Playing in the shadow of Toronto鈥檚 iconic CN Tower, and in front of a sea of red 鈥淐a-na-da!鈥� chanting fans that included hockey star Connor McDavid and actor Ryan Reynolds, Larin converted Promise David鈥檚 pass a mere two minutes after entering the game.

The goal was only the second in World Cup play scored by Canada after the team lost all three of its games at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and again four years ago at Qatar.

Injury fill-in Jovo Lukic headed in a corner kick in the 21st minute for Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is making its second World Cup appearance after failing to advance out of group play in 2014.

Starting in place of Edin Dzeko (shoulder) and Haris Tabakovic (undisclosed), Lukic was in a ideal position to cap a set piece with captain Sead Kolasinac flicking along a header off Ivan Basic鈥檚 corner kick. The goal was Lukic鈥檚 first in international play and coming in the 27-year-old attacker鈥檚 fourth international appearance.

Despite giving up the lead, the small Balkan nation of about 3 million people keeps coming up big on the international stage 鈥� including eliminating four-time champion Italy in the European playoffs.

Before Larin鈥檚 goal, Canada鈥檚 best scoring chance came in the 54th minute when captain Stephen Eustaquio fed the ball to Richie Laryea in front of a wide-open net. The ball deflected off Kolasinac鈥檚 foot and hit the crossbar.

Canada was playing without Alphonso Davies (hamstring), who scored the nation鈥檚 first World Cup goal four years ago in Qatar.

Canada now shifts to Vancouver for its final two group games, against Qatar on June 18 and Switzerland on June 24.

The Bosnians also head west, with games against Switzerland on June 18 in Los Angeles and Qatar on June 24 in Seattle.

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The move puts at risk almost $200 million that LA area service providers count on to help California鈥檚 largest homeless population.

In a Thursday to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused the LA agency of fraud, while also blaming it for failing to decrease homelessness. The agency failed to record when people left their motel housing, misused government money by using it to pay for services provided under another contract and could not provide documents to prove the existence of homes it was responsible for, according to HUD. The LA agency is suspended from participating in federal funding competitions until HUD鈥檚 Office of Inspector General completes its investigation.

鈥淭axpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve,鈥� HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a .

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is a joint city-count agency that has spearheaded the LA-area鈥檚 fight against homelessness since the 1990s. It has faced a recently, resulting even in local officials pulling their confidence 鈥� and their money 鈥� from the agency. After two critical audits found the Homeless Services Authority wasn鈥檛 properly tracking its spending or outcomes, the LA County Board of Supervisors withdrew its money and moved it to a newly created county agency. The head of the beleaguered Homeless Services Authority, who had been criticized for with a nonprofit tied to her husband, resigned. In April, the authority 284 people.

But despite that turmoil, the Homeless Services Authority is still officially the LA region鈥檚 lead homelessness agency, and it receives federal homelessness funding on behalf of the city, county and nonprofit service providers.

Last year, the authority received nearly in federal funds through the Continuum of Care program 鈥� the largest source of federal homelessness funding.

Blocking that funding could jeopardize the work the authority has already done to fight homelessness by putting thousands of formerly homeless people back on the street, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said in a statement.

鈥淭his appears to be a blatant attempt to pull yet more resources from Los Angeles, a city they have targeted time and again, when it is clear that LAHSA has either corrected or is in the process of correcting nearly all of the issues raised,鈥� spokesperson Ahmad Chapman said in a statement

The authority is fixing its internal controls, modernizing its financial system and doing a better job tracking its work, Chapman said. Its immediate priority is 鈥渢o explore all available options鈥� to ensure federal funds keep coming to LA.

LA Mayor Karen Bass said that while she shares HUD鈥檚 concerns about the homeless authority, threatening its funding does nothing to house people.

鈥淯ltimately people will lose their lives,鈥� she said in a statement. 鈥淲e urge HUD to work with the City of Los Angeles to provide the necessary funding to reduce homelessness.鈥�

Homelessness actually started improving recently in LA County, with the number of unhoused people in 2024 and 2025, according to the point-in-time count. As of last year, there were an estimated 72,000 unhoused people in the county.

Even so, the Trump administration has been attempting to overhaul the way LA and other places across California address homelessness. The administration wants to move funds from permanent housing into temporary shelters and prioritize housing programs that require sobriety.

Earlier this month, HUD opened this year鈥檚 for federal homelessness funding via the Continuum of Care program, which laid out these changes. The National Alliance to End Homelessness could cost California nearly $238 million in funding for permanent housing, which could mean nearly 15,000 people would lose their homes.

California over a prior attempt by the Trump administration to make similar changes. That case is still ongoing.

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The paniolo, gathered in the facility鈥檚 break room on a recent Wednesday, would typically process 15 to 20 locally raised cattle per month to help feed the community on this rural island of roughly 7,000 residents.

Now, these Hawaiian cowboys are only handling one or two, mostly coming in from other islands, due to Moloka驶i鈥檚 storied history with bovine tuberculosis.

