Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness  —  With President Donald Trump sending more troops into Los Angeles amid protests there, a remarkable image has gone viral on social media.  It shows members of the National Guard crowded into a sterile-looking office …

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance  —  It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week …

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference  —  The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.  —  The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program …

Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's ‘Burn Book’  —  “What does he have on us?”  —  It's been less than a week since the explosive, extremely public breakdown in relations between Donald Trump, the most powerful person on the planet, and Elon Musk, the world's richest man.

Majority Of Voters Oppose GOP Budget Bill, With Just 67% Of Republicans In Support, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Job Approval: 38%, His Handling Of Russia - Ukraine War Lowest Among List Of Issues  — mail_outline  —  As the Senate debates the GOP tax …

Capitol agenda: The GOP's latest megabill casualties  —  House Republicans will vote to make difficult changes to the GOP megabill Wednesday in an attempt to keep the bill on track in the Senate.  The House Rules Committee teed up a provision Tuesday night that would scrub the House-passed bill …

US prepares to order departure of all nonessential staff from Baghdad embassy, officials say  —  The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due to the potential for regional unrest, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.

GOP Senators Freak Out When Asked About Trump's Military Parade Costing $45 Million  —  Some ducked into elevators.  Some stared into space.  “I answered the question I wanted to answer!”  Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped.  —  WASHINGTON - They snapped.  They stared off into space.

X's Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We'll Sue  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform  —  Late last year, Verizon Communications got an unusual message from a media company that wanted its business: Spend your ad dollars with us or we'll see you in court.

CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people  —  Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices …

Rubio Is Pressing to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard  —  Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department's sanctions process to target a domestic entity.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing …

Trump's EPA delivers new blow to Biden climate agenda  —  EPA argues that the second-largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution contributes too little to the world's climate problem to be worth regulating.  —  The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it's revoking limits …

This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters  —  His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.  —  Revolutions have a logic.  The revolutionaries start with a big, transformative, impossible goal.  They want to remake society, smash existing institutions, replace them with something different.

Trump ‘likely’ to push back July tariff deadline, Bessent says  —  President Donald Trump is “highly likely” to push back his July 8 deadline to reach deals with top trading partners, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers Wednesday.  Speaking before the House Ways and Means Committee …

‘No Kings’: Millions to Protest Trump's ‘Dictator-Style Birthday Parade’  —  A national day of protest is set for June 14.  Can non-violent resistance counter Trump's authoritarian show of force?  —  Even before Donald Trump militarized his crackdown on pro-immigrant protesters in Los Angeles …

U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of the United States and President Donald Trump in 24 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East …

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A.  —  Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people.  —  GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Maybe they really were immigration officers, just as they claimed.  Or maybe they were a ragtag vigilante group, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.

Hegseth resists when pushed to explain Trump's Air Force One deal  —  Democrats demanded clarity on the president's rationale for pursuing the Qatari luxury jet, but his defiant defense chief gave them little in return.  —  Just now  —  Summary  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth …

NOAA Weather Radio Disruptions Highlight Need for EAS Backups  —  Over the last few months, broadcasters across the U.S. have learned about a series of rolling software updates that are causing NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) stations to experience periods of downtime.

ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted workers on produce farms in Ventura County Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids in Southern California.  —  OXNARD, Calif. (KABC) …

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired  —  Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content  —  A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely …