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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A U.S. Air Force UH-1N "Huey" assigned to the 1st Helicopter Squadron at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, appears to have made a hard landing in a field near Union Bridge, Maryland, approximately 55 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.

The 1st Helicopter Squadron provides helicopter transportation for senior government and military officials throughout the National Capital Region.

The cause of the apparent hard landing and the condition of those aboard are not yet known.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/1ujtw3o/1st_helicopter_squadron_helicopter_in_a_field/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Royal Canadian Navy Sailor salutes the Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) from the deck of the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina (FFH-334), as the ship arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2026, June 24, 2026.
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The U.S. Navy’s San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) arrives at the Port of La Guaira in Northern Venezuela overnight on June 28, 2026, supporting U.S. Southern Command and the Department of State-led response to last week’s pair of major earthquakes which struck near Caracas.
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