Donald Trump has declared the nuclear agreement with Iran null and void following an incident where Iranian forces allegedly fired upon oil tankers in the strategically significant Strait of Hormuz. He further mentioned that additional American military actions are scheduled for later tonight.

“In my view, the deal is finished. I have no intention of negotiating with them any longer,” Trump stated while attending a session at the NATO summit held in Turkey on Wednesday.

He criticized Iranian leaders sharply, labeling them as “scum” and “sick individuals,” asserting that they are governed by malicious and aggressive people.

The US Central Command announced that they have targeted over 80 locations in retaliation for the firing upon the tankers. In response, Iran launched attacks aiming at sites in Bahrain and Kuwait.

Later, Trump emphasized the end of any truce, indicating plans are underway for a new series of strikes against Iranian targets as Wednesday evening approaches.

‘We hit them very hard last night … probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give a little warning, we’re going to hit them hard tonight,’ the President said. The President added that he’s considering reinstating the blockade on Iran.

Oil prices surged overnight with global benchmark Brent crude hitting $78.39 per barrel – its highest price since June 19.

All three major US stock market indexes ticked down after Trump declared the MOU was over. Futures for the NASDAQ, Dow Jones and S&P 500 were all down roughly a point on Wednesday pre-market.

But Trump said his negotiators still believed that a peace agreement could be salvaged.

‘I’ll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate, they’re good people… but they have to come back to me,’ the President said. As for the Iranians, Trump added, ‘As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.’

CENTCOM said on Wednesday: ‘Forces completed a new round of offensive strikes against Iran, July 7, hitting over 80 targets with precision munitions as an immediate response to Iran’s latest attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

‘US forces struck Iranian air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats in and near the strait.’

The US identified the targeted vessels as: Marshall Islands-flagged M/T Al Rekayyat, Saudi Arabia-flagged M/T Wedyan, and Liberian-flagged M/T Cyprus Prosperity.

‘As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them. They’re liars,’ Trump said. ‘They’re cuckoo.’

The President said that he initially believed Iran would be peaceful during this week as the country is taking six days to mourn the death of their late leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by joint US-Israeli strikes on February 28.  

‘We said, ‘Go and do your funeral stuff,’ and instead of that, they start shooting rockets at ships,’ Trump remarked. 

 ‘Can you imagine they start shooting bombs, actually missiles at ships yesterday, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, couple of others,’ he added. 

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who was sitting next to Trump as he went off on Iran’s leadership, offered support for the latest round of strikes. 

‘I think what you did last night was absolutely necessary,’ Rutte told Trump. ‘It was a very strong response.’

Rutte has been working to mend the relationship between the White House and NATO following Trump’s repeated remarks about how the military alliance did not support US military forces in the early days of the war. 

The NATO leader told Trump that there were only ‘isolated cases’ of allied nations not wanting to offer their support to the US.  

‘I would say these are isolated cases,’ Rutte said, adding that 5,000 planes took off from European airports in support of Operation Epic Fury.’

‘Europe [is] one big platform of power projection for the United States,’ Rutte added. 

Hannah Dugan, a former judge from Wisconsin, faces sentencing in federal court this Wednesday after being found guilty of felony obstruction. Her case, which involved assisting a Mexican immigrant in eluding federal officers, became a notable point in the broader immigration crackdown carried out during former President Donald Trump’s administration.

Dugan, aged 67, was convicted by a jury on December 19 and now risks up to five years behind bars. Following the conviction, she resigned from her role as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks later, in the shadow of impeachment threats from Republican state legislators. Her judicial career spanned nine years.

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The case against Dugan was initiated by the Trump administration amid an intensified strategy by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants attending court hearings nationwide. Republicans have criticized Dugan as an activist judge, while her legal team argued that the administration aimed to “crush her” to enforce strict compliance with its immigration policies.

In response to Dugan’s conviction, Republican U.S. Representative Tom Tiffany, a staunch Trump supporter and gubernatorial candidate for Wisconsin, took to social media, calling for her imprisonment.

Ahead of the sentencing, Dugan’s legal representatives have chosen not to issue any comments. Although she refrained from testifying during her trial, they revealed that she will address the court on Wednesday, marking her first public statement concerning the case in over a year.

Prosecutors push for ‘serious sentence’

Dugan’s attorneys argued that as a judge she was immune from prosecution. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, who will hand down the sentence, has rejected attempts by Dugan to vacate her obstruction conviction.

Prosecutors argued in a sentencing memo filed last week that Dugan violated her oath as a judge and put both law enforcement and the public at risk.

“Judges are entrusted with tremendous discretion, but there is a line they cannot cross,” Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Frohling wrote. “The defendant crossed that line.”

Dugan’s attorneys argued she has been “punished enough,” including resigning as a judge and facing threats of violence. They argued in her sentencing memo that she should not be sentenced to any jail time besides the part of one day she already spent in federal custody.

Under federal sentencing guidelines, the presentence report calls for 15 to 21 months behind bars. The judge is not bound by those guidelines.

Prosecutors said the average sentence for obstruction cases is 16 months, but they did not recommend a sentence.

