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While I still love Java as a programming language, it seems to be more troublesome than it is worth to keep the Java applets on here. It's almost as if the browser folks have declared war on Java. Firefox disables the java plugin if it's too far out of date. A lot of times you have to go through a lot of confirmations just to run a java applet, and even after doing all that, the browser still might not let you run it. My graph of picked lottery numbers is a good example.
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Iran warned Monday it would use “new weapons with new capabilities” if the U.S. launched a fresh assault after President Donald Trump ramped up the rhetoric against Tehran over the weekend.
“If a new aggression takes place, we will definitely change the weapons and geography of the war,” Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Monday, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Mohebbi did not provide details on what the new weapons were or which new locations could be hit.
Earlier, Trump said he would “probably” be open to meeting with his Iranian counterpart, President Masoud Pezeshkian, during the United Nations General Assembly this week, Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported Sunday.
The possibility of a meeting offered a glimmer of hope for a resolution to the nearly seven-month war with Iran, which has resulted in Iran blocking the key Strait of Hormuz, and its Yemeni allies bombing a crucial east-west oil pipeline and threatening another crucial waterway. Resultant economic shock waves have hit the U.S. and the world economy, driving up oil and diesel prices and fueling inflation.

Trump also said he was still deciding how to proceed with the war, describing his options as “wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.”
“My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up,” he said.
“They better behave,” Trump warned.
The president has previously said he did not believe the Iran war would end until after November’s midterm elections. He has also said oil prices would not come down until then.
Oil prices slid to their lowest point in more than a week Monday as hopes for renewed talks between the U.S. and Iran grew, while signs of a recovery in Saudi crude exports eased supply concerns, despite continued attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis.

Trump told Fox News that Washington was in constant communication with the Houthis — and that the Yemeni rebel group had agreed not to fight with the U.S., Yingst reported.
Trump has said that the administration had been in touch with the Houthis, but did not say when.
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” he said earlier this month. “They would much prefer not having us involved, and they’re letting most ships go through.”
Violence escalated over the weekend, with the Houthis saying they had used missiles and drones to attack “sensitive” sites in Riyadh on Saturday, as well as an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key oil export hub.
Meanwhile, fighting flared in southwest Yemen as the rebel group made gains against Saudi-backed forces.
The New York Times reported Monday that the president had considered, but ultimately decided against on Sunday joining Saudi Arabia in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
NBC News was not immediately able to independently confirm the newspaper’s reporting. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“This is a really fluid situation,” Adam Baron, a fellow at the New America think tank who follows Yemen and the wider Gulf region, said Monday.
He cautioned that he would not “rule out anything” when it comes to Trump’s stance on whether to help Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis.
Shipping data showed 17 commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, down from 37 a week earlier, though Middle Eastern producers continue to export oil on tankers with their transponders off, Reuters reported.
A total of 22 tankers, mainly very large crude carriers, or VLCCs, exited Hormuz in the week of Sept. 13, with Saudi Arabia and Iraq each accounting for 43% of the volume, the outlet reported, citing data from tracking group Kpler, which maintains the MarineTraffic website.
Meanwhile, at least 51 vessels made the crossing along the Bab el Mandeb, with 33 vessels exiting the waterway over the weekend as the Houthis tightened their grip over the strait, the outlet reported. That was down from 57 vessels in the previous weekend.
The Yemeni Health and Environment Ministry accused Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes targeting telecommunications towers in the Khabb wa ash-Sha’af district of Al-Jawf Governorate on Sunday that killed four telecommunications workers and injured three others.
“Targeting essential service infrastructure, including telecommunications towers, constitutes a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws,” the ministry said in a post on Telegram. “It reveals the aggressor’s determination to disrupt basic services and exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people,” it said.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
This article originally appeared on NBC News at https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/trump-wiping-out-iran-warns-new-weapons-rcna598954Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.
More than 1,000 flights were canceled nationwide and over 6,000 were delayed on Monday, with Newark and Philadelphia hit the hardest.
The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. When the backup system went into place, officials discovered the backup line in New Jersey had been cut, Bedford said.

In order to change the circuit in Philadelphia, Bedford said the airspace in the Northeast would temporarily close. Ground stops were expanded to include New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport as part of the work, though airspace at those locations has since reopened.
Hours after officials said the fix to replace the circuit in Philadelphia had not worked, leaving operations still halted at Philadelphia and Newark's airports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy updated Monday evening that the telecom lines have been repaired and "all airport operations in the Northeast are resuming."
"It will take some time to clear all existing delays, so please check with your airline for the latest information," he said on X.

