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11:35 PM ET, June 16, 2026

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New York Times:
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.
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Joseph Swanson / KSTP-TV:
US Attorney for Minnesota charges 15 anti-ICE protesters, alleging ties to antifa groups  —  Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged 15 people allegedly tied to two Minneapolis-based antifa groups.  —  U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen for the District of Minnesota and Homeland Security …
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
DOJ charges 15 people it says impeded agents during Minnesota immigration crackdown
Discussion: The Federalist
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
MN U.S. Attorney Won't Say Whether Officers Were Harmed As He Charges ICE Protesters with Felonies
Discussion: emptywheel and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama's Nuclear Deal Looms Over Trump's Iran Negotiations  —  President Trump is under pressure to significantly improve upon the Obama-era deal in order to justify the huge human and economic cost of taking the United States to war.  —  Only minutes into a phone call to a New York Times reporter …
Discussion: Politico
Tim Caputo / ABC7:
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.
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Washington Post:
Five arrested, charged with plotting to attack UFC event at White House, DOJ says
US Department of Justice:
Five Men Arrested and Charged in Plot to Attack and Kill Government Officials and Others Attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship at White House
Molly Taft / Wired:
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 …
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Politico:
Trump promised clear water.  The reflecting pool went green. … Algae started forming in the pool last week, within days of the renovation's completion.  An Interior Department spokesperson Friday said the agency would remove the algae and use “nanobubblers” to keep it clean.  But the algae has quickly spread.
Washington Post:
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
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Stalled Out  —  Would you be shocked to learn that Donald Trump's months of claims …
Discussion: Raw Story
Cameron Peters / Vox:
You're paying for Trump's ballroom
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, MS NOW and NewsMax.com
Wired:
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 …
Discussion: Straight Arrow
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump-endorsed Collins beats Kemp's pick to take on Ossoff for Georgia Senate
NBC News:
Rep. Mike Collins wins GOP runoff in Georgia Senate race
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
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.
Discussion: TheGrio, Mississippi Today and Reason
Washington Post:
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 …
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New York Times:
Trump Breaks Up Education Dept., Prompting Worries Over Civil Rights
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
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.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Republicans Confirm Another One Of Trump's Personal Attorneys To A Federal Court Seat  —  Justin Smith, who has been representing the president in his E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case, also refused to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election.  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans voted late Monday …
Discussion: New Republic, Joe.My.God. and MS NOW
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Republicans Again Block War Powers Measure in the Senate
NBC News:
Trump is forcing U.S. companies to manufacture more weaponry  —  The president invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate munitions productions as Defense Secretary Hegseth pitched lawmakers Tuesday on a $350 billion in defense to help replenish U.S. stockpiles.
Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
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.
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Read the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and Iran  —  The US and Iran are expected to formally sign a memorandum of understanding on June 19 in Switzerland, paving the way for 60 days of talks aimed at ending their war for good and putting strict new limits on Iran's nuclear program.
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
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” …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Shocking Arrest of a MAGA Pit Bull and His Fake Secret Service Pal  —  Ryan Fournier and his friend were arrested on Friday.  Strip clubs, counterfeit badges, and made-up claims of Trump world access contributed to their fall.  —  ∙ Paid  —  PRO-TRUMP INFLUENCER RYAN FOURNIER and a friend …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Judge rules transgender people won't face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms  —  The law goes further than laws in other states to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use in public places.  —  A judge ruled Tuesday that transgender people won't face criminal charges …
New York Times:
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.
Carrie Shepherd / Axios:
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 …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Iran deal includes $300 billion fund, more than half of which already committed, source says  —  A $300 billion private fund designed to trigger investment into Iran is outlined in the U.S.-Iran framework agreement and more than half that sum has already been committed, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters.
Politico:
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 …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says Biden's Re-election Bid Was a ‘Terrible Mistake’  —  If the former president had “passed the torch” and allowed a competitive Democratic primary in 2024, she said in a new interview, the winner “would have beaten Donald Trump.”  —  Hillary Clinton suggested in a new interview …
Sammy Westfall / Washington Post:
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
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Daniel Wu / Washington Post:
Covid vaccine linked to broad protections against heart conditions, study finds
Discussion: The Hill and NewsMax.com
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost
Discussion: New York Post and New Republic
Politico:
‘VIP pass’: Trump administration mulling how to coax more oil tankers through Hormuz
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
The Crypto Industry Makes Its Biggest Midterm Bet Yet
Politico:
White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate
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Paul Musgrave / Foreign Policy:
Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Wednesday Journal
NBC Chicago:
Person of interest in Grant Park cross burning incident in custody, police say
Joel Schectman / Wall Street Journal:
A $40 Million Gold Heist Risks Exposing CIA's Top-Secret Spy Programs
Chadwick Moore / New York Post:
SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account
Paul Krugman:
The Theory of the Vulgar Class
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Netflix is interested in acquiring Lionsgate and took a look at Roku, but a Roku deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's

CBC News:
Canada's CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, will no longer show NHL games after it was unable to reach a new sublicense deal with Rogers Sportsnet

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Consultancy Madison & Wall estimates a combined Fox and Roku would capture 14% of all US TV ad revenue and 16% of US streaming ad revenue
 
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