“This was a serious offense, and it warrants a correspondingly serious sentence,” Frohling wrote.

No matter what she is sentenced to, Dugan’s attorneys said they plan to file an appeal.

Dugan’s case was a first for Wisconsin

Dugan’s case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents. While convicting her of the felony obstruction charge, jurors found her not guilty of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.

On April 18, 2025, immigration officers went to the Milwaukee County courthouse after learning 31-year-old Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had reentered the country illegally and was scheduled to appear before Dugan for a hearing in a state battery case.

Dugan confronted agents outside her courtroom and directed them to the chief judge’s office because she told them their administrative warrant wasn’t sufficient grounds to arrest Flores-Ruiz.

After the agents left, she led Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents spotted Flores-Ruiz in the corridor, followed him outside and arrested him after a foot chase. A week later, FBI agents arrested Dugan in the courthouse, leading her outside in handcuffs.

Flores-Ruiz was deported in November.

A tumultuous Fourth of July block party in North Charleston, South Carolina spiraled into havoc when gunfire erupted, involving a machine gun and even a spear, culminating in an altercation with police officers. This chaos has now led to charges being filed against six individuals, which includes four juveniles, as disclosed by authorities.

Announcing these developments, the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD) revealed the charges against six people, identifying two adults implicated in the incident on July 4 within the Chicora-Cherokee community.

The charges against the juveniles are serious, with accusations including third-degree assault by mob, assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest, resisting arrest itself, possession of a machine gun, and breach of peace.

Due to their status as juveniles, the police have not released the identities of the young individuals involved.

Authorities also arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Mekhi Sincere Campbell, of North Charleston, who is charged with possession of a machine gun, and 18-year-old Sa’Mya Adriana Collette Weaver, who is charged with breach of peace and assault on a police officer while resisting arrest.

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Police said the investigation remains active, and additional arrests and charges are possible.

The confrontation unfolded after officers responded to a city-permitted neighborhood block party in the Chicora-Cherokee community at about 8:30 p.m. on July 4.

Earlier that day, police leadership met with event organizers to discuss traffic and parking plans to ensure emergency vehicles could safely access the area if needed.

Officers initially received reports of people firing fireworks toward passing vehicles before learning that several attendees had begun discharging firearms, according to police.

Authorities said officers repeatedly announced that the event had ended and instructed attendees to leave in an effort to de-escalate the situation.

Despite those efforts, multiple fights broke out and additional gunshots were fired, prompting officers to exit their patrol vehicles to separate those involved and restore order.

During the response, officers recovered multiple firearms, including what investigators described as a machine gun, as well as a makeshift spear.

Police said multiple officers were assaulted during the incident, with two female officers suffering minor injuries. Following the incident, the department said, “Attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable and those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Viral video from the scene shows a female officer attempting to detain a woman when several people rush in, pull the officer to the ground and begin striking her.

Another officer intervenes, deploying what appears to be a stun gun before helping restrain individuals involved in the attack.

Police have not said whether any of the recovered firearms were discharged during the incident or whether the makeshift spear was used in the assaults.

Authorities said no civilians reported injuries.

The North Charleston Police Department thanked members of the community who assisted officers during the violence, as well as responding agencies including the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, Charleston Police Department, Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Investigators continue to examine the shootings and other criminal activity connected to the incident.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the North Charleston Police Department through its CRIMEWATCH app.

A touch of luxury dilemmas.

British broadcaster Greg James was so skeptical of the invitation he received to attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding that he feared he had traveled from the UK to New York City on a wild goose chase.

On Wednesday, the voice behind the “BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show” shared with his audience that he had received the invite via a link in the dead of night on March 12.

“I immediately shut my phone off, thinking, ‘I can’t deal with something this outrageous right now,’” recalled the 40-year-old, admitting he kept the surprising news to himself for a week.

With no paper invitation to corroborate the digital one, James was convinced the online invite was nothing more than a hoax designed to fool him.

“Until [my wife, Bella Mackie, and I] were in, we thought we may have made a big trip here for nothing,” the DJ admitted. “I wasn’t sure until we got there. … There was a huge part us that was … like, ‘This could not be real. This could be a scam.’”

Swift, 36, verbally invited James to her wedding during an October 2025 interview on the heels of her engagement.

When James joked about Kelce, also 36, doing “a wrestling move” on him, the pop star replied, “He’s going to do that as soon as he sees you at our wedding. That’s gonna happen.”

James then asked whether he was “coming,” to which Swift confirmed, “Obviously.”

More than 1,000 guests attended Swift and Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding on Friday.

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Ashish Ferguson gave the first look at the couple’s digital invitations in an Instagram post over the weekend, with the forest-themed painting featuring a custom double “T” monogram and a watermark with the guest’s name.

“You’re invited,” it read. “July 3rd, 2026 Manhattan. Love, Taylor & Travis. One night only. Early evening. Black tie.”

James, whose invitation ultimately ended up being legit, “had the best night maybe ever” at the star-studded ceremony.

