Day: June 15, 2026

Ahead of his arrival in the French Alps for a G7 summit, US President Donald Trump said in a media interview that the US had “no choice” but to impose 100% tariffs on French wines if Paris didn’t scrap its digital services tax on tech firms.  French president Emmanuel Macron has already ruled out dropping the tax which brings hundreds of millions of euros into state coffers annually. 

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Tonight, Don sits down with Brian Tyler Cohen to discuss the White House’s so-called “media offenders” list, a blatant attempt to intimidate and discredit independent journalism. Brian is on the list himself, but he says the effort may have an unintended consequence: boosting the very voices the administration is trying to silence.

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A suite of new artificial intelligence-powered features released by Meta on Monday will allow people to use Facebook as a search engine and content generation tool in such a way that could generate more than $10 billion in annual revenue for Meta if it takes off, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst.

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During remarks on the Senate floor Monday Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke about the Iran-US deal.

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Emergency crews are responding after a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after taking off from California’s Edwards Air Force Base on Monday morning, the base said in an alert.

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More than three months after the US and Israel first began their war with Iran, Washington and Tehran have reached an initial agreement to bring about a more long-term end to hostilities.

US President Donald Trump has said it paves the way for what he called the “toll-free” opening of the Strait of Hormuz. He called on ships to start their engines and “let the oil flow”.

The full text of the deal has not yet been released. Pakistani mediators say the agreement will be officially signed in Switzerland on Friday 19 June.

Our US State Department correspondent Tom Bateman tells us that President Trump and Iranian officials are already giving different accounts of what’s been agreed.

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