🔵 Abrego Garcia Freed

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Citizen Frank
June 22, 2025

Good evening. It’s Sunday, June 22.

A federal judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be released from custody while awaiting trial.

In a ruling on Sunday evening, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes said the Department of Justice “failed to meet its burden of showing a properly supported basis for detention on grounds that Abrego poses and irremediable danger to the community or is likely not to appeal.”

“Rather, the Court finds that it can impose conditions of release to reasonably assure the safety of others and the community and Abrego’s appearance,” the ruling said.

 
 

An alleged active shooter intent on attacking a Michigan church on Sunday was shot and killed by a security guard who “prevented a large-scale mass shooting,” police said.

The shooting unfolded around 11:15 a.m. local time at the CrossPointe Community Church in the Detroit suburb of Wayne, according to the Wayne Police Department.

“We are grateful for the heroic actions of the church’s staff members who undoubtedly saved many lives and prevented a large-scale mass shooting,” Wayne Police Chief Ryan Strong said during a press conference on Sunday.

President Trump’s political operation has launched an aggressive effort to unseat Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, its first such effort to defeat a sitting Republican incumbent, Axios has reported.

By going after Massie, Trump’s team is looking to put wayward Republicans on notice that they’re ready to play hardball.

Massie has attacked Trump over his strike on Iran, saying on X that it was “not Constitutional,” prompting the president to fire back on Truth Social that the congressman is “not MAGA.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on Sunday that he will travel to Moscow for high-level talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, following overnight US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul, Mr Araghchi said the consultations with President Putin would take place Monday morning. The move comes in the immediate aftermath of the US targeting three key Iranian nuclear sites, in what Washington has described as a “necessary step” to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“Russia is a friend of Iran, we always consult with each other,” Araghchi told reporters. “I’m going to Moscow this afternoon for serious consultations with the Russian president tomorrow morning.”

President Donald Trump floated the idea of “regime change” on Sunday, following “very successful” U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.

Trump made his last comments on the war in a post on Truth Social that included his signature “MAGA” slogan in the context of Iran.

“It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” the president said.

New satellite photos show the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that dropped multiple 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs on Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility and hit two other key locations in Iran’s nuclear program.

The stealth U.S. mission, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer,” struck three nuclear facilities in Iran — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — in the early hours of Sunday local time.

Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon briefing Sunday that seven B-2 Spirit bombers each carried two of the bombs known as GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs. Over 25 minutes, a total of 14 MOPs were dropped on two target areas at Fordo and Natanz, while Tomahawk missiles from a U.S. submarine targeted the Isfahan site, he said.

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media reported.

The attack took place in Dweil’a on the outskirts of Damascus inside the Mar Elias Church, according to state media SANA, citing the Health Ministry for the toll of dead and wounded. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were at least 19 peopled killed and dozens wounded, but did not give exact numbers. Some local media reported that children were among the casualties.

The attack on the church was the first of its kind in Syria in years, and comes as Damascus under its de facto Islamist rule is trying to win the support of minorities. As President Ahmad al-Sharaa struggles to exert authority across the country, there have been concerns about the presence of sleeper cells of extremist groups in the war-torn country.

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