He called the food “plentiful” and “amazing,” adding, “It wasn’t a sit-down dinner, I’ll say that. There were multiple cakes … loads of cakes.”

“I did speak to Taylor and I spoke to Travis, but look, on a wedding you know the bride and groom are very busy, so imagine that, but the bride and groom are Taylor and Travis,” James continued. “They were just having a great time. They both looked amazing. They were on the dance floor, it was great.”

While he shared more information via Instagram, quipping that he has “changed [his] mind about destination weddings,” the radio personality was wary of saying so much that the bride “never speaks to [him] again.”

James explained, “It was a wedding and there’s lots of nice family things that they did, so I don’t want to speak about all that stuff.”

Wimbledon was given a regal touch this afternoon when the Queen stepped out with her younger sister, Annabel Elliot. They were in the company of the newlywed couple Peter and Harriet Phillips, adding to the day’s festive atmosphere.

At 78, Camilla dazzled in her vibrant summer attire, donning a striking cerulean Anna Valentine dress. This is the same eye-catching outfit she sported at Ascot races last month as she enjoyed the tennis action at SW19 on the championship’s 10th day.

The royal sisters uphold a cherished tradition of attending the tournament almost every year, securing prime spots in the Royal Box to watch the action unfold.

Dressed in a chic ivory ensemble that evoked classic tennis attire, 77-year-old Annabel accompanied her sister. Together, they were warmly welcomed by Deborah Jevans, Chair of The All England Lawn Tennis Club.

The King’s wife was in a joyful mood, sharing smiles as she met with past British tennis star Heather Watson, along with Ball Boy Zebedee and Ball Girl Aniya, both 15 years old.

She also spoke to Morag Ranford, who has spent 50 years working at Wimbledon in the press operations team, and Peter Dobson – who is this year retiring after 25 years of working as Safety Officer at the Championships.

Elsewhere, the Queen also met with Richard Gammage, CEO of City Harvest – a charity tackling food waste at this year’s sports event.

Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips, 48, meanwhile, was dapper in a light grey blazer and navy trousers, while his wife Harriet, 45, stunned in a £1,330 checked lime and blue ensemble from Emilia Wickstead.

It’s been a busy social calendar for the couple – who tied the knot in June – as they also joined the King and Queen for Ascot last month.

The pair held an ‘intimate’ ceremony in the Cotswolds, in front of the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family. 

Harriet looked resplendent in a white Emilia Wickstead gown and the Pragnell family tiara – and the pair were the picture of wedded bliss as they sealed their marriage with a kiss outside All Saints Church.

Harriet’s wedding train was held by her three bridesmaids, her daughter Georgina, 14, and Peter’s children, Isla, 14, and Savannah, 15, with former wife Autumn Kelly, who all looked elegant in floral garlands and matching white dresses from the same designer.

And last week, Tatler crowned them ‘the new royal couple to watch’.

It comes as yesterday, Camilla was out and about in East Sussex, as she visited Ashdown Forest near Hartfield to commemorate 100 years since the publication of the first Winnie the Pooh book in 1926.

Ashdown Forest was the inspiration for the original Hundred Acre Wood and former home of author, A. A. Milne.

The royal, who is Patron of the Royal Literary Fund, spoke with wellwishers and local school children for the event, as she was joined by Gyles Brandreth, who gave a reading.

Later, she was praised as a ‘real character’ and a ‘lovely lady’ after dropping in at a pub in Plumpton, nearby the area.

The 78-year-old visited The Half Moon Pub – which serves British classics and also doubles as a campsite – in the village where she grew up.

Camilla was raised at Plumpton’s The Laines, the seven-bedroom property she once described as ‘perfect in every way’.

‘Lovely to have Queen Camilla for lunch today,’ the Facebook post for the pub read, before a later comment added, ‘A real character and lovely to welcome her. Such a lovely lady!’

King Charles’s wife, dressed in a bottle green floral dress, was pictured smiling alongside two staff members.

Social media users took to the comments section to share their thoughts, with one writing: ‘Terrific! Home again!’

A second said: ‘I saw the helicopter in the front field of the college as I drove past; I wondered who it was. Congratulations, very cool.’

‘Got stopped by a police motorbike just before the pub and I thought in my head it must be the Queen,’ said another.

And today, Camilla was all smiles as she joined her sister – who she is known to share a close bond with – for Wimbledon.

In December 2024, the Queen’s sister was full of praise for her silbing and described her as the King’s ‘rock’ for a  BBC One royal documentary following Charles’s first year as monarch, Charles III: The Coronation Year.

Annabel, who acted as one of her sister’s two Ladies in Attendance on the day of the Coronation, added: ‘She is his rock, and I can’t actually emphasise that enough.

‘She’s somebody who is completely loyal and she isn’t somebody who has huge highs and lows.’

But she stressed that it wasn’t a one-sided relationship, explaining: ‘He brings to her everything. I’m not talking about all of this [she said, referring to Buckingham Palace], but… he has such a knowledge and interest in so many different things, which she wouldn’t really have been open to if she hadn’t met him.

‘They are yin and yang, really. They really are polar opposites. But I think it works brilliantly.’