Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to halt attacks after calls aimed at preventing a Beirut raid, but fighting continued in southern Lebanon. Iran warned that renewed war with the U.S. was “inevitable” if Washington demands Tehran’s surrender.
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Voters in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota are casting ballots in primaries that will shape key races for governor, Congress and the Senate. California’s top-two governor’s race and Iowa’s open-seat contests are among the most closely watched.
Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least nine people across Ukraine, including four in Kyiv, as officials reported fires, blackouts and damaged apartment buildings. The assault followed warnings from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Moscow was preparing a major attack.
The Defense Department has barred journalists from entering the Pentagon press office after redesignating it as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. Press freedom groups criticized the move as part of broader restrictions on media access to the U.S. military.
The Justice Department said it will comply with a federal judge’s order pausing President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. The program faces lawsuits and bipartisan criticism in Congress.
Mette Frederiksen will form a centre-left minority government after more than two months of negotiations following Denmark’s fractured March election. Her third term begins amid domestic economic concerns and a dispute with the United States over Greenland.
Jing Sheng Dong, a Staten Island tour bus driver, now faces five involuntary manslaughter counts and a reckless driving charge after a deadly I-95 crash in Virginia. Five people were killed and roughly 44 others were taken to hospitals.