Top Items:
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
‘Two Weeks’ Is Trump's Favorite Unit of Time — “Two weeks” is one of President Trump's favorite units of time. It can mean something, or nothing at all. — “Within the next two weeks.” — That is when President Trump now says he will be ready to make his decision about bombing Iran or not.
Discussion:
Fox News, Alternet.org, Breitbart, The American Conservative, CBS News, Al Jazeera, IJR and RealClearPolitics
RELATED:
Rebecca Rosman / NPR:
Trump to decide on Iran action ‘within two weeks,’ White House says — President Trump will make a decision on whether the U.S. will strike Iran “within two weeks,” the White House said Thursday. — “Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.”
Discussion:
Business Insider, USA Today, Alternet.org, CBS News, TheGrio, The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, Daily Kos, Fox Business, Associated Press, The Independent, Deseret News, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, MSNBC, BlackPressUSA, Chicago Sun Times, Newsweek, National Review, UPI, NewsNation, Orlando Sentinel and Washington Examiner
New York Post:
Trump's fear of Iran becoming ‘another Libya’ stalls decision on nuke site strikes for two weeks: sources — WASHINGTON — President Trump's wariness over bombing Iran is due in part to concerns about creating “another Libya” if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is toppled …
Discussion:
Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Reuters:
Live Updates: Trump Will Decide on Iran Attack ‘in the Next Two Weeks,’ White House Says — European officials, who have been effectively sidelined in the war between Israel and Iran, will try to exert limited leverage in a meeting with Iranian officials on Friday in Geneva. — Tehran
Discussion:
CBS News, Axios, NewsNation, Mock Paper Scissors, New York Times, Washington Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Politico, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, New York Post, The National Pulse, New York Sun, Raw Story, Reuters, Townhall, [your]NEWS, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, New Republic, Fox News, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, Associated Press, USA Today and WTOP News
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Trump administration boosts monitoring of possible Iran-backed cells in U.S. — as Trump weighs strikes, sources say — As President Trump is contemplating potential U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, law enforcement officials have stepped up surveillance of Iran-backed operatives …
Discussion:
NewsMax.com
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump caution on Iran strike linked to doubts over ‘bunker buster’ bomb, officials say — Exclusive: The likelihood of a successful US strike on the Iranian nuclear facility buried deep underground at Fordow is a topic of deep contention, defense officials say
Discussion:
VINnews, Drezner's World, Raw Story, tippinsights, NewsMax.com, New Republic, Atlantic Council, Mediaite and Grabien
Abbie Cheeseman / Washington Post:
Live updates Trump says he'll decide on Iran strike within two weeks
Discussion:
Fox News, NBC News, NewsNation, Politico, Jerusalem Post, National Review, New York Times, abc7NY, Mediaite, One America News Network, Human Events, The Washington Free Beacon, NewsMax.com, CBS News, MPR News, Jewish Insider, Washington Examiner, VINnews, KSTP-TV, Al Jazeera and Associated Press
Alexandra Hutzler / Associated Press:
Iran has what it needs to produce a nuclear weapon in ‘a couple of weeks,’ White House says
Iran has what it needs to produce a nuclear weapon in ‘a couple of weeks,’ White House says
Discussion:
New York Times, New York Daily News, NewsMax.com, CBS News, RedState, ABC News, MSNBC, NewsNation, The Hill, Breitbart and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump Buys Himself Time, and Opens Up Some New Options
Trump Buys Himself Time, and Opens Up Some New Options
Discussion:
The Hill, Reuters and Daily Mail
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’
Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump dials back war talk, sees more time for diplomacy
Trump dials back war talk, sees more time for diplomacy
Discussion:
CBS News, The Week, The Japan Times, Mediaite and New York Times
Michael Gold / New York Times:
ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits — The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
Discussion:
CNBC, CNN, Newsweek, House Committee …, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Reason, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Guardian, twitchy.com, Fox News, The Hill, The Independent and Roll Call
RELATED:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Parsing ICE's mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims — ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity. — Last month, I wrote a column questioning why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were increasingly disguising their identities as they conducted sweeps and arrests.
Discussion:
twitchy.com, Washington Times and New Republic
Nicolae Viorel Butler / Migrant Insider:
Inside the Dystopia of Covering Immigration
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand — The failure sent a giant fireball into the sky over the company's South Texas launch site. — SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand — SpaceX's Starship spacecraft exploded ahead of an engine test late Wednesday …
Discussion:
New York Times, The Verge, CBS News, Associated Press, Daily Mail, Spaceflight Now, HotAir, TMZ.com, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Information, Gizmodo, FIRST DRAFT, Pen Strokes, The Daily Caller, Mercury News, [your]NEWS, The National Pulse, New York Sun, Washington Times, TechCrunch, Blaze Media, Ars Technica, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Metro.co.uk, The Hill, El País, New York Post, FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, UPI, The Sun, IJR and Fox Business
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
LA Dodgers says it denied ICE access to stadium grounds — The Los Angeles Dodgers said Thursday it denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents entry to their stadium grounds. — “This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots.
