WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday unanimously approved a bill that aims to enhance Secret Service protection for the presidential nominees and their respective vice presidential candidates, days after the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

The vote was 405-0, demonstrating the bipartisan support for boosted security amid growing political violence ahead of the November election. (US-House-Secret Service-Protection)

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BEIRUT -- Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets at more than 30 settlements in western Galilee and a key intelligence base in northern Israel on Friday, retaliating for an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed at least 12 people and wounded 66 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The Israeli strike hit a building in the Jamous area of Dahieh, a Beirut suburb. Rescue teams were clearing rubble to find casualties, the ministry said. (Lebanon-Israel-Attack)

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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Shiite militia Kata'ib Hezbollah announced Friday that one of its senior leaders was killed in an Israeli attack in the Syrian capital Damascus.

A statement by the Iraqi armed group said that Abu Haidar al-Khafaji was killed at dawn on Friday when performing his duties as a security advisor in Damascus. (Iraq-Syria-Israeli Attacks)

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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday night mourned the acting commander of its Elite Radwan Force, Ibrahim Akil, who was killed earlier in the day by an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs.

"Today, the great jihadist leader Ibrahim Akil joined the procession of his brothers, the great martyr leaders, after a blessed life full of jihad, work, wounds, sacrifices, risks, challenges, achievements, and victories," read a statement released by Hezbollah. (Lebanon-Israel-Deaths) Enditem

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