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108 days. $25 billion. 13 American lives. A global oil shock.

And on Trump's 80th birthday — beneath stormy skies, with UFC fights happening on the White House lawn — this announcement dropped: 😮

"The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete."

"I authorize the toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of the Naval blockade. Ships of the World, start your engines!"

Pakistan confirmed it. Iran confirmed it on state TV.

What's actually in it:

🛢️ Strait of Hormuz reopens FRIDAY 🚢 Naval blockade lifted now 💰 $24 BILLION in frozen funds unfrozen ☢️ Iran reaffirms NPT — no nukes ⏰ 60-day window for final nuclear negotiations

But here's the thing.

Every previous "we ended the war" announcement in this conflict has sounded EXACTLY like this.

"Big day for World Peace" — April "95% done" — June 11 "Complete" — June 14

Each time, something happened before the deal actually held.

CNN's analysis asks the real questions:

📌 Is this BETTER than the deal Trump tore up in his first term?

📌 Did the war achieve ANYTHING beyond returning close to the pre-war status quo?

📌 What does Iran do with the leverage it just demonstrated over 20% of world oil?

The signing is Friday. In Switzerland.

The true test isn't the announcement.

It's whether the fighting actually stops. 👀

👉 Full analysis: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

18 counts. One plea deal. One felony. $2.25 million.

John Bolton — Trump's former National Security Adviser turned fierce critic — has agreed to plead guilty. 😮

What he's admitting: 📝 He wrote diary-like notes about national security 📧 He emailed them to his wife and daughter 📚 While writing his Trump memoir

What he's NOT admitting: ❌ Not leaking to media ❌ Not sharing with foreign governments

The deal: ✅ 18 counts → 1 felony count 💰 $2.25 million fine ⏰ Plea hearing: June 26, Greenbelt MD 🏛️ Sentence: 0-60 months — may avoid prison

The comparison everyone is making:

David Petraeus shared classified info with his biographer. He got: a misdemeanor.

Bolton is getting: a felony.

Bolton was seen as an early target of Trump's campaign to use the DOJ against political enemies.

Was it political? Was it legitimate?

Both sides now have something.

The DOJ: a felony guilty plea. Bolton: his freedom (probably).

"The Room Where it Happened" was a bestseller.

The guilty plea will be entered on June 26. 👀

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

This is what Day 86 looks like. 😮

On Memorial Day 2026:

✈️ US forces conducted self-defense strikes near Bandar Abbas, Iran 🚤 Targets: fast boats laying MINES in the Strait of Hormuz 🎯 Also hit: Iranian missile launch sites

CENTCOM: "Using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire."

Meanwhile, Rubio said from a plane over India:

"A couple of days to settle on a deal." "Strong alignment on the draft." "It's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one."

And Trump was at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day.

The contradiction in one sentence:

US forces are destroying Iranian mine-laying boats in the Strait of Hormuz that the peace deal says will reopen in two days.

The IRGC is laying mines while the supreme leader gives orders by motorcycle courier from an unknown bunker.

Ceasefire. Strikes. Peace deal in 48 hours.

This is the Iran war. Right now. Today. 🌍

👉 Live updates: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Two stories. One picture. 😮

STORY 1: Khamenei is hiding in a secret location.

He communicates via: 📜 Handwritten sealed letters 🏍️ Motorcycle couriers on rural Iranian backroads

Even his own senior officials don't know where he is.

US intelligence official: "This is why negotiations are slow. Every piece of information has days of latency."

Another official, on watching Iran's government try to function: "It's almost like watching a sitcom. They are completely exasperated." 😅

His father Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28 — Day 1 of the war. Mojtaba was injured in the same strikes. He hasn't been seen in public since.

STORY 2: Oil is falling.

Brent: -4.55% → $98.83 WTI: -4.73% → $92.03

Two-week lows. Why?

Markets believe peace is coming. A US official says Iran is ready to dispose of enriched uranium. Trump says the deal is "largely negotiated."

The man who has to sign off is on a motorcycle courier network.

And somehow — it might still happen.

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Day 84 of the Iran war.

Trump just told CBS News something nobody expected today: 😮

"There's a draft."

"The framework has been largely negotiated."

"It will be announced shortly."

"It will include the opening of the Strait of Hormuz."

"I will only sign a deal where we get everything we want."

He has READ the draft. He won't reveal details until Iran is told first.

Rubio in Sweden Friday: "Slight progress. A little movement. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."

Iran's position: "The US must end the blockade as part of any deal."

84 days. $25 billion. 13 Americans dead. 365 wounded. 800 ships still stranded.

If this is real — the next 72 hours end the war.

If it isn't — we're back to the edge. ⏰

The world is watching. Again. 🌍

👉 Live updates: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Whatever you think of her politics — this part isn't political.

Tulsi Gabbard resigned today as Director of National Intelligence.

Her reason:

Her husband, Abraham Williams, has been diagnosed with an extremely rare bone cancer.

Her words:

"Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage — standing steadfast through my deployment to East Africa, multiple political campaigns, and now my service in this role."

"I cannot let him face this alone."

Effective: June 30, 2026.

The political context:

🔴 Fourth Cabinet member to leave 🔴 Fourth female Cabinet departure 🔴 Was already being sidelined 🔴 Ongoing CIA-ODNI feud 🔴 Trump allies like Laura Loomer were publicly criticizing her

Aaron Lukas becomes acting DNI.

But today — the story is simpler.

A wife chose her husband over her career.

Wishing Abraham Williams a full recovery. 🙏

⚠️ Cancer support: 1-800-227-2345

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Former CENTCOM deputy commander Robert Harward just gave the most important Iran war assessment in weeks.

His verdict:

Trump has "time on his hands." ⏰

Here's what he means:

The US strategy is NOT about getting Iran to negotiate.

It's about forcing Iran to have NO OTHER OPTIONS.

📉 Blockade: $500 million per day cost to Tehran ✈️ Oil exports: down 70% 🔴 Internal regime: fracturing 🕌 Hajj: adding geopolitical complexity right now

Harward says Trump controls the pace. The US is not rushed into military conflict.

Iran is absorbing the daily cost of confrontation while the US waits for capitulation.

Which side runs out of endurance first?

"Iran." — Harward.

His analysis also went viral for… unrelated reasons. (Some viewers claimed he was wearing a mask on air.)

But the strategic analysis? That part matters a lot. 👀

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

February 24, 1996.

Two unarmed civilian planes were shot down by Cuban military jets in international airspace.

4 Cuban-American men killed. Castro — then defense minister — allegedly ordered it.

30 years passed.

May 20, 2026.

The US just indicted him. 😮

Three charges: ☠️ Conspiracy to kill US nationals ✈️ Destruction of aircraft ☠️ Murder

Acting AG Blanche in Miami: "For the first time in nearly 70 years, senior leadership of the Cuban regime has been charged for the deaths of American citizens."

Cuba's president: "A political action without any legal basis. A pretext to justify the folly of military aggression against Cuba."

Cuba's national statement ended with: "Homeland or Death, We Will Prevail."

The victim's daughter: "Long overdue." 💔

Raúl Castro is 94 years old. He lives in Havana. He will never be extradited.

But that's not why this was done.

After Venezuela — where the US deposed Maduro — Cuba is watching.

And the whole Caribbean is watching too. 👀

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

The "main event on Trump's revenge tour."

That's what Thomas Massie called this race last week. He was right. 😔

Tuesday night — Massie lost.

Ed Gallrein — a Navy SEAL farmer recruited personally by Trump — just ended his 14-year career.

Why Trump wanted him gone:

❌ Voted AGAINST the Iran war ❌ Voted AGAINST Trump's "big, beautiful bill" ❌ Pushed to release Epstein files ❌ Repeatedly refused to "buy the vote"

What it cost:

💰 $32+ million spent 💰 Most expensive House primary in US HISTORY 💰 Pro-Israel groups + Trump PACs poured millions in 💰 Hegseth flew to Kentucky to campaign — against a sitting Republican

Massie's concession:

"They tried to buy my vote. They couldn't buy it."

"This race went on longer than Vietnam."

Trump's response:

"He was a bad guy. He deserves to lose."

White House communications director:

"F*** around, find out."

And next? Trump just endorsed Ken Paxton against Sen. Cornyn in Texas. 👀

The revenge tour is not over.

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Meet D. John Sauer. 👀

Before this job:

Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer

Won Trump immunity from prosecution

Tried to overturn the 2020 election

Now: US Solicitor General — the "Tenth Justice"

What he's done in one year:

⚖️ Gutted the Voting Rights Act Justice Kagan: the majority "filches" HIS arguments

☢️ Arguing to give the president unlimited power to fire independent agency heads

His phrase: 1935 precedent is "a decaying husk with bold and particularly dangerous pretensions"

🛂 Arguing to end birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment

And when liberal justices push back?

Conservative justices step in and throw him lifelines. 👀

He stood beside Trump when Trump called the justices "an embarrassment to their families."

Legal scholars say: "He's defied the studied detachment of the solicitor general's office and openly retained his MAGA-warrior sensibility." — CNN's Joan Biskupic

Term ends July 1. The biggest decisions are still coming. 😮

👉 Full analysis: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

The timing couldn't be more striking. 😮

Trump arrived in Beijing this week to meet Xi Jinping for trade deals.

And on CBS News Sunday — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this:

"China poses a broader and more formidable challenge than the Soviet Union EVER did."

☢️ China has nuclear weapons ☢️ China is technologically comparable to the US — something the USSR NEVER achieved ☢️ "For the first time in history, we face nuclear-armed adversaries in BOTH Europe AND Asia."

