Jun 3, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
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Max PringleBen Thomas
Kuwait briefly shut its main airport today after Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal building, killing an Indian national and wounding dozens.
The attack is part of tensions between Tehran and Washington ratcheting up as peace talks stall.
U.S. Central Command says Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain but failed to hit their targets.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says it targeted the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain.
Retaliation, it says, for the U.S. firing a missile into the engine room of another oil tanker trying to reach Iran despite the U.S. blockade.
Central Command says it responded with strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qashem Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
It all comes after Iranian news agencies reported Tehran had stopped communicating with mediators about a ceasefire.
The race for governor was at the top of California's ballot, and three candidates have emerged in early returns.
Two Democrats, former Health and Human Services Director Javier Becerra and businessman Tom Steyer, and Republican former Fox News contributor Steve Hilton are vying for the top two spots.
in a runoff election in November to replace termed-out Governor Gavin Newsom.
The high cost of living in the notoriously expensive state was among the major themes of this election.
Mayor Karen Bass will advance to a November runoff, likely against reality TV personality Spencer Pratt.
In the race for San Francisco's 11th congressional district, State Senator Scott Weiner has emerged as the favorite to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who's retiring at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, voters in the East Bay were skeptical of a proposed parcel tax increase in Oakland that needed majority approval in Tuesday's election, but fell well short.
That's according to the latest election results from the Alameda County Registrar.
Measure E proposed a new $192 annual parcel tax increase and required only a simple majority vote, because it was placed on the ballot by a privately financed signature-gathering effort, but had just about 46% of the vote in the latest results shared by the county.
Meanwhile, in closely watched races in other states, Iowa State Senator Josh Turek has won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, His opponent will be Republican State Representative Ashley Henson.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
It was the first opportunity lawmakers had to question him since the start of the U.S. war with Iran.
He said he's optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war that's looking increasingly in doubt.
Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday, The Iranians have agreed to negotiate on nuclear points they've not been willing to address in the past.
They are now losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day in revenue because of the blockade.
And the blockade exists because of what they're doing in the straits.
Rubio wouldn't offer an assessment on what the talks might produce and added it was no guarantee they would result in an acceptable deal.
lawmakers Tuesday that the Trump administration has definitively scrapped a $1.8 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies for what they maintain was political persecution.
The reasons for the fund, I think, were... remain as important as they were before, but we are not moving forward with the fund.
Correct.
Blanche said, however, that the White House is sticking with the part of the settlement deal with the IRS that permanently drops tax claims against him.
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