Moloka鈥榠 hasn鈥檛 had a single confirmed case of cattle with the respiratory disease since 2021 but state and federal agriculture authorities have continued to enforce a quarantine on the island鈥檚 cattle operations. Livelihoods, legacies and lifestyles are on the line, ranchers say, with broad economic, cultural and environmental implications.

Without a plan of how to get out from under the quarantine, the cattlemen say, Moloka驶i鈥檚 almost 200-year-old ranching tradition will die.

鈥淲e鈥檙e kind of at a breaking point,鈥� said MP Kamakana, vice president of the Moloka驶i Homestead Livestock Association.

Nine livestock operations have shared their demands of the government in an open letter, listing eight requirements needed to help keep the industry alive. These include: better communication and planning; testing wildlife for tuberculosis, which many have blamed for transmitting the disease; and an end to culling entire herds when cases are found.

They intend to stop testing their cattle for tuberculosis after years of negative tests, a move that could be catastrophic for the entire state鈥檚 more than $75 million cattle industry because it would compromise its tuberculosis-free status. Without that status, shipping cattle to the mainland 鈥� key to the industry鈥檚 profitability 鈥� would become virtually impossible.

Several Moloka驶i ranchers are already shuttering their operations and all of the ranches are effectively dormant. The island鈥檚 bovine population, over 10,000 in the 1980s, currently stands at about 220.

鈥淲ithin months, that number will effectively be zero if the bTB quarantine and annual testing mandate remain in place,鈥� their letter reads.

The testing is grueling and the quarantine has cut key sources of income, including making shipping animals to mainland feed lots unaffordable even at a moment when beef prices are at an all-time high. Most of all, especially for the older paniolo, the loss of ranching means stealing future opportunities from the proudly rural island鈥檚 future generations.

State agriculture officials say they鈥檙e in a bind, trying to find a solution to Moloka驶i鈥檚 predicament while also satisfying national regulations, still at the whim of the federal government鈥檚 demands four years after the quarantines were imposed on the island.

鈥淎t the end of the day, we鈥檝e got to make money, get paid. We cannot continue to keep dishing out money,鈥� Kamakana said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 no end game to it. So there鈥檚 no way of planning.鈥�

鈥業 Wear Slippers Now鈥�

At least three generations of paniolo sat on old office chairs, coolers and upturned buckets in the slaughterhouse, taking turns to vent. Between them, they share centuries of experience.

All carry lessons from their livestock-working forebears, coming from the island鈥檚 long lineage of paniolo, some as fifth-generation ranchers. Some wear aloha shirts, cowboy hats and hardy footwear of some kind, cowboy boots included.

They鈥檝e all dealt with this disease before 鈥� just not under the current regulatory strictures.

Bovine tuberculosis has killed, or been the reason for killing, tens of thousands of cattle across Hawai鈥榠 for more than 100 years. None of the islands have had such a turbulent history with the disease as Moloka驶i.

James 鈥淯ncle Jimmy鈥� Duvauchelle worked for the 55,000-acre Moloka鈥榠 Ranch for more than 60 years and witnessed how tuberculosis changed the landscape. Sitting in the slaughterhouse, he recalled how it led to the 1985 government-ordered eradication of almost 10,000 cattle on the island, when the disease was found in 2% of the population. The islandwide cull started to change the landscape, he said, and not for the better.

The paniolo community had mixed feelings, many balking at the depopulation order. But it was 鈥渁 favor to the island of Moloka驶i,鈥� then-U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian Euclid 鈥淏uck鈥� Sharman said at the time, when the island was also recovering from three years of extreme drought.

State veterinarian Calvin Lum told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin it was a 鈥渂oon鈥� but 鈥渘ot a program to bail out Moloka驶i Ranch.鈥� The slaughter went ahead and ranchers were compensated a total of about $2.2 million, with the lion鈥檚 share going to Moloka驶i Ranch. The community started to rebuild its cattle population one year later.

Moloka驶i Ranch鈥檚 cattle operations never fully recovered though, dying out in 2008, and the remnants of the property 鈥� including a rundown lodge, golf course and restaurant 鈥� have been for years. In fact, the entire industry started to decline.

鈥淎fter all that we did to try to survive that stand down, it seems we鈥檙e still coming up with more problems,鈥� the 82-year-old Paniolo Hall of Famer told Civil Beat.

The ranchers attribute many of the island鈥檚 ills to the slow death of ranching.

By the time the 2021 tuberculosis cases were detected, there were about a dozen ranches still operating 鈥� down from 40 in the 1980s.

鈥淢oloka驶i guys was the only ones that took care of the 驶膩ina before they took care of the cattle. They did what true paniolo do,鈥� lifetime paniolo Philip 鈥淯ncle Mango鈥� Stephens said. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 take care of the dirt, you鈥檙e going to get bad grass; you get bad grass, the cattle eats bad grass and people get bad meat. You eat bad meat, you鈥檙e going to have bad health. It was that simple.鈥�

No matter people鈥檚 feelings about the mass slaughter back then, third-generation rancher Russell DeCoite said they were at least provided clear instructions on how to recover: One year without cattle on the island, then rebuild.

