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Asian shares have retreated across the region as worries persist about conflict in the Middle East. Iran’s supreme leader rejected U.S. calls for surrender as President Donald Trump warned of the possibility of getting directly involved in the conflict with Israel.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle or sharply cut back on U.S. government-run news outlets like Voice of America, two Persian-language services have been called into duty to report on Israel’s war with Iran to Iranian audiences.

Though the Trump administration has been removing content on African American history from federal websites, Juneteenth remains a federal holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865.

Redemption Holding Company has just acquired the Utah-based Holladay Bank & Trust, becoming the first bank to be owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western U.S.