July 9 2026 News

Jordan has intercepted eight missiles launched from Tehran at the country, the Jordanian state news agency reports, after alarms sounded. No casualties or damages have been caused, the report says. A US projectile has struck the area surrounding Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran’s deputy governor of Bushehr province tells state media. The official says several locations in Bushehr province, including the perimeter area of the nuclear facility, were hit in US attacks.

Iranian passenger train services between Tehran and Mashhad were temporarily suspended following a reported US strike on a railway bridge connecting the two cities, state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) claimed. “Following the criminal US attack early this morning on a section of the Tehran-Mashhad railway, passenger train services have been disrupted,” IRIB posted on X/Twitter on Thursday.

U.S. Central Command said American forces carried out another round of strikes against Iran on July 8, hitting approximately 90 military targets along Iran’s coastline in an effort to further degrade Tehran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM said the targets included air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure. The latest strikes followed U.S. attacks the previous night on roughly 80 Iranian military targets, including more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats.Iran’s Health Ministry said at least 14 people were killed and 78 others wounded in U.S. strikes across five provinces.

Ukraine launched one of its broadest recent drone offensives against Russia’s maritime and energy networks this week, claiming strikes on 21 vessels in three days as attacks on major refineries deep inside Russia intensified pressure on Moscow’s fuel supplies.

Published by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA), the 105-page study examines killings and abductions recorded between October 2019 and September 2025. It recorded 28,551 Christian deaths compared with 13,224 Muslim deaths during the reporting period. After adjusting for the size of local religious populations in affected states, the death rate of Christians was around 4.4 times higher than Muslims.

A former tarot card reader, with an online following of nearly 1 million people, announced on social media recently that she was giving up her occult platform and following her newfound faith in Christ. The popular TikTok influencer formerly known as “Alex Reads Tarot” closed her social media account in late June. Her posts had boasted 52 million likes before announcing: “Jesus Christ has saved my life, and I can no longer ignore that reality.” She has since created a new TikTok account under her real name, Alexandra Ashcroft.

A rare bacteria found in the water has been traced to a new AI data center under construction in Wyoming. The San Francisco Gate reports the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities discovered its reclaimed water irrigation system was contaminated with Cupriavidus gilardii during a routine sampling in February. After months of testing, officials determined the bacterium came from from Fortis Construction, a contractor working on a 715,000-square-foot data center for Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned tech company that operates Facebook and Instagram. According to The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, contaminated wastewater from the project, known as “Project Cosmo,” was flushed into public sewers. The local utilities board responded by forcing Meta to adopt strict new safety regulations that ban wastewater discharge from certain types of data centers.

In the quiet suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, a small group of Muslim families who once prayed in living rooms has deliberately built a sophisticated, well-funded Islamic infrastructure with direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, complete with the state’s only full-time Islamic school, property transfers to organizations named unindicted co-conspirators in America’s largest terrorism-financing trial, and a massive new 10-acre Sharia-compliant campus now rising with taxpayer support through state vouchers.