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Alleged D.C. National Guard shooter could face death penalty as DOJ adds new charges

June 16, 2026 / 6:04 PM EDT / CBS News

Federal prosecutors filed new charges Tuesday against a man accused of fatally shooting one National Guard member and gravely injuring another in Washington, D.C., opening the door for the Justice Department to potentially seek the death penalty if he’s convicted.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal was charged with eight additional counts in a superseding indictment, including murder of a person assisting an officer of the United States and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime that causes death, both of which are death penalty-eligible.

A D.C.-based federal grand jury also separately found that Lakanwal “intentionally killed” Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and attempted to kill more than one person — factors that are necessary for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

The Justice Department said in a statement its Capital Case Committee will review whether to seek the death penalty in Lakanwal’s case.

Lakanwal is facing several other federal attempted murder and firearm charges, along with first-degree murder, assault and gun possession charges under D.C. law.

He pleaded not guilty on all counts at a hearing Tuesday.

His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Lakanwal — an Afghan national — is accused of killing Beckstrom and critically wounding Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in an ambush-style shooting several blocks from the White House last November. He was also charged with attempting to kill two other unnamed service members who subdued him at the scene of the attack.

Beckstrom and Wolfe were members of the West Virginia National Guard who were deployed to the streets of D.C. last year as part of an anti-crime operation.

Lakanwal left Afghanistan and was paroled into the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era program designed to quickly evacuate and vet Afghan nationals during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country and the Taliban’s return to power. He later applied for asylum, and his application was granted last year, though his application for a green card was still pending, a Department of Homeland Security official previously told CBS News.

While in Afghanistan, Lakanwal worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, a spokesperson for the agency said. CBS News has reported that he led an Afghan military unit that worked with international forces.

Kennedy orders American exposed to hantavirus to stay quarantined against her will, WSJ reports

2026-06-16 18:43:45 UTC / Reuters

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event about nutrition education, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 8, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

June 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ordered an American passenger exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship to remain in quarantine despite medical advice and against her will, ​the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The passenger, Angela Perryman, 47, was one of 18 Americans quarantined in the U.S. after Andes hantavirus cases were found aboard a cruise ship earlier this year. The group had initially been placed at a Nebraska quarantine unit.

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A Department of Health and Human Services official ​told Reuters that midnight June 21 would mark the completion of the 42-day monitoring ​period.

Reuters was unable to reach Perryman at the facility by phone.

According to the ⁠official, the remaining passengers at the quarantine unit will leave Nebraska on June 22. The 42-day ​period began following their return to the United States on May 10, the official added.

Eight U.S. ​residents who were on the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius returned to their home states following three weeks of monitoring at the National Quarantine Unit, the University of Nebraska Medical Center said earlier this month. Ten others remained under ​observation.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had requested that the individuals from the cruise ship ​remain at the quarantine unit through May 31.

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The New York Times recently reported that some ‌passengers ⁠were allowed to quarantine at home until June 22 — 42 days after arriving at the Nebraska facility — provided local health officials committed to having a law enforcement or community health worker monitor them.

The WHO recommends monitoring and quarantining high-risk contacts for 42 days after exposure.

Perryman wished to go to ​her home in Florida, ​but the state refused ⁠to provide the monitoring, the Wall Street Journal and the Times reported.

The Times added that the CDC, in a quarantine hearing, said she should ​be able to return home for the remainder of the quarantine. The ​Journal reported ⁠that a CDC medical review said the chances of her developing symptoms were decreasing with time.

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Perryman told the Journal and the Times that a copy of an order from Kennedy was slipped under the ⁠door to ​her room informing her that she could not return ​home.

Kennedy’s order said despite the doctor’s report, Perryman was reasonably believed to be infected with or exposed to the disease, ​according to the Journal.

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Federal judge chides ICE for ‘public attack’ on judge that put her in ‘personal danger’

2026-06-16T17:02:38.581Z / CNN

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PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2026, 1:02 PM ET

Judge Melissa R. DuBose.

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Summary

• A federal judge in Rhode Island criticized ICE for falsely claiming a colleague knowingly released a murder suspect from custody.
• The agency’s press release called the judge an activist who freed a violent criminal despite withheld warrant information.
• A special counsel found a Justice Department lawyer committed a serious ethical violation but recommended against formal discipline.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

The top federal judge in Rhode Island is slamming the Trump administration for unfairly issuing a “public attack” on one of his colleagues that “put her in personal danger and undermined public faith in the federal courts.”

