Live Updates: Hostilities Flare Between U.S. and Iran, Testing Truce  —  U.S. forces carried out retaliatory airstrikes on Iran for the second straight night, after Bahrain said it had been targeted by Iranian drones and a ship came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz for the second time in recent days.

The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’  —  The majority gives Trump yet more license to discriminate.  —  Trump-administration officials have made no secret of their desire to purge the United States of nonwhite immigrants.  Donald Trump has declared …

Trump nominates former Oklahoma trooper Lance Schroyer to be ICE director  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  President Trump on Saturday said he has nominated Lance Schroyer to be the next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  In a statement posted on Truth Social …

Bill Maher Gets Played by JD Vance on ‘Real Time,’ Admits He May Vote Republican in 2028  —  On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance paid a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California and, as is his wont, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

Millions dropped ObamaCare plans after subsidies ended  —  About four million Americans have dropped out of Affordable Care Act insurance coverage this year as costs soared due to the loss of enhanced subsidies.  —  The figures released late Friday from the Centers for Medicare …

Of Course a Confederate Flag Showed Up at the Great American State Fair  —  The Great American State Fair couldn't even get through its first week without embarrassing itself.  —  Nobody who has been paying attention to the Trump administration's handling of America's 250th anniversary …

Israel's Vance problem is bigger than JD Vance … Israel had expected when President Donald Trump came into office that his America First foreign policy would include “an exception” for Israel, said an Israeli political adviser.  —  “That was never going to hold.

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out  —  Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán …

Trump's Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show  —  Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza  —  The UN-sanctioned Board of Peace announced by Donald Trump earlier this year to rule Gaza …

BBC requests Trump's diary and phone logs in editing scandal lawsuit  —  The US president is demanding $10bn in damages from the BBC  —  The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records and private schedules from around the time of the Jan 6 2021 insurrection as part …

Venezuela earthquake death toll rises to 1,430; U.S. to send additional aid  —  The nine-figure package comes on top of $150 million already committed to disaster relief.  —  Summary  —  The United States plans to send another nine-figure aid package this week to Venezuela …

On Holding Elon Musk Accountable  —  For all my interviews and more, subscribe on YouTube.  —  Transcript  —  For most of last year, Elon Musk was the second most powerful man in America.  He was running a large part of the government's budget.  And during that time, he established a track record of evil incompetence.

Man with same name as US Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible for Alaska's primary ballot, judge rules  —  A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible to challenge the senator in the August primary, a judge ruled Friday.

‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News  —  Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly ‘woke’ consensus  —  In the six years since she very publicly resigned from the New York Times …

More Evidence that Harmeet Dhillon's Team Fabricated Their Entire Case against Georgia Fort  —  Back on June 13, I suggested there may be something uniquely fucked about the case against Georgia Fort in the Cities Church case.  One key tip off was that, after seeing DOJ's response …

Chaos Came to CBS News.  What's in Store for CNN?  —  The tech scion David Ellison is close to completing a merger that would put the legacy broadcaster and the 24-hour cable news network under the same roof.  —  Over nearly five decades, CNN has survived multiple owners, ratings ups and downs, and attacks by President Trump.

Unease deepens in Russia as Ukraine steps up long-range strikes  —  Experts said Vladimir Putin was unlikely to change course despite worsening fuel shortages and a sharp decline in the stock market.  —  Summary  —  The Kremlin is scrambling to respond to an intensifying campaign …

New York poll worker confronted by ICE speaks out: 'I'm even worried more about November'  —  Paigelynne Gonyea, the Syracuse poll worker who federal immigration agents recently confronted at her voting site as she worked an election, said in an interview with Democracy Docket that she's exploring …

John Fetterman ravages Democratic Party's ‘orgy of socialism’ after primary turmoil  —  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) ravaged the radical socialist candidates who are taking over his party - but insisted to The Post this week he has no plans to defect, at least for now.

Trump's “communist” midterm message  —  President Trump needs a potent message to reverse his party's bleak midterm outlook — and he's found it in the rise of democratic socialists in New York and beyond. … - Afterward, Faith & Freedom Coalition chairman Ralph Reed, a close ally of the president …

Gov. Beshear Declares State of Emergency Due to Widespread Flooding  —  Excessive rain expected to continue through 11 p.m. EDT tonight; Governor asks drivers to stay off roadways after dark due to flooding and limited visibility  —  Today, Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency due …