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10:10 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.
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Amalia Huot-Marchand / The Hill:
Republican lawmaker on U.S. bombs against Iran: ‘This is not constitutional’  —  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of the most vocal Republicans pushing against American intervention in Iran, posted on X that President Trump's bombing of Iranian nuclear sites is unconstitutional.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Dispatch
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.
Politico:
MAGA largely falls in line on Trump's Iran strikes  —  Meanwhile, Democrats challenged the constitutionality of the president's actions.  —  President Donald Trump's sudden announcement Saturday night that he bombed three Iranian nuclear sites has skeptics of U.S. military action against Iran largely falling in line.
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.
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:
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 …
Discussion: HotAir, SFist and israelhayom.com
Wired:
Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Iran Bombing  —  The social network started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran.  —  Truth Social malfunctioned on Saturday night amid President Donald Trump's announcement …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and [your]NEWS
Bloomberg:
Trump's ‘Two Weeks’ Pause on Iran Strikes Comes With High Stakes  —  President Donald Trump often suggests that something will happen in “two weeks” when he's looking to buy himself some time.  But his latest two-weeks declaration — on possible US military strikes in Iran — comes with unusually high stakes.
Rolling Stone:
Trump Announces U.S. Dropped ‘Payload of Bombs’ on Iran via Truth Social
Felicia Schwartz / Politico:
US bombed 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says
Washington Post:
B-2 bombers head west over Pacific, U.S. official says, as Trump weighs U.S. involvement in Iran strike
Discussion: Breitbart
Kai Greet / The Aviationist:   B-2 Stealth Bombers Depart Whiteman AFB for Andersen AFB, Guam, Amid Iran Conflict
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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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.
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 …
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.
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
 
 
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