Discussion:
Reuters, ABC7, Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, One America News Network, UPI, LAist, Associated Press, MSNBC, The Japan Times, Raw Story, New Republic, Newsweek, Mercury News, The Independent, SFist, Fox News, Blaze Media, Mediaite, [your]NEWS, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit and The Post Millennial
RELATED:
Michelle Watson / CNN:
How cities are scaling back Juneteenth celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks — Despite Juneteenth's status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled. Organizers say safety issues along with mounting resistance to diversity …
Discussion:
New York Times, Vanity Fair and BlackPressUSA
RELATED:
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Trump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’
Trump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, CBS News, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Deadline, Alternet.org, NewsMax.com, Raw Story and Washington Times
Tara Suter / The Hill:
62 percent of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced: Survey — More than half of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced amid infighting, according to a new survey. — Thursday's Reuters/Ipsos survey featuring self-identified Democratic respondents found …
Discussion:
Ace of Spades HQ and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Islamic Republic With Its Back Against the Wall — The Iranian regime finds itself in its most difficult position 46 years after the revolution that brought it to power. But does it mean the end? — Beneath Israel's bombs lies an unpopular and repressive Iranian regime that has spent billions …
Discussion:
Reuters, New York Post, MyNorthwest.com and Popular Information
RELATED:
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
The Three Dramatic Consequences of Israel's Attack on Iran
The Three Dramatic Consequences of Israel's Attack on Iran
Discussion:
Jewish Insider
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
GOP congressman says he was run off the road by ‘deranged man’ on the way to work — Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller said Thursday he was run off the road by a “deranged man” who waved a Palestinian flag in his direction and lobbed death threats before driving away.
Discussion:
New York Post, Politico, Axios, CBS News, RedState, New York Sun, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
RELATED:
Rebecca Downs / Townhall:
Jewish House Member Rep. Max Miller Says He Was ‘Threatened’ by Someone With a Palestinian Flag
Jewish House Member Rep. Max Miller Says He Was ‘Threatened’ by Someone With a Palestinian Flag
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Reuters, Raw Story and Fox News
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Trump's border czar: Immigration raids at farms, hotels to continue — Following a week of immigration whiplash, President Trump's border czar Tom Homan confirmed Thursday that immigration raids will continue in the agriculture and hospitality industries. — The big picture …
Discussion:
UPI, [your]NEWS, The Daily Caller, The Independent and The Hill
RELATED:
Karen Aguilar / WZTV:
ICE agents say posting names endangers them, Nashville mayor says real problem is masking — The Mayor's office releasing the names of ICE agents has brought scrutiny from GOP lawmakers, DHS, and ICE over the concern that it endangers federal immigration officers.
Discussion:
twitchy.com, The Independent and Townhall
Isabel van Brugen / Newsweek:
Trump's Nuclear Attack ‘Doomsday Plane’ Arrives In Washington — A U.S. Air Force “Doomsday Plane” arrived at Joint Base Andrews Tuesday night, fueling speculation of a potential U.S. role in the escalating Israel-Iran crisis. — The E-4B Nightwatch aircraft landed at the military facility …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and New York Post
NBC News:
Focus groups: Latino Trump voters diverge on deportations but largely still back the president — The focus group participants broadly supported Trump's actions on immigration and the economy, but some divisions emerged over the focus of his deportation program.
Discussion:
RedState
Bloomberg:
Maduro Locks Up Economists Sharing Data on Venezuela's Decline — President Nicolás Maduro has intensified his crackdown on independent economists and consultants, detaining at least eight people in what critics call a bid to control data exposing Venezuela's decline.
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days — The latest ban extension is the third Trump has given to TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance. — President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell the short-form video app to an American owner by another 90 days.
Discussion:
The Hill, TikTok, So What, Associated Press, The National Pulse, Mediaite, One America News Network, Rolling Stone, New York Sun, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Raw Story, Newsweek, Mock Paper Scissors, UPI, Scripps News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, tippinsights, IJR, NewsMax.com, Semafor, Deseret News and Townhall, more at Techmeme »
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Trump Insists MAGA ‘HATES’ Fox News After Embarrassing Network Poll — HURT FEELINGS — He couldn't believe what voters really think of his “miraculously perfect” border. — President Donald Trump savaged Fox News and declared that his MAGA base hates the network after a poll showed his approval ratings tanking.
Financial Times:
Spain threatens to derail Nato summit over Trump defence target — Madrid balks at US president's request for members to increase security spending to 5% of GDP — Spain is threatening to derail a Nato summit intended to appease Donald Trump by refusing to commit to the US president's request …
Discussion:
New York Times, Reuters, Politico, The Hill, Raw Story, The Kyiv Independent, Ukrainska Pravda, Los Angeles Times, El País, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources — A potential $35 million settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against Paramount's CBS affiliate has been delayed after the company's management continued to fear a potential legal backlash, The Post has learned.
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Sun, NewsMax.com, UPI and Los Angeles Times
Alistair Kitchen / New Yorker:
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation — As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against. — Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
Discussion:
Mediaite and Kitchen Counter, more at Mediagazer »
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Americans largely disapprove of U.S. involvement in Israel and Iran war: Poll — A majority of Americans don't want the U.S. to get involved in the escalating war between Israel and Iran, a poll released this week found. — The big picture: President Trump is slated to make a decision …
Discussion:
Newsweek, The Forward and The Dispatch
The Atlantic:
The Atlantic Announces Staff Writers Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef — As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial staff, today editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is announcing the hires of Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef as staff writers.
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
'He's a snake': Musk jabs at Trump adviser who fueled messy presidential breakup — Sergio Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA head — a pick Musk had pushed. — Elon Musk may have stopped sparring with President Donald Trump online …
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, New York Post, The Hill, The Independent, New Republic and NewsMax.com
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Leavitt: Jasmine Crockett's comments on Trump supporters were ‘incredibly derogatory’ — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt piled on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) Thursday for recent comments the latter made about supporters of President Donald Trump.
Discussion:
Townhall, twitchy.com, RedState, Daily Caller News Foundation, Raw Story, Newsbusters, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, tippinsights and Mediaite

