Iran Names New Supreme Leader & NYC Bomb Scare Triggers Federal Probe

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Iran's assembly of experts has named Moshtaba Hamanay as the country's new supreme leader,

which follows the death of his father Ayatollah Ali Hamanay during U.S. and Israeli strikes

on February 28, Moshtaba, whose 56 years old is never held elected office but is reportedly

close to the revolutionary guard and has been under U.S. sanctions since 2019.

After the home Manhattan got its own security scare as NYPD locked down streets near Gracie

Mansion after finding a suspicious device linked to a confirmed IED from the day before.

Commissioner Jessica Tish said the explosive, which was a glass jar packed with nuts, bolts,

and a fuse, was capable of serious injury or death.

An 18-year-old progester has been arrested and the FBI's joint terrorism task force is

now involved.

Yeah, you know, we might not agree with who the mayor is in his policies, but when explosives

start to show up in his neighborhood, he got to treat domestic political violence with all

the seriousness it deserves.

On the legal friend and Ontario judge has ruled the province's mandatory lifetime sex offender

registry reporting unconstitutional. A case that involves Michael Roberts, a man that pled guilty

to eight counts of sexual assault in 2010, reported for 13 years and then simply stopped in 2024,

when Justice Darwin gagged called the rules overboard and stayed the charge.

Meanwhile, in Virginia, Liberty Council has sued to block an abortion amendment from

reaching the 2026 ballot, arguing that the House of delegates skipped constitutionally

required steps, including distributing the text to circuit court clerks and posting it

months before the delegation election. Senator Tom Cotton and Rick Scott are demanding

Attorney General Pambondi investigate Chinese-owned services center, citing more than 107

agencies operating in Southern California alone. They pointed to one man reportedly

following 100 children through U.S. surrogacy with infants flown back to China effectively

turning birthright citizenship into a commodity, and that demand lands as the Supreme Court

prepares to hear arguments in April on the Trump administration's challenge to citizenship

by birth interpretations. Critics say the industry reduces pregnancy to a service and babies to

products, and they're not wrong. A wrongful death lawsuit is putting AI companionship on trial

after Google's Gemini allegedly convinced a man it was a sentient being in love with him,

then fed him escalating hallucinations, fake surveillance claims, a bogus security code,

and then urged him to barricade his home and take his own life. His family found him dead,

Google expressed sympathy and said Gemini is designed to avoid exactly this.

Well, something didn't take. Then that wraps up today's Fortish News break. I'm Jimmy Higgs. If

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