He and his 26-year-old son Dylan DeCoite started winnowing his V8 Ranch herd of 50 in 2024, sending their bulls to slaughter. Then the cows. His family now has just five, on 500 acres, which Russell Decoite laments as a loss of income and tradition.

鈥淲hat they鈥檙e doing to us this time 鈥� we鈥檙e not surviving. The restrictions they鈥檙e putting on us are unbelievable鈥� Killing us,鈥� the father said. 鈥淚 wear slippers now.鈥�

鈥楴ot Where They Want To Be鈥�

Moloka驶i cattle have been subject to annual testing since 2021, some for decades long. The tests are a grueling, labor intensive, expensive and risky process. It鈥檚 also not definitive.

It takes 72 hours for the cattle to be tested. Ranchers must corral the animals, often driving several acres across their land, before corralling them. They separate the cows from the calves, push them through a chute and inject them with shots. After three days, the animals must run through the chute again for the results to be read. The process is extremely stressful for cattle.

鈥淚 had to put down one animal. She was just down in the chute. Overheated,鈥� Kamakana said.

For the livestock association, every animal is incredibly important 鈥� it feeds the association members and their communities. There鈥檚 just 120 cattle left now, on 3,800 acres, after restrictions on export cut them down from their typically 350-strong herd.

If an animal is deemed to be 鈥渁 reactor鈥� to the first shot, then they face another 72 hours in the pen, going through the tight chute up to four times throughout the annual process.

Even when reactors have been found and confirmed, during autopsies there have proven to be false positives, according to Jack Spruance of Papohaku Farm, who is also the Moloka驶i slaughterhouse co-manager.

Ranches on the island鈥檚 east side have been subject to these tests for even longer, since 1999. Other ranchers have lost far more. Kainalu Ranch lost four, including a bull, in 2019. Charles Miguel Jr. of Pu鈥檜 O H艒k奴 Ranch lost four cows in his last test period.

鈥淎 lot of our cows are starting to catch on,鈥� Kamakana said. 鈥淭hey don鈥檛 want to be in the pen no more. You stress an animal long enough, they鈥檒l learn that鈥檚 not where they want to be.鈥�

Kamakana and other ranchers want this testing process to stop as part of their list of requests to the state. The testing method is already dated, so many believe Moloka驶i should be subject to post-mortem testing, like the rest of the islands. They also find it hard to believe there鈥檚 not a better way.

Indeed, there have been prototypes for vaccinations. One is currently in trials in in , England and Wales, with encouraging results.

Sen. Tim Richards of the Big Island, a rancher and veterinarian, said he was trying to find a vaccine with the USDA a few years ago. Everything fell apart when the Trump administration took over and staff were slashed.

Something needs to be done to improve testing, Richards said, especially given the possibility of false negatives. Still, he said, 鈥淗as the (state) Department of Agriculture done all that it could have done? I would say no.鈥�

鈥楾he Sacrificial Cow鈥�

When the most recent response to bovine tuberculosis occurred in 2021 it followed a year in which six herds on Moloka驶i were found infected 鈥� the most since the late 1970s. The state implemented a quarantine the next year that remains in effect today.

Some ranchers understood the need because authorities did not know the scope of the outbreak; others were skeptical about the new requirements. All are now struggling.

The mandates that livestock 鈥� not including horses 鈥� must not move on or off the island, live or dead, without permits. Nor can they move among ranches, which is especially difficult on an island where drought conditions often mean ranchers need to move their animals to greener pastures.

The state later signed an 11-page memorandum with the U.S Department of Agriculture further formalizing the quarantine in 2024, which helped the state maintain its tuberculosis-free status. Moloka驶i鈥檚 paniolo were not consulted in that process, which allowed non-Moloka鈥檌 ranchers to send their cattle to any ranches or feed lots on the mainland.

鈥淚t鈥檚 almost as if Moloka驶i has become the sacrificial cow鈥� for the state鈥檚 industry, Congresswoman Jill Tokuda said, adding that it was unfair that Moloka驶i ranchers weren鈥檛 party to the inter-agency agreement.

The USDA agreement requires the state Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to ensure compliance on annual live herd testing. Among other stipulations is surveying the island鈥檚 wild axis deer population, feral swine and mongoose 鈥� all known carriers and transmitters of the virus. Wildlife, however, has not been tested.

The agreement requires the state to explore wildlife exclusion fences for pastures too. A deer fence costs about $35 a foot, an already unaffordable expense, said Kainalu Ranch鈥檚 Stephanie Dunbar-Co. Her family ranch has tested for 25 years and has never had a positive case of tuberculosis.

The nine paniolo and livestock operations that signed the open letter to the state and federal governments met with state and federal officials in early May, for the first time in three years. It then became clear, the ranchers say, that neither had a plan for how the cattlemen could pull themselves out of their quarantine status.

Moloka驶i Livestock Cooperative, the island鈥檚 slaughterhouse, has pivoted its operations during the bTB crisis. About 90% of the operation鈥檚 product has come from other islands, depending on small batch butchery and one-off processing jobs to keep operations afloat.

