Trump says Iran is ready to negotiate a ceasefire but he's not ready to make a deal  —  The president said the “terms aren't good enough yet” to make a deal with Iran amid a widening war in the Middle East.  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday that he's not ready to make a deal to end …

To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers … For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farmworkers age and fewer new immigrants and younger Americans are willing to toil in the fields.  Top Trump administration officials vowed …

Zelenskiy says Ukraine wants money, technology in return for Middle East drone help  —  Ukraine wants money and technology in return for helping Middle Eastern nations that have sought its expertise as they defend against Iranian kamikaze drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after Kyiv sent specialists to the region.

MAGA ramps up pressure on Trump to dump Cornyn  —  President Trump, already at odds with many MAGA leaders over Iran, is getting pressured hard by MAGA activists not to endorse Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for reelection. … Trump was leaning toward backing Cornyn before MAGA went ballistic, officials tell Axios.

F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses Over War Coverage  —  The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media's coverage of the war with Iran.  —  Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission …

Appointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefers  —  The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building's front entrance  —  For nearly two centuries, the White House's main entrance …

As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find  —  The Trump administration likes to promote its immigration enforcement agenda through numbers, with ambitious goals to deport 1 million people, report zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border and arrest thousands of alleged gang members.

Jeffrey Epstein victim: He trafficked me to Mohamed Al Fayed  —  ‘Natalie’ says she was sent to the Harrods boss as a teenage model and he sexually assaulted her on his yacht  —  Josie Ensor, Chief US Reporter, Katie Tarrant and Dipesh Gadher, Home Affairs Correspondent  —  What you need to know

In Texas, an Unyielding Gun Culture Jumps Off YouTube and Into Politics  —  Brandon Herrera, a Republican candidate for Congress, built a large online fan base as a “guntuber.”  —  Two young men stood on the windswept prairie of Northern Colorado.  —  One of them, Brandon Herrera …

The Omnipresence of Donald Trump Should Open Our Eyes  —  Does anyone think a healthy nation with a healthy political culture would elect a man like Donald Trump not once, but twice?  —  The eternal return of President Trump is a sign of our national sickness, and a recent Pew Research …

Trump's latest tariffs face a fresh set of legal hurdles … Legal experts told POLITICO that Trump's backup tariffs are probably on stronger legal footing than the “Liberation Day” taxes the high court struck down.  —  Despite that, his challengers are exuding bravado about their chances.

He Was Chevron's Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant  —  After retiring from the U.S. oil giant, Ali Moshiri warned the Trump administration it would face a morass if it tried to replace Maduro with the democratic opposition  —  In the months before President Trump moved …

California's Billionaire Tax Battle  —  Wealthy residents of the state have put millions of dollars toward stopping a proposed 5 percent tax on their assets.  —  Jon Feldhammer, like many Californians, often passes canvassers holding clipboards at the grocery store or on his commute to work.

U.S. intelligence shows Iran's late supreme leader was wary of his son taking power, sources say  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  U.S. intelligence has circulated to President Trump and to a small circle around him that Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …

Where Mamdani Has Refused to Moderate  —  The New York City mayor is not soft-pedaling his views on Israel.  —  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, played host this past week to another young married couple, who came to Gracie Mansion to break their Ramadan fast.

UF disbands College Republican chapter, citing antisemitic activity … The University of Florida deactivated its College Republicans chapter after the Florida Federation of College Republicans alerted the university to a photo showing a student leader performing a Nazi salute.

Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it “woke”  —  The Defense Department has begun to exert greater control over Stars and Stripes, weeks after a top spokesman accused the independent military newspaper of focusing on “woke distractions.”

How Minnesota Beat Trump  —  The last year has been one of the most depressing of my nearly 50 years as a journalist.  It's not just that I've had to watch the Trump administration destroy cherished alliances, like ours with Western Europe and Canada, that have upheld freedom, democracy and global trade since World War II.

Formula 1 cancels races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia amid Middle East conflict … Iran targeted both Gulf countries in the early days of the conflict in a retaliatory campaign that saw Tehran take shots at Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Cyprus and Israel.

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96  —  Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.  He was 96.