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President Trump鈥檚 spending bill advanced, as debate continues. Senate Republicans spent Sunday shoring up support after clearing a key procedural step the night before as they seek to pass the bill by July 4. Democrats were preparing to introduce a slate of amendments this morning. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday he would not seek reelection after Mr. Trump badgered him for saying he could not vote for the bill with its steep Medicaid cuts. 鈥� The Associated Press

Israel ordered evacuations in northern Gaza as Trump called for war to end. The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in northern Gaza on Sunday before intensified fighting against Hamas, as Mr. Trump called for an end to the war amid renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire. 鈥淢ake the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back,鈥� he posted on his Truth Social platform early on Sunday. 鈥� Reuters

Russia launched its biggest aerial attack on Ukraine. The escalating bombing campaign Saturday night has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war. Ukraine鈥檚 air force says the assault involved 537 aerial weapons including drones and missiles, of which most were intercepted or jammed. 鈥� AP

Trade talks are moving forward. A new deal with China will make it easier for American firms to obtain magnets and rare earth minerals critical to manufacturing. The administration called it a 鈥渄e-escalation鈥� after steep mutual tariffs. Meanwhile, Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms late on Sunday, hours before it was to take effect, in a bid to advance stalled trade negotiations with Washington. 鈥� AP

The U.S. moved to remove Haitians鈥� protected status. Temporary protected status offers immigrants deportation protection and work authorization when their countries face unrest. The Trump administration on Friday said it鈥檚 ending TPS for Haitians this summer. The move 鈥渞estores integrity in our immigration system,鈥� ensuring TPS is 鈥渁ctually temporary,鈥� said the government. Immigrant advocates at Haitian Bridge Alliance said the decision will force returns 鈥渢o a country the U.S. government itself has deemed unsafe.鈥� Last year, we visited Springfield, Ohio, to examine the effects of false rumors about Haitians in the community. 鈥� Staff

A public land sell-off is no longer part of the GOP鈥檚 budget bill. After bipartisan pushback, Sen. Mike Lee (R) of Utah said late Saturday he would drop his efforts to require Western states to sell millions of acres of federal lands as part of the Senate鈥檚 version of the bill. He had been pushing to include public land sales that he said would both help raise money for the federal government and alleviate housing shortages in the West. His efforts faced opposition from environmentalists as well as conservative hunting and outdoorsmen groups. 鈥� Staff

One of Hong Kong鈥檚 last major pro-democracy parties disbanded. Announced on Sunday, the decision to dissolve the League of Social Democrats marks another blow to the city鈥檚 dwindling opposition amid Beijing鈥檚 crackdown following 2019 protests. Since a 2020 national security law, many activists have been jailed and civil society groups dissolved. 鈥� AP

Since the end of the 12-day stretch in which Israel and Iran exchanged blows, word is that life in Tehran is returning to normal. The internet is coming back as residents head home. A ceasefire has held up. But for the nearly 600,000 Iranians living in Europe, many in permanent exile, concerns about loved ones back home have complicated views of the fighting. Many oppose the Iranian government and see the clashes as a prequel to the end of a regime. Others say they have been fooled before and that war is not the answer. That leaves much of the community of Iranians in Europe in a kind of limbo.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, limiting the power of federal judges to issue nationwide procedural rulings.聽To supporters, the decision represents a commonsense effort to dial back the nationwide injunctions and judge-shopping that both parties have decried in recent years. For critics, it erodes constitutional protections and presents an 鈥渆xistential threat to the rule of law,鈥� as the dissenting justices put it. The court also partially green-lit, for now, a Trump policy that seeks to change who can be born American.

Also: In another major ruling, the justices held that a group of Maryland parents can opt their children out聽of a curriculum they believe violates their religious beliefs while their legal challenge to the school district continues. Staff writers Sophie Hills, Jackie Valley, and Henry Gass report.

Even if they鈥檙e often on time, most airlines eventually feel the brunt of disgruntled travelers鈥� complaints 鈥� about cramped seats they had to pay to select, about subpar food they no longer even get for free. Yukon鈥檚 half Indigenous-owned, homegrown airline is the pride of the Canadian territory. Part of why Yukoners love it is that they鈥檝e helped shape its growth. Our writer trekked to Whitehorse International Airport to take a look inside this local operation with a small-company feel.

Intrigue and touch of mystery in a West Virginia hotel bustling with Axis-power diplomats and journalists seeking safe passage home during World War II. Murder in the Fiji islands amid rumors about skulking German sailors during World War I. The first of posthumous duology by Mary Alice Monroe, set in the Low Country of the American South. Our roundup of the best new titles of June ranges from gastropods in peril to William F. Buckley Jr. in his prime.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law June 24 that could spell the end of internet freedom in Russia. On the face of it, the law would simply push a new state-controlled app that Russians would need to use for all public services. But it may eventually lead to what Mr. Putin calls 鈥渁 national messenger.鈥� That may then allow the government to ban all private internet communications, creating a digital iron curtain.

As the war in Ukraine continues to go badly for Mr. Putin, he increasingly seeks to restrict independent news of the conflict, especially news of high troop losses. Last year, he throttled access to YouTube after already banning Facebook, Instagram, and X. With the new platform, he may soon block Russia鈥檚 leading messaging services, WhatsApp and Telegram. The new app, which may be called Max, will be preinstalled on all new smartphones and tablets sold in Russia starting in September.

Such a censorship tactic, similar to that used in China, stands in stark contrast to freedom of speech and media in Ukraine. When the war started in 2022, the government in Kyiv consolidated television coverage to control information about the war. But Ukrainians have since soured on this source and turned to independent news outlets. According to a 2024 survey conducted by the Inmind Agency, 84% of Ukrainians rely on news primarily through social media.

鈥淔or Ukrainians, freedom is more important than stability; for Russians, stability is more important than freedom. The war is all about this difference,鈥� wrote Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov in The Guardian this year.

鈥淥urs is a rare case in modern times of a country at war not imposing blanket censorship on the press or mass media. Political freedoms remain and Ukrainian culture is experiencing an active period of development as cultural figures realise that culture is a vital front in this war.鈥�

Many Russians have fought back against Mr. Putin鈥檚 attempt to force them to live in an information bubble of his design. 鈥淚nternet censorship has ... created a movement in the Russian civic sector, as well as among developers abroad, to create grassroots tech initiatives that would oppose the shutdowns and blocking,鈥� wrote Daria Dergacheva, a media specialist at the University of Bremen in Germany, in Global Voices.

In Ukraine, the war may be won as much by truth-telling as by weapons. 鈥淟ive not by lies,鈥� advised the late Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn a half-century ago.