The slaughterhouse will struggle to survive without local cattle to process 鈥� the reason it was built. In the meantime, some ranchers have been trying to figure out how grass-fed operations might work on the island, though that model could reduce profits substantially. Ultimately, at least for rancher and cooperative co-manager Spruance, the slaughterhouse should support food security 鈥� which the state .

Some Moloka驶i ranchers say if any other island鈥檚 ranching industry faced this issue, the Hawai驶i Cattlemen鈥檚 Council and the state would have pushed far harder to solve it.

The cattlemen鈥檚 council, which represents the industry at the Legislature, supported a that allocated $500,000 to Moloka驶i for a veterinarian to help with the issue. No one has taken the job despite being advertised, and ranchers haven鈥檛 seen a difference.

鈥淭hey haven鈥檛 reevaluated how widespread this outbreak was yet. There鈥檚 multiple examples of this, but to me that so clearly shows that we鈥檙e not a priority to these guys. We don鈥檛 matter,鈥� Dunbar-Co said. 鈥淣obody from Moloka鈥檌 wants to be sitting here, you know, ruffling feathers, getting in the newspaper. But we鈥檙e backed into a corner.鈥�

The Last Ace

The state agriculture department is limited by the science, logistics and USDA鈥檚 bovine tuberculosis regulations, State Veterinarian Isaac Maeda said, which has left them largely unable to make a finite plan with a certain timeline.

Essentially, the state has to work within the federal framework to find a solution to the island-specific problem. That is complicated further by the federal government鈥檚 desire to revise their own regulatory framework for bovine tuberculosis to become more nuanced than state-level bans.

The state and federal government are already effectively putting more nuance districts in place, by granting bTB-free status to the rest of Hawai驶i, which is cold comfort for the Moloka驶i paniolo. They are calling on authorities for something more specific: rather than whole-island quarantine when cases arise, quarantine districts within the 260-square-mile island. And they don鈥檛 want entire herds slaughtered but individual, infected animals instead.

Maeda said the state has to continue working on a trial-and-error basis within the federal system to maintain the state鈥檚 tuberculosis-free status. Maeda said the agriculture department attempted to have post-mortem testing done in combination with whole herd testing, to effectively reduce the annual burden of live testing.

That idea fell flat, he said, because the USDA was not convinced the island slaughtered enough animals to get a decent sample size.

鈥淲e come up with methods and ideas,鈥� Maeda said, 鈥減resent it to the USDA and see if it鈥檚 something that can fly.鈥�

The USDA did not respond to Civil Beat鈥檚 requests for comment. But, according to a 2025 report, the state is satisfying its end of the agreement. The August report recommended the state make a plan to monitor swine and wildlife, as well as to enroll non-commercial herds of cattle in annual testing.

Tokuda, the congresswoman, says it鈥檚 still unclear who鈥檚 actually in charge in this situation, as neither the federal or state governments are taking responsibility. She鈥檚 trying to find out.

The fastest resolution, in Maeda鈥檚 opinion, is to pursue relationships with specific states that are beginning to open up to the idea of taking cattle from Moloka驶i due to an increase in another disease, New World screwworm, which is starting to devastate herds on the mainland.

So long as the state agency can prove that wildlife-livestock mingling is mitigated sufficiently and the Moloka驶i ranchers are being as diligent as possible, he believes Texas and Oklahoma might take the island鈥檚 cattle. That would mean Moloka驶i calves could be barged to Honolulu, then flown directly to the southern cowboy states, he said, where they would be absorbed into the mainland鈥檚 cattle industry like the rest of Hawai驶i鈥檚 mainland-bound calves.

Local ranchers are not satisfied with the proposed Texas and Oklahoma programs, because commercial complexities increase risk to Moloka驶i ranchers and don鈥檛 yield a fair market price. So, they鈥檙e still in what some of them term 鈥渁 death spiral.鈥�

With no timeline, exit strategy or a way to remove their association with tuberculosis, they cannot indemnify their animals under state or federal programs.

Sen. Lynn DeCoite of Moloka鈥榠 has regularly shown her disapproval of the state agency as the island鈥檚 ranchers鈥� sole voice at the State Capitol. She is one of them, running the now-dormant V8 Ranch with Russell DeCoite, her husband.

The paniolo have one final card they can play: They could stop testing their animals entirely.

If they do, it would put the entire state鈥檚 ranching industry at peril, though Kainalu Ranch鈥檚 Kip Dunbar believes 鈥渋t鈥檚 the last ace we have.鈥�

It鈥檚 an idea that strikes a chord with the entire cattle industry. That鈥檚 because Hawai驶i produces about 9% of the beef its residents eat, and the lion鈥檚 share of the approximately 45,000 calves produced each year that are destined for the mainland.

The cattlemen鈥檚 council is now in talks with the island鈥檚 ranchers to better understand the complexities of their situation, managing director Nicole Galase said. The council has offered to support the cost of shipping animals to the mainland under the state-suggested model, as well as helping advocate for the ranchers in Washington, D.C. and Honolulu.

