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Story by Will Neal

Iranian strikes have caused greater damage to U.S. military assets in the Middle East than the Trump administration is willing to admit.

Analysis by the BBC, published Monday, reveals that attacks by the Islamic Republic have cost millions of dollars in damage to at least 20, and possibly as many as 28, American military sites across eight countries in the region since Donald Trump launched his war on Iran at the end of February.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. forces have “destroyed,” “obliterated,” and “shattered” the regime’s military capabilities. The Pentagon has meanwhile tried to limit assessments of the impact on U.S. assets by pressuring Planet, a major satellite-imaging provider, to restrict public access to new images of the region.

The BBC says it was still able to carry out its analysis by using “satellite imagery from other international providers combined with older images from Planet to track the damage caused by Iranian attacks.” Pentagon officials declined to respond to the findings, for “operational security reasons.”

The broadcaster lists “three state-of-the-art anti-ballistic missile batteries systems” in Jordan and the UAE among the U.S. assets that Iran has targeted over the past several months.

“The U.S. is only known to operate eight of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries, which are deployed at bases around the globe and cost around $1bn to manufacture,” the BBC writes. “Each battery needs a crew of about 100 troops to operate it while the interceptors it fires cost around $12.7 million per round.”
Story by Robert Davis

The "correct" view of President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader is gaining acceptance as his "bread and circuses" routine backfires, according to one author.

Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy Magazine, discussed Trump's sliding poll numbers during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Sunday with host Joanna Coles, the outlet's chief content officer. Andersen argued that Trump once provided voters with an "entertaining" alternative to America's otherwise drab political scene, but his entertainment value has tanked as the cost-of-living crisis continues to erode household budgets.
Story by Brigid Brown

A couple from Rhode Island splurged over $600 for a Trump-branded watch - but say they ended up with a defective piece. Tim Petit heard a radio ad seemingly using President Trump's voice to sell luxury watches, and immediately headed to the website to browse the catalog.

“With the president’s voice … I was curious, so I went on the website,” he said. He found a silver-and-pink watch to gift his wife, Melanie, and paid $640 for it. However, the timepiece he ended up with instead made his wife cry.

The pink-faced watch with Trump's signature and fireworks was missing a letter from the "Trump" spelling. The watch said "Rump" instead of "Trump." It comes after Trump's 'painful and disabling' chronic disease was explained by a doctor following his 3-hour hospital visit.

Discussing her watch disaster, Tim's wife said: "I noticed it right away. How could they process this and go through something without checking their work?"
Kevin Breuninger

President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of peace negotiations with Iran, telling CNBC, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.”

“I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC’s Eamon Javers in a phone interview midday Monday, saying he thought the protracted talks “started to get very boring.”

Trump had been asked about reporting that Iranian negotiators will stop communications with the U.S., and that Tehran will move to “completely block” the Strait of Hormuz, due to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

   “If they’re over, they’re over ... frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.”
   President Donald Trump

Trump said that he was “going to ask” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “what’s going on with Lebanon.”

Trump said in a Truth Social post later Monday afternoon that he “had a very productive call” with Netanyahu. “There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back,” Trump wrote.

He said in the same post that he spoke with Hezbollah “through highly placed Representatives,” and “they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

In another post, Trump wrote, “Talks are continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
PBS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A standoff between the White House and the Senate remains unresolved after Republican senators defiantly left town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agencies.

Senate Republicans who are returning to Washington on Monday say they won't have the votes to pass the Homeland Security spending bill until the White House works with them to place parameters on a new $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate Trump's allies. But Trump has shown little interest in doing so, even after a judge temporarily halted any payouts.

It's unclear how they will settle the dispute.
By Jared Downing

New evidence in the Charlie Kirk assassination is set to be made public at a hearing next month, a Utah judge ruled Monday.

Suspect Tyler Robinson’s lawyers sought to bar news cameras from a five-day preliminary hearing set for July, when the prosecution is expected to lay out evidence against the 23-year-old defendant.

District Judge Tony Graf rejected that motion.

The Kirk case has been the subject of prevalent conspiracy theories, and Erika Kirk has sought to keep the proceedings as open as possible.
Story by Jacob Sullum

President Donald Trump's clearly corrupt settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS suffered two setbacks in federal court on Friday. In the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Leonie Brinkema temporarily barred the Justice Department from allocating money to the $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" described in Trump's May 18 agreement with the IRS. And in the Southern District of Florida, Judge Kathleen Williams, who closed Trump's case on May 18 after he dropped his lawsuit, ordered briefing on the question of whether the settlement is "a product of collusion" and "a fraud on the Court."

