Here are the stories shaping the day:
- Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for Iran to unconditionally surrender amid the regimeās aerial war with Israel.
- The Supreme Court upheld Tennesseeās ban on transgender procedures. Here are the five takeaways from the consequential ruling.
- Border Patrol did not release any illegal immigrants into the country in May, a āstaggering dropā from the more than 62,000 illegal immigrants whom Border Patrol was āforced to release along the southwest borderā during the same period in 2024, Customs and Border Protection said.
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