27 Years Of Testing With Few Results

What remained of the Kainalu Ranch鈥檚 herd was huddled at the top of the pasture in the midday sun earlier this month: 60 calves and cows finding shade in a stand of trees. The rest of its sloped pastures were empty, a sign of the times.

鈥淯nless there is a real change of heart by the state in really helping us move forward,鈥� 82-year-old Dunbar said, as he drove his ATV across the pasture. 鈥淚鈥檓 not sure I鈥檓 going to continue. It鈥檚 really make or break for us.鈥�

He doesn鈥檛 like the idea of doing it, none of the ranchers do, but halting animal testing feels like it might be the only way to make the state, feds and rest of the industry listen. If they abide by the ranchers鈥� demands, his children 鈥� including daughter Stephanie Dunbar-Co 鈥� and his grandchildren could continue the legacy his great-uncle and great-aunt started 116 years ago.

Dunbar has been testing his cattle annually since 1999, when East Moloka驶i was first told it would need annual proof of disease-free status before the rest of the island joined in 2021. They鈥檝e never tested positive for tuberculosis.

Dunbar, a former banker and third-generation rancher, has since planted experimental grasses to prevent runoff, invested more than $100,000 into deer-proofing parts of the ranch to preserve pasture, diversified with rental properties and secured a conservation easement.

But even with those investments, not being able to sell his calves off island, or even move them around the island to greener pastures, will kill the ranch.

Within a few hours, sitting in the slaughterhouse, Dunbar told his peers the state needs to stop keeping them in the dark.

鈥淭hey can continue to treat us like mushrooms,鈥� he said. 鈥淥r they can step up to the plate and be accountable.鈥�

But it鈥檚 urgent, a matter of months before ranches start following dormant V8 Ranch鈥檚 lead.

At 26, fourth-generation rancher Dylan DeCoite just wants to raise cattle on his family鈥檚 ranch, in the way he was taught by his father and grandfather.

But this year, as the Moloka驶i faces yet another year of quarantine, he feels like he鈥檚 part of a dying breed of aspiring ranchers. He said he鈥檚 called agricultural officials only to receive platitudes, part of a war of attrition he believes is being waged against the small ranching community.

The community鈥檚 letter to the state and feds may spur some action, at least to include them into considerations for the memorandum between agencies when it is renewed in November.

If any of their demands are satisfied, and even if it takes the decade he predicts it would take to rebuild V8 Ranch, Dylan DeCoite and his father may one day replace their new slippers and don their cowboy boots again.

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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the U.S. and Iran have reached a 鈥渇inal, agreed upon text.鈥� He said Pakistan, which has taken the lead in mediation efforts, was working with the warring countries on next steps.

鈥淧eace has never been this close as it is now,鈥� Sharif said in a post on X.

The apparent breakthrough in negotiations comes after Iran with the U.S. and Israel over three days this week, threatening to return the Middle East to full-scale war.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday an agreement 鈥渉as never been closer鈥� in a post on X. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said multiple times in recent weeks the countries are on the cusp of a deal, shared Araghchi’s post on his own social media.

The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 has rattled the Middle East and virtually shut down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 7.

Iranian official says nuclear details will follow an agreement to end the war

Araghchi told Iranian state TV on Friday that both sides were working toward signing an initial agreement declaring an end to the war 鈥渙n all fronts, including Lebanon.鈥�

Israel has been fighting the Iranian-allied militia Hezbollah in Lebanon since early March. Israel is not a party to the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, and its leaders have said they don鈥檛 plan to withdraw from Lebanon.

Araghchi said terms dealing with Iran鈥檚 nuclear program would be finalized in the 60 days after the initial agreement is signed. He said the parties could agree to extend that period.

Iran鈥檚 nuclear program has been a key point of division. The U.S. and Israel fear it could lead to an atomic weapon 鈥� a main reason their leaders cited for going to war. Tehran has insisted its nuclear efforts are for peaceful purposes.

A senior U.S. administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said Friday that the emerging agreement would begin the process of destroying or removing Tehran鈥檚 highly enriched uranium.

The official said the 60-day period after both sides sign the deal would be used to work out technical details for removing Iran鈥檚 enriched uranium. The official did not detail who the U.S. envisions taking charge of removing the uranium, which is believed to entombed under three nuclear sites that were battered by U.S. strikes last year.

Also critical is Iran鈥檚 effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and natural gas. Disruption of transit through the strait has crimped global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made more expensive well beyond the region.

The U.S. official said the emerging agreement includes provisions for reopening the strait.

Araghchi said Iran wants a deal that allows Tehran to charge ships 鈥渇or services rendered鈥� when they transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has imposed a toll system during the war, which the U.S. and other nations say violates international law.

鈥淭here will be costs involved,鈥� Araghchi said, 鈥渁nd those costs must be paid.鈥�

Officials say a deal could be signed in the coming days

Three regional officials said the emerging deal is also expected to include the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran and the release of frozen Iranian assets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

They said they expect a signing ceremony for the agreement in the coming days after officials in Washington and Tehran approve it.

