Good morning—great news to start with: the Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another took top prizes at the Producers Guild and Directors Guild awards, a solid sign for its Oscar prospects. On the global front, the CIA helped pinpoint a gathering of Iranian leaders and Israel struck, with reports that Iran’s supreme leader and several top commanders were killed, marking a major escalation in the conflict.
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The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.
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