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 …

‘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) …

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 …

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.

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

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 …

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.

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) …

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.

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.

Trump fires Democratic appointee from Nuclear Regulatory Commission  —  NRC commissioner Christopher Hanson's dismissal comes as the White House has sought control over independent agencies.  —  President Donald Trump has terminated Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission …

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.

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 …

‘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.

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.

‘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.

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 …

How the Military Can Regain Public Trust  —  BEHIND THE OBSERVATION THAT “war is a continuation of politics by other means,” the most famous idea of the military theoretician Carl von Clausewitz, is the “trinity” of the people, the government, and the military—which he also identifies with passion …

Poll: RFK Jr.'s food agenda finds appeal across partisan lines, but vaccines are a different story  —  The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found adults divided over the health secretary but with a bare majority viewing him favorably.  —  New polling about Health …

Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters  —  Democrats of all kinds have lost faith in their ability to win arguments and drive home plain truths.  —  ∙ Paid  —  What would voters have needed to learn, or to remember and believe, to deny Donald Trump a second term last year?