Trump on Thursday in the negotiations, just hours after he threatened to escalate attacks and seize Iran鈥檚 oil industry.

has said Israel is not a party to the deal being negotiated. He said in a statement Friday that he and Trump were in 鈥渇ull agreement鈥� that Iran must not have nuclear weapons.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a separate statement that Israel also expects Trump to uphold key Israeli interests, including weakening Iran’s missile program and proxy network.

Katz warned that Israel could still act independently toward Iran and that the country would not pull out of the zones it is occupying in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, nor would it withdraw from the northern refugee camps of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The deal was largely being brokered by Pakistan, led by its army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the regional officials said, with backing from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar.

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Price reported from Washington and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Associated Press journalists Sahar Ameri in Berlin, Julia Frankel in Jerusalem, and Collin Binkley and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed.

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Cheng Li-wun told reporters during that the Kuomintang Party she chairs shares common ground with President Donald Trump, who said after that he was not 鈥渓ooking to have somebody go independent鈥� or fight a war thousands of miles away.

鈥淚 think our basic stances are the same 鈥� that is peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and to avoid any unnecessary war,鈥� Cheng said after a three-day visit to the nation’s capital, where she met American lawmakers and scholars.

Cheng said she also met Trump administration representatives but would not offer more information.

The visit, as part of her two-week trip to the U.S. to promote her party’s approach to the Taiwan Strait, has come at a time of rising uncertainty in U.S.-Taiwan relations. Chinese leader Xi Jinping if the U.S. does not properly handle the issue of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing has vowed to seize by force if necessary to achieve what it considers reunification.

Congress has pledged to better arm Taiwan, giving preliminary approval to a $14 billion arms sales package. The Trump administration .

Cheng, who in April and whose party agrees that both sides of the strait belong to the same Chinese nation, has been promoting dialogue with Beijing. She said it is necessary for peace, stability and prosperity in the region.

Beijing has cut off official contact with Taipei’s government for the past decade, because Taiwan鈥檚 ruling party does not recognize the 鈥淥ne China鈥� principle.

鈥淭o initiate the dialogue cross-strait with Xi Jinping doesn鈥檛 mean that we will give up the deterrence strength in Taiwan, and, of course, it doesn鈥檛 mean that we will compromise or give up our democracy and freedom,鈥� Cheng said, dismissing accusations that she was doing Beijing’s bidding.

Asked about her meeting with Xi, Cheng described the Chinese leader as 鈥渧ery gentle and very nice and very real鈥� and said she believed Xi wanted to address the Taiwan issue 鈥渨ith peaceful means and avoid war.鈥�

But the Taiwanese government has pointed out Beijing鈥檚 increasingly bellicose behavior in the Taiwan Strait, including regular military operations around Taiwan in the past several years.

While the U.S. recognizes Beijing’s position that Taiwan is part of China, it opposes any use of force in altering the status quo. It also is obligated by a U. S. law to provide the island with sufficient hardware to deter any invasion. In December, the Trump administration approved an $11 billion arms sales package to Taiwan.

Trump has indicated that he may still even after China has publicly urged him not to do so.

Washington has been disappointed that Taiwan鈥檚 opposition-controlled legislature last month passed a $25 billion special defense budget to fund major U.S. arms purchases, down from the original $40 billion .

On Friday, Cheng said her party objected to the initial proposal because it couldn’t write a 鈥渂lank check鈥� for a proposal lacking details but put forward an interim measure to prioritize purchases of U.S. weapons.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, met Cheng on Thursday and wrote on social media that Cheng’s party needs to join with Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party to 鈥渇inish the defense budget and support the Alaska LNG project.鈥�

Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., met her Wednesday and said in a statement that the opposition party’s 鈥渞esistance to a robust defense budget raises concerns for me that the party is drifting closer” to the ruling Chinese party and 鈥渨eakening deterrence.鈥�

Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., who met Cheng on Wednesday, said in a statement that he is willing to engage with leaders from all parties and pledged his commitment to 鈥渟upporting Taiwan’s sovereignty and expanding the U.S.-Taiwan relations.”

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These changes are part of the administration鈥檚 push to remove undocumented workers from the nation鈥檚 banking system without explicitly mandating that banks do so. In order to get banks to participate, the administration has framed these actions as a crackdown on fraud and crime, not explicitly about immigration.

鈥淭he information in your purview can help stop a cartel financier, disrupt a money laundering network, uncover labor exploitation, or protect taxpayers from fraud,鈥� Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in prepared remarks at a banking conference in Houston.

Bessent’s remarks and the Treasury Department’s new guidelines come from an executive order signed in May by Trump that requires banks to take a closer look at the citizenship of their customers as well as directs bank regulators and government departments to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans or credit cards. But that executive order did not include an explicit mandate that banks collect citizenship information, which the industry for months lobbied against.

Banks have long been able to share information about their customers with other banks under the Patriot Act program when they suspect money laundering or fraud, part of the post-9/11 effort to combat terrorism and other crimes.

Friday鈥檚 actions widened that system on two fronts. Banks can now share such information in real time and more freely.

Secondly, the Trump Administration is giving banks a wider variety of reasons to share information, which now include flags historically tied to immigration status. One example is a customer having an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), which are disproportionally used by undocumented immigrants when applying for work.

