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At least 2 shot dead as snipers ambush firefighters and police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after ‘blaze set as bait’ | 29 June 2025 | At least two first responders were killed and numerous others were injured after coming under fire in an ambush attack as they responded to a fire in Idaho. An unknown number of assailants allegedly set the blaze as bait for the first responders in Coeur d’Alene and began firing as they arrived on the scene at around 2pm, authorities said at a news conference Sunday night. The suspects, who are believed to have been using high-powered rifles, were still firing at the time. “We are actively taking sniper fire as we speak,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris announced. “We’re taking rapid fire.”

Firefighters Shot While Responding to Idaho Brushfire | 29 June 2025 | Update: Gov. Brad Little (R) commented on the attack: “Multiple heroic firefighters were attacked today while responding to a fire in North Idaho. This is a heinous direct assault on our brave firefighters. I ask all Idahoans to pray for them and their families as we wait to learn more. Teresa and I are heartbroken.” Update: “KHQ NBC reported that Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris confirmed two deaths as a result of the shooting, but he did not say whether they were firefighters.” Original story: An unknown number of firefighters were shot while responding to a brushfire on Sunday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to CNN. KXLY reported it is trying to confirm claims “that fire crews responding to a wildfire were ambushed and shot.” All fire suppression efforts in the area have been halted for now.

Same Groups Behind COVID-19 Drills Prepare False Flag Bioterrorism Attack Slated for July 4 to Be Blamed on China, Russia | 26 June 2025 | “The National Blueprint for Biodefense” is a direct attack on President Trump’s agenda to stabilize the U.S. economy, stop WWIII, and end the globalists’ plan for a new dark age. “…And you need to understand that this, this is the groups that planned the other attacks. And it’s all the same players. And it’s got the exact breakdown of the last [COVID] events.” (Alex Jones video.) [See: Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense. (2024). The National Blueprint for Biodefense: Immediate Action Needed to Defend Against Biological Threats. Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense: Washington, D.C.]

Russia launches ‘massive’ strike on Ukrainian defense industry – MOD | 29 June 2025 | Russian forces carried out a large-scale overnight strike on Ukrainian industrial facilities involving long-range weapons and drones, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Sunday. The Ukrainian authorities and media confirmed the attack, with some suggesting it was one of the largest since the escalation of the conflict in 2022. In a statement reporting the operation, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces had “conducted a massive strike, involving high-precision long-range air-, sea- and land-based weapons, including the aeroballistic hypersonic Kinzhal missile system, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, targeting Ukraine’s military-industrial and oil-processing facilities.”

95% of Hungarians oppose Ukraine joining EU – Orban | 26 June 2025 | An overwhelming majority of Hungarians oppose Ukraine’s accession to the EU, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced, citing the results of the Voks 2025 referendum. The consultative vote, which asked a single question — “Do you support Ukraine’s European Union membership?” — ran from mid-April to June 20. According to Orban, 2,168,431 Hungarians, or 95% of those who voted, rejected Ukraine’s EU aspirations. “95% of the votes cast were ‘no’ and 5% answered ‘yes’…I will say today, in the voice of more than two million Hungarians, that Hungary does not support Ukraine’s accession to the EU,” Orban told reporters ahead of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Thursday. He emphasized that Hungary’s position cannot be bypassed, as Ukraine’s membership requires unanimous consent from all 27 EU member states.

NATO boss calls Trump ‘daddy’ | 25 June 2025 | NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has rushed to defend U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent expletive-laden rant about Iran and Israel as merely “daddy” using “strong language.” Trump on Tuesday lashed out at both countries for allegedly breaching a Washington-brokered ceasefire, telling reporters before departing for the NATO summit in the Hague that West Jerusalem and Tehran have “been fighting so long and so hard that they do not know what the f**k they are doing.” The outburst came hours after he announced the truce, which was reportedly broken soon after by both Israel and Iran. Asked about the remark during a joint press conference the next day, Trump likened the two nations to “kids (fighting) in a schoolyard.” Rutte, seated beside him, added: “And then daddy has to, sometimes, use strong language.”

