Marco A. Rubio, secretary of state, in a question-and-answer session with the national media, says, one of the reasons for the ongoing Iranian-American War is that “if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.”

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       At the at the Florence Correctional Center in (the Federal enclave of) Arizona, Emmanuel C. Damas, a 56-year-old political asylum applicant from Haiti, dies from an untreated toothache.

       NOTE: This brings to 39 the number of detainees who have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (domestic terrorists) in the last twelve months.

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