5 Big News Stories Overnight - Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Early Review of Trump's Iran Deal

Bloomberg writes:

An interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is to be signed later this week, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself, Marc Champion writes in Bloomberg Opinion. From what can be gleaned of the as-yet unreleased terms, it seems the US president’s negotiators have solved only the problems Trump himself has created. This goes all the way back to the Republican’s first term when he tore up President Barack Obama’s original 2015 deal with Iran.

These new problems include the need to eliminate Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium (which did not exist before Trump tossed Obama’s deal) and the need to open the Strait of Hormuz (which closed only as a result of the war Trump and Israel chose to wage). Yet the memorandum of understanding looks set to make more concessions than the 2015 accord, Champion writes, and for a more limited potential nuclear deal. And it’s all because Iran discovered it can hold the world hostage by closing Hormuz. —David E. Rovella

Son of Norway's crown princess sentenced to four years in prison for rape

France 24 reports:

An Oslo court on Monday sentenced Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit's son to four years in prison on two counts of rape and 32 other offences, in a high-profile scandal that has rocked the monarchy.

Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, Mette-Marit's son from a relationship prior to her 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, was accused of 40 charges, from rape to traffic violations, carrying a maximum possible sentence of 16 years in prison.

One of the rapes for which he was convicted took place at the Crown Prince couple's official residence in 2018.

Hoiby, who is not formally part of the royal household and has no steady job, was acquitted of two other counts of rape, and convicted of repeated domestic abuse against an ex-girlfriend, traffic violations, issuing threats, a drug offence and others.

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Gavin Newsom Sends Out Fundraising Email in Response to USDOJ

Trump's Department of Justice is investigating me.

In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees.

Not because they have found a crime, but because they are simply trying to find one.

They are demanding records.

They are digging through years and years of random documents.

They are abusing the grand jury process.

They are doing to me -- and my wife -- what they did to Jerome Powell, James Comey, Tish James, Adam Schiff, the six members of Congress who made a video he didn't like, and a woman a jury found Donald Trump had sexually abused.

Now it's my turn.

Not because I do mean tweets, but because I am considering running for president.

He is simply the most corrupt president in American history.

Last year, when Trump illegally deployed the National Guard and United States Marines to the streets of California, he called for my arrest.

Now his Department of Justice is trying to carry out his wishes.

Fighting back will require a legal strategy and a political strategy, and, unfortunately, I am going to need your help on both -- and one of the most important things you can do today (besides spreading the word), is making a contribution to support that effort.

8 Believed to Have Died in B-52 Crash

WSJ reports:

Eight crew members are believed dead after a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber they were on crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the base said Monday.

Emergency crews immediately responded to the crash, which occurred at 11:20 a.m. local time, according to a social-media post from the base.  

“An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after takeoff at 11:20 a.m. (PDT),” according to a statement from the base posted on social media. “Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable.”

The crash is under investigation, according to the statement.

A towering plume of smoke was seen in the skies over the base after the crash, according to photos posted on X.

The B-52, which came into service in 1952, has been a staple in the Air Force since the Cold War. Originally designed for long-range nuclear strikes, the Boeing-made plane has been a workhorse used to strike targets with nonnuclear weapons during the decadeslong military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and more recently against Iran. The B-52H, which is still flown today, was delivered in the early 1960s.

PHOTO: Steve Harvey, Unsplash 

Fox Looks to Buy Roku for $22 Billion

Hollywood Reporter

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corp. and streaming tech powerhouse Roku have entered a definitive agreement under which Fox will acquire Roku for $160 per share in a cash and Fox Class A common stock transaction valuing Roku at approximately $22 billion in enterprise value, the companies said on Monday.

The transaction combines Fox’s sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel, first-party data and direct relationship with more than 100 million global streaming households, the deal partners touted.

On a call with analysts, Murdoch, executive chair and CEO of Fox, called the acquisition a “defining moment” for his company, and one that “pairs Fox, the leader in live news and sports, with Roku, the leading connected TV platform. This acquisition will strengthen and expand our position in the high growth digital video ecosystem and unlocks new ways to serve our audiences and partners.”