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Explosions in Haifa. Two impacts can be seen.

🔥 Following airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force, an oil refinery is burning in Tehran

🇾🇪 Mohammed Al-Amari, Chief of Staff and second-in-command of the Houthis, was reportedly killed less than an hour ago in Yemen in an Israeli strike.

US has given permission to Syria to strike military groups fortified near the Iraq border

Iran bombed the Israeli city of Tamra, where almost 99% of the population is Arab.....

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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

by nearly every measure California ranks ahead of states like MS, AL, AR, MO, SC, TN and SD. CA has lower murder rate, lower crime rate, higher education, higher health ratings, higher minimum wage, higher well-being, safer envirnoment, etc than all those states.

If one person claims it's raining and another insists it's sunny, the media's job isn't to give them equal airtime-it's to check the facts and report the truth.

⚡️US opposes lowering G7 cap on Russian oil, Bloomberg reports. The United States is opposing a push by other G7 members to lower the price cap on Russian oil from $60 to $45 per barrel, ahead of the group’s summit in Canada.

500K MAGA votes. That’s a lot of votes.

This is scary. As Tesla's robotaxi prepares for launch in Austin, it failed safety tests six times. It blew through school bus stop signs at full speed, running over the manikins and driving off — completing a hit-and-run. 😮 www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

🚨BREAKING: Maine court rejects right wing lawsuit challenging the wording of anti-voting ballot question. A big victory for our clients DSCC, DCCC, DGA and the voters of Maine. www.democracydocket.com/cases/maine-...

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 U.S., Israeli, and British fighter jets have reportedly started actively intercepting drones targeting Israel as they transit through Syrian and Iraqi airspace.

It is already clear that this is not a limited attack on core nuclear sites. The target set is broad and includes top military leadership in a way that Iran will see as regime threatening. The IRGC chief is dead. That is likely to drive more expansive Iranian retaliation.

Starting to think the play here is to destabilize the regime more than cripple the nuclear program. It’s quite a bet by the Israelis.

For potential homebuyers, the U.S. housing market is hard to read right now. Affordability remains an obstacle, with elevated mortgage rates and a median home price of $442,000 — up 0.9% from a year ago, according to Redfin data.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has vetoed a bill that would have required voters in the swing state to show a photo ID at the polls.

🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: ISRAEL HAS LAUNCHED STRIKES INSIDE IRAN

Americans earning a "regular salary" may have trouble living comfortably in all 50 states, according to a new SmartAsset study. Here are some of the most affordable and least affordable states on a regular salary. Read the full list at: cnb.cx/43GPvZH

Over more than a decade of interviewing successful people, Tim Ferriss has noticed two specific traits that he says most of them have in common.

NEW: AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse Users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what's real and what's not at the LA protests—and getting inaccurate information. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

Mikie Sherrill has won the New Jersey Democrat primary for governor! Now, we need all Democrat supporters in all 50 states to support Mikie Sherrill for NJ governor, and Abigail Spanberger for Virginia governor, in Nov 2025. wapo.st/4e2oVxA

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

New: Google today is offering buyouts to employees across several of its divisions, including those within search, ads, central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/g...

Illinois continues to rank in the Top 5 states for the number of Fortune 500 HQs. All part of our mission to make us the best in the nation for doing business.

🇪🇺 EU officially presents 18th sanctions package against Russia: bans use of Nord Stream 1&2 pipeline infrastructure, lowers oil price cap from $60 to $45/barrel, and disconnects 22 more Russian banks from SWIFT. European Commission continues tightening economic pressure.

BIG numbers for CNN's telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck:" It "reached a combined 7.34 million total viewers on CNN US television, CNN International, and streaming audiences on Max and CNN.com." On TV, it ranked as the #1 show of the day across all of cable.

🇺🇦 FM Andriy Sybiiha urged immediate, powerful new sanctions against Russia following one of the most massive air strikes of the war overnight. “Russia hit a maternity hospital and residential buildings, killing and injuring civilians. It rejects peace—so it must face consequences. No more waiting.”

Warner Bros. Discovery to be split, as Zaslav retreats from grand ambitions My story for NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/09/n...

New from me: Texas quietly downsizes border security spending—mainly for state border wall—though still remains above pre-OLS levels www.texasobserver.org/texas-quietl... @texasobserver.org

More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans destroy car used by Russian drone operators in occupied Melitopol, Atesh claims. A car used by drone operators in the Russian 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade was destroyed by the Atesh partisan group in occupied Melitopol overnight on June 10, the group claimed.

Capital One is the latest company to limit access to booming airport lounges to combat overcrowding.

Prime Minister Carney announced Canada is increasing its spending on defence to meet the 2% GDP commitment by March 2026 There will be a separate defence procurement office to speed up the contracts It will also create jobs in Canada www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks. The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.

Anyone believing anything Ted Cruz says is already suffering from MAGAmentia.

@bab102.bsky.social "DOD lawyers 'are also still finalizing language around the use-of-force guidelines for the troops being mobilized...'" 🧵

What Tom said.

⚡️US accuses Russian of laundering millions, helping Moscow obtain sensitive technology. U.S. prosecutors have charged cryptocurrency entrepreneur Iurii Gugnin with laundering over $500 million and helping sanctioned Russian entities bypass export controls.

Very courageous. Bill Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician and put the health of the nation in jeopardy because he was afraid of a primary. That will be his legacy.

Susan Collins Concern Level: 3