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2:50 PM ET, June 28, 2026

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Associated Press:
Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war  —  Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S.-Iran ceasefire could go up in flames … - Over the past few days, tension between the U.S. and Iran has been escalating with another exchange of strikes on Saturday. … - With the situation escalating by the day, it isn't clear if the next round of negotiations between the U.S …
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Asserts Sole Control of Hormuz, Warns Challenges Will Bring More Violence
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
Barak Ravid / Axios:   Behind the scenes: How shared fear of Iran led to an Israel-Lebanon deal
New York Times:
Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Attacks With Few Signs of De-escalation
Discussion: UPI and Jewish Insider
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes as Trump threatens to “complete the job”
Washington Post:
U.S. says it hit targets in Iran as hostilities erupt over Hormuz for third day
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Sen. Thom Tillis rails against Trump's fixation on voting legislation … Rather than promoting the bill — which would require voters to present a photo ID at the ballot box and effectively end widespread mail-in voting — Tillis said Republicans should tell voters about …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Johnson says he will send housing bill to Trump on Monday … The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Johnson's remarks.  —  The bill is the product of almost a year of back-and-forth between all four congressional corners and aims to increase affordability by boosting housing supply and home ownership.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
New York Times:
White House Secretly Swayed Board Meant to Stop Civil Service Politicization  —  Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ali Bianco / Politico:   The Dem primary on ICE
Washington Post:
With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules
Discussion: Democracy Docket
New York Times:
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal.  His Sons Stand to Profit.  —  An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Paul Sonne / New York Times:
Kazakhstan's Leader Deepens U.S. Ties, Saying Trump Was ‘Sent by Heaven’
Discussion: NewsMax.com and RedState
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Supreme Court's blockbuster week will put Trump's power to the test … - Trump is no stranger to pushing the limits as commander in chief, and told “The Axios Show” last week that there are “no limits” to his power in office since going to war with Iran.
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Leaves Trump's Fed, Citizenship Gambits for Last
Discussion: Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:   America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump's presidency is testing how far it's come
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
'It's dangerous and it's going to erode trust': redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears  —  The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites  —  An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk's …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony, bragged about his success, ignored the problems, claimed his enemies had sabotaged him …
Discussion: The Independent
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Again, Trump said nobody left his speech.  Again, that wasn't true  —  President Donald Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the speech he gave the day prior to kick off the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Wrap
Mike Zapler / Axios:
The Republican Party is starting to turn on Israel  —  Benjamin Netanyahu lost the Democrats.  Now a growing number of Republicans are souring on him and his country, too. … - For 15 years, Netanyahu offset collapsing Democratic support by cultivating Republicans.
Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health “upon a foundation of lies”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — Sen. Bill Cassidy strongly criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his vaccine skepticism and handling of the nation's public health …
Discussion: The Hill and The Independent
Washington Post:
Trump's vision for White House park: 47 trees to mark his presidency  —  The president has called Lafayette Square “the entrance to the White House.”  Contractors have been renovating the park for months and are likely to miss Trump's original goal of reopening before July 4.  —  Summary
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Why the nation's founding document is marred by stains, a mysterious handprint … Summary  —  Every year, a million people wander through the temple-like rotunda of the National Archives and peer through a thick glass case to glimpse the document upon which this country was founded.
 
 
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