The statement Tuesday comes after a special counsel he appointed to investigate alleged misconduct by a Justice Department attorney concluded that the lawyer had made a serious ethical violation, but that he should not face formal disciplinary proceedings.

Chief Judge John McConnell said that that a special counsel “found sufficient evidence to conclude” that Kevin Bolan, a top lawyer in the Rhode Island US attorney’s office, hadn’t followed his obligation to be honest and transparent in court when he deliberately withheld information about a years-old homicide arrest warrant for a migrant. District Judge Melissa DuBose later ordered officials to release the migrant from ICE custody.

Following the release, ICE published a press release about the case that described DuBose as an “activist Biden judge” who knowingly let free “a violent criminal illegal alien who is wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic.”

“An agency you were representing, ICE, used this ruling to make an unfounded public attack on Judge DuBose. ICE falsely suggested, contrary to the true record, that when Judge DuBose released the petitioner, she knew he was sought in connection with a homicide in the Dominican Republic,” McConnell, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, wrote in a letter to Bolan.

“This false public statement by ICE put her in personal danger and undermined public faith in the federal courts,” McConnell wrote. “While you had no involvement in the ICE news release, the role you played in the chain of events was a critical link in a sequence that led to a serious failure of justice.”

He said that without information about the homicide warrant, DuBose’s decision to order the immigrant to be released on bond was “appropriate,” but noted that the fact that the man, Bryan Rafael Gomez, has yet to be located by authorities so he can be re-detained underscored the ugliness of the situation.

“Unfortunately, the consequences that followed were grave for this court and for the federal justice system,” McConnell wrote.

The situation in Rhode Island is among a series of professional mishaps by Justice Department lawyers over the past 16 months that have frustrated federal judges sifting through thousands of cases stemming from President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation push and other controversial moves that have been challenged in court.

Earlier this month, a different judge in the Ocean State referred several other government attorneys for disciplinary proceedings after their conduct in a case over the administration’s probe into the provision of gender-affirming care for minors raised questions about whether they were acting improperly in court.

In the Gomez case, Bolan apologized to DuBose for his actions and has otherwise “participated responsibly” in cases he’s handled, the chief judge said.

“Your lapse of judgment reflected a failure to prioritize your duty to the court over the instructions of your client, but you did not act for any deceitful or illicit reason,” McConnell wrote.

But, he added later, “Any future finding of misconduct will be severely sanctioned.”

Bolan’s decision to withhold the information about the years-old arrest warrant was in response to guidance given to him by ICE, he has said. Bolan said he wasn’t aware the information had already been publicly disclosed by the agency and that he instead relied on ICE’s representation that he wasn’t authorized to share it with the court because “a legitimate law enforcement reason prevented disclosure.”

CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment on the special counsel’s findings.

The press release from ICE about the judge has remained on its website despite DuBose’s plea for the administration to take it down.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump-backed challenger gains labor union support in key race for House control

Local 138’s 1,500-member operating engineers union backs Mike LiPetri in one of the nation’s most competitive House races

June 16, 2026 1:23pm EDT / Fox News

Former State Assembly member Mike LiPetri, R-N.Y., said his endorsement from the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 138 reflects growing enthusiasm for his campaign to unseat Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., in November.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Republican challenging a vulnerable Democratic incumbent in one of the nation’s most competitive House races is touting a key labor endorsement.

Mike LiPetri, a former state assembly member backed by President Donald Trump, said support from the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 138 reflects growing momentum behind his campaign.

“I think you’ll see [more unions] fall in line with us knowing that we stand with the men and women who work hard to build our country,” LiPetri told Fox News Digital in an interview.

The endorsement from the 1,500-member union gives LiPetri a boost as he prepares for a rematch contest against Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., who won back the suburban swing seat in 2024 after representing it from 2017 to 2023.

National Republicans are aggressively targeting Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., ahead of November’s midterm elections. Mike LiPetri, his expected GOP challenger, says the district could “decide the fate of the [House] majority.”(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Local 138 Business Manager John Duffy praised LiPetri’s candidacy in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“We need leaders in Washington with guts — people who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to get the job done, no excuses,” Duffy said. “Mike LiPetri is that guy and the men and women of Local 138 are with him all the way.”

The support from the union comes as national Republicans, who view Suozzi as a top target, look to make gains in the district spanning parts of Long Island and Queens ahead of November’s elections.

Trump carried Suozzi’s seat by just over four points in 2024, while LiPetri ran three points behind the incumbent lawmaker.

