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New Jersey police dispatcher, a retired detective and a correctional officer are all facing charges in a large-scale drug investigation, prosecutors announced Monday. 

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said Ileana Hernandez, 56, Thomas Mannion, 60, and Marquis Santiago, 33, were arrested last week, along with four other suspects. 

Hernandez is a dispatcher with the West New York Police Department, Mannion is a retired detective of the department and Santiago is a correctional officer with the county, prosecutors said. 

They're accused of taking part in a drug operation, allegedly led by Alfredo Diaz, of Union City. 

More than 4 kilos of cocaine found at production facility, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say they searched multiple locations on July 17 and discovered a narcotics production facility. 

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Israel established a network of Iranian dissidents and non-Iranian recruits over the course of years for its assassinations of senior officials in a June war and total destruction of Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses, according to a ProPublica investigation.  

The Israeli air force conducted reconnaissance flights inside Iran in advance of the conflict to ensure the eventual safe penetration of its airspace and identify weaknesses in Iranian air defense systems, the report said.  

The espionage operation involved a vast network of local recruits who were activated on the second day of the war, June 14, to launch coordinated attacks to disable air defenses and missile launchers.” 

ProPublica cited a source as saying. “Most were near Tehran, in areas where the Israeli air force had not previously operated.”  

According to the report, Israeli-trained commandos recruited from Iran and neighboring countries were deployed across the country to carry out the attacks from within. Israeli intelligence used front companies to ship the necessary equipment into Iran legally, it added.

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Chicago’s budget woes under far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson should serve as warning to New Yorkers planning to back socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid.

“Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess,” ex-Gov Andrew Cuomo wrote on X Friday.

Cuomo’s indirect dig at the Democratic nominee and frontrunner to win this year’s NYC mayoral race came in response to Johnson earlier this week saying Chicago needs to deal with looming budget shortfalls even as it’s education, housing, health care and transportation systems are “woefully underfunded.”

Last year, the Wall Street Journal editorial board dubbed Johnson “America’s worst mayor.”

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On the eastern front, Ukrainian troops are facing a relentless barrage from Russian drones and a “critical shortage of personnel.”

To counter the unmanned aircraft, soldiers have developed a surprisingly effective low-tech solution: stringing up simple fishing nets to catch the drones.

-However, this ingenuity highlights a deeper crisis.

 A Ukrainian commander reports not receiving replacements for eight months, being severely outnumbered, and suffering from extreme fatigue.

This desperate situation on the ground is compounded by what he calls a failure to communicate the true difficulty of the war up the chain of command.

In a long segment aired by CNN, a Ukrainian commander told the U.S. news network that he had not received replacements for his unit for eight months. At the moment, he told CNN, he was only resupplying frontline positions, and even there his troops are outnumbered.