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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.”
Story by Matthew Chapman

Sensational stories abound of January 6 rioters who got charged with new crimes after President Donald Trump granted them clemency — but the full figure is much higher than anyone previously realized, Lawfare reported on Thursday.

The number of pardoned rioters charged or convicted of new crimes, according to reporter Katherine Pompilio, is at least 97 — or more than 1 in 16 of the total 1,500.

These crimes, she continued, "run the gamut from relatively low-grade offenses like property damage, possession of drug paraphernalia, and trespassing to serious felonies like grand larceny, stalking, planning to assassinate law enforcement officials and prominent politicians, and defrauding government agencies" — and some of the rioters have been sentenced to life in prison, like Andrew Paul Johnson, who was convicted of horrific crimes against children.
Story by Matt Naham

Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit in Florida against the British Broadcasting Corporation over 12 seconds featured in a Jan. 6 documentary has placed evidence of his "state of mind" at the center of a hotly contested discovery dispute.

Trump and the defendants jointly filed court documents on Wednesday, calling for U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, a Trump appointee, to set a discovery hearing.

On the one hand, Trump maintains that the defendants' 47 subpoenas of third parties — seeking the "same records" former special counsel Jack Smith pursued against him — constitute an "improper fishing expedition" on the part of the BBC, by attempting to pry into the communications of his "family members, members of his executive cabinet, and several federal agencies." A 1,200-page exhibit showed the subpoena recipients included Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner.

The subpoenas broadly sought "[a]ll Documents and Communications Concerning the attack on the U.S. Capitol following the 'Stop the Steal' rally on January 6, 2021" and all the documents the parties provided to or received from the Jan. 6 Committee, Smith, congressional committees, among other entities.

The BBC has argued, on the other hand, that the broadcaster is entitled to documents that would tend to show that it's substantially true that Trump "fomented the violence" on Jan. 6.
Story by Thomas Kika

At a time when voters are ready to hand Republicans a midterm revolt over the economy, Politico reported this week that top executives warned President Donald Trump that prices are about to get much worse if he does not solve the war in Iran.

Trump remains embroiled in negotiations for a lasting ceasefire and resolution to the war, which he started, with Iran's new hardline leadership refusing his demands. As that situation continues to spiral, the Strait of Hormuz remains either closed off or dangerous, depending on the day, sending global oil prices surging as a result.

According to a Thursday report from Politico, oil executives have warned Trump and his administration that, as bad as things are now, they are about to get much worse if the Strait is not reopened in a matter of weeks, citing sources close to the discussions. Without the oil that gets shipped through the body of water, global oil reserves will start to dwindle to a dangerous degree, sending prices to new heights.
Story by Atlanta Black Star New

During his testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on June 2, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche delivered a surprise admission to Democratic Rep. Grace Meng confirming that the Department of Justice is walking away from President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, and that it isn’t coming back.

Major outlets immediately declared the fund dead. But a closer reading of what Blanche actually said — and refused to say — tells a very different story.

Meng opened by pressing Blanche on the fund’s future, noting that the DOJ had agreed to pause the effort only until June 12 and asked point blank what came next.

Blanche’s answer was immediate and unequivocal.

“We are not moving forward with the fund, period.”

Meng didn’t let it go at that. The seven-term New York congresswoman pushed to confirm whether “not moving forward” meant permanently.

“Not moving forward, ever?” she asked.

“Correct,” Blanche replied.

But what Blanche never said was that he refused at every turn to put any of it in writing. And that distinction may be everything.
Posted By ArLuther Lee

What started as a Republican pressure campaign is now turning into one of the most expensive First Amendment reckonings in recent memory and the employers who thought they were doing the right thing by listening to Vice President JD Vance are the ones being made to pay for it.

After Vance and other Republican leaders encouraged consequences for people who appeared to celebrate or criticize Kirk following his 2025 assassination, hundreds of workers were fired or disciplined.

Now, many of those same employers are paying substantial settlements or defending themselves in court, with payouts already exceeding $2 million and additional cases still moving through the legal system.

The reversals have fueled a broader debate over free speech, employee protections, and whether organizations that bowed to political pressure are now watching those decisions blow up in their faces.
Story by Will Neal

A Trump administration whistleblower says officials plotted to declare 2.7 million living individuals dead to push immigrants out of the country.

The scheme would have used the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) “Death Master File,” a database that flags the deceased, to wipe people off the financial grid, cutting off their pay, bank accounts, credit and benefits, the Washington Post reports.

Tech broligarch Elon Musk, who spearheaded the Trump administration’s controversial cost-cutting DOGE initiative last year, had pushed to bend the agency’s records to President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, the newspaper notes. The SSA had separately marked 6,100 immigrants as dead last year in an earlier, smaller push.

