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After George Floyd's murder, thousands flooded Seattle's streets. Police deployed crowd control weapons, a standoff formed outside a precinct — and then police simply walked away, abandoning it. The 8-block autonomous zone that rose up in their wake had its own medical teams, its own art, and its own armed security.
The U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework calls for Israeli troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah disarmament. Hezbollah has rejected the deal outright — and wasn't even at the table.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is scheduled to meet President Trump on Tuesday to discuss next steps of the Israel-Lebanon peace framework. Aoun supports Israeli withdrawal but Hezbollah remains a wildcard.
Wildfires raging in Ontario and Manitoba have blanketed the U.S. Midwest and East Coast in hazardous smoke. Cities like Minneapolis, Duluth, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan face ongoing degraded air quality with no immediate relief.
The war against Iran has now claimed 17 American lives since it began February 28. Two servicemembers died in an Iranian attack on a U.S. base in Jordan over the weekend, and the U.S. has struck Iran for nine straight nights.
Hundreds of Houstonians braved brutal heat to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado, killed by ICE agents over two weeks ago. Protest leaders vow to keep pressure on local officials with more demonstrations planned.
Vice President J.D. Vance and wife Usha welcomed Alex Neal Vance, making J.D. Vance the first sitting Vice President to have a child born in office in more than 150 years. The Vances now have four children.
The U.S. military hit Iran for the ninth consecutive night while simultaneously absorbing its third service member death since Friday. A soldier in northern Iraq was killed by an unexploded weapon from a downed Iranian drone — a lethal reminder that the battlefield extends well beyond the airstrike headlines.
A U.S. service member died Saturday in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of an unexploded weapon from a downed Iranian drone. That brings the toll to three American deaths since Friday, when two soldiers were killed in an Iranian attack in Jordan — and unidentified remains were still being examined at the Jordan attack site.
Russia launched massive missile and drone strikes on Kyiv, hitting residential buildings, businesses, and an underground metro passage used as a civilian bomb shelter. The assault came just 24 hours after Ukraine struck two Wildberries warehouses in Russia — killing 8 workers — in what Kyiv claims was a strike on military drone supply lines.
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