Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has compounded on previous Iranian statements that no talks are currently scheduled for the coming days. Per a statement made by Baqaei to Iranian state-backed news outlet IRNA, “in the coming days, there will be no negotiation meetings at any level with the American side.”

This comes against the backdrop of heightened tensions within the ceasefire framework over Iran’s unwillingness to allow a non-Iranian transit framework in the Strait of Hormuz and the current situation in Southern Lebanon.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral Brad Cooper is currently in the Middle East and has visited both Israel and Lebanon so far. Per a CENTCOM release, Admiral Cooper met with President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Armed Forces Commanding General Rodolphe Haykal in recent days and also met military and civilian decision-makers in Israel.

The topics of conversation centered on the implementation of the recently signed Israel-Lebanon framework agreement. It’s likely that CENTCOM’s role in the deconfliction portion of the framework, including their role in facilitating Israel’s eventual withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, was discussed as well.

While Iranian officials continue to deny that technical level talks with the U.S. are set to take place in the coming days, officials continue to tell U.S. media that talks are in fact happening, as a diplomat with knowledge on the matter has confirmed earlier reports, telling NewsNation that Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Envoy Jared Kushner are set to meet their Qatari counterparts in Doha, Qatar tomorrow to discuss the negotiations framework. Additionally, per the report, despite Iranian claims to the contrary, technical talks are set to take place between the U.S. and Iran this upcoming Wednesday, as Iran continues to signal, likely for PR reasons, that no talks are scheduled.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirmed the meeting between U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Envoy Jared Kushner, and Qatar officials tomorrow in Doha, Qatar, saying that Iranian denuclearization is set to be the topic at hand.

Earlier today, an explosion occurred on the Rue Révérend-Père-Louis-Folla in Monaco after a suspect placed a backpack at the base of a building and it subsequently detonated. Police and fire crews have responded, and according to local news outlets, two of the victims were Ukrainian and Russian. Per reports, 3 individuals were injured, with two of them being seriously injured. The suspect reportedly remains at large.
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Following the detonation of a bomb in Monaco, Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco Christophe Mirmand has confirmed that the explosion was likely an attack and that the device was likely equipped with bolts and other materials for maximum damage. Additionally, according to AFP, all of the victims are of Ukrainian origin.

Early reports indicate that Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev, who was sanctioned earlier in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War for his ties to Russia through his business in occupied-Crimea, may have been the target of the bombing in Monaco earlier.

Iranian foreign ministry officials continue to deny that technical talks with the U.S. in Doha, Qatar set for tomorrow are set in stone, but have instead signaled that if they do take place, the unfreezing of funds and other key points of contention will be the topic of discussion.

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration is seeking to develop a centralized master list of U.S. foreign intelligence targets including suspected foreign spies and potential intelligence recruits.

The proposal stems from National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which directs intelligence agencies to better identify, integrate, and share information on national security threat actors.

The proposal has reportedly faced resistance from the FBI and CIA. Critics warn that concentrating the identities of covert targets and potential assets in a single repository could create an unprecedented counterintelligence risk if compromised or improperly accessed.

The effort reportedly began under former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/us/trump-intelligence-agencies-spies-master-list.html

An Electra Airways flight has been diverted to Bulgaria following what was reportedly an accidental hijack alert triggered by the pilot. Per reports, the pilot of the plane, which was traveling from Warsaw, Poland to Tel Aviv, Israel, accidentally triggered the alert, prompting Israel to scramble fighter jets and divert the aircraft.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas visited Türkiye and spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and discussed the ongoing situation in the Middle East and the upcoming NATO summit in the capital of Ankara.

In a notable 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Idaho and West Virginia laws banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girl’s school sports, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing “The term 'sex' in Title IX... cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are U.S. citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, striking down President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship as unconstitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito dissented. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in part and dissented in part.

Just earlier, NPR released a story claiming that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. However, no such release was issued by the court and the story has since been taken down in what may have been a misfired story.

Initial reports of a HAZMAT Incident involving a currently unknown hazardous material in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, prompted by a train derailment near the area of Neshaminy Falls Train Station, with police, fire and rescue services responding and residents asked to shelter-in-place between Brownsville Road and Old Lincoln Highway.

Igor Girkin, a former officer with the Russian Army who played a key role in Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and who was later tried and imprisoned for his public views against Vladimir Putin’s ongoing strategy in Ukraine, has said in a post to Telegram from his prison cell, that Ukraine’s recent large-scale drone campaign against energy, industry, logistics, and military targets in Russian-occupied Crimea is the “setting the stage” for Ukrainian amphibious and ground operations aimed at recapturing Crimea.

A federal judge has again ruled against the Pentagon in its dispute with The New York Times over media access.

After the court previously struck down restrictions on Pentagon press credentials, the Defense Department imposed a new policy requiring reporters to be escorted at all times. The judge ruled the Times is likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge and blocked enforcement of the escort requirement while the case proceeds.

As a right-wing wave appears to be sweeping across Latin and South America, Brazil appears to be one of the lone countries holding strong on the side of the left, with traders on Polymarket predicting by a chance of 56% that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will handedly win the upcoming Presidential Election against Flávio Bolsonaro.

The U.S. Marine Corps announced Monday that 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco of Minnesota, a Marine serving with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13th MEU) onboard the a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23), had been declared dead, after going missing from the vessel last Thursday during training off the coast of Southern California.