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4:20 PM ET, June 16, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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Axios:
Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast  —  Iranian state television was broadcasting live on Monday when a massive explosion rocked the studio, with the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble.  The broadcast then went dark.  —  The big picture: Israel's strike …
New York Times:
Israel attacks Iran's state television, live on the air.  —  Israel expanded its attacks on Iran on Monday, striking the headquarters of state television after telling residents to leave part of Tehran, as the fiercest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Israeli-Iranian conflict entered its fourth day.
Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:   Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests  —  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place.  —  In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded …
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
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 …
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
Discussion: Newsweek and Raw Story
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:   Building the American Brownshirts
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
‘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) …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone
New York Times:
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.
Discussion: The Independent and NPR
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
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.
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
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.
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and CNBC
Steph Solis / Axios:
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.
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Anil Oza / STAT:   STAT+: Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are ‘void and illegal,’ federal judge rules
New York Times:
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.
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding  —  For the second time this year, the federal government's top watchdog concluded Monday that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding funding Congress already approved.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Tony Romm / New York Times:   Watchdog Finds Trump Administration Broke Law by Withholding Library Funds
Dylan Ebs / NBC News:
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.
Politico:
Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision  —  Senate Republicans are seeking to ratchet up savings from a politically explosive policy within Medicaid to pay for their megabill, and it's already setting off shockwaves through Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Semafor and Los Angeles Times
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Washington Post:
GOP tax bill could hurt the poorest households more than it helps them
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
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) …
Politico:
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.
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Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists  —  On Saturday, a gunman impersonating a police officer fatally shot Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home, and wounded state Sen. Mark Hortman and his wife at their home.
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’  —  Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada.  She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society  —  She finds the whole idea absurd.
Discussion: HuffPost
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police  —  This article was primarily reported using public records requests.  We are making it available to all readers as a public service.  FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Truly Disgusting’: GOP Senator Slammed For ‘Depraved’ Tweets After Shootings  —  Mike Lee of Utah is facing calls to resign over the messages.  —  Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is facing criticism over tweets mocking this weekend's deadly shootings in Minnesota targeting Democratic lawmakers.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘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.
Discussion: Alternet.org
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell.  Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.  —  Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees' immigration cases have been dismissed - denying Trump's victims their day in court.  —  The only information Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos' family has received …
Discussion: El País
 
 
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NPR:
Top House Democrat asks Microsoft about DOGE code allegedly tied to NLRB data removal
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
DC mayor: Military parade cleanup expected to take several more days
The Hill:
‘100 percent’ haven't shown up to work due to immigration raids, Texas farmer says
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Tyrant Test  —  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Army's 250th anniversary parade was a celebration of America — unlike foolish ‘No Kings’ protests
Discussion: The Bulwark, ABC News, Roll Call and Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
April Rubin / Axios:
Judge extends block on Trump's Harvard international student ban
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Hasn't Visited A Single Natural Disaster On His Watch As President
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
'I'm an American, Bro!': Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned