Trump fired the entire Election Assistance Commission by email, four months before the midterms. A Meta contractor put a deadly bacteria in Wyoming’s water. And Iran’s nuclear plant has been struck four times since February.
Today is the deadline. 300,000 Haitians are about to lose the legal status that let them live and work here — some for sixteen years. The US paused strikes on Iran overnight. And the doctors fighting Ebola in Congo haven’t been paid in two months. They’re on strike.
The war that ended on June 17 has not ended. Iran reached out for a new deal. Trump doesn’t know if they’re worthy of one. And nine Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Wednesday — three of them children.
The US struck Iran for the third consecutive day. A Paraguayan senator called the world’s best soccer player a “colonized Cameroonian” and then demanded an apology from him. And Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was close to obtaining legal status. His uncle is still missing.
The US struck Iran for the second consecutive day. NATO concluded in Ankara. And two separate UN bodies called this week for the immediate release of a Palestinian doctor who says he is being killed in Israeli custody.
Trump says the Iran deal is over. Brent is at $78.57 and rising. At NATO, he demanded Greenland, wrote off Spain, and threatened to pull US troops from Europe. And an ICE officer killed a man in Houston while his son watched.
The MOU is twenty days old. Tonight Iran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The US revoked Iran’s right to sell oil and launched strikes. A US official called it “punishment.” Meanwhile NATO opened in Ankara. And Marine Le Pen is running for president.
At NATO’s Ankara summit, Trump skips a key diplomatic ritual while Ukraine pleads for air defense. Meanwhile, FIFA’s controversial decision to reinstate a US player sparks outrage, Iran’s state funeral reveals fractures in its leadership, and France’s far-right faces a pivotal court ruling.