Republicans have largely united behind LiPetri, who is seeking to fend off a challenge from attorney Gregory Hach in the June 23 GOP primary. LiPetri is part of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s flagship candidate program and is viewed as a top recruit.

“This seat can literally decide the fate of the majority,” LiPetri told Fox News Digital.

“The president is all in on our race, he’s given us a ringing endorsement,” he added. “House leadership is all in on this race. Local leadership is also all in on this race.”

LiPetri also argued that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the presumptive GOP nominee against Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., would help drive Republican turnout on Long Island.

Republican challenger Mike LiPetri said the endorsement from Local 138 signals growing momentum for his campaign to unseat Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.(Mike LiPetri campaign; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

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The GOP challenger is also seeking to draw sharp contrasts with Suozzi on immigration, transgender issues and tax policy as he looks ahead to November.

Suozzi, the co-chair of the centrist Problem Solvers Caucus, has branded himself as a staunch moderate. But LiPetri argued the incumbent has strayed from that image over the past year.

Suozzi notably joined Democrats in opposing additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during the months-long standoff over immigration spending.

He initially backed a Department of Homeland Security funding bill in January but later publicly apologized for his vote, saying he “failed” to view the legislation as “a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE” amid backlash from the left over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis. Suozzi later adopted Democratic leadership’s position in pushing to pair any new funding with reforms to immigration enforcement.

“We have to have someone that stays strong with law enforcement,” LiPetri told Fox News Digital, arguing Suozzi had “betrayed” federal law enforcement officers with his votes.

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi speaks at a protest outside a Jewish temple on Long Island after left-wing activists disrupted the site over his vote for a Republican-backed spending bill increasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.(Climate Defiance/Storyful)

Suozzi also voted with Democrats against legislation barring biological males from women’s sports in K-12 schools and against a bill to direct the construction of a women’s history museum on the National Mall. Some Democrats vigorously objected to the proposal because it excluded transgender people, and LiPetri argued Suozzi shared that view.

“They’re going to have to explain to their voters why they believe this museum should not be built and why they believe that there should be transgender exhibits in it,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., the measure’s sponsor, said in May, referring to Democrats.

LiPetri also hammered Suozzi for his vote against Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which created new deductions for tips, overtime pay, and automobile loans.

“No tax on overtime was critical for union men and women,” LiPetri told Fox News Digital. “And they see who my opponent really is, someone that focuses on keeping his job rather than doing his job.”

Suozzi opposed Republicans’ budget law at the time over cuts to federal Medicaid spending and objections to extending lower tax rates for the highest earners, among other concerns.

President Donald Trump displays the signed Secure America Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2026, as members of Congress applaud.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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However, the GOP challenger still faces a steep fundraising climb against Suozzi. The New York Democrat has nearly $5.5 million in his campaign’s war chest compared to LiPetri’s roughly $727,000 cash on hand, according to recent Federal Election Commission filings.

LiPetri said his campaign is among the top fundraisers for GOP challengers nationwide.

“We’re gonna keep pushing and raising our money to make sure our message gets out there,” LiPetri told Fox News Digital. “People are excited for what’s ahead.”

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race “Lean Democrat.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Suozzi’s campaign before publication.

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Trump’s $300 billion problem on the Iran agreement

2026-06-16T18:06:49.531Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/politics/trump-obama-iran-money

• Trump administration officials have suggested that the emerging Iran agreement could give Tehran access to as much as $300 billion from other countries.
• President Donald Trump repeatedly accused former President Barack Obama of funding terrorism by allowing Iran access to far less money in the 2015 deal.
• The administration emphasizes the new funds would come from Gulf nations and depend on Iran’s compliance with conditions.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

President Donald Trump’s nascent agreement with Iran is beset by problems right now as many conservatives balk at it, but at the top of the list may be the issue of money flowing to Tehran.

In an interview with CBS News Monday morning, Vice President JD Vance seemed to tacitly confirm the premise that Iran could be given “access” to a reconstruction fund worth as much as $300 billion.

Ever since that interview, the administration has strained to clarify things. It has emphasized that this money wouldn’t come from US taxpayers. Instead, it would be money from other Gulf countries that would only be available if Iran complies with a peace deal.

Vance said late Monday on Fox News that “we would invite other countries — not us, but other countries — to invest in” Iran. He echoed that Tuesday, telling Megyn Kelly that the US wouldn’t let the United Arab Emirates, for example, “invest in Iran, unless the Iranians change their behavior.”

Fair enough.

Except these are distinctions that Republicans — and Trump especially — have dismissed or even excoriated in the past.

