Tuesday morning news: June 23, 2026

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Iran talks » Vice President JD Vance is back in Washington this morning after two days of talks with Iranian leaders in Switzerland. And the vice president says they laid the groundwork for a deal to secure a long-term peace and prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

He said the two sides agreed on a road map to a final deal within 60 days.

VANCE: We left a lot of our team, the Iranians left a lot of their team, at the resort there to keep on working at it. So all in all, a very productive 36 hours. We're gonna have to keep working it. 

Negotiators set up a hotline to keep ships moving safely through the Strait of Hormuz—and a plan to clear mines from its waters.

And Vance says the U.S. does not intend to simply take Iran's word for anything and that Tehran has agreed to let international nuclear inspectors back into its facilities. Iran though, has not yet publicly confirmed that. 

Democrats in Washington say they're not sold. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is again demanding an immediate briefing:

SCHUMER: Why don't they wanna give us a briefing? Are they embarrassed? Is it so vague that they told Iran one thing and will have to tell the world another? Is it because Trump got taken to the cleaners?

But President Trump says he feels good about where things stand:

TRUMP: The strait is totally open, you know that. And we're negotiating. We'll see how that all goes. But we have two things: We have an open strait, and we have a country that will never have a nuclear weapon.

Technical teams are still at the table in Switzerland, working to beat the 60-day deadline to turn the truce into a lasting peace.

White House attack plot update » Federal prosecutors have charged a sixth man in an alleged plot to massacre a crowd at a White House event earlier this month. 

WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: The targets of the alleged plot were those attending the UFC mixed martial arts event on the White House lawn just over a week ago—part of the America 250 celebration.

Jordan Rincker of Missouri is accused of selling a fellow conspirator a pump-action shotgun for $1,200. He joins five others charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

According to the Justice Department, the group planned to fly explosive-packed drones at the event to trigger a panicked evacuation and then have snipers pick off government officials and others as they fled.

The FBI broke the plot, arresting suspects in four states.

And investigators say encrypted group chats point to a far wider network—with more than 20 people allegedly mapping out the attack.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Montreal attack » Canadian authorities say a civilian and a police officer are dead and another officer is critically injured after a shootout near Jewish sites in Montreal.

SOUND: [Scene]

Officers were called to the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood just before noon on Monday. When they arrived, police say they exchanged gunfire with an armed suspect.

Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher says that's when one of his police officers was fatally shot.

DAGHER: But he was a great, great, great police officer. A lot of credibility and he was so passionate, very passionate.

Police say the suspect was killed in the exchange.

DAGHER: It's a very, very sad day, it's a nightmare. But we have to be solid. We have to solid for our lady police officer who survived, and we're all behind her.

The Jerusalem Post is identifying the civilian who died as Rabbi Michael Moshe Mizrahi, a Jewish resident and a member of the local Chabad center there. Mizrahi died at the hospital from his wounds and it’s not clear yet if Mizrahi was targeted or simply shot in the crossfire.

Police say they’re still working to determine a motive for the attack.

Alan Greenspan obit » Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100.

For nearly 19 years, Greenspan led the Federal Reserve under four presidents, from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush.

A longtime voice for fiscal discipline, he warned in 2005 against hiding government spending:

GREENSPAN: Above all, we shouldn't try to hide what we're doing. A lot of these particular proposals are, is that somehow you will slip in an extra $20 billion and nobody will notice.

While he oversaw the central bank for two—mostly prosperous—decades, critics blamed his faith in deregulation—and his dismissal of a housing bubble—for helping to fuel the 2008 financial crisis.

The then-former Fed chair later conceded to Congress that he’d wrongly presumed the self-interest of banks would lead them to protect their shareholders and the market more broadly.

Greenspan died Monday of complications from Parkinson's disease.

Clive Davis obituary » And the music world has lost an icon. Record-industry kingmaker Clive Davis has died at 94.

Davis signed a teenage Whitney Houston …

MUSIC: [Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You]

… he helped to turn Houston into a star, as he did many others. 

Davis started as a lawyer with no music experience and rose through the ranks to run Columbia Records … launching and reviving musical careers for six decades.

MUSIC: [Santana - Smooth]

In 1999, he paired guitarist Carlos Santana with a new generation of vocalists on the album "Supernatural," which won a record-tying eight Grammys.

MUSIC: [Santana - Smooth]

Among the musical careers he helped to shape were those of Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and Billy Joel.

Davis died at his Manhattan apartment, still working in music to the end as Sony's chief creative officer.

I'm Kent Covington.

And coming up: a pastor’s perspective on recent clashes over immigration and border controls in Northern Ireland. Plus, the life-changing effects of learning to read as an adult.

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