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President Donald Trump says the United States is making progress toward what he described as a fair and lasting agreement with Iran, while insisting Tehran has agreed to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities. Speaking at events in Pennsylvania this week, Trump said preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains the administration’s top priority. He argued that recent military operations and diplomatic pressure have left Iran in a weakened position and created an opportunity for a broader agreement. Trump claimed Iran has agreed to future inspections of its nuclear sites and pushed back on reports suggesting otherwise. When asked about statements from Iranian officials denying that inspectors had been invited back into the country, Trump responded that Tehran was “wrong” and said inspections would occur “at the appropriate time.” The president also defended the administration’s interim agreement with Iran, saying critics of the deal fail to recognize the leverage the United States has gained through military and economic pressure. Trump argued that Iran’s military capabilities and defense infrastructure have been severely degraded, strengthening Washington’s negotiating position. However, Iranian officials continue to dispute key elements of Trump’s claims. Tehran has denied that formal discussions on its nuclear program are underway and says it has not agreed to readmit inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. The conflicting statements highlight ongoing uncertainty surrounding efforts to secure a permanent agreement following the recent ceasefire between the United States and Iran. While both sides have expressed interest in continued diplomacy, major disagreements remain over inspections, sanctions, and the future of Iran’s nuclear program. For now, administration officials say negotiations are continuing, though no timeline has been announced for the next round of talks or for the return of international inspectors to Iran.

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WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - The Republican-majority U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday to halt U.S. military action against Iran, but it was not immediately clear how it would affect the war as President Donald Trump's administration negotiates a peace agreement with the Islamic republic. The Senate voted 50-48 in favor of the concurrent resolution, which passed the House of Representatives early this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump's Republicans about the unpopular conflict that began on February 28. The vote was nearly along party lines, with four Republicans joining all but one Democrat in favor. Two Republicans did not vote. The resolution directs Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with or against Iran, but is likely to remain merely a symbolic vote. Under the 1973 War Powers Act, the measure does not get sent to the White House for Trump's signature. However, the White House has insisted the legislation is not constitutional and thus not binding. Legal experts say it remains a contested legal question likely to be settled in the courts. "The executive branch will likely ignore it on constitutional grounds, and it’s not clear who might have standing to sue to enforce it," said Scott Anderson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and senior editor of the online legal publication Lawfare.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison. Other protesters also accused of having links to antifa were sentenced Tuesday to multiple decades in federal prison. A federal jury in March found the eight defendants guilty of providing material support to terrorists and other charges. Prosecutors say the eight took part in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center last July 4 in which a police officer was shot and wounded. The defendants deny any affiliation with the far-left anti-fascist organization.

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President Donald Trump stopped by a Mack Truck facility in a battleground district in swing state Pennsylvania, casting attention on the U.S. economy in his first major public event beyond the capital since he signed the Iran war agreement. Trump’s visit Tuesday to the Allentown-area business comes just about a week after he approved the initial deal to halt hostilities with Iran and as his negotiators work out the finer details. It’s the president’s fifth second-term visit to Pennsylvania, a key state whose support in 2016 and 2024 helped him to win the White House.

