🔵 Trump Defies G7

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Citizen Frank
June 17, 2025

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, June 17.

Donald Trump torpedoed a joint G7 statement on the Israel-Iran conflict as world leaders met in Canada on Monday, according to senior US officials.

More splits were on display between Trump and other G7 nation leaders as the two-day summit got underway in the sun and grandeur of Banff National Park.

The agenda for the long-planned summit has been hastily updated to reflect cross-border barrages fired by Iran and Israel and concerns about a wider war.

 
 

Russia overnight unleashed one of its largest and sustained attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in recent months, resulting in 15 people killed and over one hundred wounded.

The assault, which lasted some ten hours, involved a coordinated barrage of drones, ballistic, and cruise missiles – and severely impacted residential areas, including a direct hit on a nine-story apartment building in the city’s Solomyanskyi district.

Part of the building collapsed after being struck by Shahed drones and a ballistic missile. Emergency crews were responding to the smoke-filled scene through the morning hours.

A local media outlet in Minnesota has reportedly been provided the names on a potential “hit list” found in the vehicle of the man accused of killing Minnesota House Democrat leader Melissa Hortman and her husband.

Law enforcement authorities over the weekend confirmed that they found “a list of names and addresses of other public officials” in the vehicle of the suspect, Vance Boelter, who was arrested Sunday night and charged with murder.

A list posted by Alpha News investigative reporter Liz Collin includes the names of dozens of elected Democrats, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, and Planned Parenthood executives. It also includes Hortman’s name, though state Sen. John Hoffman (D), who was also allegedly shot by Boelter, does not appear to be on the list, which has some redactions.

The Senate Finance Committee unveiled its portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” Monday, containing provisions on Medicaid, taxes and green energy tax credits.

The committee’s text is the final piece of the upper chamber’s version of the bill to be released, and was the most highly anticipated. It contains some of the thorniest provisions that Senate GOP holdouts have expressed concerns about, and the issues that could set the upper chamber on a collision course with the House.

The House narrowly passed its version of the legislation last month. Here’s what’s in the Senate’s bill.

FBI Director Kash Patel forked over a trove of documents to Congress detailing an alleged Chinese campaign to meddle in the 2020 election that involved thousands of bogus US driver’s licenses.

Precise details about the alleged effort are murky, but a confidential source alleged the Chinese planned to use those licenses for thousands of mail-in votes to benefit former Vice President Joe Biden, a spokesperson for the FBI honcho explained to The Post.

Authorities had caught wind of the alleged plot around August 2020, but intelligence reports on it were recalled for reasons that aren’t fully clear, the spokesperson added.

Israel killed a senior Iranian general overnight, just days after eliminating his predecessor, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday morning, as the campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and Iran’s retaliatory missile barrages at Israel entered their fifth day.

Israel launched its campaign early Friday, asserting an imminent existential threat from the regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Explosions and air defense fire were reported Tuesday in Tehran. Air defenses were reportedly also activated in Natanz, home to a major uranium enrichment plant that was seriously damaged in Israel’s opening attack, and satellite images showed extensive damage at a missile base.

Jihadists massacred around 200 Christians in Nigeria last week after storming a predominantly Catholic farming community and setting fire to homes, according to multiple reports.

Last Friday and Saturday, Fulani Jihadist herdsmen targeted the Christians in Yelwata, in Nigeria’s Benue State, according to Catholic news outlet, Crux. The militants attempted to storm St. Joseph’s Church in Yelwata, which was housing families who had been displaced by previous Fulani Jihadist attacks in other areas, but were repelled by police, according to another report from Church in Need. The militants then attacked the town square, setting fire to buildings and killing people while yelling “Allahu Akbar.”

According to eyewitnesses on the ground in the Nigerian community, the Jihadists “surrounded Yelwata … and began slaughtering people—mostly women, children, and displaced families who thought they had found safety here.”

An Ontario school board says that a male bus driver who appeared in a social media video operating a bus at an elementary school while wearing a pink skirt and calling the bus the “Lolita Line” will no longer be providing bus services to the school.

In the video, taken outside of St. Michael the Archangel elementary school in Woodbridge, the driver is seen standing in the door of the bus. He is wearing a short pink skirt and white blouse, pink shoes, and a headband.

The driver is heard saying, “I do this everyday, and I don’t think there is an issue.”

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