</a> to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-bloodied-pilot-stabbed-in-terror-attack-who-kept-fighting-to-save-passengers">reported</a> that Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, got the cockpit door open despite his wounds, letting in two off-duty pilots who landed the aircraft. Passengers restrained the co-pilot.
Machchhar joined FlyDubai in 2022 after 11 years at SpiceJet and has logged more than 9,750 hours on Boeing 737s, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyeibn9qgx">according</a> to Ynet Global.
He was airlifted to Abu Dhabi after initial treatment in Tabuk, and the Indian embassy in the UAE said Thursday he was recovering well. Speaking to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi by video from his hospital bed, he said he was on the floor, injured, when he felt the plane descending.&#8221;I told myself to go for one last push to open the door from inside,&#8221; he said.
Netanyahu has said the attacker was an Omani national. CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/world/flydubai-attacker-pilot-intl">reported</a> his name as Hamam al-Hammami, but officials have not confirmed it. The outlet also reported that Oman Air pulled him out of flight training over concerns about radical views. Netanyahu told Fox News that once subdued, the man begged the crew to kill him, and he said it appeared highly likely the co-pilot meant to bring the plane down.
FlyDubai has suspended all flights to and from Israel until the investigation is finished, and UAE authorities say they are still working to establish the attacker&#8217;s motives and any wider conditions.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is combing the Atlantic off Nantucket for a medical transport jet with six people aboard after air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.
The Federal Aviation Administration alerted the Coast Guard at roughly 2 a.m. that it could no longer reach the aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 with the tail number C-GRJP, according to the Coast Guard&#8217;s Northeast District. FlightAware <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/CGRJP/history">data</a> shows the jet left Bermuda International Airport at 11:41 p.m. Eastern on Friday.
&#8220;Air &amp; surface crews have launched in search of the aircraft. Updates will be provided here as info becomes available,&#8221; the district posted on X.
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The search includes an HC-144 Ocean Sentry patrol plane and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Brant Point on Nantucket.
The &#8220;C-&#8221; prefix on the tail number marks the jet as Canadian-registered. The jet belongs to Latitude Air Ambulance, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coast-guard-searching-nantucket-missing-jet-bermuda-boston-rcna601265">according</a> to NBC10 Boston. The company, based at Hamilton International Airport in Ontario, specializes in long-distance medical evacuations and patient repatriations. A listing with EURAMI, a European air ambulance accreditation body, describes Latitude&#8217;s fleet as five aircraft, three of them Astra SPX or G100 jets equipped for intensive care.
The G100 is a twin-engine business jet originally developed in Israel.
Authorities have not released the names of those on board or said whether a patient was among them. No wreckage has been publicly reported as of Saturday morning.
This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.

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President Donald Trump shared a video of Ben Shapiro&#8217;s weekend interview with Mark Levin that begins with a full-throated endorsement of Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the Daily Wire&#8217;s latest action film that was produced by Shapiro.
At the top of the interview, Levin calls the film &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and praises it for avoiding the sort of political correctness that plagues almost everything coming out of Hollywood today. Levin also says in the clip that he &#8220;cannot recommend it enough&#8221; and calls it a &#8220;tour de force,&#8221; before asking Shapiro to lay out why the Daily Wire made it.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of fun, and it also makes a really important point,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;It is the only movie that I think that&#8217;s been made in the last twenty years, essentially, that tells the truth about what radical Islam actually does, but does it in a fun and entertaining way.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump?gsid=0ef48d72-f8ab-4c33-ab4e-1f2472204583">posted</a> the full clip on Sunday morning to his 13 million followers on Truth Social, which also includes discussion of the Republican midterm strategy and the Iran war. The president, a frequent cable news viewer, has been known to post clips from news coverage that he endorses, often after watching it air.
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Shapiro said a friend had likened the film to a cross between Red Dawn and Blazing Saddles. In the story, terrorists commandeer a pro-Hamas student protest, seize an American university, and set up a &#8220;mini caliphate&#8221; on campus. Jonathan Majors stars as Clay Saunders, a retired Delta Force operator who teams up with a band of students to fight back.
