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President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and two of its reporters over a July 2025 report on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name. The refile comes roughly a month after a federal judge dismissed the original suit, ruling Trump failed to…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into writer E Jean Carroll, who successfully sued President Donald Trump twice for sexual assault and defamation, CBS News reported. The probe centers on whether Carroll committed perjury in a 2022 deposition when she said she received no outside funding for her civil lawsuit.
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The U.S. military carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site that posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official. Iran’s Fars news agency separately reported three explosions east of Bandar Abbas at around 1:30 a.m. local time.
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The U.S. military struck Iranian missile launch sites and boats attempting to lay mines near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, U.S. Central Command confirmed. The strikes occurred while a ceasefire between the two countries remains technically in effect.
WORLD
Spain’s Ministry of Health confirmed Monday that a second Spanish national evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested positive for hantavirus, raising the confirmed case count among Spanish passengers and crew to two. The patient, identified through contact tracing, has been transferred to a high-level isolation unit at a Madrid military hospital.
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a passenger train in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 70, officials said. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility, saying the train was carrying security personnel.
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Shots were fired near the White House on Saturday, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed, while President Trump was inside the building. https://x.com/fbidirectorkash/status/2058318050240184514?s=46 Secret Service officers immediately locked down the press briefing room, preventing journalists from leaving. The Secret Service said on X it was “aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania…
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President Trump announced Friday afternoon that a peace agreement with Iran has been ‘largely negotiated,’ involving the United States, Iran, and a coalition of Middle Eastern and South Asian nations. Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be opened as part of the deal.
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A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Changzhi city, Shanxi province, killed at least 82 people, Xinhua reported Saturday, after 247 workers were initially trapped underground following the blast Friday evening. The death toll represents a sharp revision from early reports, which cited only eight fatalities.
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A federal judge in Nashville dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Friday, ruling the prosecution was selective and vindictive. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw found that without Abrego Garcia’s successful lawsuit challenging his deportation to El Salvador, the government would not have brought the case.
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President Trump announced Thursday that he would not attend his son Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding to Bettina Anderson, citing unspecified government obligations. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, saying ‘circumstances pertaining to Government’ required him to stay at the White House.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is resigning to support her husband, Abraham, through a diagnosis of what she described as ‘an extremely rare form of bone cancer,’ Fox News Digital reported Friday. Her last day at ODNI is expected to be June 30.
