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- ‘An Excruciating Form of Suffering’: Mom of US Hostage Killed by Hamas Share...
The mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin — an American citizen who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 in Israel and later murdered — discussed the agony she and her family have been put through during a heartbreaking interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday. Rachel Goldberg-Polin told her story to correspondent Anderson Cooper. “To know that your child is being tortured, tormented, starved, abused… he’s maimed. And that’s an excruciating form of suffering,” Goldberg-Polin said. “And then what’s so fascinating to me is that when they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive,” she continued.”And now I’m in this place and this is the rest of my life. How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?” Her son was taken back to Gaza along with hundreds of other hostages on 10/7, following the Hamas terror attack on the Nova Music Festival. Approximately 1,200 people were killed in the larger Hamas attack in Israel. Hersch Goldberg-Polin had his left arm blown off while attempting to hide with others in a bunker, where his friend Aner Elyakim Shapira was killed after heroically throwing 10 grenades back at the terrorists. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was born in the U.S. in 2000 and moved to Israel with his family in 2008. Cooper choked up during the interview while recounting how he had been the one to tell Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her husband Jonathan Polin in 2023 that he had seen footage of their son being forced into a pickup truck and taken back to Gaza; he said he saw video of Hersch Goldberg-Polin — with the bloody bones of his left arm sticking out — about a week after the attack. “To this day, I am sorry that that is how you found out,” Cooper told her. “But we were so thankful,” Goldberg-Polin said. “And it made us know that he was taken alive, that he walked on his own two feet. And we also were really grateful that you did it in such a human way.” She told Cooper about the efforts her family made to bring her son and the other hostages home, including giving hundreds of media interviews and meeting with world leaders. “There were times when I would just get seized with emotional and psychological and… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Expert Tells 60 Minutes That Thousands of U.S. Troops Would Be Needed To Retriev...A nuclear expert told 60 Minutes on Sunday that the U.S. would need to send thousands of troops deep into Iran if it wanted to retrieve that country’s stash of highly enriched uranium (HEU). Andrew Weber, a nuclear expert who helped covertly move more than 1,300 pounds of HEU out of Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union, said the entire operation took 30 people and about six weeks to complete when it was transferred to Oak Ridge, TN, in the 1990s. Correspondent Cecilia Vega asked, “Would the same mission be possible today in Iran?” “In Iran, we couldn’t send a team in to do this unilaterally without great risk,” Weber said. “You would need to set up in the middle of the country, a secure perimeter. It would probably take thousands of U.S. troops to secure the facility while our experts excavated the HEU that’s located inside deep tunnels at a place called Isfahan.” The Isfahan nuclear facility located in Iran’s desert is where most of Iran’s HEU is believe to be stored in scuba tank-sized containers, according to Vega. “It’s believed those containers are in tunnels so far below ground, America’s bunker-busting bombs may not be able to reach them,” Vega said. She asked former White House nuclear adviser Dr. Matthew Bunn, now with Harvard’s Belfer Center, about President Donald Trump’s repeated claims “that Iran’s nuclear program was completely obliterated after the strikes last June.” “Yeah, that statement is just not true,” Bunn said. “You can’t say that a program that still has enough nuclear material for a bunch of nuclear bombs is ‘obliterated,’ unfortunately. There’s no doubt that the combination of the strikes in June of last year and the ongoing war have seriously set back Iran’s capabilities. But the remaining capabilities are substantial. You can’t bomb away their knowledge.” Vega then asked about the nearly 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium believed to be buried at Isfahan. “What can you do with that?” she asked. “So that is enough material for — if you enrich it just a little bit more — for 10 to 11 nuclear bombs,” Bunn answered. Watch the clip above via CBS News’s 60 Minutes.The post Expert Tells 60 Minutes That Thousands of U.S. Troops Would Be Needed To Retrieve Iran’s Highly-Enriched Uranium first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Army Vet Identified as Suspect in Louisiana Shooting That Killed 8 ChildrenA 31-year-old Army veteran named Shamar Elkins was identified as the gunman who shot and killed eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday in what CNN’s Jessica Dean reported was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years. Shreveport Police Department Corporal Christopher Bordelon said Elkins was the father of seven of the eight kids who were murdered. Dean reported all of the kids were 14 years old or younger. Elkins injured three other people in the shooting, with one of the victims in critical condition while the other two suffered non-life threatening injuries. The New York Post reported two of those victims were women who were shot in the head. He was later shot and killed by cops after fleeing the scene, stealing a vehicle at gunpoint, and leading officers on a chase. The Post reported Elkins had posted a picture of himself with one of his daughters on social media just before the attack at around 6:00 a.m. local time. Elkins had posted about mental health issues earlier this month. “Dear God, Today I ask You to help me guard my mind and my emotions, ” he said in one post on April 9. “When depression tries to settle in, when anger rises, when anxiety or panic comes, give me the awareness to recognize what is not from You and the strength to reject it immediately in the name of JESUS,” Elkins said in another post. Authorities said the shooting followed a domestic dispute, but that a motive was still being investigated. Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told Dean that the local cops will now investigate how the suspect got his weapon, and whether there are eyewitnesses who can speak to the carnage. Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux said the shooting was “maybe the worst tragic situation we’ve ever had.” Watch CNN’s report above.The post Army Vet Identified as Suspect in Louisiana Shooting That Killed 8 Children first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- ‘Colossally Stupid’: Catholic MAGA Fan Bashes Trump on CNN Amid Pope Leo Feu...CNN correspondent Gloria Pazmino went to mass on Sunday — to ask Catholics how they felt about President Donald Trump’s recent war of words with Pope Leo XIV. Pazmino reported some Catholics in New York City — including those who count themselves among Trump’s Make America Great Again movement — are upset with the president criticizing the pope, after Leo recently shared his own criticism of the Iran war. “I don’t think it helps the president at all. I think it’s colossally stupid,” a woman named Anita Bauman told CNN. “And I say that as a Catholic and as a person who voted for Trump. But I think that it’s just not the battle to pick.” Bauman added it is an “uncomfortable moment” and that she believes there are “better ways” for the two to disagree. “I would rather see [Trump] try to come to some accord with the Holy Father and with the church’s position,” Bauman continued. “You know, I do think that things needed to be done in Iran.” Another woman named Lola Reese told Pazmino she would like to see Trump “back off and kind of calm down” his “streak of little meanness here and there.” And a man named Steve Gordon said he sees both sides to the feud, while church bells rang in the background. Gordon said he did not want to say which side he agreed with more, but that he believes there is a “space” for disagreement, but “you have to be careful about how you put out that message.” Pazmino’s interviews come a week after Trump went off on Pope Leo in a searing social media rant on April 12. Trump ripped Leo for being “WEAK” on crime and the issue of a nuclear Iran, before adding he was a bigger fan of the pope’s brother, Louis Prevost, because he is a “big MAGA person.” Trump’s post followed Pope Leo ramping up his criticism of the Iran war the week prior. The pope condemned Trump’s threat to wipe out a “whole civilization” in Iran if its theocratic leaders did not make a deal, calling it “truly unacceptable.” He then spoke out against the war a few days later, saying, “God does not bless any conflict.” Trump declined to apologize for his post against the pope last week, saying, “there’s nothing to apologize for. He’s wrong!” The president has also said the pope should be upset about tens of… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- WATCH: US Naval Destroyer Warns Blockade-Busting Iranian Vessel Before Firing On...U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) released video of a U.S. Navy destroyer warning an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel before firing on it as it allegedly tried to circumvent the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. President Donald Trump announced the strike on Truth Social, adding, “We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” In its post, CENTCOM wrote, “U.S. forces operating in the Arabian Sea enforced naval blockade measures against an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel attempting to sail toward an Iranian port, April 19.” CENTCOM continued: Guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) intercepted M/V Touska as it transited the north Arabian Sea at 17 knots enroute to Bandar Abbas, Iran. American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the U.S. blockade. After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in U.S. custody. American forces acted in a deliberate, professional, and proportional manner to ensure compliance. Since the blockade’s commencement, U.S. forces have directed 25 commercial vessels to turn around or return to an Iranian port. In the video, a Navy sailor is heard on the loudspeaker warning, “Vacate your engine room! Vacate your engine room! We’re prepared to subject you to disabling fire!” After several blasts of the horn, the naval destroyer’s five-inch gun fired three times to disable the ship’s engine. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit then boarded the ship and took custody of the vessel, which was headed to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire on Wednesday, April 22. Trump told Fox News earlier on Sunday he expects a deal to end the war to come together in the next few days, but if it doesn’t, Fox’s Trey Yingst reported Trump is “very serious” about blowing up Iran’s bridges and power plants. Watch the clip above via CENTCOMM.The post WATCH: US Naval Destroyer Warns Blockade-Busting Iranian Vessel Before Firing On It With Massive Gun first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- NBC’s Welker Presses Mamdani On Whether He Still Has Faith in Democratic Socia...Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker questioned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on whether his faith in democratic socialism has been shaken at all, now that his city is facing a $5.4 billion budget shortfall. Despite that hefty challenge, the mayor told Welker he hasn’t lost an ounce of faith in his ideology during his Sunday interview. “Now that you’ve bumped up against the hard realities of a $5.4 billion budget shortfall and the other red tape that you have to go through, do you still believe in democratic socialism? Do you still think it can be effective?” Welker asked. “I believe in it even more than I did the day before,” Mamdani said. “And that’s because of the fact it’s focused on the needs of working people, and working people need that focus, that fight from politicians, more than ever.” Their conversation ended there. Welker had asked him a moment earlier, in a question only seen in the extended MTP interview on YouTube, how he would define democratic socialism. Here is Mamdani’s full answer: It is the belief that democracy should extend from the ballot box to the rest of our lives. It’s the belief that we should be fighting for each and every person who calls the city home. And in a practical sense, it’s the choice to not only deliver the first steps to universal childcare, but to do it while filling in 102,000 potholes, changing 6,700 catch basins, repaving more than 1,000 miles of roadway. Because what we known in our pothole politics and our sewer socialism is that the worth of an ideology can only be judged in its delivery, and that’s what we’re looking to do. We’re looking to deliver. Mamdani’s interview comes a day after he was seen singing “Wheels on the Bus” alongside ex-President Barack Obama during a press event at a Bronx child care center. The mayor and the former commander-in-chief did not take questions from the press after the event. Watch above via NBC.The post NBC’s Welker Presses Mamdani On Whether He Still Has Faith in Democratic Socialism Amid NYC’s $5.4B Shortfall first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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