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Dispatch Washington · July 6, 2026 Andrew Byers, the chair of the National Intelligence Council, resigned early last week, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, capping a period of accelerating leadership turnover at the intelligence community's primary all-source analytic body [POLITICO]. The departure followed acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte's decision…
Dispatch Washington · July 6, 2026 The People's Liberation Army Navy test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the South Pacific on July 7, 2026, drawing formal protests from Australia, Japan, and New Zealand and sharpening a day already defined by competing strategic moves in the region. The missile was launched at…
Dispatch Washington · July 6, 2026 Hamas announced on July 6, 2026, the formal dissolution of its de facto governing body in Gaza, the "Government Emergency Committee," and declared its intent to transfer administrative authority to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). Hamas announced the dissolution of the body that has governed…
Dispatch Washington · July 6, 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday with a direct demand for additional Patriot interceptor missiles, hours after Russia launched a ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv that killed at least 11 people and injured roughly 60 more, including three children…
Dispatch Washington · July 6, 2026 President Donald Trump departed Washington Monday evening for the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, arriving with unresolved disputes over allied defense spending and the alliance's response to U.S.-led military operations against Iran. [1][2] The summit is scheduled for July 7-8 at the Beştepe Presidential Compound and brings together all…
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…