The Trump-Iran Deal Allows Tehran to Immediately Sell Oil  —  The agreement also waives banking and transport sanctions to facilitate transactions, an early financial benefit  —  The U.S. will allow Iran to immediately begin selling oil and fuel under the deal to end the war …

Claiming an Antifa Plot, U.S. Charges 15 in Minneapolis With Conspiracy  —  The 94-page conspiracy indictment was filed as federal prosecutors in Minnesota had trouble sustaining many criminal cases filed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters.

Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation  —  Warm weather has fueled a bloom that US National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.  —  On Wednesday morning …

Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump's ballroom project, with half from taxpayers  —  An internal cost estimate in March by the project's contractor ran $200 million more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.  —  Summary

2 SoCal men arrested in alleged plot targeting UFC fights at White House  —  RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) — Two men from Riverside County were arrested in connection with an alleged plot targeting the “UFC Freedom 250” fights at the White House, Eyewitness News has learned.

Education Dept. plans to move special ed and civil rights out of the agency  —  The moves are part of an effort to close the department by moving its functions to other parts of the government.  —  Summary  —  The Education Department plans to move work overseeing special-education services …

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society  —  More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III.  An associated app offers matchmaking.  —  A trove of internal records …

Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Senatobia Shoplifting Call  — Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  A Mississippi police officer shot 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley while responding to a shoplifting call on Sunday, killing him and critically wounding an adult.

Hawley demands answers from MLB over warning players who wrote Bible verses on Pride hats  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to the MLB on Tuesday, seeking answers on why the professional baseball league threatened to penalize three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night hats.

Kash Patel may have a ‘personal slush fund’ of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, says Raskin  —  FBI Director Kash Patel may have authorized taxpayer-funded special payments to his inner circle of FBI executives and agents on his protective detail, according to the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epstein's Death  —  Late in the afternoon of July 6, 2019, about a dozen F.B.I. agents and New York Police Department officers gathered at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, waiting out of view of the tarmac so as not to spook their quarry.

Carville: Trump ‘going to walk away’ from presidency by next Easter  —  Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday predicted that President Trump is “going to walk away” from the presidency and leave office by next Easter.  —  Carville said during a discussion with his “Politics War Room” …

Senate Republicans want assurances from Todd Blanche.  So far it's working. … The fund, which could have funnelled up to $1.8 billion in payouts to Trump political allies, was withdrawn after a bipartisan outcry on Capitol Hill, and Blanche assured senators during the closed-door sitdowns that it's gone for good.

The Theory of the Vulgar Class  —  Collapsing norms, cage matches, and a republic in danger  —  On Sunday Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with a cage match on the White House lawn.  The match and the events that surrounded it — especially the press conference with UFC fighters …

Obama Presidential Center opening brings out all the stars  —  The Obama Presidential Center just dropped its grand-opening performance lineup, and it may go down as one of the best Chicago concerts of the last 50 years. … - There is also a ticketed watch party at Midway Plaisance Park …

SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The New York Post on Google  —  A top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money …

A Teddy Roosevelt quote adorns a D.C. building.  He probably didn't say it.  —  The words about courage appear on a poster on the facade of the Office of Personnel Management.  But scholars say there's no evidence the 26th president said them.  —  Summary

A $40 Million Gold Heist Risks Exposing CIA's Top-Secret Spy Programs  —  Veterans of the agency worry the case will compromise legitimate, highly classified operations against American adversaries  —  Five decades ago, four burglars broke into a billionaire's safe, setting off a chain …

White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate … Members of both parties said they now see an opening to mobilize their colleagues around legislation that would reclaim congressional authority at a time when the executive branch remains firmly in the drivers' seat on AI regulation.

DOJ accuses New York of unlawful Medicaid home care ‘scheme’ … Federal prosecutors are seeking a court order freezing the flow of any gross revenue to PPL under the CDPAP contract and appointing a temporary receiver.  —  “New York's failure to police a favored vendor that unlawfully siphoned millions …

OMB nominee 'can't commit' to forgoing ‘pocket rescissions’ funding gambit this year  —  President Donald Trump's pick for deputy director of the White House budget office told lawmakers Tuesday he can't promise the administration won't unilaterally cancel funding later this year without Congress' consent.