New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular with voters, Dems up 8 in House vote  —  More: 60% see ethics/corruption problems in Trump administration, and the “Abundance Agenda” is popular (except zoning reform)  —  Summary:  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing …

Vance Boelter taken into custody in lawmaker shootings in Minnesota  —  Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning, is now in custody.  —  Multiple sources told WCCO on Sunday evening that Boelter …

Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative  —  The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in Africa two years ago that the U.S. was in a “bad place” where most churches didn't oppose abortion.

Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles …

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans  —  Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’  —  Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) …

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security … Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration.

Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split  —  Eight in 10 respondents believe the Trump administration shouldn't ignore a federal court ruling the White House doesn't like, per the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds  —  Every claim made by the Republican senator to ridicule the nonpartisan agency turns out to be false. … — Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), in a video posted on social media, June 12  —  As part of the GOP campaign attacking …

Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman  —  In a letter to the party's chairman, Ken Martin, Ms. Weingarten wrote, “I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging.”  —  Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of one of the nation's most influential labor unions …

Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor  —  Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade.  They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s.  —  Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.

Playbook: 10 years of Trump  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Monday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard.  —  A DECADE LIKE NO OTHER: It's 10 years to the day that Trump descended that famous golden elevator in New York's Trump Tower and announced he was running for president.

Trump's parade flopped.  No Kings Day was a hit.  —  Right now, images largely determine the outcome  —  America is no longer a full-fledged democracy.  We are currently living under a version of competitive authoritarianism — a system that (like Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey) …

When Rights Erode for Some of Us, Something Corrodes in All of Us  —  The Trump administration is often most shocking when it disregards rights many Americans have blithely assumed to be universal.  Of course you can't be punished for writing an opinion essay, because the United States …

Marcher wounded in Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ protest shooting dies  —  Police chief says the victim was not shot by the suspect, who is in jail.  —  Note to readers  •The Salt Lake Tribune has made this story free to all.  —  A marcher critically wounded in a shooting …

Trump Hasn't Visited A Single Natural Disaster On His Watch As President  —  Trump, who politicized disasters during his campaign, is now slow-walking aid to victims of dozens of tornadoes, floods and wildfires.  —  WASHINGTON ― After making political hay of a train derailment …

Israeli strikes could cause regime change in Iran, Netanyahu says; Iran fires more missiles at Israel  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that regime change in Iran “could certainly be the result” of Israel's military campaign.  “Because the Iran regime is very weak,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term  —  Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire - the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on ... and on  —  The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it.

Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad  —  American Foreign Policy in an Age of Unrestrained Executive Power  —  Only a few months into U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, the United States looks dramatically and perhaps irreversibly different at home and on the world stage.

Fact check: Did suspect in Minnesota shootings have close ties to Gov. Tim Walz?  No.  —  The governor reappointed Boelter to an advisory board in 2019, but one member says the board is bipartisan.  A friend of Boelter's called him a strong supporter of President Donald Trump.