What Gates wants done:

🇹🇼 Arm Taiwan — now 🏭 Rebuild US defense industrial base

The contradiction:

Trump's own 2026 Pentagon strategy DOWNGRADED the China threat.

The US just burned through half its critical missile stockpiles in 60 days of Iran war.

And the president is in Beijing right now seeking photo ops and trade deals.

Robert Gates served under Bush and Obama. He's not a partisan. He's a man who has seen the intelligence.

And he just said:

"One of the most dangerous periods in modern American history."

On the weekend Trump was in Beijing. 👀

👉 Full analysis: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

February 13, 2021.

Bill Cassidy voted to convict Donald Trump.

He said: "Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one man."

May 16, 2026.

Donald Trump made sure he never votes on anything again. 😔

Final results: 🥇 Julia Letlow: 44% (Trump's pick) 🥈 John Fleming: 30% 🥉 Bill Cassidy: 24% — OUT

Cassidy's concession speech:

"When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn't turn out the way you want it to."

"But you don't pout." "You don't whine." "You don't claim the election was stolen." "You don't manufacture some excuse."

"Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all Americans and our Constitution. And it is to our Constitution to which I am loyal."

He never said Trump's name. He didn't need to. 👀

Every Republican who voted to convict Trump has now been removed or didn't run again. Every single one.

And tomorrow, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is next. 🔴

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Clarence Thomas has been on the Supreme Court for 35 years.

He's 77 years old. Second-longest serving justice in court history.

And on Thursday, speaking to lawyers and judges in Florida, he said something quietly devastating:

"The security concerns now are much different from the way they were when I first became a circuit justice. That's really one of the big changes since I've been on the court — that it's become very, very dicey."

He said he can no longer move around freely.

He has to skip events. He has to weigh every appearance against the security risk it creates — not just for himself, but for everyone around him.

This isn't politics. This is a 77-year-old man describing what American judicial life has quietly become. 😔

The Supreme Court is seeking millions more in security funding from Congress.

The 2022 Kavanaugh assassination attempt made all of this real.

And Thomas just put words to what that reality feels like from the inside.

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Her name is Monica Witt. 😮

Former US Air Force counterintelligence specialist. Top-secret clearances. Access to the true identities of undercover US intelligence officers.

In 2013 — she allegedly defected to Iran.

The FBI indicted her in 2019. She's been living in Tehran ever since — for 12 years.

Today — the FBI announced a $200,000 reward for her location.

What she allegedly gave Iran:

☢️ Classified national defense info 🕵️ True identities of undercover US intelligence personnel 🔴 Information that could empower the IRGC to target US citizens

Why NOW?

The FBI said it plainly: "During this critical moment in Iran's history."

The Iran war. The blockade. The economic collapse inside Tehran.

The FBI is betting someone inside Iran — right now — knows where she is.

And that right now, they might finally be willing to say so. 👀

Tip line: 1-800-CALL-FBI 📞

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Trump spent over a year:

❌ Attacking Jerome Powell ❌ Launching DOJ investigations ❌ Trying to fire Biden's Fed picks ❌ Searching for a nominee who'd cut

Today: Kevin Warsh is confirmed. 54-45. ✅

Trump finally got his Fed chair.

So when are the rate cuts coming?

📊 Inflation: 3.8% — highest in nearly 3 years

📊 Markets: 97% chance of NO rate cut in June

📊 3 April FOMC members: could RAISE rates next

📊 Warsh himself: promised Senate he'd act INDEPENDENTLY

The cruel irony? 😔

Trump's own Iran war is the biggest obstacle to rate cuts.

Iran war → oil prices spike Oil prices → inflation rises Inflation → cuts impossible

Trump won the Fed battle. He may lose the rate cut war. 👀

First Warsh FOMC meeting: June 16-17 Markets expect: no change

👉 Full story: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com

Wednesday. Beijing. Two rivals. The whole world watching. 😮

Trump and Xi face off for the first time on Chinese soil since 2017.

What's at stake:

☢️ Iran — Trump wants China's help. China is staying neutral. That neutrality is leverage.

🇹🇼 Taiwan — Trump just said he's discussing an $11B weapons package. Xi is furious.

💰 Trade — Trump wants deals. Musk and Tim Cook flew along.

🌍 The world order — can the US and China run it as a "G2"? Europe is terrified they might try.

The diplomatic chess board:

📌 Iran's FM visited Beijing last week 📌 Putin arrives after Trump leaves 📌 China held off sending weapons to Iran — as a goodwill gesture

Xi needs no deal. He needs a photograph.

Himself — steady, reliable, open — against a war-weary Trump desperate for a win.

That's the summit.

The world is watching. 🌍

👉 Full analysis: https://usanewshub26.blogspot.com