Africa peace deal brokered by Trump tied to U.S. resource push | 28 June 2025 | Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed a peace agreement to end a decades-long conflict, which U.S. President Donald Trump says gives the U.S. rights to local minerals. Congolese officials have long accused Rwanda of backing militant groups in the mineral-rich eastern DR Congo and smuggling resources. Tensions escalated after M23 militants seized mining hubs, including Goma and Bukavu, reportedly killing thousands. Kigali denied supporting militants, despite UN and international backing for Kinshasa’s claims. The agreement was signed on Friday in Washington by both nations’ foreign ministers and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It pledges a 90-day Rwandan troop withdrawal from the DR Congo, outlines disarmament and reintegration steps, and sets up a joint security mechanism.

Iranian nuclear scientist and his family killed in Israeli attack – media | 24 June 2025 | Top Iranian nuclear scientist Sayyed Mostafa Sadati-Armaki and his entire family have been killed in Israel’s latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reported on Monday. According to the state-run Iranian outlet, Sadati-Armaki was a member of the “scientific elite.” He was killed along with his wife, three children and in-laws in Israel’s latest strikes on the capital of the Islamic Republic. Tasnim stated that their deaths came as the Israeli military was deliberately targeting residential areas and civilians that had “nothing to do with military matters.” The killing of Sadati-Armaki follows Israel’s brutal campaign of targeting Iranian scientists since it launched attacks on the country earlier this month. The IDF has so far reported killing over a dozen nuclear specialists in Iran.

Trump victorious again as U.S. Supreme Court wraps up its term | 29 June 2025 | The U.S. Supreme Court on the last day of rulings for its current term gave Donald Trump his latest in a series of victories at the nation’s top judicial body, one that may make it easier for him to implement contentious elements of his sweeping agenda as he tests the limits of presidential power. With its six conservative members in the majority and its three liberals dissenting, the court on Friday curbed the ability of judges to impede his policies nationwide, resetting the power balance between the federal judiciary and presidents. The ruling came after the Republican president’s administration asked the Supreme Court to narrow the scope of so-called “universal” injunctions issued by three federal judges that halted nationally the enforcement of his January executive order limiting birthright citizenship. Friday’s ruling said that judges generally can grant relief only to the individuals or groups who brought a particular lawsuit.

Trump vows to proceed with blocked policies after SCOTUS limits injunctions | 27 June 2025 | President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to move forward with some of his biggest policies after a Supreme Court ruling limited the ability of lower court judges to impose judicial stays. “So thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people,” Trump said during a press conference. “We have so many of them. I have a whole list.” The administration has seen many of its executive orders subjected to nationwide injunctions, though the Supreme Court decision found that Congress had not given that authority to the lower courts and narrowed their scope to providing injunctive relief to the plaintiffs in that case.

Kentucky Republican introduces Constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship | 27 June 2025 | Kentucky GOP Rep. Andy Barr on Friday introduced a Constitutional amendment in the House that seeks to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants, hours after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration. The Supreme Court in its ruling did not determine whether President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order ran afoul of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, but found that the lower courts likely lack the authority to impose universal injunctions. The amendment, titled the “Protecting American Citizenship Amendment,” seeks to clarify that the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment applies to persons who are “subject to the jurisdiction” and owe allegiance to the United States, and does not apply to the children of non-citizens.

Amy Coney Barrett rips Ketanji Brown Jackson over dissent in birthright citizenship case | 27 June 2025 | Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stunned veteran bench watchers Friday with a blunt takedown of liberal Justice [auto-pen DEI appointment] Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “extreme” dissent in the landmark birthright citizenship case in which the Supreme Court curtailed lower court use of universal injunctions. “We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” wrote Barrett, the court’s second-newest justice, in a jaw-dropping rebuke of her colleague, the newest justice. “We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.” Barrett had authored the majority opinion in the case, the most consequential on the docket this term, which gave President Trump a major win by limiting the power of district judges to block his actions.

Trump’s crackdown nets over 2,700 alleged members of notorious Venezuelan gang | 27 June 2025 | Federal authorities have arrested more than 2,700 alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), the notorious Venezuelan gang that has come to define the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and mass deportation program, since President Donald Trump took office, officials said Friday. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted the arrests during a White House press briefing. “Let me put it in perspective: Today marked the 2,711th arrest in our country of TdA members,” she said. “You should all feel safer now that President Trump can deport all of these gangs and not one district court judge can think that they’re emperor over this administration and his executive powers,” she said Trump standing nearby.