Tuesday morning news: June 16, 2026

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Trump at G7 / Iran » President Trump is touting the new peace deal with Iran, expected to be formalized this week. He spoke Monday from France to world leaders gathered for the G7 summit, saying the Strait of Hormuz will soon be once again fully for buisness.

TRUMP:  The strait is already partially opened. As you know, they're doing a little hunting for a couple of mines that they've already found. Uh, but it's essentially ships are starting to go out now. On Friday, it'll be completely opened.

The strait is a critical artery for the world’s oil supply, and news of the Iran deal sent energy prices plummeting yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron also celebrated the news.

MACRON:  I think yesterday was signed a, a very important, uh, agreement, a, a peace deal with Iran. And it's a very important one because first it will, uh, fix the nuclear issue, and, and it's a very important matter for, for peace.

Trump said he has found the new leaders in Iran to be more reasonable than the previous regime. Questions, though, remain about what exactly Iran has agreed—or will agree to—with regard to curbing its nuclear program.

Israel-Lebanon and Israel reaction » And Israel appears to have its concerns about that.

NETANYAHU: [Speaking Hebrew]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that with or without an agreement, Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon as long as he's in office. He said the peace deal was President Trump's decision, but that Israel would see to its own interests.

And the agreement is drawing mixed reactions from Israelis. Koby Matza lives in Jerusalem:

MATZA: I think this is the worst agreement ever. Great damage to Israel and to the world. A big, big damage. Trump caused us very massive damage with this agreement. He should have continued the war, put down the regime, let the people there in Iran live in a somehow democratic country.

But Aviv Tatarsky, calls it a great relief, and says agreements are the best way to solve the conflict.

TATARSKY: So I hope it is a lesson also for Israeli citizens that military force mainly creates problems.

Iran has said that for the interim deal to move forward, Israel must halt its attacks on the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that Israel plans to stay indefinitely in lands it holds in Lebanon, as well as Syria and the Gaza Strip.

Washington reaction to Iran deal » And in Washington, reaction to the deal is predictably split, for the most part, down party lines.

GOP Sen. Roger Marshall says the deal is great news for Americans:

MARSHALL:  No more nuclear weapons for Iran, and then of course, from the prosperity standpoint, bringing the price of gasoline down.

But many Republicans are also asking for more information about the agreement. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he does not yet know enough about it to judge the deal.

Democrats, meantime, are voicing skepticism. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

SCHUMER:  We've been told dozens of times that this war is over, and dozens of times we have been disappointed. There have been divergent statements from a variety of people in the administration.

Both sides signed a preliminary agreement electronically on Sunday. They’re expected to put ink to paper in Switzerland on Friday.

B-52 bomber crash » A B-52 bomber crashed and burst into flames just after takeoff at a California air base on Monday. All eight people aboard were killed.

The Air Force says they were a mix of troops, civilians, and contractors—including two Boeing employees. The bomber was on a routine test flight for a new radar system at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert.

Investigators are combing through clues. It could take months to officially determine the cause of the crash.

Ebola latest » In eastern Congo, an Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track it. 

WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has that story:

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Congo's health ministry says the virus has infected nearly 800 people and killed nearly 200 over the span of just one month. It's caused by a rare strain called Bundibugyo—and unlike the more common form of Ebola, this one has no approved vaccine or treatment.

Nearly a million people have been displaced by years of war in the region, making it nearly impossible to find those exposed. Doctors Without Borders says the outbreak is outpacing the response. Treatment centers in the hardest-hit areas are overwhelmed.

The virus has already crossed into neighboring Uganda. And the World Health Organization has declared a global emergency ... warning this could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Anthropic export controls » Some of America's most powerful artificial intelligence is still switched off today. And the company behind it is in Washington this week, fighting to get it turned back on.

Anthropic is the company behind the popular Claude AI engines. It took its newest model, Fable 5, offline after a federal order barred foreign access—over fears that it could supercharge cyberattacks. Fable, the most powerful publicly available AI yet, had just gone live hours earlier.

The government issued the order after Amazon—Anthropic's biggest investor—warned officials that its researchers were able to defeat Fable 5’s safeguards, meaning that perhaps the bad guys could as well.

Anthropic is working to address the concerns and restore access.

I'm Kent Covington.

And coming up: young workers are planning for a future without social security. And, pushing back on Pride Month. 

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