‘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) …

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 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 …

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 …

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

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) …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Supreme Court orders reconsideration of religious objection to N.Y. abortion care requirement  —  The court also took up a case from New Jersey arising from the state's investigation of anti-abortion crisis centers.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court …

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.

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.

‘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.

‘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.

America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There's No Going Back  —  Saturday was a surreal day in American politics, in ways simultaneously horrifying and heartening.  The horrifying part was the news we all woke up to about the political assassinations (both attempted and consummated) in Minnesota.

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.

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 …