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‘No Kings’ protests are being held in Los Angeles and other cities around the nation to coincide with President Trump’s military parade in D.C. Follow our live coverage from L.A. www.latimes.com/california/l...

Macron's state visit is the first to Monaco by a French president since that of François Mitterrand in 1984.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06.... Trump’s big beautiful bill will fund this with our money.

Elon Musk's post on X alleging that the US president is in the Epstein files has strained their relationship. Trump has denied the claim and called Musk's criticism baseless.

Elon Musk is now actively campaigning to “KILL the BILL.” New tweet to his ~220 million followers:

Elon Musk uses ‘KILL BILL’ in call for Americans to rise up against Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ plan

The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the GSA has given preferential treatment to a tech startup linked to some of President Donald Trump’s most influential Silicon Valley allies, including Peter Thiel. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

❗️Declaring a desire for peace, Russia has dealt a deadly blow to Kyiv. This is not a desire for peace, this is a mockery of it. The real obstacle (on the path to peace, ed.) is not Ukraine, but the Russian Federation, whose war goals have not changed, —European Union High Representative Kaia Kallas

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government plans to ban advertisements from the Department of Homeland Security, which show Secretary Kristi Noem warning migrants not to enter the United States illegally.

In just three months in office, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has produced a run of chaos that is unmatched in the Pentagon's recent history. His inner circle — military veterans who, like him, had little experience running large, complex organizations — is in shambles.

Attorneys suing the United States government over the SignalGate group chat allege that new court filings reveal a “calculated strategy” by Trump administration officials to evade transparency laws through the illegal destruction of government records.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our free humor newsletter to never miss a Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/PJhMpSk

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Last weekend, the so-called “Tesla Shield” came out to defend Elon Musk’s car company after weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests. Guess who that group included? Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, a guy dressed as Hitler.

A judge awarded a total of $6.6 million to four former high-level aides to Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, who claimed that they were unduly fired after reporting him to federal investigators and accusing him of corruption in 2020.

Creating and sharing deceptive media made with artificial intelligence is now a crime in New Jersey.

Et tu, WSJ?

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

BREAKING: President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to 43%, the lowest since his return to office, as Americans soured on his tariff moves and his administration's handling of information about a military strike in Yemen, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/4cqfJSP

Breaking: National security adviser Mike Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal chats to discuss official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza and more, according to sources who've been personally added to the chats.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

In a new CBS News/YouGov survey, 64% of respondents said Trump wasn't placing enough attention on lowering the cost of goods.

The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter to the Defense Department inspector general Thursday asking the independent watchdog to open an investigation into top officials’ use of the Signal app to discuss plans for bombing Yemen

Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat. “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

Elysée summit: ‘willing’ meeting for Ukraine started, Moscow sharply criticises

NEW: As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.