Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say  —  Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season …

Here's the latest.  —  The suspect is an Egyptian citizen who stayed in the United States after his tourist visa expired in 2023, an official said.  Eight people were injured in the attack in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday.  —  Here's the latest.  —  The suspect in the Boulder, Colo. …

A surprising coalition of GOP senators holds all the megabill leverage  —  An ideologically diverse clutch of Republicans have found rare alignment — and significant leverage.  —  The Senate's deficit hawks might be raising the loudest hue and cry over the GOP's “big, beautiful bill.”

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle  —  Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval.

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America  —  The reactionary blogger's call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke.  Now the right is ready to bend the knee.  —  In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known …

Scoop: U.S. nuclear deal offer allows Iran to enrich uranium  —  The nuclear deal proposal the U.S. gave Iran on Saturday would allow limited low-level uranium enrichment on Iranian soil for a to-be-determined period of time, Axios has learned, contradicting public statements from top officials.

The Secret History of Trump's Private Cellphone  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Just before Election Day, a disturbing piece of information made its way to Donald Trump.  Whenever he takes or makes calls on his personal cellphone …

Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic Rifles  —  The case from Maryland was the court's latest opportunity to apply its recently announced history-based test for assessing the constitutionality of gun control laws.  —  The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not hear …

An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war  —  Ukraine's high-risk strikes damage over 40 top-secret strategic bombers  —  Shortly after noon on June 1st, Russian social media began flashing, alerting the world to Ukraine's most audacious operation on Russian territory to date.

Trump Arrest of Immigrant Triggers Shock and Regret in Small MAGA Town  —  Ming Li Hui, who goes by the name of “Carol,” has lived for 20 years in the town of Kennett, Missouri, after coming here from Hong Kong.  She has been raising a family there and works as a waitress …

Trump and his crew are nuts  —  According to a jaw-dropping New York Times report, during the 2024 campaign, Elon Musk “told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.”  He allegedly took a smorgasbord of drugs …

Exclusive: China's global favorability rising, views of the U.S. turn negative  —  U.S. trade policy is making China great again — at the United States' expense, per an analysis from Morning Consult that looks at global favorability ratings, and finds China's rising while America's falls.

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya  —  Jay Bhattacharya's stint as director of the National Institutes of Health is off to a rocky start.  At his first town hall last month, the former Stanford University health economist …

The Secret Police Are Here  —  Trump is losing on policy and the law.  But he's winning on power.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Masked Men  —  Dan Goldman represents the 10th Congressional District of New York.  Before he entered Congress he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Exclusive: US pushes countries for best offers by Wednesday as tariff deadline looms  —  The Trump administration wants countries to provide their best offer on trade negotiations by Wednesday as officials seek to accelerate talks with multiple partners ahead of a self-imposed deadline in just five weeks …

Former Trump supporter Pamela Hemphill refuses and returns her Jan. 6 pardon  —  Amid the wave of pardons and commutations President Trump has doled out to some of his supporters and surrogates, one former MAGA loyalist in Idaho is fighting to return her pardon.

Immigration officials say they intended to arrest father of Milford teen instead  —  Officials did not say why they wanted to arrest the father.  —  Federal immigration officials on Monday said the Milford High School student who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice Saturday was not their intended target.

Ukraine, Russia conclude talks in Istanbul, a 1,200-for-1,200 prisoner exchange is in the works, Zelensky says  —  Editor's note: The story is being updated.  —  The Ukrainian and Russian delegations concluded peace talks in Istanbul on June 2, agreeing on a new prisoners of war (POWs) exchange but failing to reach a ceasefire.

BREAKING: Trump admin can't avoid First Amendment trial on student protesters  —  Find out the breaking legal news in real time, right in your inbox.  —  Upgrade now!  —  The Trump administration failed on Monday in its effort to avert a trial next month to determine whether a federal judge …

ICE, federal partners arrest nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in Massachusetts during immigration enforcement operation  —  ICE Boston targeted criminal alien offenders during month-long surge operation  —  BOSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal law enforcement partners …

Ernst draws challenger after defending GOP megabill  —  State Rep. J.D. Scholten, who once challenged former Iowa Rep. Steve King, said: “I just felt, you know, I have to do this.”  —  After Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told a town hall audience, “We're all going to die,” when responding …

Antonio Delgado, Hochul's No. 2, Will Challenge Her in Governor's Race  —  Mr. Delgado, New York's lieutenant governor, said he would take on Gov. Kathy Hochul in next year's Democratic primary because her tenure had lacked “bold, decisive” leadership.  —  When Gov. Kathy Hochul …

Economists Question G.O.P. Bill: Why Increase the Deficit in Good Times? … There is a basic rule of thumb when it comes to the federal budget.  The government should spend heavily during times of crisis — recessions, wars, pandemics — and then get its fiscal house in order when the crisis passes.

Meet Josh Divine, the Trump Judicial Nominee Who Argued Christians Are “Obligated Ethically to Impose Their Beliefs On Others”  —  The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump's nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri …

Teachers Are Not OK  —  Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released.  As part of that article, I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach.

Hating New York  —  MAGA and MAGA-adjacent types are very good at finding things and people to hate.  They hate immigrants (unless they're white South Africans), LGBTQ people and wokeness.  They hate universities and are doing their best to destroy American science.  The New York Times reports that they hate Europe.

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it's doing the opposite  —  New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.  —  Somewhere in the world last month, a State Department employee began …

A Showdown Over The Power Of The Courts Is Headed To The Senate  —  The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has a provision buried halfway through its 1,000-plus pages that would take away power from the courts.  —  In the House of Representatives' recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, something ugly lurks beneath the surface.

Dutch Coalition Risks Collapse After Failure of Migration Talks  —  The ruling coalition in the Netherlands failed to reach an agreement over plans pushed by the far-right Freedom Party to curb migration and is set to continue talks on Tuesday.  —  An emergency meeting held Monday evening …

Arizona's Water Is Vanishing Before AI Gets a Crack at It  —  Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water from reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell.  —  While we worry about the growing threat of robots guzzling up America's groundwater …