Jeremiah Schofield, a career official at the SSA who helped run the agency’s IT modernization before leaving in October, said the plans crystallized on a single conference call last year.

A DOGE official, he said, laid out the goal bluntly: pile on enough hardship that immigrants either fled the country or walked into a field office for help and got arrested.

Schofield described it as “one of the most disappointing calls I’ve been in in my 25-year career,” and has now detailed the plan in a 49-page disclosure to the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, reviewed by the Post.
Story by David Edward

An internal government document obtained by 404 Media reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to arm more than 1,200 local police departments with a "flawed" facial recognition app capable of scanning anyone's face — no warrant, no consent, no notice required.

The app, called the ICE Task Force Module, would run face photos against a database of more than 250 million DHS and State Department records to determine whether someone is subject to deportation. The document — a Privacy Threshold Analysis filed by ICE's own privacy unit — acknowledges that U.S. citizens will inevitably be swept up in the scans. Every photo taken, whether it matches a target or not, gets stored for 15 years.
Story by Jessica Piper, Lisa Kashinsky and Nick Reisman

Democrats are at each other’s throats about Graham Platner after his latest scandal. They don’t know what to do about it.

The New York Times released a report Thursday with disturbing accounts from several of Platner’s ex-girlfriends, just days before he is set to win the Democratic nomination to face GOP Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, a critical Senate battleground. One woman described Platner grabbing her in ways that left marks and once locking her in a room. She also claimed he knew that his tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol when he got it — something he has repeatedly denied.

The report — on the heels of last week’s news that Platner had sexted other women while married — left Democrats torn. Some view Platner, whose campaign has persisted despite a series of scandals, as their only chance to take down Collins. He continuously led Democratic Gov. Janet Mills in primary polling before she suspended her campaign in April, and has led the Republican senator in public head-to-head polls.
Story by María Teresita Armstrong-Matta

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated he is installing "roadblocks" within the Justice Department to prevent Democrats from prosecuting President Donald Trump after his presidency ends.

In an exclusive NewsNation interview with Katie Pavlich surfaced by journalist Aaron Rupar, Blanche expressed concern about the actions some Democrats might take against Trump once his presidency ends.

This marks the latest in a series of moves critics argue have converted the DOJ into Trump's personal protection service.

Previously, Blanche signed an addendum declaring the federal government "FOREVER BARRED" from pursuing IRS audits or tax claims against Trump, his family, or businesses — part of a settlement over leaked tax records.
Story by Alexander Willis

The White House dismissed a report published Friday night in which two U.S. officials claimed that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat level from a top U.S. ally to “critical,” the “highest level,” according to NBC News.

Two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official, speaking with NBC News under the condition of anonymity, claimed that the Pentagon had grown “increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S.,” the outlet reported, and that in “recent weeks,” the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had increased Israel’s threat level to the highest level.

“The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East, the officials said,” NBC News’ report reads.

“The DIA assessment includes a seven-page document and features a chart, according to one of the current U.S. officials. The document says the assessment of Israel is that its ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a ‘critical level,’ according to the official.”
The CIA played a major role in reshaping global politics throughout the 20th century, often overthrowing governments in secret. These coups were rarely covered in school, despite their massive consequences for millions of people. From Iran to Guatemala to Congo and beyond, the agency used propaganda, paid militias, and covert funding to install leaders favorable to U.S. interests. Many of these operations led to decades of instability, violence, and distrust toward the United States. This video uncovers the hidden coups that changed the world.
Story by Mary Ginther

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reversed course within days after religious groups objected to a new Pentagon policy.

Black service members have been waiting much longer for answers.

The Pentagon changed its newly shortened list of religious affiliations this week after lawmakers and religious leaders complained about how it organized the categories.

The swift reversal comes as questions continue to swirl around Hegseth’s reported decision to block promotions for several Black and female military officers.

Last week, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell shared a list of 31 religious affiliations service members could choose from. The move dramatically reduced the previous list of roughly 200 faith codes.
President Trump was reportedly considering suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus, according to new bombshell reporting from The New York Times. MS NOW's Ari Melber reports and is joined by Jamelle Bouie, columnist for The New York Times.
Story by Shelby Erdman

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is furious at President Donald Trump and what critics call his weaponized Department of Justice, slamming Trump for launching an investigation into Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and calling him “the most corrupt president in American history.”

Newsom, on Monday, June 15, said federal agents have been contacting his family, friends, and former employees in search of a crime or criminal activity, demanding records and “digging through years of random documents,” which Newsom called an abuse of the grand jury process.