Trump's settlement includes several striking features that amply justify this judicial scrutiny. The pretext for it was a lawsuit provoked by an IRS contractor's illegal leaking of Trump's tax returns. That case pitted Trump against agencies he oversees, represented by the Justice Department, which he also oversees. The Anti-Weaponization Fund, which is designed to compensate Trump supporters who claim they were targeted by the Biden administration for "unlawful political, personal, and/or ideological reasons," has nothing to do with Trump's claims against the IRS. Nor does another element of the agreement, which promises Trump sweeping immunity from civil or criminal liability for federal offenses, including penalties for past tax violations.
This video begins in June 2020, when statues of Confederates, slavers, and imperialists came under attack around the world. Trump and his supporters framed monument removal as vandalism against “beautiful monuments,” but the transcript argues those statues were never neutral history. They were public memory, often built to glorify the Confederacy, slavery, empire, and men who should not be celebrated. Instead of simply removing every statue, the video argues that beheading some monuments, as Ancient Rome once did, could expose the evil being remembered rather than quietly erase it.
Story by David Edwards

The Trump administration is pressing ahead with a legal agreement that permanently shields President Donald Trump, his family members, and his businesses from any IRS probes predating the deal — even as the controversial $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that emerged from the same settlement has been effectively killed off, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Under the deal, the IRS is "forever barred" from pursuing any claims related to Trump's tax filings that predated the settlement, according to Bloomberg. A person familiar with the matter told the outlet that the decision to shelve the fund does not affect the audit immunity provision.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

President Donald Trump is panicking, The Atlantic's Vivian Salama, Jonathan Lemire and Nancy Youssef wrote on Wednesday.

According to the report, talks between the U.S. and Iran are on hold while Trump tries to build up to a kind of war "grand finale."

Trump decided that he wanted to combine the Iran deal with the Abraham Accords, a set of agreements between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries to normalize relations.

Trump wanted "those countries that hadn’t yet joined the Abraham Accords [to] get on board." The various leaders gave him a "less than lukewarm response."

One U.S. official told the reporters that a leader spoke up, calling the idea interesting, but then there was silence. During the 90-minute call, there were several times that Trump asked, “Hello? Hello? Anyone there?”

The story explains why there have been so many reports of an agreement with Iran, only for nothing to come to light. Trump reportedly became "irritated" about those comparing his deal to the one established under former President Barack Obama. Trump's was being mocked as "weaker." He wanted to find a way to make his agreement better than Obama's.

There was also the matter of Iran's demand for sanctions relief. Trump has spent years claiming that Obama sent "pallets of cash" to Iran. Fact-checkers have made clear that none of the money was from the U.S. It was Iran's own money that was inaccessible due to sanctions.
Story by Kevin Rector

Buoyed by a new congressional map favoring their party, California Democrats eyed Tuesday’s primary elections as a critical first step toward flipping a handful of House seats and taking back power in Washington.

As of Wednesday, the results were a mixed bag — with Democratic candidates advancing to November’s general election as expected in several districts that were redrawn in their favor as a result of last year’s Proposition 50 ballot measure, but early results in another race considered critical to their majority aspirations causing unease.

One of the most closely watched races was in the redrawn 22nd Congressional District in the Central Valley, where incumbent Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) is facing challenges from moderate Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains (D-Delano) and progressive college professor Randy Villegas.

Valadao easily advanced to the November general election, according to the Associated Press, while Villegas and Bains were still fighting for a second-place finish as of Wednesday.

Another closely watched race was in the redrawn 48th Congressional District in San Diego and Riverside counties, where Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Bonsall) decided to retire rather than run for reelection, and where Republican San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond — who is endorsed by Trump — ran against a pack of Democrats.

Desmond advanced, as did Democratic challenger San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, according to the Associated Press.
Nick Hilden

Texas is typically considered firmly in the corner of President Donald Trump, who won the state by the largest margin in decades. But now the editorial board at a major Texas newspaper has blasted the commander-in-chief for his dismissive attitude toward Americans’ economic pain.

“Believe Trump,” declared the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday. “He doesn’t think about Americans’ financial pain.”

This is in reference to a shocking statement Trump made in mid-May This is in reference to a shocking statement Trump made in mid-May when asked about how the war with Iran was hurting American pocketbooks. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” said the president. “I don’t think about anybody.”