And that’s when the dollar amount was significantly smaller than $300 billion.

When the Obama administration and other countries cut a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, it included giving Iran access to billions of dollars. In that case, it wasn’t money from other countries, but instead Iran’s own assets that had been frozen in foreign banks under sanctions. Estimates generally placed the dollar figure around $50 billion.

But this nuance was almost always absent from Trump’s rhetoric. He said the concession amounted to providing the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism with a financial windfall, even falsely claiming it was in “cash.” He cast it as unthinkable and a sign of American leaders’ weakness and poor negotiating skills.

Those comments could come back to bite him today.

“Iran receives a windfall of $150 billion, which will no doubt fund terrorism around the world,” he wrote in a September 2015 op-ed in USA Today. Trump often cited the inflated figure of $150 billion.

He said that same month in Oklahoma City that “we’re giving them $150 billion in order to create terror all over the world.”

At a December 2015 Republican presidential debate, Trump called it a “horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion,” adding: “They’re a terrorist nation.”

“I just don’t understand how we could have made a deal where we’re giving somebody that’s a terror nation $150 billion,” he said the next month in Iowa City.

The situations aren’t completely parallel, in that unfrozen Iranian assets aren’t the same as money from other countries. But both involve money that isn’t from US taxpayers but is suddenly being made available to Iran as an incentive in a deal.

Republicans had frequently argued in 2015 that such money was “fungible” — i.e. that even if the funds can’t be used directly for terrorism, they could be used to replace money that could then be diverted for terrorist uses.

Trump returned to the talking point amid tensions with Iran late in his first term and during his failed 2020 reelection race.

“So they paid $150 [billion] — 150, think of that,” he said at a White House event in September 2019. “And how can you do — how could you possibly do a thing like that? They paid all of that money in cash.”

(Again, the US did not pay the money in cash, and it wasn’t $150 billion.)

He added after ordering the killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in January 2020 that “the Obama administration enabled and emboldened the Iranian regime. They gave Iran $150 billion, including $1.7 billion in hard, cold cash. Can you imagine?”

(The $1.7 billion refers to a settlement reached over $400 million in Iranian funds that were frozen in 1979.)

“The Iran nuclear deal signed by President Obama gave them $150 billion, and that’s when the real terror started,” Trump added the next day in an interview with Fox News.

And toward the end of the 2020 campaign, Trump repeatedly predicted that, if Joe Biden won the election, similar deals would result.

“If Biden ever got in, they’d give them another $150 billion, like they did,” Trump said in August 2020 in Yuma, Arizona. “The dumbest deal I’ve ever seen.”

“Iran will make another crazy deal where they give them $150 billion or $1.8 billion in cash,” he said in October 2020 in Tampa.

Even after losing the 2020 election, while campaigning for GOP Senate candidates in Georgia runoffs, Trump warned of a repeat.

“I think they want to start it up again. Can you believe this?” Trump said in Valdosta, Georgia. “I wonder if they’ll give them $150 billion? But, no, they’ll give them 250.”

On Monday, Trump’s own vice president suggested Iran could be given access to a fund with even more than that.

15 Antifa radicals indicted, 12 arrested in sweeping federal probe into Minneapolis anti-ICE operations

June 16, 2026 3:44pm EDT / Fox News

Members of Minnesota far-left group allegedly organized criminal interference with federal immigration operations

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Anti-ICE agitators were arrested in front of a hotel in Minnesota during a demonstration that police called an unlawful assembly not protected by the First Amendment. (FNTV)

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on Tuesday announced that 15 Antifa members have been indicted for their alleged roles in conspiring to hinder federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis earlier this year.

The suspects, 12 of whom are in custody, are all charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, according to a 94-page criminal complaint, and some are charged with further crimes. Federal prosecutors allege that each suspect took part in a conspiracy to obstruct federal immigration enforcement officers, including ICE personnel, through force, intimidation and threats.

The suspects are alleged members of the Antifa cell Direct Action Minnesota Network (DAMN), a radical far-left group accused of coordinating operations against federal immigration officers.

Protesters used whistles to alert neighborhoods to ICE activity while facing off with Minneapolis police officers on a street in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 24, 2026.(Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)

Federal prosecutors maintain that the group use Signal chats to organize and carry out rapid response operations including coordinating street blockades, tracking federal vehicles, surveilling the ICE field office at the federal Whipple Building and other activities meant to stop immigration officials from conducting their business.

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The government says that DAMN served as the hub for participants to share intelligence, plan actions, recruit volunteers and assign roles.

