A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate  —  Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return to talks if the U.S. stays out of the fight  —  DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption …

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

‘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) …

ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown  —  President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month.  —  Why it matters: Immigration …

Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left  —  The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota's Democratic governor.  He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.

MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence  —  It took only hours after an allegedly Trump-supporting gunman shot multiple Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses for the right-wing misinformation machine to chug into action.

Senate unveils trickiest text of Trump's “big, beautiful bill”  —  Senate Finance Committee Republicans published their text of President Trump's “one big, beautiful bill” Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for.

Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Who was on Vance Boelter's hit list?  — Vance Boelter's “hit list” of lawmakers included prominent state and federal Democrats, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison.  — The list also named Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury).

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.

It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished  —  The size of the “No Kings” protest across the nation underscores how the anti-Trump protest movement is getting into a rhythm.  —  Millions of Americans peacefully participated in “No Kings” protests Saturday, demonstrating against …

New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular, Dems up 8 in House vote  —  Summary:  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds.

Terry Moran Says He Doesn't Regret Posts Criticizing Trump Administration  —  In his first interview since losing his job at ABC News, the longtime TV correspondent, newly popular on Substack, says he does not regret his social media post criticizing the Trump administration.

Terminated National Institute of Heath grants must be restored, judge orders  —  A federal judge Monday ordered the National Institutes of Health to restore grants that the agency cut based on gender ideology or diversity, equity and inclusion, calling the move illegal.

Institute of Museum and Library Services—Applicability of the Impoundment Control Act to Reduction of Agency Functions  —  B-337375  —  Highlights  —  Congress appropriated amounts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out authorized mission activities for fiscal year 2025.

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.

The Tyrant Test  —  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.  —  For as long as I've been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition.

Trump: ‘There would be no war’ if Russia were in G8  —  The U.S. leader claimed Moscow wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if it hadn't been banned from the forum.  —  KANANASKIS, Alberta — “The G7 used to be the G8,” Donald Trump mused after a bilateral meeting with host Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies.

Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  President Donald Trump's public approval rating held steady over the last month, but Americans are becoming less supportive of his approach to immigration as his administration cracks down …

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.