In his blistering attack on Trump, the popular Democrat, who has been trolling the president for more than a year on social media and calling him out, said he thinks he knows why the Republican president is coming after him.

“Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets,” Newsom stated. “He’s coming after me because I’m considering running for president, because he hates that I’ve consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit.”

The DOJ hasn’t commented on the case, but Politico is reporting that the investigation into the Newsoms has been ongoing for the past year and that a person in the know about the case said it started after whistleblower tips and has focused on Siebel Newsom’s taxes, Newsom’s former chief of staff, and possibly the governor’s current staffers.

“They have not found a crime,” the governor repeated. “They are simply trying to find one.”
Story by Alex Griffing

The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday the latest cost estimates for President Donald Trump’s highly controversial ballroom, which he promised the American people would be funded entirely by private donors.

The Post obtained a “detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor” that instead showed the cost would come in at $600 million, with over half the cost being burdened by the public. Even more remarkable, the Post notes, Trump received the estimate three weeks before publicly saying the project would cost $400 million and include no public funding.

“This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump declared in the Oval Office on March 31, well after receiving the estimate.

“President Trump and generous American patriots are funding the ballroom to the tune of approximately $400 million, which will be a secure and appropriate venue for Presidents for generations to come,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle wrote in a statement to the Post.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

President Donald Trump’s appointees reportedly terminated an early-stage criminal investigation into his controversial clemency for a convicted fraudster.

Five people with direct knowledge of the commutation claim that the Trump team did not want any probing into whether improper payments were made to commute a sentence to David Gentile, according to a report by The New York Times. Gentile was convicted of a $1.6 billion fraud against thousands of investors while running his private equity firm. By targeting low-income and middle-income investors, Gentile wiped out the retirement savings for many of his clients.

Because of Trump’s clemency, Gentile served less than two weeks of his seven year prison sentence and will not need to forfeit more than $15.5 million.

“Within a few months, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, where Mr. Gentile’s conviction had been secured, opened an investigation into how the commutation came about,” The New York Times reported. “Among the evidence they gathered was information about jailhouse communications in which Mr. Gentile discussed making payments of $2.5 million or more to people or companies to help facilitate his clemency, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to discuss it.”
Story by Alexander Willis

A Republican political action committee (PAC) that “initially took great effort” to hide their identity came clean Monday after admitting to Punchbowl News they had “meddled” in Democratic primaries in several states.

“Republicans are leveling the playing field after over a decade of Democrats meddling in our primaries,” said Samantha Bullock, a spokesperson for Conservative Americans PAC, speaking with Punchbowl News. “And with the Democrat Party in the midst of a civil war, Republicans would be stupid not to take advantage while pushing their candidates farther left.”
Story by Simon Marks

President Donald Trump’s chief ideologue, Stephen Miller, is no longer even trying to hide his determination to game the outcome of America’s midterm elections in November.

In plain sight on Elon Musk’s X on Wednesday, the deputy chief of staff in Trump’s White House published one of the darkest threats to American democracy ever articulated by a senior American official.

“Change the voters, change the country,” he wrote. In a mere six words he revealed the determination of Trump and his inner circle to rig the rules in November so that Republicans cannot lose, and he made the scale of the President’s ambitions ruthlessly apparent.

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters that Trump was “mad as a murder hornet”. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas described the discussions as “spirited…frank” and “candid”. They included a blazing, face-to-face row between Trump and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who will soon be leaving Congress after the President ordered Republicans in the state to de-select him.

Cassidy later told reporters he had laid into Trump over Iran, telling him: “You have not told the American people what’s going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it has lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved.”
Michael Steele shares a jaw-dropping exchange between Senator Gary Peters and Postmaster General David Steiner in which Steiner admits that a new proposed Trump administration rule would withhold mail ballots from states that do not comply with Trump's voter database demands. Senate Peters joins to discuss.
Story by Alexander Willis

As reporting increasingly suggests that the U.S. federal aid cuts spearheaded by trillionaire Elon Musk last year have led to preventable deaths abroad – and potentially millions by 2030 – the Tesla CEO issued his critics a challenge to “cite a single name of someone who died,” but grew notably silent after being given countless examples.

“They cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the ‘millions’ they falsely claim have died,” Musk wrote Sunday on his social media platform X. “Not a single name!”

Musk’s online post was immediately hit with thousands of replies, many of them citing the names of individuals as young as three years old whose deaths had been attributed to a disruption in U.S. foreign aid. Among the most notable responses came from New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof, who’s extensively reported on the impact from U.S. foreign aid cuts spearheaded by Musk.

“Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts,” Kristof wrote, listing several individuals who died over the past year due to U.S. foreign aid cuts – people whose families or caretakers he had personally spoken with.
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