Below is a full list of the suspects and the charges they face:

• Isaac Auman Sant – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, interstate stalking
• Emmett James Doyle – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Cameron Kennedy – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Callum Robinet – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Erik Davis – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Kyle Wagner – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, solicitation of violence, interstate threats
• Hannah Margaret Van de Water Davis – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal office
• Treasure Cay Thoreson – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Nathan Junho Kim – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Alec Stewart – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Douglas Misterek – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• Dustin Scott Beisell – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
• William Morgan – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, interstate stalking, assault on a federal officer, destruction of government property
• Natasha Rakotz – conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury/use of a dangerous weapon

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Federal law enforcement agents stand guard facing anti-ICE protesters outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 15, 2026.(Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

Isaac Sant is portrayed by prosecutors as one of the ringleaders of the conspiracy who allegedly organized meetings between anti-ICE factions, delivered shields and other equipment for “direct actions” against ICE and maintained a database of suspected federal immigration vehicles by tracking license plates.

He also allegedly coordinated “commuters” to follow federal immigration officials.

On May 4, according to the indictment, Sant personally followed a federal immigration officer from the Whipple Building in Minneapolis — a hub of anti-ICE activities — across state lines to Hudson, Wisconsin, leading to the interstate stalking charge.

William Morgan, the only suspect charged with four crimes, is also accused of interstate stalking for allegedly following a federal immigration officer on May 12 from the Whipple Building to near the officer’s home in Hudson.

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Federal agents fire tear gas at protestors in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026. Earlier that day, agents allegedly shot and killed a protestor during a scuffle to arrest him. The Trump administration deployed about 3,000 federal agents to the area to enforce immigration laws.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Three days later, Morgan allegedly committed two more crimes by confronting an agent who was conducting an interview and physically assaulting him. He later was accused of kicking a federal vehicle, causing $1,000 in property damage, the complaint claims.

Natasha Rakotz was charged with assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury for allegedly driving her car into the path of a federal agent, striking and injuring him — similarly to how in a January incident in Minneapolis Renee Good was shot dead during an altercation where she ran her car into a federal immigration officer.

Kyle Wagner has been in custody since February, after encouraging followers to take up arms against federal agents. More charges were announced against him during Tuesday’s press conference.

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On Jan. 8, 2026, Wagner posted a video warning ICE agents, “We’re f—ing coming for you.”

Prosecutors allege he urged followers to “get your guns,” and suggested identifying agents even if it had to be done “at the barrel of a gun.”

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President Donald Trump declared Antifa to be a terrorist organization last year.

“Today’s charges and arrests reflect a broad federal effort to address organized, lawless behavior, which seeks to disrupt the execution of federal law, endanger law enforcement, and, importantly, endanger the very communities that these defendants falsely claim to be protecting,” U.S. Attorney Daniel Roden said in a Tuesday press conference announcing the charges.

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He emphasized that the defendants have not been arrested for speech — which is protected by the First Amendment — but for alleged criminal actions.

Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Michael McCarthy echoed that sentiment.

A woman confronts a federal immigration officer at the scene of a reported shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, 2026.(John Locher/AP Photo)

“Peaceful protest is a protected right and a cornerstone of our democracy. We respect and defend that right,” he said. “However, there’s a clear line that cannot be crossed when protest turns into rioting, violence or criminal activity, it becomes unlawful and it will not be tolerated.”

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“Working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, our investigation uncovered extensive planning, material support and coordinated attacks against federal personnel and facilities. Our teams have worked tirelessly conducting surveillance, reviewing camera footage, and analyzing large volumes of information to identify those responsible.”

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

Peter D’Abrosca is a reporter at Fox News Digital covering politics.

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14 dead, thousands stranded: Inside the plight of mariners trapped in the Strait of Hormuz

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The U.S.-Iran deal due to be signed Friday may offer some hope for tens of thousands of commercial sailors trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, but it’s unlikely to quickly end what for many has been a brutal ordeal.

“It is, at best, the beginning,” the International Transport Workers’ Federation, a global association of transport workers’ unions, said in a statement Monday.

Both Iran and the U.S. have detained and attacked commercial vessels accused of transgressing regulations imposed on the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters during the 109-day war.

At least 14 commercial mariners have died during the war, including three Indian nationals killed in a U.S. strike on an Iranian tanker last week. Others have been wounded, detained by military forces or stuck at sea in hellish conditions.