“Even an elected official whose enumerated lies run into the thousands during his years in office tells the truth sometimes, even when he doesn’t mean to,” notes the Chronicle. “In fact, we have a name for inadvertent truth-telling, as columnist Michael Kinsley noted years ago. A politician telling the truth — in Kinsley’s words, ‘some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say’ — is committing a Kinsley gaffe.” According to the Chronicle, “The Kinsleyian truth is, Trump doesn’t care about Americans’ financial situation, or much of anything else regarding the everyday concerns of ordinary Americans (including the millions who voted for him).”
Story by Elizabeth Schulze, Isabella Murray

The Trump administration is proposing a broad new set of tariffs on dozens of key trading partners, including the European Union, China, Mexico and Canada -- an aggressive move to rebuild the president's signature economic policy after many of his tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court.

The announcement came in a report released late Tuesday by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer invoking Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.

The report accused 60 trading partners of failing to enact or enforce laws around "forced labor," using that as a justification to impose tariffs of up to 12.5%. The tariffs target 99% of imports to the United States, the report said.

Trump admin sent $20.6B in tariff refunds so far: Court filing
Under the proposal, countries including China, the United Kingdom, Japan and Brazil would face additional tariffs up to 12.5%. Mexico, Canada, and the European Union would face additional 10% tariffs.

These new tariffs are not yet in effect. The USTR said it will hold a public hearing on the proposed actions on July 7, 2026.
Story by Zachary Leeman

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) pressed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on millions he received from a PAC linked to President Donald Trump.

Blanche clashed with DeLauro and others on Tuesday during a House hearing. While DeLauro was accusing Blanche of using his office to personally benefit the president and his family, she brought up $10 million he’d received from the Save America PAC.

“I just want to say this, the Save America PAC you paid you nearly $10 million between March of 2024 and December of 2024 to serve as President Trump’s personal defense attorney. My God, don’t you find there’s any conflict of interest in what you are doing here as the Acting Attorney General of the United States,” DeLauro said.

Blanche could not see any conflict of interest.
Story by Maira Butt and Rebecca Whittaker

Donald Trump described the Iran ceasefire as “shooting in a more moderate manner,” after being asked if the ceasefire with Iran was still on.

“We've been hitting them pretty hard, a little bit, so there is a reason for certain things, and there's usually a reason that sometimes makes sense,” Trump said.

“It's a different part of the world, you know. I'd say in that part ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.”

It comes after Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi defended the country’s attack on Kuwait and Bahrain as “self-defence strikes”.

Araghchi wrote on X that Iranian forces targeted sites that US forces “use to attack civilian shipping and violate the ceasefire”.

“What sanctions and war failed to achieve won’t be won with more war,” he said.
Story by Alex Barrientos

So you open your Tesla account to check that $12,000 Full Self-Driving purchase agreement from 2019, only to find the document won’t load. Meanwhile, your insurance papers and service records open perfectly. According to Electrek reporting, this isn’t a technical glitch-it’s happening systematically to Tesla owners, and the timing raises serious legal red flags.

When Digital Receipts Disappear
Multiple Tesla owners report their original FSD contracts have become inaccessible or appear retroactively modified.

Oliver Abcarius bought FSD for his 2018 Model 3 in August 2019, when Tesla promised “Full Self-Driving Capability” without mentioning supervision requirements. Now his purchase agreement link leads to an error page. His wife’s 2020 Model Y shows identical issues-FSD documents broken, everything else accessible. Electrek confirmed similar problems affecting other Hardware 3 vehicle owners who purchased FSD between 2016 and 2024, precisely when Tesla’s marketing implied genuine autonomy was imminent.
Story by Michael Luciano

The House of Representatives delivered a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump on Wednesday as four Republicans crossed the aisle to pass a war powers resolution regarding the conflict in Iran.

The House was supposed to vote on the measure on May 21, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pulled it from the floor when it appeared that not enough Republicans would be present to vote against it. But on Wednesday, the measure passed as just enough Republicans voted in favor of the resolution, which directs Trump to withdraw U.S. military assets from the war on Iran.
Story by Atlanta Black Star News

Scott Pelley, former host of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” is not making the quiet exit network executives appeared to have planned for him.

Just hours after CBS News CEO Bari Weiss told staffers that the network had tried to repair its relationship with the veteran correspondent before ultimately parting ways, Pelley publicly accused her of lying.

“Bari Weiss knows what she said is not true,” Pelley said in a statement released Wednesday.

The latest clash marks the newest chapter in a growing partisan war inside CBS News, one that critics say corporate leaders fueled as Paramount pursued regulatory approval for a multibillion-dollar merger while seeking to appease President Donald Trump.

“What’s going on here is obvious,” wrote one critic. “After the merger, the newly installed Barry Weiss planned on reformatting 60 mins because Trump hates it. And that’s what’s happening. Right. Before. Our. Eyes. We’re witnessing government (more specifically, the president) changing the media.”
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