US says it struck targets in Iran over ‘continued aggression’ against shipping

Strikes come after retaliatory attacks on Friday following a drone strike on cargo ship in strait of Hormuz

The US has struck multiple targets in Iran after strikes on Friday that were in response to a drone strike on a cargo ship a day earlier in the strait of Hormuz, US Central Command (Centcom) has confirmed.

Centcom said its strikes on Saturday were in “direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping”. The US strikes targeted “Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities”, Centcom said in a statement.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/us-iran-strikes

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Trump says he will nominate Lance Schroyer as next ICE director

Schroyer, whom Trump calls ‘a patriot’, led deportation campaign in Oklahoma under ICE-partnered program

Donald ​Trump said on ⁠Saturday ⁠that ​he ‌will ‌nominate ‌Lance Schroyer as ‌the next director of US ​Immigration ⁠and ​Customs ​Enforcement (ICE), succeeding David Venturella, who had been performing the duties of the director.

Trump said in a Truth Social post that Schroyer “has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma — A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine”.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/trump-nomination-ice-director-lance-schroyer

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Pete Buttigieg says family investigated over baseless child abuse allegation

Buttigieg calls anonymous tip ‘politically motivated’ and says separation from his kids was among his ‘darkest hours’

Pete Buttigieg, the former US transportation secretary, said on Friday an anonymous and baseless accusation of child abuse led child protective services to investigate his family.

In a Substack post published on Friday, Buttigieg described the incident – which resulted in him being separated from his four-year-old twins – as “among the darkest hours of my life” and likened the accusation to “swatting”, the practice of calling police with a false report of an emergency to trigger a law enforcement response.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/pete-buttigieg-cps-family-investigation-accusation

Crown estate makes more than £1bn profit for third year running

King Charles’s property management firm rakes in £1.2bn as it continues to benefit from offshore windfarm boom

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King Charles’s property management company has made more than £1bn for the third consecutive year thanks to the boom in offshore windfarms paid for through energy bills.

The crown estate, the royals’ portfolio of land and property, reported £1.2bn in profit for the last financial year, almost three times the amount it made three years ago. Two-thirds came from the offshore wind industry.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/25/crown-estate-1bn-profit-third-year-running-king-charles-offshore-windfarm-boom

Met gets extension to AI project with spy tech firm Palantir after mayor blocked deal

Sadiq Khan said procurement rules had been broken but allows police another 12 months to operate pilot in London

The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir while the force carries out a procurement process.

The development comes weeks after the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, blocked a £50m deal between the Met and the US company to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/24/met-gets-extension-to-ai-project-with-spy-tech-firm-palantir-after-mayor-blocked-deal