About 600 vessels remain trapped in the Persian Gulf, according to business intelligence firm Kpler, and shipping companies expect it to take weeks— if not months — for normal traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to resume. The narrow strait is the only way in or out of the Gulf.

Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Khasab on Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula, in a May 17, 2026 file photo. AFP/Getty

While there is cautious optimism, evacuation and repatriation of the workers on the stranded ships does not appear imminent.

“Words on paper must now translate into action for the transport workers who have paid the price of this conflict,” said the International Transport Workers’ Federation, adding it was already working on evacuation plans with the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization.

“Our hearts are shattered”

Many of the mariners stuck at sea are Indian nationals.

Conditions on ships around the Gulf were “unbearable” last week, as U.S. strikes on three commercial vessels left the three Indian nationals dead, according to Manoj Yadav, general secretary of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India.

“They were absolutely not feeling well. Many called us and said they are not able to sail further,” Yadav told CBS News in a Monday phone interview.

India’s commercial shipping ministry said this week that nearly 18,000 Indian mariners remain in the region, and Yadav said many had “expressed they are feeling like [they are] in jail.”

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A fourth Indian mariner, Second Officer Nishanth Uirthanathan, died on board the MT Celestial Sea tanker last week, about a month after the U.S. Navy diverted the vessel, according to the Indian seafarers union. The Iranian-flagged ship had been bound for India, but was rerouted by some 400 miles to Oman’s Duqm Port, the union said, where Uirthanathan died on June 11 while awaiting medical evacuation.

His body remained on board the ship for three days without refrigeration, Yadav said Monday.

The U.S. military’s Central Command said on May 20 that forces had boarded the Celestial as it was “suspected of attempting to violate the U.S. blockade by transiting toward an Iranian port.”

The U.S. forces “released the vessel after searching and directing the ship’s crew to alter course,” CENTCOM said at the time.

Seafarers left trapped by the conflict have faced shortages of food, water and medical care on their vessels, as well as the threat of attacks.

“The seafarers were the sufferers,” Yadav said.

Members of the Krantikari Yuva Sangathan student organization shout slogans against President Trump during a protest over the killing of three Indian sailors in a U.S. strike on a commercial vessel, June 15, 2026, in New Delhi, India. Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Getty

Some Indian nationals have managed to abandon their ships near enough to Iranian ports to make their way back to India by land, albeit without their wages, he added.

Mariners on U.S.-sanctioned vessels such as the MT Marivex, which was struck by the U.S. on June 9, may not even be aware the ships they’re on are subject to sanctions.

“They are just looking, what are the size of the vessel, where are the trading areas, and how much salary they will get,” Yadav said. “That is their primary need, rather than finding out whether it is [sanctioned] or not.”

CENTCOM has “disabled” nine ships for failing to comply with its blockade and turned back 135 others, it said.

Yadav said the U.S. could have struck the ships in a way that avoided casualties, and the union has demanded that the United Nations investigate the strike on the Marivex — and that the U.S. government pay at least $5 million in compensation to the families of the three mariners killed in the strike on the Palau-flagged M/T Settebello and the fourth who died on the Celestial Sea.

“We want to know the full truth of what happened,” the grandfather of one of the men who died on the Settebello, Aditya Sharma, told the Press Trust of India. “Our hearts are shattered.”

Reflecting Pool woes: Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae

2026-06-16 1:52 PM ET / CNN

By Sunlen Serfaty, Kit Maher, Dugald McConnell
Updated Jun 16, 2026, 2:12 PM ET

A U.S. National Park Service worker dumps bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as part of their effort to mitigate an algae bloom which followed the completion of recent renovations in Washington, D.C. on June 16, 2026.

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Summary

• Just over a week after Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, algae has returned to affect the iconic landmark.
• The Trump administration is deploying hydrogen peroxide treatments and advanced filtration technology to combat the murky green water.
• Workers say cleaning the pool could take a lifetime despite officials saying new nanobubbler technology has destroyed the algae.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

President Donald Trump’s more than $13 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was completed just over a week ago, with its iconic 2,800 square feet refilled with 6.5 million gallons of clean water.

But already it’s been hit with a problem that has haunted administrations for decades: algae.

Over the past week, the Trump administration has jumped into action, sending crews clad in hip-waders to vacuum up the clumps of algae and on Tuesday, dispatching workers to dump gallons of hydrogen peroxide in the pool.

Nevertheless, the pool has grown increasingly into a murky shade of green – calling into question whether the president’s goal of cleaning and beautifying a pool he once disparaged as “disgusting” and “not representative of the country” can ever really be met.

A worker who spoke to CNN on Tuesday quipped that it would take “an entire lifetime” to clean the pool.

Foam floats on the surface as U.S. National Park Service workers dump bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as part of their effort to mitigate an algae bloom which followed the completion of recent renovations in Washington, D.C. June 16, 2026.

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The Department of Interior says “state of the art” filtration known as the “ozone nanobubbler” has been installed and is working.

“Due to deploying the advanced nanobubbler technology, the algae is dead and being vacuumed up as we speak,” a Department of Interior spokesperson told CNN. “The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the algae bloom that has plagued every pool reopening.”

The spokesperson also told CNN that hydrogen peroxide is being used as a “milder treatment” for algae in addition to the nanobubbler, adding that it has “no harmful side effects to marine life or to the environment.”

Other parties involved with the Reflecting Pool’s refurbishing distanced themselves or stayed mum on the algae problem.

“My company had nothing to do with water, only water proofing and water tightening,” Eddie Wood, of Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the company that resurfaced the pool, told CNN. He added that he is proud of the part of the work his company did on the project.

Public records show that an Ohio company, Greenwater Services, was hired to install the filtration system. Its website boasts that the company provides “the only water purification system in the world whose patented technology is backed by government and academic research” and that its “breakthrough solutions significantly reduce toxins, algae, microcystins, nitrates, and phosphates from contaminated water.”

The company did not return CNN’s request for comment about the current algae situation.

The White House did not comment on whether Trump is aware of cleanup efforts or has spoken to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about it, directing questions back to the Interior department.

CNN’s Christine Lien and Abigail Roedersheimer contributed to this report.

Potential first tropical cyclone of the year developing off Texas’ Gulf Coast

June 16, 2026 / 2:22 PM EDT / CBS News

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Forecasters are monitoring the potential first tropical cyclone of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, saying it could develop into a fully formed storm by Wednesday, they said.

The National Hurricane Center issued a preliminary weather advisory for the system, currently a tropical disturbance called Potential Tropical Cyclone One, on Tuesday morning.

It came as record rainfall and life-threatening flash floods continued to drench parts of the South, where communities braced for up to 7 or 8 inches of additional rain throughout the rest of the week.

Potential Tropical Cyclone One was located in the western Gulf early Tuesday, between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was traveling northeastward with winds of 30 mph, below the 39-mph threshold necessary to designate it a tropical storm.

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The potential tropical cyclone also lacked a well-defined center as of the most recent update, although forecasters said the system will likely intensify and have tropical storm-force winds on Wednesday. Whether that happens or not, the National Hurricane Center emphasized the system could bring serious hazards to coastal sections of northeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana, as well as parts of Alabama and Mississippi. Far-western portions of the Florida Panhandle could be affected, too.

Dangerous rainfall and flash flooding were the primary threats associated with the potential cyclone, forecasters said, adding that “significant river flooding” was possible and, in some spots, “prolonged rainfall may extend the flood threat into the weekend.”

A tropical storm watch was issued Tuesday for a stretch of the northwestern Gulf Coast, from Sargent, Texas, to Morgan City, Louisiana, which means tropical storm conditions could take shape there in the next 24 to 36 hours.

Several major cities, including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and New Orleans, could experience ongoing spells of excessive rainfall, especially over the next 48 hours or so, forecasts showed. Various flood watches and warnings were in effect for more than 40 million people across the region, as meteorologists predicted some areas could see rainfall rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour, or higher.

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Multiple places still vulnerable to flooding before the week’s end have already been battered by heavy rain. National Weather Service offices in Austin, San Antonio and Shreveport, Louisiana, each reported record rainfall in their cities on Monday, with the latter two receiving more rain in a single day than either had seen since the late 19th century.

Texas’ capital city broke a daily rainfall record set in 1964, according to the National Weather Service.

Nikki Nolan contributed to this report.

Trump’s Iran agreement raises a basic question: Is it actually a deal?

June 16, 2026 2:03pm EDT / Fox News

A senior official says negotiators will know within weeks whether the framework becomes an actual agreement

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President Donald Trump has hailed the newly signed Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a breakthrough that normalizes relations between the two countries after months of fighting.

But by the White House’s own account, the agreement settles few of the issues that dominated months of negotiations, leaving sanctions relief, frozen assets and Iran’s nuclear program for a new round of talks.

“This is really just the first MOU and then we’re going to launch into the real technical discussions later this week,” a senior administration official told reporters Monday.

