A peace deal between the United States and Iran has been reached. Trump also announced the reopening of the Hormuz Strait.
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A peace deal between the United States and Iran has been reached, President Donald Trump said. He also announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the U.S. blockade.
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Trump expressed an urgent desire to end the conflict in Ukraine just hours before he confirmed that his administration secured a peace deal between the United States and Iran.
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Vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 11, 2026. (Reuters/Stringer) |
A peace deal between the United States and Iran has been reached, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday.
“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “Congratulations to all! I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.
“Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” The deal was first announced by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Sharif wrote on X moments before Trump confirmed the plan. Sharif said a signing ceremony will be held on June 19 in Switzerland. Additional details on the proposed plan were not immediately released, and Iran has signaled that it may not implement portions of the deal until the signing ceremony is complete. Iranian state television quoted an Iranian national security official saying the war “will end immediately and permanently beginning tonight” on all fronts, while the U.S. blockade “will be terminated immediately and in full.”
A key area of disagreement between the two sides—the status of Lebanon and Israel’s conflict against the Hezbollah terror group—remains shaky, and Trump has urged all sides to work to keep the peace. Sharif said in his announcement of the deal that “both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.” The deal gives 60 days to find a way forward on the Persian state’s highly enriched uranium and its atomic program, which has been a key area of disagreement between the two in the current conflict and the years leading up to it. (More) |
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Trump said he wants Congress to pass an election security bill as part of extending a key section of a surveillance law, Section 702 of FISA, that lapsed last week. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the lapse of FISA came as the U.S. terrorism threat level is “the highest it’s ever been.”
- Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins over former college football coach Derek Dooley ahead of Tuesday’s Georgia Senate GOP runoff election.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has been admitted to hospital, the senator’s spokesman said. His office did not provide the reason McConnell was hospitalized or give the status of his condition, but said the senator “is receiving excellent care.”
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- At least 12 people died in a plane crash in Missouri, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The plane, operated by Skydive Kansas City, was taking people up to skydive when it crashed and became engulfed in flames.
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A growing number of Chinese officials are voluntarily surrendering to authorities amid a renewed anti-corruption push across the country, a trend that insiders say reflects an intensified internal crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party’s disciplinary bodies.
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Americans increasingly desire control over the timing and manner of their death. What they’re rarely told is that medicine has not yet figured out how to guarantee the peaceful ending they imagine. The drugs used in medically assisted suicide—a cocktail of familiar medications—are given off-label in lethal doses, yet they receive sparse research. Even when results appear predictable, the common protocols used don’t always work as expected, leaving loved ones to be witnesses to vomiting, gasping, and deaths that stretch across hours or days.
“The experience of ‘assisted dying’ may not be the ‘safe and comfortable’ process promoted by campaigners,” noted a British Medical Bulletin article, “and patients must be properly informed of the realities of hastening death and the risk of distressing complications.”
Doctors in states with medical aid in dying (MAID) laws are permitted to prescribe whatever drugs they deem fit for lethal purposes without fear of prosecution. Many rely on a protocol from the nonprofit Academy of Aid-in-Dying Medicine, though they sometimes modify it to substitute their own preferred formulations.
Dr. Kerri Mason, medical director for Denver Health’s medical aid in dying program, told The Epoch Times she personally substitutes hydromorphone for morphine to lower the volume of powder in the drug cocktail to make it more palatable.
MAID drugs are ground-up pills given in powder form to be mixed with two ounces of apple juice or another sweet drink to offset the bitter taste. Patients must be able to ingest the mixture themselves, though family members are permitted to mix it. They must have a terminal diagnosis with less than six months to live and be at least 18 years old. (More)
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