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A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment. Trump rejected this assessment and the White House called it “flat-out wrong.”
Trump also announced that U.S. and Iranian officials will talk next week, giving rise to cautious hope for longer-term peace even as Tehran insists it will not give up its nuclear program.
Other news we’re following today:
- Trump wraps participation in NATO summit: NATO leaders agreed on a massive hike in defense spending to 5% of GDP after pressure from Trump, and expressed their “ironclad commitment” to come to each other’s aid if attacked. He cast the defense spending vote as a “big win” for the United States and the world and said the spending increase will add more than $1 trillion annually to “our common defense.”
- RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel announces inquiries into long-settled health norms: Pediatricians are voicing alarm after committee chairman Martin Kulldorff said he was appointing a work group to evaluate the “cumulative effect” of the children’s vaccine schedule. The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met for the first time Wednesday with a wholly new roster after the entire previous panel was dismissed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- California violated Title IX for including transgender girls in girls’ sports: The federal Education Department announced the finding Wednesday and proposed a resolution that would require California to bar transgender women from women’s sports and strip transgender athletes of records, titles and awards. If California rejects the proposal, the Education Department could move to terminate the state’s federal education funding.
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