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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said U.S. search-and-rescue teams were being deployed to Venezuela following deadly earthquakes. Two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around the capital, Caracas, trapping people beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings and setting off powerful aftershocks.
Oil prices fell to their lowest levels since before the outbreak of the Iran war on Thursday as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continued to recover, signaling that crude exports from the Gulf are steadily returning to normal and easing prolonged supply disruption fears.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up the construction and availability of more affordable housing. "Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Brent crude oil has reached its lowest price since the Iran war began. The global benchmark dipped below $76 a barrel early Wednesday. It’s still higher than before the conflict started on Feb. 28, but lower than the closing price on any trading day after that. West Texas Intermediate is fluctuating near a similar milestone.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran has agreed to allow nuclear inspections for the foreseeable future.
"Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!)," he wrote in a social media post. "This will insure 'Nuclear Honesty.' If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!"
Iran has denied that it had begun discussions on its nuclear program or agreed to invite International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back to the country.
Voters head to the polls on Tuesday for the primary elections. They include Democratic battles in New York, Maryland, and Utah, as well as key Republican races in South Carolina.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign as leader of the Labour Party, bowing to pressure from within his own party to step down. It opens the door to a leadership contest to replace him as Britain’s next leader.
Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died on Monday. He was 100.

The next phase of U.S.–Iran talks scheduled for June 19 have been postponed, according to the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Negotiations had been scheduled to take place at the Bürgenstock mountaintop resort overlooking Lake Lucerne.
Outgoing National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, on June 18, released documents exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s alleged role in directing U.S. funding for “dangerous gain-of-function research” at a Wuhan lab linked to the origin of the COVID-19 virus.