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President Donald Trump on Saturday says the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Trump issued the ultimatum in a social media post while he spent the weekend in Florida. He says he’s giving Iran exactly 48 hours to open the vital waterway or face a new round of attacks. He says the U.S. would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump faces increasing pressure to secure the strait as oil prices soar. Iran says any strike on its energy facilities would prompt attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.

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The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman has won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos that used home security footage to mock them over a 2022 raid of his home. The verdict Wednesday evening follows several hours of deliberations. The Adams County deputies say they were publicly harassed over the videos. They show rifle-wielding deputies busting down his door, searching his shoes and eyeing a cake on the kitchen table, inspiring the song, “Lemon Pound Cake.” The 51-year-old Afroman, born Joseph Foreman, says the verdict is a win for free speech rights. No charges were filed in the drug and kidnapping investigation.

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Jury selection has begun in the trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. They are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s former leader, plus related charges. Christian Sanon was set to go on trial with the others, but his trial will be held separately for medical reasons. They face possible life sentences. They have all pleaded not guilty. The trial was previously set for last year, but a judge agreed to delay to Monday because of discovery challenges and the volume of evidence. Officials say Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly from Colombia, attacked his home near Port-au-Prince.

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman. Relatives tell The Associated Press that a group of operatives lured Ahmed Shukr to the town of Zahle with a fake offer to buy some land from him. His wife says camera footage shows him leaving his car and getting into another. The family says his phone last registered in a nearby village the next morning. Lebanese prosecutors have charged four suspects. One of them is under arrest. Israel’s military has refused to comment. Shukr’s family says he is sick and needs daily medication.

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Local officials say Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children. The attack on Friday happened in the town of Ngoshe in Borno state. That's according to Bulama Sawa, an official from the Gwoza area. He told The Associated Press the attack was likely in retaliation for an operation by the military that killed three commanders of the militant Boko Haram group.

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Hungary says it has detained seven Ukrainians working for a state bank and seized armored vehicles full of cash, setting off a sharp dispute with Kyiv. On Friday, Hungarian customs officials say they opened a money laundering case. Ukraine’s foreign minister called the detentions “state terrorism” and accused Hungary of taking the bank employees hostage. Ukraine’s Oschadbank says the shipment included millions in dollars and euros, plus gold. The bank says GPS shows the vehicles in central Budapest, but staff locations stay unclear. The clash adds fuel to a wider dispute over blocked Russian oil flows through Ukraine.

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“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her sister returned to their mother’s home outside Tucson in their first sighting at the house since Nancy Guthrie went missing a month ago. The NBC anchor, her sister Annie Guthrie and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni walked arm-in-arm down the driveway and laid yellow flowers in a makeshift tribute to the 84-year-old at the edge of the street. Nancy Guthrie’s children had previously appeared in videos in which they pleaded for their mother’s return. She was last seen at her home Jan. 31. Authorities believe she was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will.