&#8220;The point of view of the movie is that radical Islam is indeed a real threat, and the radical Muslims in the film act like actual radical Muslims,&#8221; Shapiro said, citing a widely shared clip in which the terrorists throw a gay student from a rooftop. &#8220;That&#8217;s what would happen if ISIS were to take over an American campus. &#8216;Queers for Palestine&#8217; would end up at the bottom of the building, in reality.&#8221;
Levin ends the interview praising The Daily Wire for using entertainment to get a message out there to new audiences. Shapiro told viewers that it is the first entry in the company&#8217;s new entertainment strategy. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got much more coming,&#8221; he said.
Trump has since his first run for president consistently railed against &#8220;radical Islamic terrorism.&#8221;
Infidels premiered on September 16. It is written and directed by Kyle Rankin, and produced by Shapiro and Dallas Sonnier. It is a standalone follow-up to 2020&#8217;s Run Hide Fight, which was the Daily Wire&#8217;s first feature film.
Majors, who played a starring role in Marvel&#8217;s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-majors-stands-behind-his-run-hide-fight-infidels-role">told the New York Post last week</a> that he saw the role as a chance to grow as an artist. Majors said his character has big responsibilities in the film, and that he thought, “I’d love to play that.”
“Run Hide Fight: Infidels” is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently streaming on The Daily Wire</a>.

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Two mass shootings carried out roughly four hours apart left at least 27 people dead in South Africa over the weekend, pushing the death toll from township massacres this week to at least 38.
The deadlier attack began around 9:30 p.m. Saturday in Wedela, a township in Gauteng province&#8217;s West Rand mining district. Police said eight men carrying AK-47s and handguns fired on patrons drinking outside a tavern, then went inside and kept shooting. Seventeen people — 13 men and four women — were killed and 15 others were wounded. The gunmen took cellphones from some victims before leaving in two vehicles. Two other cars were set on fire at the scene.
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Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, attackers struck a shisanyama — a barbecue spot that doubles as a bar — in Lwandle, near Somerset West outside Cape Town, killing 10 and wounding 11. Police have not said how many gunmen were involved.
No arrests have been made in either case. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-police-launch-manhunt-after-17-killed-tavern-shooting-2026-09-27/">reported</a> that investigators are examining a turf war among illegal gold miners, known locally as &#8220;zama zamas,&#8221; as a possible motive in one shooting and a business rivalry in the other. A senior Gauteng police official <a href="https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/police-issue-stern-warning-to-wedela-mass-shooting-perpetrators/">said</a> one of the Wedela victims had been wanted in connection with an earlier shooting at the same tavern last month.
Police have given no indication that race played a role in any of the attacks, which struck township residents — South African and foreign nationals alike at Wedela — and which investigators have tied to gang feuds and the illicit gold trade. The violence is distinct from the pogroms against white-owned farms that President Donald Trump has repeatedly highlighted.
The weekend&#8217;s bloodshed came days after three gunmen killed 11 people, among them a pregnant woman, at a Tuesday night house party in KwaMakhutha.
&#8220;It cannot go on like this,&#8221; President Cyril Ramaphosa <a href="https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/crime-stats-show-areas-progress-criminal-threats-remain">told</a> local media Sunday, adding that security forces had been ordered to intensify their efforts against violent crime.
In March Ramaphosa sent 2,200 soldiers into high-crime areas across five provinces, including around Johannesburg and Cape Town, in a yearlong operation targeting gangs and illegal mining. South Africa recorded 5,427 homicides between April and June — close to 60 a day — according to police figures, with shootings the most common cause.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military would not and could not hide a combat death, pushing back on a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/18/more-us-troops-have-died-amid-iran-war-has-disclosed-publicly/">report</a> that American fatalities in the Iran war exceed what the Pentagon has publicly disclosed.
&#8220;Even if we wanted to attempt to hide a combat death, we never would and we never could,&#8221; Hegseth told an OAN reporter. &#8220;We never would because of how much we cherish the lives of our service members — every single one of them.&#8221;
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Exclusive: “Even if we wanted to attempt to hide a combat death, we never would and we never could.” &#8211; <a href="https://x.com/SecWar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecWar</a> Hegseth responds to allegations of more service member deaths in Iran than reported.
