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🇺🇸📺 -- Retired U.S. Army General Jack Keane on Trump's Iran Deal:

"The funding is real. There is a $300 billion investment fund, who cares where the money comes from. It should not come from anybody! You know that Sean! You know you can’t trust these people..."

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✡️ - NOW: Yidden breaking the 17 B'Tamuz fast at the Kosel.

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🇺🇸 — WATCH: The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds practiced over Washington, D.C., today, flying their F-16s around the nation’s capital ahead of the July 4 America 250 airshow.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 — REPORT: Axios reported today that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are in Doha for talks focused mainly on the Strait of Hormuz, with Washington trying to convince Iran to drop its demand for shipping tolls.

• According to the report, the Trump administration is arguing that Iran would gain far more from a broader nuclear deal and sanctions relief than from charging ships passage fees.

• Axios also reported that the two sides reached a one-week understanding to keep the strait quiet, but the initial MOU is still at risk of collapse.

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🇺🇸 — POLITICS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to deliver a major America 250th birthday address Friday morning from George Washington’s presidential desk at City Hall, just hours before President Trump gives his own remarks. City Hall said Mamdani’s speech will focus on New York City’s role in U.S. history and its position as the nation’s symbolic gateway.

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🇺🇸 — BUSINESS: Goldman Sachs announced today that it will contribute $1,000 to Trump Accounts for eligible children of its employees, matching the federal seed contribution for children born between 2025 and 2028.

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🇮🇷 — WARNING: An Iranian military commander warned today that Iran would retaliate harshly against any U.S. or Israeli attack during the funeral period for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

• Funeral processions are set to begin July 4 in Tehran and end July 9 with Khamenei’s burial in Mashhad, with additional ceremonies planned in Qom and Iraq.

• Iranian media reported heightened security and temporary airspace restrictions over several cities, including Tehran and Mashhad.

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🇻🇪 — WATCH: A 43-year-old security guard was rescued today after being trapped for eight days under the rubble of his workplace following Venezuela’s twin earthquakes.

• Hernán Gil was pulled from beneath a collapsed seven-story building in Catia La Mar after a three-day rescue operation involving teams from seven countries.

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🇷🇺 — NEWS: Russia has turned to India for seaborne gasoline imports and secured 50,000 metric tons from Kazakhstan after repeated Ukrainian drone strikes reportedly paralyzed about a third of its refining capacity.

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🛳️— UPDATE: The WHO declared Thursday that the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship was “over” after the final exposed contact completed quarantine, tested negative and returned home.

• The outbreak included 12 confirmed cases, one probable case and three deaths, with no new cases reported since May 25.

• WHO said more than 650 contacts were tracked across 33 countries and territories, and it is now coordinating a 21-country study to better understand the rare virus and prepare diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.

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🇺🇸 — NEW: Daredevil couple Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov were arraigned in New York today after climbing the Empire State Building spire for a stunt engagement.

• They face multiple charges, including burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal tampering, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

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🇮🇱 — PHOTO: Protesters blocked the Ayalon Highway tonight before police dispersed them, arrested eight people and reopened the roadway.

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✡️🇮🇱 - Tragedy: 7-Year-Old Moshe Galinsky z”l Killed By Bus In Modiin Illit:

A heartbreaking tragedy struck Modiin Illit as Moshe Galinsky z”l was killed by a bus while returning home from cheder. The third-grade boy had visited Kever Rachel with his class just one day earlier for a Chumash Bereishis siyum.

⬇️ Read It:

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🇺🇸 — JUST IN: Trump: “The United States spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect them, without getting any benefit from so doing. Ridiculous!”

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🇺🇸 -- LOOK: Mamdani yesterday called for New Yorkers to set their air conditioning to 78 degrees due to the heat wave.

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🇮🇱✡️ — WATCH: Jews davening this morning on Har Habayis on 17th of Tammuz.

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🇺🇸 -- VID: Trump posts an AI video where he becomes a doctor and treats patients with "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

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🇵🇰🇮🇷 — NEW: Pakistan said today that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Iran for former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s July 4-9 funeral events. The visit comes as Pakistan and Qatar have been working to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

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🇱🇧🇸🇾 -- VID: Reporter: "If the United States were to pressure the Lebanese government to accept Syrian involvement in disarming Hezbollah, would you agree to that?"

Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam: "No, no, neither he nor I will answer this question. I believe President Ahmed al-Sharaa has already answered this question, and more. On behalf of Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, there is nothing to add to what President Ahmed al-Sharaa said, and I have nothing to add either."

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🇮🇱 — OVERNIGHT: Israeli forces launched a major rescue operation in Binyamin early this morning after Breslov Chassidim allegedly fled police, entered the Palestinian village of Mukhmas and abandoned their smashed vehicle.

• The IDF, Shin Bet and police sent special forces and a combat helicopter, sealed off the village area and blocked nearby roads after fears of a possible kidnapping.

• Around 6:40 a.m., one of the civilians reported that the group had left the village on its ownץ The kidnapping concern was later ruled out, and two people were detained for questioning.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 — TERROR: A 37-year-old New York woman was arrested and charged with trying to send more than $30,000 in cryptocurrency to Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, according to the Justice Department.

• Prosecutors said Catherine Beth Washburn, of Irondequoit, led an anti-Israel extremist group and allegedly made about 80 crypto transfers to an account used by someone claiming to be a PIJ fighter.

• Investigators said she wrote “I wish every day were Oct. 7” and praised reports of Israeli soldiers being killed; if convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.