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June 27 1200 UTC Brief
In U.S. politics and courts
A Superior Court judge in Alaska has put retired teacher Dan Sullivan back on the ballot after ruling that election officials wrongly disqualified him as a challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan. In Massachusetts, two Republican candidates for statewide office, including the party’s likely attorney general nominee, have been removed from the September primary ballot after the state said hundreds of nomination signatures were problematic.
Separately, the Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission issued a draft report arguing that the separation of church and state is a legal error. It says Americans should see religion as an essential support and remember the Creator who grants rights. The White House got the report in the Oval Office, which is a setting with almost no irony at all.
In Ukraine and Russia
Ukraine says it struck Russia’s Titan-Barrikady weapons plant overnight with FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, part of a wider pattern of attacks reaching deeper into Russian territory. The Kremlin is struggling to answer an expanding Ukrainian drone campaign that has hit key arms factories, damaged more oil refining capacity, and added to fuel shortages inside Russia.
In the Middle East
Bahrain says Iranian drones hit the country as fighting around the Strait of Hormuz entered a third day, and a tanker was also struck while crossing the waterway. Iran has not directly claimed the attacks, but state media said the Revolutionary Guard had hit American targets in the region and repeated Tehran’s claim of control over traffic in the strait.
At the same time, a reported preliminary U.S.-Iran deal could hand Tehran a major economic lift, including sanctions waivers that would let it sell oil in U.S. dollars and steps to unfreeze Iranian assets. Vice President JD Vance is also facing pushback from pro-Israel conservatives over his role in the negotiations, while evangelical supporters of Trump remain strongly behind the war decision against Iran.
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