{"id":138423,"date":"2026-07-10T07:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-latest-8-men-indicted-in-planned-attack-on-white-house-ufc-cage-fighting-show\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:43:02","slug":"the-latest-8-men-indicted-in-planned-attack-on-white-house-ufc-cage-fighting-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-latest-8-men-indicted-in-planned-attack-on-white-house-ufc-cage-fighting-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest: 8 men indicted in planned attack on White House UFC cage-fighting show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in flight on Air Force One after landing at U.S. Air Force Base at RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, Eastern England, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges<\/a> Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House in June.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear from the court records how close the would-be attackers could have come to being able to carry out the plan had it not been thwarted.<\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday, the U.S. launched new airstrikes against Iran<\/a>, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries. Thursday\u2019s exchange of fire appeared bigger than other recent back-and-forth attacks that have increasingly threatened the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest:<\/p>\n

Trump won\u2019t sign housing bill but will let it become law<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill<\/a> Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that doesn\u2019t have enough support to pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,\u201d Trump posted on social media.<\/p>\n

The housing measure will become law without Trump\u2019s signature. He had 10 days to issue a veto and stop the measure, which he chose not to do.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rejection of the bipartisan housing legislation exacerbates tensions with his own party in a midterm election year and cuts short their efforts to address a key voter concern about rising costs.<\/p>\n

Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump has ousted members of the bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering.<\/p>\n

The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration forms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest move in the Republican president\u2019s effort to expand White House influence over how U.S. elections are conducted and comes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave the president new personnel authority to fire members of independent agency boards.<\/p>\n

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Unclaimed airstrikes target Iran after US attacks, raising questions of who launched them<\/strong><\/p>\n

The series of unclaimed airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks<\/a> have again raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, hit areas across southern Iran. The country\u2019s theocracy hasn\u2019t directly blamed anyone for the strikes, though one lawmaker issued a warning to the United Arab Emirates over allegedly providing support to the United States in its campaign against Iran.<\/p>\n

Gulf Arab states, which repeatedly have been targeted by Iran since the war began Feb. 28, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday over the strikes. The attacks come as they and the U.S. insist the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> must be open and free to ships to transit.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

\"President
President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Air Force One, Thursday, July 9, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in flight on Air Force One after landing at U.S. Air Force Base at RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, Eastern England, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon) Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-138423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138423"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=138423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}