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4:19 PM on Sunday, March 1

Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous

12:59 PM on Sunday, March 1

Amnesty International says at least 15 people have been killed after gunmen attacked three communities in north-central Nigeria

12:40 PM on Sunday, March 1

Trump says US has destroyed 9 Iranian naval ships and 'largely destroyed' Iran's naval headquarters

12:35 PM on Sunday, March 1

Iran's 'potential new leadership' suggests they're open to US talks and Trump is 'eventually' willing, AP source says

8:35 AM on Sunday, March 1

Iran's president says new leadership council 'has begun its work' after killing of supreme leader

6:07 AM on Sunday, March 1

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base

5:39 AM on Sunday, March 1

Regime change might seem straightforward at first

1:39 AM on Sunday, March 1

Iran's chief of army staff, defense minister killed in airstrike on meeting of country's defense council, state TV says

12:30 AM on Sunday, March 1

Trump warns Iran not to escalate attacks, saying US will strike back 'WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!'

12:02 AM on Sunday, March 1

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money

9:49 PM on Saturday, February 28

In Iran the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state

9:11 PM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian Cabinet warns that this 'great crime will never go unanswered' after Khamenei is killed by US-Israeli campaign

8:51 PM on Saturday, February 28

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes

5:57 PM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

4:27 PM on Saturday, February 28

The United States and Israel have clashed with Iran at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, where the U.N. chief and many countries urged a halt to their attacks and a return to negotiations

2:53 PM on Saturday, February 28

After Saturday's major attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, U.S. President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” and rise up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979

11:40 AM on Saturday, February 28

2:33 AM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability

1:19 AM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media have confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a major attack by Israel and the United States

7:02 PM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it’s 1999