Date: June 25, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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From Denmark to data centers, Jim covered a lot of ground on the latest edition of the ‘Round-Up.’ Here’s a sample of the headlines:
–Double earthquake kills over 900 with thousands injured in Venezuela.
–Last Wednesday, the Senate held a second vote in as many days on a measure to end the war with Iran, this time with a different result.
–The U.S./Iran peace negotiations faced new turbulence yesterday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned commercial vessels against using routes outside Tehran’s approved passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
–Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran of the fantasy of imposing fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
–Iran’s clerical regime has sharply escalated executions of all political prisoners, using the gallows to warn a restless population that descent will not be tolerated.
–Iran’s judiciary announced that more than 3,000 citizens have been arrested in recent months on suspicion of cooperating with Israel.
–The U.S. military announced Wednesday that a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria killed a senior ISIS leader.
–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israeli troops would remain in a security zone in Southern Lebanon for as long as necessary.
–President Donald Trump praised President Erdogan of Turkey who he suggested could have entered the war on the side of Iran. Trump asked him to stay out and he did. Now it appears Trump’s in favor of a weapons sale to Turkey that would include F-35 stealth fighters and dozens of jet engines.
–Denmark is moving toward a possible nationwide ban on the Islamic call to prayer.
–Delegates at the United Auto Workers convention in Detroit voted on divesting from Israel, citing the war in Gaza.
–Podcaster Tucker Carlson does an “about-face” on Islamic violence and is highly critical of the foreign policy of President Trump.
–President Trump takes U.S. oil giants to task for not working to lower gas prices fast enough in the wake of the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.
–FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia warned that it’s only a matter of time before drones that can deploy explosives are used in terrorist attacks in the U.S.
–President Trump directed the federal government to build a powerful quantum computer for scientific research and ordered the intelligence agencies to protect government systems from cyber threats.
