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June 17, 2025 
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Good morning. We’re covering the Group of 7 summit and the fighting between Iran and Israel.
Plus: How A.I. is writing history.
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| Black smoke billowed from state television headquarters in Tehran after an Israeli strike yesterday. The fighting between Israel and Iran shows no signs of slowing down. Getty Images/Getty Images |
Another day of back-and-forth attacks
The fiercest confrontation in the history of the Israeli-Iranian conflict is now in its fifth day, with Israel still short of its goal of knocking out Iran’s nuclear development program. The strikes have shown how compromised and weak Iran’s forces have become.
Israel struck the headquarters of Iranian state television yesterday, after telling residents to evacuate parts of Tehran. A news anchor was speaking live on the air when an explosion shook the building. The screen filled with smoke and debris, and the sound of breaking glass and screams could be heard as the anchor hurried off. Watch the footage here.
Israel also struck the command center of the Quds Force, an elite covert arm of the military that largely runs Iran’s foreign operations, including training and arming proxy groups like Hezbollah. Earlier in the day, Iranian missiles struck several Israeli cities, killing at least eight people, Israeli officials said.
Here’s the latest, including maps showing the most recent strikes. Civilian casualties climbed on both sides, and experts believe that the fighting may last weeks.
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| President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain yesterday at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta. Kenny Holston/The New York Times |
Trump left the G7 summit early
President Trump left the Group of 7 summit in Canada a day ahead of schedule, apparently to deal with the conflict between Iran and Israel.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump was returning to Washington “because of what is going on in the Middle East.” Trump had refused to sign a joint G7 statement calling for de-escalation between Iran and Israel, but he later did so after the language was adjusted.
Israel has been pushing for the U.S. to enter the conflict by dropping so-called bunker-busting bombs, 30,000-pound weapons powerful enough to take out the deeply buried equipment at Iran’s major Fordo nuclear site. In the past, Trump has made clear his opposition both to American involvement in other countries’ wars and to a nuclear-armed Iran.
Analysis: If Trump agrees to bomb Fordo, my colleagues David Sanger and Jonathan Swan write, the U.S. will become a direct participant in just the kind of war he has repeatedly sworn to avoid.
More news from the summit:
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| A law enforcement officer in Green Isle, Minn., on Sunday, after Vance Boelter was captured nearby. Tim Gruber for The New York Times |
Man charged with shooting U.S. lawmakers appears in court
Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and wounding another lawmaker and his wife, appeared in federal court for the first time yesterday. The authorities said he had planned to “inflict fear” in a wider killing spree aimed at Democratic politicians.
The suspect, who was captured late Sunday after what officials called the largest manhunt in the Midwestern state’s history, has already been charged by state prosecutors with two counts of second-degree murder. He will face federal murder charges, which could result in the death penalty.
Quotable: “This was a political assassination, which is not a word we use very often in the United States,” Joseph Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, said.
Other U.S. news:
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| Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
- Ukraine: The government approved the first steps to allow private investors to mine one of the country’s largest fields of lithium. It would be the first project greenlit under a deal with the U.S. that was signed in April, above.
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Business & Technology
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| Kyle Ross/Imagn, via Reuters |
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| Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times |
Eight Mennonite families, members of a Christian sect who largely reject new technology, have begun cultivating nearly 2,000 acres in the African nation of Angola in a deal with a diamond mining company.
The Mennonites hope to invite more members from countries like Mexico to join. But some Angolans worry that the new arrivals are the latest outsiders to move in with little regard for the people already living there.
Lives lived: Leonard Lauder, who helped build an international cosmetics business with his mother, Estée Lauder, died at 92.
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| Ryan James Caruthers for The New York Times |
- Javier Bardem: The Oscar-winning actor, who stars in “F1: The Movie,” is a deep feeler, bringing a well of emotion to his roles.
- Million-dollar dinosaurs: Sotheby’s auction of a Ceratosaurus specimen, valued at up to $6 million, has paleontologists worried.
- A surprising homecoming: After receiving Irish citizenship, Kathleen Spangler bought three raffle tickets for a cottage in Ireland. Six months later, she won the house.
- Is camo cool?: Our chief fashion critic considers
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