‘Everyone just needs to copy what I say’: Trump vented anger with Vance over Iran messaging … Asked hours after the strikes by ABC News' Jonathan Karl if Tehran's nuclear facilities had indeed been “obliterated,” Vance told him, “Well, Jon, severely damaged versus obliterated, I'm not exactly sure what the difference is.

Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool  —  A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro.  —  A business tied to a longtime supporter of President Trump …

Pentagon Tells Lawmakers It Needs $80 Billion for Iran War and Other Bills  —  Military officials say the services could run out of money for operations this summer unless Congress passes a new wartime spending bill  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon needs $80 billion to cover costs from the Iran war …

New book reveals how Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun  —  Donald Trump War in Ukraine The Middle East  —  When President Donald Trump sat down for an interview in March with New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their new book …

Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional  —  The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.  —  A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less …

ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses.  What does it really mean?  —  A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box … As soon as I saw the New York Times report drop Thursday afternoon about ICE looking to sell seven of the 11 warehouses they'd purchased to convert …

Trump approval on Iran low even as tentative deal to end fighting emerged, new AP-NORC poll finds  —  Most Americans continue to disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling Iran, while his overall presidential approval holds steady, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted …

Meloni fights back after Trump tells Italian TV she ‘begged’ for photo with him at G7  —  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after the U.S. President told an Italian TV channel that she had “begged” him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.

The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up  —  In the tumultuous five-plus months since masked federal immigration agents descended on her hometown, the Rev. Jen Crow of the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis has already been arrested at an airport sit-in …

York Revolution Club Statement  —  York, Pa.): It is with great disappointment and that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our 11th Annual Pride Night on Thursday, June 18th.  Most significantly, the scheduled game between York and Southern Maryland will not be played …

Exclusive: Trump tells The Axios Show there are “no limits” to his power after Iran war  —  President Trump denied that the Iran war revealed the limits of his ability to exert power, telling “The Axios Show” he still believes there are “no limits.” … He ended it with a limited memorandum of understanding instead.

Russia threatens escalation after Ukraine hits Moscow with largest-ever drone attack … Russia has pledged to carry out frequent and “massive group strikes” against Ukraine shortly after Kyiv launched a barrage of drones on Moscow, triggering a huge explosion in one of the Russian capital's key oil refineries.

Supreme Court rules for marijuana user prosecuted for gun possession  —  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday the government can't criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, rejecting the government's comparison to the disarmament habitual drunkards in the founding era.

White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near  —  White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation's voting machines ahead of the November midterms …

Behind Trump and Melania's separate White House bedroom doors: Missing decorations, simmering tension and the habit that stunned staff  —  Call it the battle for the better bedroom.  —  It's long been lore that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump keep separate quarters on the second floor of the White House residence.

Union Behind California Billionaire's Tax Offers to Drop It in Favor of Smaller Tax  —  Offer comes after state said proposal had enough signatures to make ballot, but it faces opposition from billionaires—and another union  —  LOS ANGELES—The architects of California's proposed billionaire tax …

Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa … Afrikaners ruled South Africa for nearly half a century under an apartheid system of discrimination against black South Africans.  That ended in the early 1990s because of resistance from black South Africans and international sanctions.

Farmers backed Trump.  Now some say they're losing patience.  —  Rural approval of the president falls to a new low amid rising bankruptcies and trade uncertainty, and some farmers accuse the GOP of making a hard business harder.  —  Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and three-time voter for President Donald Trump.

Iran Floats ‘Insurance Fees’ as It Asserts Control Over Hormuz  —  Iran has moved to assert its control over the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that ships can't cross without its permission and setting the stage for future tolling arrangements by saying it could introduce “insurance fees.”