Mike Lee confronted by Minnesota colleague over shooting comments  —  Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was confronted by a Senate colleague Monday over his social media post that blamed the Minnesota shootings over the weekend that killed a former Democratic legislative leader on “Marxists.”

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 officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids  —  ICE agents have been advised to continue conducting workforce enforcement operations on agricultural businesses despite concerns the raids will negatively affect the food industry.  —  Summary21

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.

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible  —  It's supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall.  I doubt it all. … It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment.  It is, according to the website, coming in September.  —  That's about all I feel confident saying.

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company  —  A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation's most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company …

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.

FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium  —  Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.  —  Turns out authoritarianism can be bad for business.  —  Sales for the FIFA Club World Cup, a series of precursor games ahead …

Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump  —  Republicans continue to stand by Trump, while the rest of the country is getting fed up.  —  It's understandable that media coverage of Saturday's events would focus on an obvious political contrast: While President Donald …

‘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) …

At G7, Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Rift With Allies  —  President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow's 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.

Many Exporters No Longer Want Dollars, US Bank Executive Says  —  When Paula Comings, the head of currency sales for US Bancorp, talks to US importers, she increasingly hears the same message: Their foreign counterparties no longer want to be paid in dollars.

36 More Countries May Be Added to Trump's Travel Ban  —  The administration gave the nations 60 days to fix concerns, according to a State Department cable.  The president already imposed a full or partial ban on citizens of 19 countries.  —  The Trump administration is considering expanding …

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.