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Special government employee Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave the Department of Homeland Security when Secretary Kristi Noem departs later this month.Sources told Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich that Lewandowski's departure became evident soon after President Donald Trump said he was firing Noem."I'm told the president spoke with Kristy Noem just before that Truth Social post went out," Heinrich reported on Thursday afternoon. "I'm further told that Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave with her. Of course, the rumors of an affair between the two were one of the factors that I'm told compelled the president to remove her as DHS secretary. Both of them are married, and she had faced questions about her alleged affair during testimony on the Hill this week under oath, she did not deny it as she called the reports garbage, but she never denied sexual relations with Cory Lewandowski.""And I'm told that he's expected to leave his post as a special government employee and advisor to her when she departs the Department of Homeland Security," she added. "Unclear so far, I'm trying to still get information on whether 'leave with her' means go with her to this new role that we are still fleshing out what exactly that entails.""But the president was unhappy, I'm told, with, quote, 'many of her unfortunate leadership failures,' which included Minnesota, her public statements in the fallout to that deportation campaign there, also the ad campaign, the $200 million in spending, and these rumors of an affair [with] Corey Lewandowski."

Newly released high-resolution satellite imagery has offered one of the clearest visual accounts yet of the scale and geographic spread of the ongoing military campaign targeting Iranian facilities by US and Israeli forces.

Joani Reid steps back while internal inquiry takes place following freeing of husband David Taylor on bail until MayThe MP whose husband was arrested this week on suspicion of spying for China has resigned the Labour whip while an internal investigation is carried out.Joani Reid, the MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, said on Thursday night she would temporarily stand down from the parliamentary party while the inquiry takes place. Continue reading...

F-35 pilot based in Cyprus becomes first to destroy a target in combat – and celebrates with a single beerIn the clear skies above Jordan on Monday night, a British F-35 pilot made a small piece of history. Flying for four hours alongside two Typhoons, the radar picked up two Shahed drones. The squadron tactics instructor – whom the Guardian is not naming – hit the drones with two Asraam missiles.In doing so he became the first pilot of the Royal Air Force’s stealth fighter jet to destroy a target in combat. It was, he said, very high stakes. In those scenarios, it is easy to hit a friendly target by mistake. Continue reading...

The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen Three men deported by the US to Eswatini – rather than their home countries – have filed a case against Eswatini’s government with the African Union’s human rights body, claiming their detention was an unlawful violation of their rights.Two of the claimants, from Cuba and Yemen, have been in prison in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, for eight months. The third, Orville Etoria, was repatriated to his home country, Jamaica, in September. Continue reading...

An analyst on Thursday described the White House's recent video game-style hype videos as "distasteful" following the recent deaths of six American service members in the war against Iran. The videos, which have a similar presentation and style to the popular game "Call of Duty," have been posted on the White House and Department of Defense's social media accounts and have been produced to "set the narrative" and appeal to President Donald Trump's base, which includes gamers, CNN anchor Dana Bash reported. CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson described why the videos might have instead raised questions after the first American casualties since the military strikes started Saturday in Iran, plus the estimated 1,100 Iranians who have died."I think this is in keeping with the way Pete Hegseth is also talking about the war," Henderson explained. "He of course, had a press conference yesterday talking about utter dominance, talking about the war, likening it to a football game, I think was one of the analogies that he used. And it's part of the sort of the bro culture that Donald Trump used to win. It's part of Pete Hegseth, why he's the secretary of war and why it's not the you know, the Department of Defense anymore. So it's part of the selling of the war, and we'll see if it's effective." How Americans actually view the war is not yet clear, she said. "The shock and awe part of it is always part of the initial selling of it — the utter dominance of the American military," Henderson said. "'Best military ever in the history of the world.' We get that right. And you also could see that the White House obviously understands media, understands social media. This is a president who is watching the coverage of this war on his television set every day and trying to program it right. And so I think that that's part of it, it's part of why they were so high on the sinking of that naval vessel, which apparently was just sort of a ceremonial vessel and hyping it up. So listen, this is a White House that is good at the hype." But that hype could be insensitive to military families, Henderson argued. "I think listen, if you were part of the families who have lost Americans — six Americans have died — this is quite distasteful to liken war to a video game because, you know, these are soldiers' lives who are at risk," Henderson added. "And so to liken them to a football game or a video game, I think is offensive to a lot of people."Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue. pic.twitter.com/kTO0DZ56IJ— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026

Urgent request to dock is submitted by vessel after US submarine sank Iranian warship in same area on TuesdayMiddle East crisis – live updatesSri Lanka has evacuated 208 crew members from an Iranian navy vessel that made an emergency request to dock, a day after a US submarine strike sank another Iranian frigate, killing more than 80 people on board.Sri Lanka’s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, on Thursday confirmed that the country’s navy would take over Iranian military support ship IRIS Bushehr and allow it to dock at the north-eastern port of Trincomalee. Continue reading...

John Healey lambasts opposition politicians for seeking to turn Donald Trump and the US against Keir StarmerUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesThe defence secretary, John Healey, has accused opposition politicians of deliberately undermining the UK’s relationship with Donald Trump, saying it was “unpatriotic” for MPs to seek to turn the US against Keir Starmer.Healey, speaking to the Guardian at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, which was hit by a drone strike over the weekend, said he had been shocked at the way politicians like Nigel Farage had sought to “undermine” the UK’s relationship with the US. Continue reading...