Hamas is battling to survive

Plus, the US Supreme Court may rule on birthright citizenship.

Global news you can trust. Download the Reuters App. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Hamas is battling to survive as it faces defiant clans and doubts over Iran. In the US, Republicans struggle to rewrite the tax bill, and a deal with Beijing will expedite rare earth exports from China. Plus, meet the Americans who make their own weight-loss drugs. Today's Top News   A general view of the US Supreme Court building in Washington. Picture taken November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Will Dunham/File photo The Supreme Court may rule on Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to limit birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year. Senate Republicans were trying to reach consensus over Trump's sprawling tax-cut and spending bill, including proposed healthcare cuts that have worried some of their more populist-minded members. Politics Reporter David Morgan in Washington DC tells Reuters World News podcast about some of the hurdles that remain in their way. Listen now. Short of commanders, deprived of much of its tunnel network and unsure of support from its ally Iran, Hamas is battling to survive in Gaza in the face of rebellious local clans and relentless Israeli military pressure. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes, amid continuing questions about the state of Iran's nuclear program. Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil aviation ministry said, a long-awaited step towards understanding the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade. For Trump, Vladimir Putin is a man looking for an off-ramp to his bloody three-year assault on Ukraine. But according to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the Russian leader may be just getting started. Rutte warned Russia could attack an alliance country within three years. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said there would be "legal consequences" for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event planned for this weekend. Countries agreed to increase the U.N. climate body's budget by 10% for the next two years, a move the body welcomed as a commitment by governments to work together to address on climate change, with China's contribution rising. Business & Markets   Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo The US has reached an agreement with China on how to expedite rare earth shipments to the US, a White House official said, amid efforts to end a trade war between the world's biggest economies. Germany has taken steps towards blocking Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from the Apple and Google app stores due to concerns about data protection, according to a data protection authority commissioner. Luxury goods retailers are shifting from a transactional model - where a shop merely sells goods to customers - to enticing customers with "experiences" that ultimately spur growth. Nike shares surged 10% in premarket trading as an encouraging forecast and plans to reduce China production for US-bound goods bolstered confidence in an ongoing turnaround effort at the sportswear giant. The Brussels Public Prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into potential money laundering activities at the Belgian unit of French payments processor Worldline. The gulf between where the Federal Reserve projects interest rates will be by the end of 2026 and the more aggressive cutting financial markets expect by then is partly due to the expectation that US central bank chief Jerome Powell will be replaced by somebody more dovish next year, investors said. Our graphics team did a deep dive on US doves and hawks.   For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets. The Week Ahead Tuesday will see France's smoking ban come into effect, however, cafe outdoor terraces will be exempt. Central bankers meet for the ECB's annual forum in the foothills of Portugal's Sintra Mountains on Tuesday, with the focus on what rates-setters say on never-ending geopolitical turbulence. Thursday will see the release of the latest US jobs data, which will shed light on the health of the labour market. Read our round-up of the week ahead in financial markets. Stung by high prices, Americans make their own weight-loss drugs    Amy Spencer holds a vial containing the components of obesity drugs, which she purchased through the grey market, Missouri, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare In what she calls the "wild west" of obesity medicines, Missouri-based Amy Spencer is a pioneer. Each week the mother of two injects herself with weight-loss drugs, two of which are in clinical trials and not yet approved for sale by the US. Food and Drug Administration. One comes mixed with tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Eli Lilly's Zepbound. Spencer is not part of any drug trial but mixes the cocktails herself, using tiny doses that she believes are safe. The total cost is about $50 monthly, as little as one-tenth of what she would expect to pay their makers for full treatment. Read more Inside Track Global sports editor Ossian Shine launches a new weekly column exploring the stories, stakes and undercurrents shaping the weekend in sport. This week Wimbledon serves its first ace, soccer renews its awkward courtship with America, and Formula One's civil war simmers under the summer sun. Read more Get full access to Reuters.com for just $1/week. Subscribe now. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you've engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions © 2025 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036

Europe placates Trump

And Iran turns to internal crackdown in the wake of the 12-day war.

Global news you can trust. Download the Reuters App. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. This week's NATO summit ended with Europe making pledges it can ill afford, Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown, and Chinese automakers make a play for Africa. Plus, the Webb telescope discovers an alien planet. Today's Top News   Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City, June 12, 2025. Vincent Alban/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo  United States Self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's unexpected upset in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary exhilarated progressive activists. But the surprise outcome also generated excitement from a very different group of people: national Republicans. Several Republican senators pushed back on the Trump administration's proposed cuts to American public media stations and foreign aid, a sign the request to cancel $9.4 billion of funding could be blocked by the upper chamber. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel will look at the schedule of childhood and adolescent immunizations as well as older vaccines. US Healthcare and Pharma Editor Caroline Humer tells the Reuters World News podcast that the reorganization could upend vaccine policy and also calls into question insurance coverage for shots.   In other news In their rush to retain Trump's support for NATO, the alliance's European members have promised to more than double the amount of wealth they set aside for military spending. The snag is that most can ill-afford to spend 5% of output on defense. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to lead his party into the next general election and rejected suggestions he was failing to listen to the concerns of his party, as he faces a growing rebellion from lawmakers over welfare reform. Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said. Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, local health authorities said, as mediators reached out to Israel and Hamas to seek a resumption of ceasefire talks to end the war. Efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the Air India plane crash this month that killed 260 people, and identify contributing factors. This as flying anxiety peaks in India after the fatal crash. Business & Markets   Onlookers watch during the launch of Chery's new range of cars at Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 20, 2025. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko Chinese automakers are pushing to unlock Africa's underdeveloped potential, with a focus on electric and hybrid vehicles, as restrictions on exports to the US and Europe send them on a global quest for new markets.  A first public test of robotaxis by Tesla in Austin, Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from company-selected riders showed over the first few days. For more on the industry, sign up to the Auto File newsletter. A federal judge ruled for Meta against a group of authors who had argued that its use of their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system infringed their copyrights. Two Dutch consumer groups are seeking affected customers for a legal claim against Booking.com, one of the world's largest online travel agencies, over what they described as inflated hotel prices since 2013. The dollar sank to a three-year low while world stocks notched their second record high in three days as a report that Trump was planning to choose the next Federal Reserve chief early fuelled fresh bets on US rate cuts. For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets. CoreWeave, Circle Internet Group and Chime Financial all enjoyed dizzying success after their stock market debuts. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists explain why investors are scrambling to own these companies and how scarcity may be adding to their allure. Hungary's LGBTQ+ community reels under Orban's new laws, Pride ban   Vivien "Vivi" Winkler and Laura "Lau" Toth at the afterparty of the Pride Month opening event in Budapest, Hungary, June 7, 2025. REUTERS/Marton Monus Lau and Vivi, a young lesbian couple in Hungary, often hold hands walking through Budapest's streets. However, Lau has started to have troubling second thoughts about this show of affection since the government ramped up its anti-LGBTQ+ campaign. Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who casts himself as a defender of what he calls Christian values from Western liberalism and whose supporters are mostly rural conservatives, has passed several laws affecting the lives of Hungary's LGBTQ+ community over the past decade. Read our photo essay And Finally... The young gas giant planet is about the same mass as Saturn. Reuters/Am Lagrange et al/JWST/ESO In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. Now, for the first time, Webb has discovered an exoplanet not previously known. Read more Get full access to Reuters.com for just $1/week. Subscribe now. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you've engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions © 2025 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036