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Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 Laurynas Kasčiūnas, chairman of the Homeland Union, Lithuania's largest opposition party, and Urmas Reinsalu, leader of Estonia's Isamaa party, addressed a joint letter to Joe Gruters, chairman of the Republican National Committee, along with RNC members nationwide. The letter, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of American independence,…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 Counsel for Shawki Ahmad Omar, a naturalized American citizen and dual U.S.-Jordanian national, filed an emergency motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on or about July 1, 2025, seeking his immediate return to the United States [POLITICO]. Omar is being held at a deportation…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) introduced a joint resolution of disapproval targeting the Trump administration's proposed sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines to Turkey, valued at more than $700 million [1][2]. The resolution, filed under the Arms Export Control Act, would block the transfer of approximately 80 engines intended…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 Russia struck Kyiv with its largest recorded aerial bombardment of the war overnight into Thursday, July 2, deploying 74 missiles and approximately 496 drones against the Ukrainian capital and surrounding regions. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that the salvo damaged more than 30 locations across Kyiv, including roughly 20…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 The Department of Homeland Security has provided at least four numerically inconsistent responses to congressional oversight requests about the detention and removal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients since January 2025, a pattern that House Democrats say is preventing them from performing core legislative oversight. The discrepancies span…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 The United States is preparing potential punitive measures against NATO allies that cannot demonstrate a credible path to meeting the alliance's 5% GDP defense spending target by 2035, according to U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker disclosed the administration's posture in a call with reporters on July 2,…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 The United States and Israel signed a land-allocation agreement on July 1, 2026, formally designating the Allenby Compound in southern Jerusalem as the site for a permanent U.S. Embassy complex. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar signed the agreement at the Israeli Ministry…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 President Donald Trump flew on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the first time on July 1, departing Joint Base Andrews in Maryland aboard a retrofitted Boeing 747-800 valued at approximately $400 million and bound for North Dakota, where he attended the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 The United States and Iran held indirect technical talks in Doha on July 1 and 2, 2026, with Qatar and Pakistan serving as mediators, as Washington pursues a diplomatic framework to restore full commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and advance a broader end to the conflict. Sources…
Dispatch Washington · July 2, 2026 Roughly 20 members of the European Parliament affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group arrived in Washington this week for a series of senior-level meetings with Trump administration officials, using the visit to signal alignment with the United States ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for July 7-8…