Bessent told bankers that the new guidance is simply part of what the banking system needs to do as part of their routine operations.

鈥淭he advisory does not ask banks to become immigration officers,鈥� Bessent said. 鈥淚t asks banks to do what they do best: know their customers, identify risk, recognize suspicious patterns, and report illicit activity when they see it.鈥�

Bankers have been wary about sharing customer information with the federal government as part of immigration enforcement. Bankers never collected citizenship information on their customers, so any effort to do so would require a massive effort by banks and significant amounts of paperwork.

Immigration advocates have previously said any order that would order banks to collect citizenship information would likely result in undocumented immigrants moving out of the financial system, increasing the number of 鈥渦nbanked鈥� individuals.

The White House has taken other measures to discourage undocumented workers from using the financial system. The Treasury last November announced that it would reclassify certain refundable tax credits as 鈥渇ederal public benefits,鈥� which bars some immigrant taxpayers from receiving them, even if they file and pay taxes and would otherwise qualify.

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The comments were made in response to speculation that the bullet fragment could exonerate defendant Tyler Robinson. Conjecture over the evidence in has fueled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that there might have been a second shooter or that his death was staged.

Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. The 23-year-old from southwestern Utah is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot in the neck while addressing a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. Robinson has not yet entered a plea.

Robinson鈥檚 attorneys accused prosecutors of going on a 鈥渕edia tour鈥� to discuss expert reports about the bullet fragment, violating the judge’s restrictions against speaking about the case outside court.

Prosecutors countered that they had a right to speak to the press to correct misinformation about a by ballistics experts. Those experts’ initial tests did not match the bullet fragment with a gun that investigators believe was used to kill Kirk.

In court filings, defense attorneys made public a federal agency’s failure to conclusively link the bullet fragment with the rifle. They said it appeared to be 鈥渆xculpatory evidence鈥� 鈥� information that tends to absolve a defendant of guilt 鈥� without noting that the finding was preliminary and that further testing was planned.

That spurred stories by some publications raising questions about the prosecution’s case: A March 30 headline in the U.K.-based Daily Mail reported that the bullet that killed Kirk 鈥渄id NOT match鈥� the rifle investigators say was used to kill Kirk.

Authorities have said DNA consistent with Robinson鈥檚 was found on the trigger of the rifle, the fired cartridge casing, two unfired cartridges and a towel used to wrap the rifle.

鈥淭he rules expressly allow lawyers to set the record straight,鈥� Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard wrote in a court filing.

Ballard argued Friday that he didn’t speak to the media about case specifics and only spoke generally about how ballistics testing can be inconclusive. He said his goal 鈥渨as to respond to the substantial undue prejudicial effect of the media stories.鈥�

Defense attorney Richard Novak disagreed, saying Ballard did not speak to the media using general terms and tried to 鈥渋nfluence public perception鈥� of the case.

鈥淲hat was going on here was an attempt to influence the jury pool,鈥� Novak argued.

State District Judge Tony Graf said he will issue his decision about the contempt allegation on June 22.

Earlier Friday, Graf declined a defense request to halt the proceedings while they appeal a in which the judge declined to bar cameras from the courtroom.

The ruling comes ahead of a key hearing scheduled to begin July 6, when prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial. That would mark the most significant presentation of evidence to date in the case, which has so far focused on matters of .

Before Friday’s hearing, the defense team pointed to another criminal case in which prosecutors were accused of contempt and suggested that one potential remedy would be to bar the state from seeking the death penalty.

While the judge in that earlier case disagreed that an order barring the death penalty was merited, Robinson鈥檚 attorneys noted that 鈥渢he court did not conclude that such a remedy was beyond its authority where the facts support it.鈥�

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Brown reported from Billings, Montana.

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First Half_1, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lukic, (Kolasinac), 21st minute.

Second Half_2, Canada, Larin, (David), 78th.

Goalies_Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikola Vasilj, Mladen Jurkas, Martin Zlomislic; Canada, Maxime Crepeau, Dayne St. Clair, Owen Goodman.

Yellow Cards_Johnston, Canada, 11th; Demirovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 45th; Lukic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 45th+1; De Fougerolles, Canada, 53rd; Katic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90th+3.

Referee_Facundo Tello Figueroa. Assistant Referees_Juan Pablo Belatti, Gabriel Alfredo Chade, Hernan Mastrangelo. 4th Official_Khalid Saleh Alturais.

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That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion-dollar mark was reserved for measures like the GDP (or ) of a handful of major economies 鈥� and, alone, the value of some of the biggest companies to ever trade on the stock market.

Musk’s new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich. Year after year, his former (although now very distant) billionaires club has reaped of members 鈥� from tech titans to celebrities. All the while, more and more people worldwide are their everyday bills. Many have decried the arrival of the first trillionaire as the latest and most alarming example of that wealth gap.

The number 鈥渙ne trillion鈥� is hard in itself for the human mind to comprehend. One trillion dollars is a thousand times greater than $1 billion. And a million times more than $1 million.

