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9:50 PM ET, June 16, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate  —  Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return to talks if the U.S. stays out of the fight  —  DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption …
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Axios:
Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast  —  Iranian state television was broadcasting live on Monday when a massive explosion rocked the studio, with the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble.  The broadcast then went dark.  —  The big picture: Israel's strike …
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
How Tough Is Iran?  A String of Military Losses Raises Questions.  —  Iran is often portrayed as one of the world's most dangerous actors, but with its attacks on Iranian defenses, nuclear sites and proxy militias, Israel has exposed a compromised and weakened adversary.
New York Times:
Israel attacks Iran's state television, live on the air.
Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:   Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran
Associated Press:
Israel strikes state-run Iranian TV during live broadcast while Trump issues warning to Tehran
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Mike Lee confronted by Minnesota colleague over shooting comments  —  Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was confronted by a Senate colleague Monday over his social media post that blamed the Minnesota shootings over the weekend that killed a former Democratic legislative leader on “Marxists.”
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left  —  The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota's Democratic governor.  He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.
Salt Lake Tribune:
‘This is not a joke’: Sen. Amy Klobuchar rips Mike Lee for posts about a deadly Minnesota shooting  —  “This isn't funny,” Sen. Klobuchar says of Lee's misleading posts about targeted slaying.  —  After spending the weekend on lockdown to protect against a gunman who shot …
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible  —  It's supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall.  I doubt it all. … It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment.  It is, according to the website, coming in September.  —  That's about all I feel confident saying.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Smartphone Can't Be Made in America for $499 by August  —  Trump Mobile's phone shows some specs that would beat Apple's biggest, priciest iPhone models  —  When the Trump Organization said it would launch a mobile-phone service, it also said it would sell a $499 T1 Phone beginning …
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
AppleInsider:
Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests  —  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place.  —  In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Tyrant Test  —  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
Discussion: New York Times
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished
Discussion: The Nation
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:   Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
ABC News:
Chilling details emerge in Minnesota shootings as Vance Boelter faces federal charges: ‘Stuff of nightmares’  —  Two state lawmakers were spared, authorities said.  —  Authorities gather at a baseball park in Green Isle, Minnesota, June 15, 2025.  —  The man suspected of shooting and killing …
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US Department of Justice:
After Two-Day Manhunt, Suspect Charged with Shooting Two Minnesota Lawmakers and Their Spouses
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Who was on Vance Boelter's hit list?
Alfred Ng / Politico:
Alleged shooter found Minnesota lawmakers' addresses online, court docs say
Discussion: KSTP-TV
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans  —  Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’  —  Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House denies reporting by Guardian on VA benefits: ‘Totally FALSE story’
Discussion: Raw Story
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate unveils trickiest text of Trump's “big, beautiful bill”  —  Senate Finance Committee Republicans published their text of President Trump's “one big, beautiful bill” Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for.
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Reuters:
Judge deems Trump's National Institutes of Health grant cuts illegal
Discussion: STAT and Politico
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence  —  It took only hours after an allegedly Trump-supporting gunman shot multiple Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses for the right-wing misinformation machine to chug into action.
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Associated Press:
Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium  —  Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.  —  Turns out authoritarianism can be bad for business.  —  Sales for the FIFA Club World Cup, a series of precursor games ahead …
ABC News:
Netanyahu tells ABC he's not ruling out taking out Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei  —  “They're deliberately targeting our population,” Netanyahu told ABC News.  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with ABC News, June 16, 2025.  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
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Carter Johnson / Bloomberg:
Many Exporters No Longer Want Dollars, US Bank Executive Says  —  When Paula Comings, the head of currency sales for US Bancorp, talks to US importers, she increasingly hears the same message: Their foreign counterparties no longer want to be paid in dollars.
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Trump to return to Washington early from G7 summit for ‘important matters’  —  U.S. President Donald Trump will return to Washington from the G7 summit in Canada on Monday night to attend to many “important matters,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
US Department of Justice:
Duluth Man Indicted for Threatening Two U.S. Senators and their Families  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia  —  ATLANTA - Robert Davis Forney, 25, of Duluth, Georgia, was arraigned today before a United States Magistrate Judge on federal charges …
New York Times:
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security … Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration.
 
 
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
William Langewiesche, the ‘Steve McQueen of Journalism,’ Dies at 70
Discussion: The Atlantic
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
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Trump Removes MLK Bust from Oval Office
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
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The Hill:
Texas farmers hit hard as migrant workers avoid ICE
Discussion: NewsMax.com
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Discussion: El País
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’
Discussion: HuffPost
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular, Dems up 8 in House vote