French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Paris is prepared to deploy its aircraft carrier to the Strait of Hormuz "within two or three days" to ensure the free movement of ships in the wake of a peace deal between the United States and Iran.

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President Donald Trump said he will not support the extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act unless it includes his voter ID bill, the SAVE America Act.

“A few Dumocrats are against FISA, with or without Bill Pulte going to DNI, as Acting,” he wrote on Truth Social Sunday afternoon. “What kind of a deal is that. Besides, I’m against FISA if it doesn’t come with The Save America Act (Full version!) firmly attached to it.”

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act grants the federal government authority to surveil foreigners without a warrant, but conservatives argue the program can be used to spy on Americans and collect data. Section 702 of the act expired at midnight on Friday after Congress failed to reach an agreement on warrantless searches.

Democrats said they would hold up an extension of the program until Trump picked a new nominee to serve as director of national intelligence. Trump had tapped federal housing director Bill Pulte to serve as acting intelligence director after Tulsi Gabbard resigned from the position to care for her husband, but members from both parties criticized the pick of Pulte. Last week, Trump announced Jay Clayton as his official nominee for the role. 

Early Monday morning, Trump reiterated his opposition to extending FISA without the SAVE America Act included.

“The Dumocrats want FISA because that’s what they used to go after me for three years during my First Term!” he said. “I’m against FISA if it doesn’t come with The Save America Act (Full version!) firmly attached to it.”

The SAVE America Act would require government identification and proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and would also prohibit mail-in ballots, men in women’s sports, and transgender procedures for children.

Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., will introduce a bill later this week to fulfill the president’s wishes, Politico first reported.

Her bill, the “SAVE America Through REAL ID Act,” will establish a grant program encouraging states to require federally mandated REAL IDs to vote. 

Leftist British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has lost support among the majority of voters within the United Kingdom as evidenced by the shellacking his party took in the recent election.  However, as the embattled leader clings to power by telling law enforcement to crackdown on anti-government voices, he extends the control mechanisms under the guise […]

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June 15 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a gun industry challenge to a New York law that permits lawsuits against gunmakers, wholesalers, and dealers for endangering people’s safety through sales of firearms and ammunition.

The justices declined to hear an appeal by an industry trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, of a lower court’s ruling upholding the law, which New York calls a public nuisance statute. The group had argued that the law unconstitutionally conflicted with federal law.

Gun companies, including Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Beretta, Glock, Sig Sauer, and Sturm, joined the appeal.

The Supreme Court in 2025 spared Smith & Wesson from a lawsuit by Mexico’s government accusing the company of aiding illegal gun trafficking to drug cartels.

The New York law, signed by former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2021, requires the gun industry to use reasonable safeguards to protect against gun trafficking, theft, and the use of “straw purchasers” who buy firearms for someone else. It allows civil lawsuits by New York state and local officials, as well as members of the public.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation said the law was preempted by a 2005 federal law called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that shields the gun industry from civil liability when its products are used in crimes.

Under the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, federal laws take precedence over state laws that conflict with them. 

The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld New York’s law last year.

Circuit Judge Eunice Lee, an appointee of Democrat former President Joe Biden, wrote that Congress intended to preserve “at least some causes of action” when a defendant’s knowing violation of federal or state firearms sales and marketing laws was a proximate cause of harm.

Concurring, Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs, an appointee of Republican former President George H.W. Bush, agreed that the New York law was not preempted, but accused state lawmakers of having “contrived a broad public nuisance statute that applies solely to gun industry members and is enforceable by a mob of public and private actors.”

‘Crushing’ Liability

The appeal did not hinge on the Constitution’s Second Amendment protections of the right to keep and bear arms. But the trade group said laws such as New York’s imperil such rights by allowing lawsuits that could saddle companies with “crushing liability” for crimes they had nothing to do with.

“This Court’s review is sorely needed to ensure that states hostile to Second Amendment rights cannot frustrate their exercise by trying to bankrupt the licensed (and heavily regulated) industry members that make the exercise of those constitutional rights possible,” it told the justices.

The group also said the so-called predicate exception in the federal law at issue subjected the industry to liability only for failures to comply with specific obligations or prohibitions within its control.

“The decision below blows a gaping hole in a statute that Congress enacted for the express purpose of protecting the firearms industry from exactly the kinds of lawsuits New York seeks to usher back in,” the group said, referring to the 2nd Circuit ruling.

Supreme Court Precedent

New York called the ruling consistent with the Supreme Court decision in the Mexico case, and that the predicate exception allowed liability for some “downstream acts” of third parties.

It also said at least nine states have passed laws to satisfy the exception, and the Supreme Court should let challenges wind through the courts rather than declare New York’s law unconstitutional in every respect.

The gun industry appeal was supported in filings by the National Rifle Association, 24 Republican state attorneys general, and several dozen Republican members of Congress.

The Supreme Court has expanded gun rights in three major decisions since 2008, when it found that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)