Today is Friday, June 19, the 170th day of 2026. There are 195 days left in the year. This is Juneteenth. Today in history: On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free – an event celebrated as the Juneteenth national holiday in the U.S.
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) – President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of the plane painted navy blue with a red stripe above it.
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders have been unable to agree on setting up a back-channel with Moscow to ensure that the bloc’s interests are protected should progress be made in negotiations to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, some of them said on Friday.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Netanyahu vows Israeli forces will maintain occupied ‘security zone’ in southern Lebanon
Labour Party’s Andy Burnham wins UK special election, setting up likely push to oust PM Keir Starmer
Towns in southern Lebanon around Nabatiyeh hit by new Israeli airstrikes
Obamas open presidential museum in Chicago
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senators are seeking to block Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel funds until the Pentagon submits several overdue reports to lawmakers, including its investigation into a deadly strike on an elementary school in Iran at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war.
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