The memorandum, signed digitally by Trump and Vice President JD Vance Sunday, kicks off a 60-day period for technical talks aimed at a final agreement. A formal signing ceremony with U.S. and Iranian officials, along with Pakistani and Qatari mediators, is planned for Friday. Yet even administration officials acknowledge that the memorandum leaves many of the most contentious issues unresolved.

“We’ll know over the next two to three weeks whether those understandings will turn into an actual agreement,” a senior administration official said.

TRUMP MAY HAVE WON A STRATEGIC PAUSE IN IRAN. NOW COMES THE HARD PART

Nate Swanson, a former senior advisor on Iran policy to successive administrations and now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said the memorandum appears to postpone rather than resolve disputes over sanctions relief, Iran’s nuclear program and the future of the Strait of Hormuz.

“It does not appear to resolve the core issues surrounding the mechanics of the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian nuclear concessions, or Iranian financial incentives and sanctions relief,” Swanson wrote in an analysis published by the Atlantic Council.

The memorandum of understanding signed digitally by Trump and Vice President JD Vance Sunday, kicks off a 60-day period for technical talks aimed at a final agreement. A formal signing ceremony is planned for Friday.(Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

The remark was striking given that U.S. and Iranian officials have been negotiating since the April ceasefire and already had announced a signed memorandum and upcoming signing ceremony.

The president expressed optimism for a final deal.

“I think it’s going to happen, fairly on time, but we’ve been both involved. I think they’re going to want to get it done. Iran wants to get it done. They have to get back to business. And the relationship is now normalized,” Trump said during the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.

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The administration has yet to publicly release the text of the memorandum, but officials indicated that many of the issues that have dominated months of negotiations remain subject to future talks, including sanctions relief, frozen Iranian assets and the disposition of Iran’s remaining enriched uranium stockpiles.

“Here’s what it says: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. That’s what it says. It won’t have one to buy, to develop. They will not have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters Tuesday.

Administration officials said Monday the text of the deal would be released Tuesday or Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf signed the deal along with the U.S.(Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

On perhaps the most disputed issue, White House officials insisted Monday that no frozen Iranian assets have been released, despite reports in Iranian state-linked media that Iran could gain access to roughly $24 billion in blocked funds during the negotiation period.

“The very simple fact is, $0 of unfrozen assets have been released by the United States or any other country.”

The administration also said it will maintain its current military posture in the region during the negotiations, despite Iranian accounts suggesting the framework contemplates a future reduction in U.S. forces around Iran.

“The plan is to keep the current force posture during the 60-day negotiations.”

Officials repeatedly stressed that any concessions would be tied to verification rather than promises.

“We’re still at the early phases where we’re building trust.”

“This memorandum does not mean trusting the enemy; it has been written with active distrust,” Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, according to Iranian state-linked Mehr News. “We will monitor the implementation of US commitments.”

The clearest immediate effect appears to be the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments normally pass,and a commitment by both sides to preserve the ceasefire while negotiations continue. Oil prices fell to their lowest levels in three months on the agreement to lift the blockade and open the strait.

Administration officials repeatedly described the memorandum as a framework that could eventually lead to sanctions relief, economic normalization and a broader settlement of Iran’s nuclear program — if negotiators can reach a final agreement in the coming weeks.

U.S. Central Command shared footage of strikes targeting airplanes amid the Iran conflict.(US Central Command)

“Nothing is on the table if it doesn’t come along with real performance.”

Iranian state-linked media have described the framework as already containing commitments on sanctions relief, access to roughly $24 billion in frozen assets, future reductions in U.S. military forces in the region and a $300 billion reconstruction program. The White House has disputed key elements of that characterization.

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“We don’t pay them — there was some statement. We’re going to spend $300 billion. No, we’re allowed to go and invest if we wanted to. Someday, in the future. We have no obligation whatsoever,” Trump said during the G7 Summit.

The competing descriptions underscore how much remains unsettled.

“There will likely be a significant delta between the aspirations outlined in the MOU and what emerges in a final deal,” Swanson said.

Some congressional Republicans already are questioning whether Washington and Iran are describing the same agreement.

“I think we’d all like to see the terms of the memorandum and hopefully end up with a real deal,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday.

“I don’t think there’s anybody in Congress that’s ever gonna support giving money to them,” he went on.

“They ought pay for what it cost us to do this to bring them to their senses to stop killing us … I want to get reimbursed for the money we’ve had to spend to bring them to their senses. They’ve got plenty of oil, they can rebuild their own country.”

“I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program and other matters. I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.”

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