According , Musk鈥檚 net worth actually hit $1.1 trillion on Friday, in its market debut. Most of that money is in stock. Still, here are some ways to think about how far one trillion could go.

To the moon and back, over 200 times

Thinking about what $1 trillion looks like is almost as the interplanetary 鈥� and at this point, still far from realized 鈥� goals .

In terms of physical cash, one trillion U.S. dollar bills laid end to end would stretch nearly 97 million miles (or almost 156 million kilometers). That would account for the distance of more than 200 round-trip journeys to the moon 鈥� which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles (nearly 384,400 kilometers) away from Earth. It would also surpass the roughly 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers) between Earth and the sun.

$122 for every person on Earth

There are nearly 8.2 billion people living on Earth today, per the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. If $1 trillion was divided among the entire population, each person would receive almost $122.

Double the GDP of South Africa

One trillion dollars is more than double the annual GDP of South Africa, the country where Musk was born. According 2026 numbers from International Monetary Fund, the nation鈥檚 output of goods and services stands at nearly $480 billion.

Only about 21 countries in the world have a GDP over the trillion-dollar mark today. The U.S. and China lead the pack at more than $32.38 trillion and $20.85 trillion, respectively, but that is far ahead of most other economies.

2.5 million homes in the US

Houses sold in the U.S. have a median sales price of about $403,200, per the latest numbers from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. With $1 trillion, you could buy nearly 2.5 million homes at that cost.

243 billion gallons of gas

At current U.S. gas prices 鈥� which averaged at nearly $4.11 a gallon Friday per AAA 鈥� $1 trillion could buy more than 243 billion gallons of regular fuel.

To help put that in context, that far surpasses the Americans used on finished motor gasoline all last year. And prices at the pump were much less expensive in 2025. Steep oil prices, spanning from the U.S. and Israel’s against Iran, propelled the national average above $4 a gallon in four years.

Over $700 billion ahead the world’s second richest person

According to Forbes, the second-richest person in the world today is Google co-founder Larry Page 鈥� who carried a net worth of nearly $294 billion as of midday Friday. That’s $706 billion under the trillion dollar mark.

In fact, the combined net worth, as of Friday, of the four men following Musk 鈥� which, beyond Page, includes fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin ($271 billion), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ($249 billion) and Oracle鈥檚 Larry Ellison ($232 billion) 鈥� amounted to about $1.05 trillion.

Those fortunes can oscillate by tens of billions of dollars by the day, or even a matter of hours. Musk’s own net worth has rapidly ballooned in value. Just last year, his net worth sat at $342 billion per Forbes 鈥� up from $195 billion in 2024.

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The president did not provide details about the measures or a timetable for their implementation but said during remarks to state media that it is now 鈥渢ime to change鈥� and that the country 鈥渟imply cannot continue on its current course.鈥�

鈥淓very opportunity in the midst of a crisis must be seized as a moment for takeoff, as a moment for growth,鈥� D铆az-Canel said, according to a statement from the presidency that was republished by state-run media. 鈥淲e have established a group of priorities to confront this situation,鈥� he added without offering specifics.

The announcement comes as Cubans have struggled with fuel shortages as a result of the and food insecurity. In January, the United States in an effort to pressure the island鈥檚 government to change its political and economic model, exacerbating challenges that have persisted for about five years.

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

D铆az-Canel said officials are evaluating measures related to foreign trade, exports, supply chains and logistics. Without elaborating, he suggested the government could eliminate mandatory state intermediaries in import and export operations and grant tariff benefits to those who bring raw materials into the country for production.

鈥淭he numbers don鈥檛 add up, and the government wants to make this look like a matter of will rather than a math problem,鈥� Cuban economist Pedro Monreal wrote on X, in response to D铆az-Canel鈥檚 proposals.

The Spain-based former UNESCO official went on to criticize the collapse of a centralized planning model, for which he said 鈥渢here are two respectable alternatives: assume the political price of failure, or self-critically rectify and drastically transform the model.鈥�

For decades, Cuba maintained a centralized, vertical system under strict state control. This structure over the last decade when the government introduced permits for independent workers. More recently, the state authorized the operation of the country鈥檚 first .

Earlier Friday, a ship carrying nearly 100 tons of food and essential goods arrived from as part of the humanitarian aid that several countries have sent to in recent months as a U.S. energy embargo persists.

The ship, which departed Cartagena in early June, crossed the Havana Bay channel early in the morning flying the Colombian flag and escorted by a small Cuban auxiliary vessel, The Associated Press confirmed.

The Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation said that, on orders of , the shipment included nonperishable food, medicine, hospital supplies, electrical materials, solar panels and other items.

The ship also carried seven tons of goods collected by solidarity groups.

Last weekend, another ship carrying 1,700 tons of essential goods from Mexico and Belize .

In late January, U.S. President Donald Trump on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. The move has deepened a preexisting crisis caused by U.S. sanctions. Washington is pressing the Cuban government to release political prisoners and move toward political and economic liberalization in return for a lifting of sanctions.

Cuba produces only 40% of its oil, leaving the island semiparalyzed and subjected to .

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