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CHICO, Calif. (AP) — A shooting at a library in Northern California left two people dead and an 18-year-old suspect has been arrested, police said Tuesday. Police responded to a 911 call soon after 5 p.m. Monday. Chico police Chief Billy Aldridge said gunshots and screams could be heard on that call from the Chico branch of the Butte County Library. Chico, a city of about 100,000 people, is 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. The suspect fled out the back of the library as officers entered, but additional law enforcement personnel behind the building took the suspect into custody, Aldridge said during a news conference. “The incident this evening was obviously very sad, traumatic for a lot of people. Very traumatic for our community,” Aldridge said. The streets around the library were closed temporarily and a family reunification center was set up for the people who were inside the building. A child was also taken to the hospital with a minor injury. Police later determined the suspect acted alone and identified him as Bradley Scott Sayer of Chico. He was booked into the Butte County Jail on suspicion of two counts of murder. There was no indication he had any prior relationship with or connection to the victims, police said in a statement. Authorities have not released their names. A police department dispatcher early Tuesday did not know if Sayer has a lawyer and no one could be immediately reached at the jail. A search of Butte County court records did not show his name and a phone number could not be found for him. Police said the Butte County Sheriff's Office and the FBI are assisting in the investigation. All Butte County library branches will be closed Tuesday, officials said. In a Facebook post, the county offered its “deepest condolences to everyone affected, including the victims, their loved ones, library staff, and all those impacted by this heartbreaking incident.” It wasn't the first act of violence at a U.S. library. A man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man in a library and another man in a convenience store in 2023. In 2020, a suspect was sent to a mental health facility after he pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a library security guard in Spring Valley, New York. A teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting two public library employees in Clovis, New Mexico, in 2017 was also sentenced to life in prison.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has charged a Texas doctor in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accusing him of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests for college student-athletes and then rubber-stamping the results as normal without reviewing them. Jason Finkelstein, 53, faces charges of healthcare fraud and conspiracy in what prosecutors describe as a yearslong scheme that preyed on the fears of athletes that they could die on playing fields or courts of sudden cardiac arrest. It was not immediately clear if Finkelstein had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran. Rubio arrived in Abu Dhabi late Tuesday following a two-day flurry of diplomatic activity between the U.S. and Iran in Switzerland led by Vice President JD Vance that resulted in what Vance says is a significant agreement to end all hostilities in the region, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide sanctions relief with negotiations on its nuclear program to be concluded in 60 days. In the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain — all nations that Iran hit with missiles and drones in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli airstrikes — Rubio will be holding meetings starting Wednesday with leaders who, in some cases, have taken a harder line on Iran recently than has the Trump administration. In brief comments to reporters on his arrival, Rubio said he would explain the benefits of the agreement to the skeptical Gulf states if it is implemented. He said that a proposed $300 billion investment fund for Iran would not become a reality unless "its leadership makes a decision that they want to be a country instead of a revolutionary movement that exports terror.” Another complaint is that the agreement does not cover Iran's missile program, its support for proxies and pushes off the nuclear question until later. Rubio argued, however, that the memorandum of understanding signed last week calls for the “complete end of hostilities and conflicts in the region,” which he said will require Iran to halt its funding of proxies like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. “You can’t have the end of hostilities and conflicts in a region as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq, and are participating in terrorism, like Hamas did, and like Hezbollah did,” Rubio said. “So, I do think it’s covered by the MOU, and it is an issue that will be gotten to at the appropriate time in these negotiations.” The Emiratis, in particular, have been at the forefront of calls for tough action notably to ensure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. There have been conflicting accounts of what the Memorandum of Understanding signed last week will mean for the strait, which the rest of the world wants open free of charge for all shipping. The U.S. has been firm on that point, but the Iranians are moving ahead with a scheme that could charge service fees for passage that many believe would amount to a toll. Rubio said under no circumstances would the U.S. accept that. “It’s an international waterway," he said. “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That’s existing international law. That’s the way it is.” “I don’t think we have anybody to convince around here in that regard. I think all the countries in this region would agree with us,” he said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Tuesday in an immigration case dealing with the government’s power over green card holders accused of crimes. The 6-3 decision centers around an immigration officers’ 2012 decision to put lawful permanent resident Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime. Lau argued that overstepped the officer's authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly begin deportation proceedings after he pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey. The high court disagreed. “Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the opinion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime, she wrote. “I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in a dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues. The decision comes as the high court considers a series of immigration-related issues against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, though this case started before Trump took office. His administration argued that suspicion of a crime is enough to put a lawful permanent resident, also known as a green-card holder, on immigration parole. Federal attorneys urged the court to take an expansive view of executive authority over immigration. The court is also considering cases over Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, potentially revive a restrictive asylum policy and end temporary legal protections for migrants fleeing war and natural disasters in their homelands.

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