Trump claims Reflecting Pool was vandalized and says law enforcement is investigating  —  President Donald Trump on Friday claimed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was intentionally vandalized and said law enforcement is actively investigating, as the administration has scrambled to fix …

Iran closing Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks on Lebanon  —  The Iranian armed forces announced Saturday they will close the Strait of Hormuz — just three days after it reopened — alleging America's failure to rein in Israeli attacks on Lebanon violates the new ceasefire deal.

Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Beto Coral's criticism of a presidential candidate in his home country of Colombia undermined U.S. foreign policy.  —  The Trump administration detained a Colombian immigrant …

Trump Displays Refitted Qatar-Gifted Jet to Be Air Force One  —  President Donald Trump on Friday unveiled the Boeing Co. 747-8 that will serve as the new US presidential jet, proclaiming the gifted plane from the Qatari government “virtually double the size” of the previous model.

‘A Literal Coverup’: What Is the Kennedy Center Hiding Behind Those Tarps?  —  The arts center says it pulled President Trump's name from the building front.  But the result remains hidden by tarps, prompting questions and speculation.  —  In the early hours of June 13 …

Trump Was Right.  The War Ended With a Surrender.  —  President Trump declared in March that a deal to end his war with Iran would require “unconditional surrender,” but that wasn't quite right.  The preliminary agreement he just reached with the Iranian regime was more like a conditional surrender — by the United States.

The Quiet Unraveling of America's Food Safety Net … Last year's passage of the massive federal tax-and-spending One Big Beautiful Bill Act has set in motion one of the biggest transformations of the welfare state that the United States has seen in decades.

Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK.  Why?  —  Elon Musk's amplification of anti-immigrant sentiment in Belfast, Southampton and beyond cannot be explained by ideology alone  —  Here are some images that are seared in the mind: a knife-wielding refugee, a Black man from Sudan …

America's Economic Anxiety Is Rising Up the Income Ladder  —  A Wall Street Journal poll finds that even the wealthiest worry about financial security for themselves and their children  —  America's economic anxiety is rising up the income ladder.  —  A new Wall Street Journal poll finds …

UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components  —  Low-cost, long-range weapons could be deployed as soon as this year in war against Russia  —  The British government has unveiled three prototype long-range strike missiles designed for use by Ukraine's military in its war against Russia …

Federal judge gives DOJ green light to turn Biden's audio files over to the Heritage Foundation … Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, wrote in her ruling that the former president's privacy concerns “though substantial,” paled in comparison to the significant public interest in the case …

How Pulte's new role is a win for CIA's John Ratcliffe … “CIA is best positioned to be the victor who claims the spoils,” said Emily Harding, who was deputy staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee under former Republican Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.).

Iran imposes mandatory insurance on ships transiting Strait of Hormuz, with fees likely to follow  — Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority is imposing mandatory, Iran-approved insurance for all ships using the Strait of Hormuz — free for 60 days, but with fees likely afterward