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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Trump-Backed Tribute to States on the Mall Features Extra Tinges of Red  —  At the kickoff to the Great American State Fair, exhibits celebrating the nation were on display.  So were conservative themes.  —  On the first day of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall …

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 …

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 …

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.

US Rep. Julia Letlow, endorsed by Trump, wins the GOP primary for Senate in Louisiana  —  U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow won Louisiana's Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Saturday, delivering another win for President Donald Trump, whose effort to replace Republicans who crossed him was central to the race.

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 …

Trump allows dairy farms a path for migrant labor, upsetting anti-immigration camp  —  President Donald Trump was expected to announce the expansion of a guest-worker program to the dairy industry at a Wisconsin event.  Instead, the news came out in a press release.

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 …

‘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 …

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 …