The outage caused a ripple effect across the Northeast and the U.S., diverting some flights and canceling and delaying others.
United Airlines, which has one of its hubs at Newark Airport, updated Monday evening that it was no longer canceling domestic flights at the airport for the remainder of the day.
"We know this outage is a significant disruption for our customers," United said in a statement. "Once it is resolved, we will work to safely get them to their destinations, and we have issued a travel waiver to give them the flexibility to manage their travel plans."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
ABC News' Jason Volack contributed to this report.
A growing list of news organizations has announced that they will not publish photographs from the White House on Monday in response to President Trump's move last week to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from covering him or his administration in person.
The Washington Post, the New York Times and HuffPost each announced Monday afternoon that they were joining the four major TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — in refusing to participate in the White House pool, the rotating group of reporters, photographers and videographers that document the president's public events.
As a result, Trump was largely inaudible during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the White House's new helipad on Monday, where he gave a brief speech without the microphone that the pool would typically provide.
Later in the day, the White House announced the creation of Trump TV, though details on what the service might include weren't provided.
The three banned news organizations filed a lawsuit against Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court earlier Monday, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored.
"This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes," CNN, MS NOW and Politico said in a joint statement. "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference."
CNN had been scheduled to serve as the television pool on Monday. According to Politico, the four other major TV networks are declining to participate in White House pool duties moving forward in response to the ban.
According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the news outlets allege that Trump and the White House are retaliating against them for coverage they dislike.
"President Trump has said in no uncertain terms that he would prefer only to be covered by news organizations and reporters who praise his administration," the complaint states. "But the Constitution does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting."
The organizations argue that their reporters were not afforded due process and are asking a federal judge to quickly rule that Trump's ban is unconstitutional. The filing cites a 1977 ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the White House cannot arbitrarily deny a journalist a press pass without due process.
"This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles," the filing states.
Trump appeared to respond to the lawsuit in a social media post early Monday.
"The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America," the president wrote on Truth Social. "It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!"
The White House released a statement on Monday afternoon, saying that access for journalists is "a privilege — not a right."
"The First Amendment protects their right to publish; it does not entitle them to a hard pass, briefing room seat, or place in the press pool," the statement read. "No President is required to host a hostile operation on the grounds. Access has always been a privilege — and President Trump is applying that rule."

On Friday afternoon, Trump announced the ban in a Truth Social post, saying it was not prompted by any particular stories but was "a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!"
"It's really just cumulative stories over the last few years. You get sick of it," Trump said at an Oval Office event an hour later while explaining his decision to enact "the ban on the free press."
"There's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories," the president said. "If they want to write them, that's fine, but I don't have to let them into my, into the people's house."
According to CNN, Trump's close aide Natalie Harp showed him clips of media coverage shortly before he announced the ban.
On Saturday, reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were turned away from the White House by members of the Secret Service and had their credentials — so-called hard passes needed for access — confiscated.
The journalists — CNN's Betsy Klein, MS NOW's Akayla Gardner and Politico's Cheyenne Haslett — are listed as plaintiffs in the court filing.
The White House Correspondents' Association condemned the move, saying it violates the First Amendment.
"The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably," Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News senior White House correspondent and WHCA president, said in a statement. "That's why courts have repeatedly held that once the White House provides access to journalists, it cannot deny that access arbitrarily or based on the content of their reporting."
On Sunday, Trump posted what appeared to be an AI-generated image of trash bags bearing the logos of CNN, MSNBC (MS NOW's former name) and Politico outside the White House.
The three news outlets are longstanding members of the White House press pool that provides rotating coverage of the administration and travels with the president.
The daily guidance issued by the White House for Monday listed no primary TV pool, identifying Hearst and Real America's Voice as the "secondary" TV crews for the president's events in Washington and his scheduled trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. Trump is scheduled to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday afternoon.
U.S. presidents throughout history have complained about negative coverage of their administrations. In 2009, the Obama administration sought to exclude Fox News from a series of interviews with a Treasury Department official in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but backed down when the other major television networks objected.
Trump, however, has continued his adversarial relationship with the media, often referring to the press as the "enemy of the people."
In 2018, Trump administration officials revoked the press pass of then-CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta after they said that he had interrupted the president during a news conference. The network sued, and a federal judge ordered Acosta's credentials restored.
A similar situation played out the following year when the White House revoked Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press pass over a verbal argument between Karem and Sebastian Gorka, a former White House aide, at a Rose Garden event. A federal judge ordered the White House to restore Karem's pass.
Last year, Trump barred Associated Press journalists from the Oval Office, Air Force One and some official events after the news service declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by Trump's preferred name, the Gulf of America. The AP filed suit and the case is ongoing.
In his first event without a network TV pool on Monday, Trump unveiled the White House's new helipad before departing for New York. His remarks were nearly inaudible on the White House video feed. Joe Reberkenny, a White House correspondent for the Washington Blade who was serving as the in-town pool reporter, said he couldn't hear Trump "over the sound of the helicopter."
This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/cnn-ms-now-and-politico-are-suing-trump-over-white-house-ban-155420637.html