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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-06-15

Monday 15 June 2026

4 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.

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White House sends judicial nominations to the Senate

The White House announced on June 15 that nominations had been sent to the Senate, including James Andrew Crowell IV and Stuart Gordon Nash, both of the District of Columbia, to be associate judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for fifteen-year terms.

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Knesset panel votes to grant Tally Gotliv immunity in Shin Bet case
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Knesset panel votes to grant Tally Gotliv immunity in Shin Bet case

The Jerusalem Post reported on June 15 that the Knesset House Committee voted 11-3 to grant Likud MK Tally Gotliv immunity in a case in which she was indicted for disclosing classified information in violation of the Shin Bet law by exposing the identity of a Shin Bet employee. The vote came after three days of discussions that ran from early morning into the afternoon. Accordi

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Open letter urges G7, G20 and BRICS leaders to finalize WHO Pandemic Agreement's pathogen-sharing annex

Per the WHO's June 15 open letter, signatories writing from Geneva and Brasília urged leaders of the G7, G20, BRICS and all nations to finish negotiating the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex of the WHO Pandemic Agreement. The letter invokes the toll of the pandemic, citing estimates from WHO and others of up to twenty million lives lost, and calls on leaders to

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How Japan could co-produce the US Navy's future fleet

War on the Rocks argued in a June 15 analysis that the US defense industrial base cannot build the fleet the Navy needs on its own, citing industry consolidation, resource shortages and inconsistent demand signals that have delayed production of critical vessels and munitions. The piece contended the Navy may have to let allies such as Japan do some of the building, noting that

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