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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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Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
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Iran's regime fights for survival
Iran's regime fights for survival
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John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The surprising right-wing push to keep us out of war

‘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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ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown — President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month. — Why it matters: Immigration …
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Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests — President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles …
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Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters
Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters
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Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Building the American Brownshirts

Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative — The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in Africa two years ago that the U.S. was in a “bad place” where most churches didn't oppose abortion.
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Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’ — SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS — Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured at a farm on Sunday night. — Authorities are investigating whether the suspect arrested in connection with the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers acted as part of a broader network.

MAGA political violence claims more victims
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Accused Minnesota shooter allegedly went to homes of two other officials
Accused Minnesota shooter allegedly went to homes of two other officials
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Walker Orenstein / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Fact check: Did suspect in Minnesota shootings have close ties to Gov. Tim Walz? No.
Fact check: Did suspect in Minnesota shootings have close ties to Gov. Tim Walz? No.
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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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I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount — I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address. — On Monday the Trump Organization announced …
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Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone
Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone
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New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular, Dems up 8 in House vote — Summary: — Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds.
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Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding — For the second time this year, the federal government's top watchdog concluded Monday that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding funding Congress already approved.
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Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor — Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade. They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s. — Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.
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Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split — Eight in 10 respondents believe the Trump administration shouldn't ignore a federal court ruling the White House doesn't like, per the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
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Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds — Every claim made by the Republican senator to ridicule the nonpartisan agency turns out to be false. … — Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), in a video posted on social media, June 12 — As part of the GOP campaign attacking …
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Trump's parade flopped. No Kings Day was a hit. — Right now, images largely determine the outcome — America is no longer a full-fledged democracy. We are currently living under a version of competitive authoritarianism — a system that (like Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey) …
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Sen. Klobuchar urges peers to mitigate ‘inflamed’ rhetoric after Minnesota shootings — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is calling for fellow lawmakers and the general public to tone down incendiary rhetoric, while hailing a slain Democratic state lawmaker as “one of the most consequential speakers in Minnesota history.”
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‘Truly Disgusting’: GOP Senator Slammed For ‘Depraved’ Tweets After Shootings — Mike Lee of Utah is facing calls to resign over the messages. — Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is facing criticism over tweets mocking this weekend's deadly shootings in Minnesota targeting Democratic lawmakers.
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect's Arrest: 'It's Not About Mean Tweets'
Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect's Arrest: 'It's Not About Mean Tweets'
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’ — Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society — She finds the whole idea absurd.
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‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade — Ten years after he descended the Trump Tower escalator to announce his campaign for the White House, President Trump has come to dominate his era like few presidents ever have. — The trip down that escalator took less than 30 seconds …
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Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad

Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether. — Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees' immigration cases have been dismissed - denying Trump's victims their day in court. — The only information Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos' family has received …
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‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term — Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire - the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on ... and on — The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it.
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Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists — On Saturday, a gunman impersonating a police officer fatally shot Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home, and wounded state Sen. Mark Hortman and his wife at their home.