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1 Trump Left G7 Early To Take Care Of "Important Matters" After Signing Trade Deal With UK, Says Tehran Should Evacuate "Immediately"
President Donald Trump is skipping the second day of the G7 summit in Alberta today, flying home last night “because of what’s going on in the Middle East,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. The change wipes out planned bilaterals with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum and cancels a press conference today. Trump’s departure comes as Israel presses strikes inside Iran and as rocket exchanges continue around the region. Meeting reporters beside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump claimed Iran “would like to talk” about de-escalation, adding, “They had 60 days and on the 61st day I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ … Iran is not winning this war.” He urged Tehran to negotiate “before it’s too late” but refused to say what would trigger direct U.S. military action: “I don’t want to talk about that.” Early last night, Trump posted on Truth Social that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
2 Alleged Minnesota Lawmaker Killer Visited Other Elected Officials' Homes That Night
Federal and local prosecutors laid out chilling new details yesterday about Vance Boelter, the 57-year-old accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and badly wounding state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife over the weekend. According to an FBI briefing and freshly filed court papers, Boelter, dressed in a mask, badge, and police-style vest, first went to the Hoffmans’ Champlin home around 2 a.m. Saturday. Next, agents say, he drove to a state representative’s empty Maple Grove house and to a New Hope senator’s residence, where a patrol officer’s quick check may have scared him off. Boelter finally stormed the Hortmans’ Brooklyn Park home, killing both spouses after an exchange of gunfire with arriving police. He escaped, texted relatives that “Dad went to war last night,” and sparked a 36-hour manhunt before officers captured him near his farm Sunday. Inside his abandoned SUV and nearby fields, investigators found AK-47s, a 9 mm handgun, a ballistic vest, cash, passports, and a typed list of other elected officials. Boelter now faces two state counts of second-degree murder and two of attempted murder, charges prosecutors intend to upgrade to first-degree, as well as six federal counts that include stalking and murder. A judge appointed him a public defender pending a June 27th hearing. Officials call the attacks a planned political assassination and warn further charges could come if anyone is found to have helped him.
3 Senate Republicans Reveal Details On Trump Tax Bill
Releasing their version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” Senate Finance Committee Republicans proposed slashing states’ Medicaid “provider taxes” from 6-percent to 3.5-percent by 2031, steeper than the House freeze, prompting warnings about rural-hospital funding. The draft keeps the state-and-local tax deduction capped at $10,000, not the $40,000 level favored by some House Republicans, and would boost the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. It also ends taxes on tips and auto-loan interest, raises the Child Tax Credit to $2,200, and makes earlier Trump tax cuts permanent. GOP leaders aim for Senate passage before July 4th, but several Republicans say big changes are still needed.