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The Post reported Friday, citing six officials familiar with the War Department&#8217;s internal casualty accounting, that at least 22 troops have died since the war with Iran began in February — four more than 18 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/pentagon-removed-four-official-iran-war-death-toll.html">listed</a> in the Pentagon&#8217;s public Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS. One official put the toll at 23 and said some of the additional deaths were not directly caused by combat but involved personnel deployed to the Middle East during the fighting. The Post said the Pentagon declined to address the discrepancy before publication.
Hegseth denounced the story on X the day it ran, calling it &#8220;DISGUSTING and FAKE&#8221; and &#8220;a complete LIE&#8221; and said the paper was &#8220;worse than Iranian state media.&#8221; A Washington Post spokeswoman said afterward that the outlet stands by its reporting.
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This is DISGUSTING and FAKE. A complete LIE.
Shame on the Washington Post — they’re worse than Iranian state media. <a href="https://t.co/vU9OkSOnLB">https://t.co/vU9OkSOnLB</a>
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2101054654033359122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The clash reopens a fight over the Pentagon&#8217;s bookkeeping that first surfaced in July, when the DCAS&#8217;s public death toll briefly dropped from 18 to 14 after the four most recent fatalities were reclassified. Acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez attributed* the change to &#8220;temporary data disruptions&#8221; on the department&#8217;s website. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2080462422838505555">accused</a> the Pentagon of splitting the conflict into two wars on paper to sidestep congressional reporting requirements, and Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats separately <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/28/pentagon-shifts-4-iran-war-deaths-overseas-operations-category-senate/">asked</a> Hegseth for a complete accounting of the dead and wounded. DCAS now lists 14 deaths under the war&#8217;s original designation, Operation Epic Fury, and four more under a newer &#8220;Overseas Operations&#8221; category covering fatalities since fighting resumed in July.
The identities of the additional service members named in the Post&#8217;s reporting, along with the timing and circumstances of their deaths, have not been made public.

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Saudi Arabia said Saturday that its air defenses destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels at Riyadh, the first strike on the Saudi fighting with the Iran-backed group reignited this summer.
The Saudi-led coalition <a href="https://apnews.com/article/yemen-saudi-arabia-b1286cad816dd3e553f50f6dd5205972">confirmed</a> the interception hours after the dawn launch. Residents reported hearing an explosion, and journalists saw firefighters extinguish a blaze on the Aramco-branded fuel tank at a depot near King Khalid International Airport. No casualties were reported.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis also tried to hit civilian infrastructure in Yanbu — the Red Sea terminus of a key Saudi oil pipeline — as well as Taif, Baysh and Farasan, all of which were thwarted. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260919-smoke-flames-seen-near-riyadh-airport-major-flight-disruptions-reported">claimed</a> missile, cruise-missile and drone strikes on &#8220;sensitive sites&#8221; in Riyadh and on Aramco facilities in Yanbu, calling them retaliation for a Saudi attempt to hit Sanaa.
The attack is the latest turn in a monthslong escalation. Houthi forces launched a ground offensive on September 3 and within roughly a week had overrun most of Yemen&#8217;s Red Sea coastline, including the port city of Mokha and islands controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical artery for global shipping. The United Nations <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973810/houthi-attacks-saudi-oil-world-markets">says</a> the fighting has displaced around 125,000 people.
Strikes on the kingdom itself have grown more frequent. A Sept. 8 barrage wounded 73 people and set Saudi oil facilities on fire. Days later, Riyadh <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/middleeast/saudi-arabia-houthis-mecca-attack-intl-hnk">accused</a> the group of flying a drone toward Mecca, calling the city&#8217;s security a &#8220;red line&#8221;; the Houthis denied it. On Thursday, Saudi officials said debris from an intercepted drone killed a Yemeni resident of the kingdom — the first fatality reported on Saudi soil since the latest fighting began.
Saudi Arabia is running short on interceptor missiles, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/yemen-saudi-arabia-b1286cad816dd3e553f50f6dd5205972">according</a> to regional officials cited by the Associated Press, and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for air defense assistance. The United States, its principal arms supplier, has been depleted by six months of its own war with Iran and has so far limited its response to intelligence-sharing rather than direct strikes on the Houthis.

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