U.S. Central Command carried out self-defense strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island and targets near Geruk after Iranian forces shot down an American MQ-1 drone over international waters and launched ballistic missiles toward U.S. allies Kuwait and Bahrain. An Iranian drone struck Kuwait's main airport, injuring civilians and drawing condemnation from Kuwait City. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hinted a diplomatic deal may still be within reach even as the gunfire continues.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is hemorrhaging support as a cascade of revelations — including a Nazi-symbol chest tattoo, inflammatory Reddit posts, and multiple women describing physical abuse and controlling behavior — has split his own party. A Platner accuser is now publicly accusing The New York Times of softening its coverage of her allegations, saying the paper's story was a "gift" to the embattled candidate. Several Democratic officials have formally broken with Platner, while Maine Rep. Jared Golden has ruled out removing him from the November ballot.
Trump-backed independent Spencer Pratt surged to second place in the June 2 Los Angeles mayoral primary, forcing incumbent Mayor Karen Bass into a November runoff. Pratt — who lost his Pacific Palisades home in the 2025 wildfires — ran on public safety, homelessness, and accountability, pulling roughly 30% of the vote. Bass captured around 43%, well short of the majority needed to win outright, setting up a general election showdown in America's second-largest city.
A joint operation by the U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations, and Turks and Caicos authorities intercepted an overcrowded migrant vessel in distress south of the islands today, rescuing 240 people. DHS announced enforcement actions will follow the humanitarian rescue. Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Congress this week that the primary border wall stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of America remains on track for completion by June 2027.
A ceasefire framework brokered by the United States between Israel and Lebanon — reached after intensive talks June 2-3 — is already in tatters. Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem publicly denounced the agreement as "absurd, humiliating, and insulting," calling it a roadmap for surrender. Israel and Hezbollah were exchanging strikes within hours of the announcement, leaving residents of Israel's northern border communities in the same precarious limbo they have endured for months.
New satellite imagery reveals Iran is actively rebuilding at the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities struck by U.S. and Israeli forces last June, with construction crews erecting roofs over damaged structures at both sites. President Trump, addressing questions about post-strike transparency, named the only two countries he would trust to inspect Iran's bombed nuclear facilities — a statement drawing immediate international attention as ceasefire negotiations between Washington and Tehran remain fragile.
In the wake of last month's Xi-Trump summit in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that future "clashes and even conflicts" between the U.S. and China over Taiwan remain possible. President Trump cautioned Taiwan not to expect a blank check for American military backing, saying he has no desire to fight a war 9,500 miles from home, as a $14 billion arms sale to Taipei sits in diplomatic limbo. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te responded by pledging to push the island's defense budget above 3% of GDP this year, targeting 5% by 2030.
New five-year data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago shows that Merck and Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine — combined with the immunotherapy drug KEYTRUDA — reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence or death by 49% compared to KEYTRUDA alone. The Phase 2b trial followed 157 patients with high-risk Stage 3 and 4 melanoma, and researchers called the sustained five-year results a major milestone for personalized cancer medicine.
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise line, disclosed that a social engineering attack on a single employee account in April exposed personal data — names, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and passport and driver's license numbers — for nearly 6 million customers. The extortion group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility and threatened to release the data. Carnival is offering two years of free credit monitoring to affected U.S. customers; security experts warn that exposed passport data poses long-term fraud risks.
Nearly a year after she vanished without a trace, the remains of Melissa Casias — an employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory — were discovered by a hiker in a remote New Mexico forest. Casias is among a cluster of missing and deceased individuals connected to sensitive U.S. nuclear and rocket research programs, a pattern that has drawn sustained attention from national security investigators. Authorities have not yet announced a cause of death.
