🇺🇸 — One crucial swing vote was moderate Republican Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski, who only voted for the bill after receiving extra rural hospital funding and an exemption from stricter food stamp requirements for the state of Alaska for the next two years; she appears to have had a change of heart, as she has called on the House to vote NO on the bill to send it back to the Senate for further evaluation.

➡️ If she had voted no in the first place, the Big Beautiful Bill would have been defeated.

🇮🇱 — Channel 12 has criticised Israel's acceptance of a 60-day ceasefire, alleging that twenty thousand Hamas fighters remain and they will seize the opportunity to reorganize their forces.

🇮🇷 — US intelligence detected Iran's navy loading mines onto vessels presumably in preparation for a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz some time after Israel struck Iran on June 13, two US officials told Reuters.

➡️ It is not known exactly when the mines were loaded onto Iranian vessels, if Iran sincerely was making preparations to blockade the strait or if it was a ruse to intimidate Israel, or if the mines have since been unloaded from the vessels.

➡️ One US official claimed that the American strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities had successfully stopped Iran from carrying out the blockade, and Iran had been "significantly weakened".

🇺🇸 — The Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General has completed a misconduct investigation revealing that a FBI supervisory special agent had solicited prostitutes while working overseas in several countries and used a FBI-supplied mobile device to pay the prostitutes for sex, however for an unknown reason the Department of Justice has declined prosecution.

➡️ In the FBI, supervisory special agents are FBI agents that oversee teams of other special agents on the field.

🇺🇸💥 — Fire causes a major explosion at a fireworks warehouse in California on live TV.

🇱🇧😭📞🇱🇧 — Lebanese Foreign Minister:

Lebanon is not in a strong position to accept or reject diplomacy, it relies on military or economic ties, and both of them are not present. We still have friendships. The Americans love us, so we go and cry to them.

🇱🇧🇱🇧 — It appears that some Lebanese officials still adhere to the philosophy of Kataeb Party founder Pierre Gemayel, who claimed that “Lebanon is strong through its weakness” 50 years ago.

🇪🇬🇮🇱— The IDF intercepted a drone transporting rifles from Egypt to 'Israeli territory'.

The shipment included at least 9x “CQ-M331" Rifles.

🇹🇷🤝🇷🇺— A meeting has been held at Qamishli airport between the SDF and Russia to convince Russian forces to occupy American bases left by the international coalition to fight IS.

➡️The bases are located in Deir Ezzor, which suggests that the SDF is looking for military protection from rebels who seek to remove them from Syria, particularly in Deir Ezzor. As the Americans left, they are left naked and will not be able to fight a prolonged conflict in the region.

➡️The meeting was attended by the commander of the Deir Ezzor Military Council, and two tribal figures from Deir Ezzor governorate.

⚡️🔴🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - A field commander in the Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) Brigades has announced that it has carried out a "unique" complex operation in "AlHuda" of "Shuja'iyya", northern Gaza.

The Unit detonated a minefield upon the arrival of IDF Armored vehicles, forcing surrounding infantry rushing to enter nearby buildings "hysterically".

The buildings were then targeted using an ATGM followed by Thermobaric projectiles. The unit then proceeded to enter the buildings and engaged the units at point-blank range using rifles, killing and wounding them.

⚡️🔴🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - Yesterday, the Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) Brigades has announced detonating a "Sadmiyya" EFP upon an [unspecified] military vehicle nearby "Highway 5" of northern Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

⚡️🔴🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - On the 30th of June, the Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) Brigades announced destroying a "D9 Caterpillar" Bulldozer by detonating a "highly explosive barrel bomb" [EFP] in "Abasan AlKabira" of eastern Khan Yunis.

The group has announced a joint-operation with the AlQassam Brigades, destroying a "Merkava" Tank in "Abasan AlKabira" by detonating a "Thaqib" EFP towards its side-skirt.

🇺🇸 — Sean "Diddy" Combs was found guilty of prostitution, but was acquitted of the larger and more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketerring; both those charges could have given him life in prison, while the prostitution charges max him at 20 years in prison.

➡️ Attached photo is a reporter drawing Diddy's reaction to the verdict, where he prayed and cried tears of joy at the acquittal of the more serious charges, as his lawyer team and family celebrated.

🇺🇸 — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warns that after abolishing USAID, the Department of Government Efficiency may target the US Postal Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, or the US "national security agencies" next.

🇮🇱🤝🇷🇺 — Israeli Broadcasting Authority:

Secret high-level talks between Israel and Russia regarding the Iranian and Syrian files are taking place