After years of soft-on-crime attitudes, organized retail gangs are still “systematically” hitting stores—forcing ordinary families to pay more while workers face rising threats.Organized retail crime keeps evolving beyond “simple” shopliftingU.S. retail data summarized by the National Retail Federation (NRF) shows shoplifting incidents rose 18%...

Iran's Supreme Leader has quietly established a four-layered succession plan in response to credible assassination threats from the United States and Israel, raising urgent questions about Middle East stability and the effectiveness of American deterrence under renewed pressure from the Trump administration.Unprecedented Succession Architecture...