American Stephen Hubbard released by Russia, Steve Witkoff says

🔮 Hubbard, who is in poor health, was expected to be flown to Texas for treatment at a military hospital.

🔮 He called on Moscow to be "transparent" a day after Russia's primary national health agency denied earlier reports by local officials that the Siberian lab worker might have died of after a lab accident and that anti-plague measures were imposed at multiple health facilities in the wake of her death on Oct. 1 or 2.The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the public health risk in Russia and Europe was considered low after the incident in Russia's far-eastern Siberia region.

🔮 "When I was lying on the floor I could feel the aircraft was going down.

🔮 Iran warns it will expand the war if there is another U.S. assault

🔮 Energy secretary says "we are always open" for nuclear agreement with Iran Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the Trump administration is not shutting down diplomatic relations with Iran despite his comments earlier that there "may not be a nuclear agreement.

🔮 Oil prices jump again as Iran continues launching attacks on U.S. Gulf allies Oil prices jumped again Thursday as Iran claimed new strikes targeting U.S. forces across the Middle East, but bond yields eased and stock markets traded steadier after recent volatility. Crude futures had dropped briefly, after President Trump suggested U.S. attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived, but with Iran's retaliation continuing, and likely to draw further American strikes, oil prices continued the general upward trend on Thursday that has been seen for a week, since hostilities resumed.

🔮 Mr. Trump initially , but now says it will take "as long as necessary."

🔮 President Trump told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the U.S. was "achieving a very big victory" against Iran, but that the war "will continue for as long as necessary" and there's no timetable to resume peace talks with Tehran.

🔮 Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called on Iran and Iraq to strengthen economic cooperation and prepare for what he described as "unjust sanctions," warning that the United States and Israel had shifted toward economic warfare after failing to defeat the two countries militarily. Speaking to Iranian and Iraqi businesspeople at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, Ghalibaf said the two countries should develop mechanisms to withstand sanctions and reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar. "If you look at the resources and raw materials of Muslim countries, you will realize that our enemies come to plunder them," Ghalibaf said, according to a post on his channel on the Telegram messaging app.

🔮 It's been careening back and forth because of uncertainty about what the war with Iran will do to the global flow of crude.

🔮 However, the "U.S. Caught Seafood" label, proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn't be mandatory.

🔮 Hubbard, who is in poor health, was expected to be flown to Texas for treatment at a military hospital.

🔮 Leaving the White House on Friday, the president signaled that Zacharia might not be in the role for long, saying he told her he would "reconsider" taking the job if he were in her shoes.

🔮 Last week, Mr. Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the midterm elections.

🔮 Last week, the Pentagon had said that the public would be able to view the execution live.

🔮 Bailey will replace James Braid, who stepped down last month, as announced by Vice President JD Vance.

🔮 "Unfortunately for Kimberly Guilfoyle, at that time, at that moment in time, I didn't have $100,000 to spare to give to Kimberly Guilfoyle, or I actually would have been a dumbass enough to do it."

🔮 Federal prosecutors are expected to bring new charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, for allegedly torturing Americans who were held in Venezuelan prisons, according to multiple sources familiar with the case.

🔮 Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and the Trump administration has been discussing having him remain in his current role as director of national intelligence, according to sources briefed on the matter.

🔮 Karine Jean-Pierre, a White House press secretary for former President Joe Biden, will be one of the grand marshals for NYC Pride in late June, sources familiar with the planning told CBS News.

🔮 Commissioned by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the committee's top Democrat, the report describes a systematic reversal of policies Mr. Trump once supported, warning that the changes may be weakening American influence abroad and putting women's lives at risk. "Supporting women and girls is not separate from advancing American interests — it is how we prevent conflict, strengthen our partners and compete," Shaheen said in a statement to CBS News.

🔮 The memo, which was issued as the Trump administration weighs resuming military strikes against Iran, does not identify specific targets or countries where the alleged plots are underway, or indicate whether attacks may be imminent.

🔮 Fr. Joseph Coleman feared he would never again see his father, Stephen Hubbard, when they had a brief phone conversation last year while Hubbard was in a Russian prison.

🔮 Hubbard, who is in poor health, was expected to be flown to Texas for treatment at a military hospital.

🔮 The alerts, issued Sunday by U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and several other countries, warned that hostilities could rapidly and without warning spread beyond areas already affected by the fighting.

🔮 It is unclear whether the complaint against Moawad will result in formal proceedings.

🔮 "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement announcing the measures.

🔮 Twenty-five years ago, a Soviet-designed helicopter crossed the mountains of Afghanistan carrying the first CIA officers sent into the country after on Sept. 11, 2001, marking the opening move in the U.S. response that would soon become .The seven-man CIA team, code-named JAWBREAKER, landed in the Panjshir Valley on Sept. 26, 2001, just 15 days after the attacks, carrying millions of dollars in cash intended to help enlist and equip Afghan allies.

🔮 The purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow this week was to warn Russia not to attack NATO member states, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, amid U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia could try to test NATO.

🔮 Peskov told reporters Putin was briefed on the talks, but he said it was too soon to predict whether the intelligence officials' meeting might help get bilateral U.S.-Russian relations out of what he called a "deep crisis" more than four and a half years into Russia's war on Ukraine.