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• Associated Press

B-2 bombers involved in US strike on Iran nuclear facilities return to Missouri Air Force base

KNOB NOSTER, Mo. (AP) — The B-2 stealth bombers that dropped massive bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities began returning to their U.S. base in Missouri on Sunday. An Associated Press journalist watched on a clear but windy afternoon as seven of the B-2 Spirit bombers came in for landing at Whiteman Air Force Base. The base, about 73 miles (117 kilometers) southeast of Kansas City, is home to the 509th Bomb Wing, the only U.S. military unit that operates the B-2 Spirit bombers. The first group of four of the stealth aircraft did a loop around the base before approaching a runway from the north, while a final group of three arrived within 10 minutes. The day before, the B-2s had been part of a wide-ranging plan involving deception and decoys to deliver what American military leaders believe is a knockout blow to a nuclear program that Israel views as an existential threat and has been pummeling for more than a week. According to U.S. officials, one group of the stealth aircraft headed west from the base in the U.S. heartland on Saturday, intended as a decoy to throw off the Iranians. Another flight of seven quietly flew off eastward, ultimately engaging in the Iran mission. Aided by an armada of refueling tankers and fighter jets — some of which launched their own weapons — U.S. pilots dropped 14 30,000-pound bombs early Sunday local time on two key underground uranium enrichment plants in Iran. American sailors bolstered the surprise mission by firing dozens of cruise missiles from a submarine toward at least one other site. U.S. officials said Iran neither detected the inbound fusillade, nor mustered a shot at the stealthy American jets. Dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, the mission carried out a 'precision strike' that 'devastated the Iranian nuclear program,' U.S. officials said, even as they acknowledged an assessment was ongoing. For its part, Iran denied that any significant damage had been done, and the Islamic Republic pledged to retaliate.

Yahoo

an hour ago

• Yahoo

Woman 'Finally' Built a Fence to Keep Her Neighbors' Kids Out — And Now the Neighbors Are Complaining

A woman's neighbors asked her to change the placement of her new fence because they can no longer fit two cars in their driveway The woman — who says she built the fence because of the neighbors' unruly children — is now wondering if she's being 'unreasonable' if she refuses She shared her story on Mumsnet, where the majority of commenters said her neighbors' parking issues are not her problemA woman is debating whether it would be "unreasonable" for her to ignore her neighbors' request for her to move a new fence in her yard. The woman explained in a post on Mumsnet that she 'finally' installed a fence on her property, after 'months' of her neighbor's children playing on her lawn, 'chucking soccer balls' at her house, 'constantly standing' by her living room window, and 'shouting and waking up' her toddler. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! While the fence immediately solved 'all the issues,' her neighbors are less than thrilled. She said that they told her they are now struggling to fit both their cars in their driveway, as there is now not enough space to open the driver's side door on one of their vehicles. '[The neighbor] has asked if I could move the fence further [in] on my bit, but it will impact my own ability to have two cars on my driveway,' the original poster (OP) said. 'AIBU [am I being unreasonable] to decline this, as it's on my own driveway?' Mumsnet users were quick to tell the OP that she has every right to build a fence on her own property — and that her neighbors' parking issue are not her problem. 'No, YANBU [you are not being unreasonable] — don't move it,' one person said, adding, 'They were using your driveway before for access to their car. [It's] not your problem if they now can't use your driveway.' 'YANBU in the slightest. Say no, unfortunately, you can't. The boundary is the boundary, and moving it would cause potential issues when selling,' someone else said. The same person added, 'I love that he also presumably wants YOU to pay so HE can park his cars. Just nuts …' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. 'YANBU. If they had bothered to manage their children's behavior, there wouldn't be a fence. So it's a problem of their own making,' another chimed in. Read the original article on People

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2 hours ago

• Yahoo

My kid didn't get invited to a party. It triggered my own childhood memories and we learned to deal with disappointment together.

My child wasn't invited to a classmate's birthday party. My heart ached for her. I know how she feels, as this experience brought up my own childhood memories. Instead of trying to fix the issue, my daughter and I learned how to work through disappointment together. It started with a whisper. "Everyone else got one," my daughter said to me, her eyes locked on the floor. "I was the only one who didn't." The birthday party was shaping up to be one to remember. The one everyone was buzzing about during recess, in the lunch line, on the walk home. The one that she heard would have an inflatable obstacle course, unlimited cupcakes, and glitter tattoos. The one she didn't get an invitation to. There's a particular kind of heartbreak that happens when your child feels excluded. It sneaks up on you — not like a sharp jab, but a slow implosion. You don't just witness their disappointment; you absorb it. I watched her try to act like she didn't care, her voice a little too steady, her face a little too still. I knew that look. I've worn that look. At first, I tried to do the responsible parent thing. "I'm sure it wasn't personal," I offered. "Sometimes kids are only allowed to invite a few people." But the words felt flimsy, like duct tape over a cracked dam. What I didn't say was that her hurt was waking something up in me — something old. I remembered the birthday party I missed in third grade because no one told me about it. The group photo I saw later, full of faces I thought were my friends, still sticks in my mind. The sick swirl in my stomach, is the same one I felt now as I watched my daughter blink back tears with her own experience of being left out. This experience could have easily been about how to handle exclusion as a parent — how to build resilience, encourage empathy, or plan a better party of your own. But what I've learned is less clean than that. I learned that part of parenting is being powerless. You can't smooth every rough edge or rewrite every social dynamic. Sometimes, your job is just to sit beside your kid in the muck of it. To let them cry, to let yourself feel angry, and to know that fixing it isn't always the assignment. I also learned how quickly my own insecurities rush in through the back door. Was it something we did? Something she said? Something I said? I caught myself scanning through Instagram posts, wondering which mom made the guest list, who drew the invisible circle we now stood outside of. That impulse, to decode the rejection, to find logic in something inherently unfair, was as much about me as it was about her. What surprised me most was what happened the next day. She packed a little note in her backpack for the birthday kid. "Happy birthday," it read. "Hope you have fun." No bitterness. No spite. Just kindness. My daughter, in all her smallness, did what I hadn't even figured out how to do yet: move forward without letting the hurt define her. And maybe that's the only real takeaway I have. That sometimes, our kids teach us the grace we're still trying to learn. That their pain, while gutting, can also be a portal for connection, for healing, for re-parenting ourselves through them. She never got that invitation. But what we gained, quietly and without fanfare, was something else: the chance to walk through disappointment together, hand in hand. And that, to me, feels like something worth celebrating. Read the original article on Business Insider