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The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, with President Donald Trump calling on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” and rise up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979. On January 3rd of this year, a similar strike in Venezuela resulted in the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. APR News heard from a University of Alabama student with family and friends in that South American nation.

As Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife reportedly head to the U.S. to face charges, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are lining up over whether the military action and the arrests of the Maduros are legal. That includes here in Alabama.

Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, and the ranking Democratic member, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, issuing a joint statement on Saturday on the matter.

Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier making landfall in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least six people. A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica and a hurricane watch for Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and for Haiti's entire southern coast.

Government forecasters are set to release their prediction later today for how many hurricanes and tropical storms they expect to form over Atlantic and…