News Wrap: Former Trump adviser John Bolton to plead guilty over classified information
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, President Trump's former national security advisor turned critic, |
| 0:06.0 | John Bolton, has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of illegally retaining classified information. |
| 0:13.0 | The deal would settle a criminal case that burst into public view when FBI agents raided his Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office. Officials say he held on to sensitive diary-like notes that he planned to use for a memoir. |
| 0:26.6 | If the deal is approved by a judge, Bolton could either face no prison time or up to five years in custody, |
| 0:32.6 | plus more than $2 million in fines. |
| 0:35.6 | U.S. officials said today there is no threat of mass infestation from a flesh-eating |
| 0:41.3 | insect that's been detected in livestock in Texas. |
| 0:45.3 | Authorities say the New World Screw Worm was found in a three-week-old calf in South Texas, |
| 0:50.3 | but that no other cases have been confirmed so far. |
| 0:53.3 | It's the first time in decades it's been detected in the U.S. |
| 0:57.0 | At a hearing on Capitol Hill, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins stressed the threat |
| 1:02.0 | to livestock production did not mean a threat to the food supply. |
| 1:06.0 | We are using every tool at our disposal to eliminate this threat to our livestock producers |
| 1:11.2 | and to our national security, and we will actively keep you updated. |
| 1:16.3 | Thankfully, this pest does not represent any sort of challenge to our food safety, and |
| 1:22.4 | that's a really important message. |
| 1:25.1 | The New World Screw Worm is a parasitic fly that affects livestock, |
| 1:28.9 | pets, and wildlife, and in rare cases, people, though officials say there's no current threat |
| 1:34.1 | to humans. Hasbola rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon today, |
| 1:40.4 | and instead called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. |
| 1:44.9 | Smoke billowed from Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon today that killed at least four people. |
| 1:49.8 | A UN peacekeeper was also killed in the crossfire. |
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