🇺🇸⚡️- "A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to either release unredacted versions of several files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why it can't do so, following a lawsuit accusing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of improperly redacting documents.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan gave the government until Thursday, July 2, to comply.

The documents in question include eight emails with either the sender or recipient blacked out, a draft indictment of Epstein with the names of potential co-conspirators obscured and a 2019 email that mentions several co-conspirators whose names were redacted." - CBS News.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Colonel Dmytro Koziura, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine's counter-terrorism department, has been convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.

Koziura was reportedly recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in Vienna in 2018 and remained in contact with the FSB until his arrest in 2025.

Ukraine's Prosecutor General said Koziura had "systematically transmitted information about the consequences of missile strikes on objects in Kyiv, the locations of SBU units, data from military units, official documents, and analytical materials," along with information about critical infrastructure and Ukraine's gas infrastructure and systems.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Army is creating a dedicated Space Operations Branch, bringing officers and enlisted specialists into a single career field for the first time. The branch will include around 1,000 enlisted billets, with plans to expand toward 1,500 by 2032 across the active force, National Guard, and Army Reserve.

🇺🇸⚡️- Benny Johnson comes out in support of WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark after being repeatedly assaulted by her Black female opponents.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against Nabatieh's al-Fawqa district, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The IDF reports four injuries following yesterday's clashes with Hezbollah in Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon.

🇵🇸⚡- Large-scale anti-Hamas protests are set to take place across the Gaza Strip today. Demonstrations will be held on both sides of the IDF's Yellow Line border.

Dubbed the 'June 26 Day of Anger', crowds are expected to gather after the Friday prayers.

🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have begun imposing a siege on El-Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan region.

Over the past 24 hours, five oil tank farms in the city were struck by RSF drones.

No ground offensive has been launched so far, with heavy RSF reinforcements continuing to build up along the city’s northern and western approaches.

🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have begun refining oil in western Sudan, Darfur24 reports.

🇻🇪⚡- The death toll resulting from the earthquake has more than doubled to 589, according to the Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodriguez.

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Missile alerts have been activated in the United Arab Emirates.

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️- An all clear message was sent a few minutes after the missile alert.

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️- The UAE has asked residents to disregard their previous messages.

It was either a misidentification, or was activated out of caution for projectiles that were fired towards a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.