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8:45 PM ET, June 21, 2025

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New York Times:
U.S. Deploys B-2 Bombers as Trump Plans to Meet National Security Team  —  President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran's heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.  —  Here are the latest developments.  —  The United States has entered Israel's war against Iran.
Discussion: The Wrap, Newsweek, CBS News and Al Jazeera
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Israel seeks swift action on Iran, sources say, with a split U.S. administration  —  Israeli officials have told the Trump administration they do not want to wait two weeks for Iran to reach a deal to dismantle key parts of its nuclear program and Israel could act alone before the deadline is up …
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran  —  The United States is well down the road to dictatorship.  Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.  —  The current debate over bombing Iran is surreal.  To begin with, bombardment is unlikely to lead to a satisfactory outcome.
Reuters:
B-2 bombers moving to Guam amid Middle East tensions, US officials say  —  The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel's strikes against Iran.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities  —  The U.S. military conducted air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan on Sunday morning local time, President Trump announced on Truth Social.  —  Why it matters: Trump's decision to intervene directly in support …
Associated Press:
Diplomatic breakthrough elusive as Israel-Iran war stretches into second week  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel 's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken …
Fox News:
B-2 stealth bombers appear to be on the move hours before Trump expected at White House  —  America's unique bunker-buster bombs could target Iran's heavily fortified nuclear facility  —  Six B-2 stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri appear to be en route to a U.S. Air Force base in Guam …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's backchannel to Iran failed after supreme leader went dark  —  President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan quietly sought to arrange a meeting between senior U.S. and Iranian officials in Istanbul last week amid Israel's escalating war with Iran.
Washington Post:   B-2 bombers head west over Pacific, U.S. official says, as Trump weighs U.S. involvement in Iran strike
Kai Greet / The Aviationist:   B-2 Stealth Bombers Depart Whiteman AFB for Andersen AFB, Guam, Amid Iran Conflict
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Americans agree with Trump that Iran poses threat to United States: poll
Discussion: Townhall and New York Post
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Trump and GOP's tax bill would sell off USPS's brand-new EVs  —  Postal Service officials told lawmakers the proposal would cause “substantial harm” to “our customers, your constituents.”  —  A little-noticed provision of President Donald Trump and Republicans' massive tax and immigration legislation …
Discussion: RedState, NewsMax.com and E&E News
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Grace Yarrow / Politico:
Senate GOP's plan to push food aid costs onto states axed from megabill
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future  —  For this story, John Woodrow Cox interviewed more than 40 farmers across the country.  He and photographer Matt McClain reported from Colorado while Sarah Blaskey talked to more than two dozen employees …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   ‘They quit after a few hours’: Farmers admit they can't find American workers
Adam Wren / Politico:   Playbook: Centrist Dems sweat DSA NYC candidate
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views.  It Won Him an Award.  —  The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people.  From there, the situation spiraled.
Jim Vertuno / Associated Press:
New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom  —  Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation's largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.
Valerie Gonzalez / Associated Press:
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water  —  Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam — these first-hand accounts from immigrant families at detention centers included in a motion filed …
Michela Moscufo / The Guardian:
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery.  He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’  —  When the extent of the university's involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Health care workers on alert for ICE raids in hospitals  —  President Trump's whittling away of protected places for immigrants has fueled fears among health care workers that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will arrest patients in or around hospitals.
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Austin Kocher:
56,397 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in History
KFYR-TV:
Armstrong declares disaster for tornado damage, extends sympathy to victims' families  —  BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Gov. Kelly Armstrong today declared a statewide disaster and activated the State Emergency Operations Plan after multiple tornadoes, strong winds and hail caused widespread damage …
New York Times:
Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute  —  Details about the discussions emerged after President Trump said the two sides, which have been locked in court battles for weeks, might reach a settlement soon.  —  Harvard University and the Trump administration …
Mark Johnson / Washington Post:
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines  —  Doctors and advocates worry the move is a first step toward ending federal guidance for HIV treatment.  —  The National Institutes of Health's support for federal guidelines that steer the treatment of more than a million HIV patients …
Discussion: UPI
 
 
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