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🔵 Israel-Iran CEASEFIRE
Citizen Frank
June 23, 2025
Good evening. It’s Monday, June 23.
President Trump has announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran that will begin at midnight.
“This is the end of the war. It is a great thing for Israel and the world,” Trump told Axios on Monday evening.
The ceasefire will end a 12-day war between Israel and Iran that led to the destruction of significant parts of Iran’s nuclear program by Israel and the United States.
Iran launched multiple missiles against an American military base in Qatar on Monday in retaliation for the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities this weekend.
No casualties were reported, and both Qatar and the Trump administration were made aware of the Iranian attack ahead of the time, sources tell Axios.
It’s unclear if the attack on Al Udeid Air Base marked the full extent of Iran’s retaliation. Three hours after the attack, President Trump issued a statement thanking Iran for giving “early notice” for what he called a “very weak” missile attack.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can resume deporting migrants to countries other than their home nation with limited notice.
In a 6–3 decision that broke down along ideological lines, the justices stayed an April ruling by a Boston federal judge that stymied the rapid deportation effort.
The conservative majority did not provide a rationale for their ruling but liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a scathing 19-page dissent that was joined by fellow liberals Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service on Monday released details of an alleged assassination plot against President Volodymyr Zelensky by a former Polish soldier.
The plot, which was to be carried out in Rzeszow in south-eastern Poland, dates back to early last year, when arrests were made in both Ukraine and Poland.
The soldier had been recruited by Russian intelligence services decades ago, motivated by a sense of nostalgia for the Soviet Union, SBU head Vasyl Malyuk said.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Democrats.
“There may be that possibility,” she told Galen Druke in an interview excerpt of his GD Politics podcast, scheduled to post in full on Tuesday.
Druke asked Murkowski how she’d respond if Democrats won three seats in the 2026 midterm election, “and they say, we’re gonna let you pass bills that benefit Alaskans if you caucus with us.”
Kevin O’Connor, who previously served as former President Joe Biden’s personal physician, has been scheduled to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee next month, Axios reported.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chair of the committee, launched an investigation into Biden following reports of his physical and mental decline in books like “Original Sin.”
As part of his investigation, Comer is looking into whether there was any unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions.
Dozens of children were rescued in a blow to child sex trafficking operations in Florida, officials announced Monday.
Dubbed Operation Dragon Eye, the initiative was spearheaded by the U.S. Marshals Office for the Central District of Florida and supported by the state Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP).
The effort involved 20 agencies working in tandem to locate 60 critically missing children and apprehend suspects tied to trafficking, drugs and child endangerment.
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