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Washington Bureau Chief, States Newsroom. Past: Politico, CQ/Roll Call, Des Moines Register. Drake U journalism. Annoyingly Midwestern. Mom to two great people. Read us: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/category/dc-bureau
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MORE: "I think they both violated it. I don't think, I'm not sure they did it intentionally. They couldn't rein people back. I don't like the fact that Israel went out this morning at all, and I'm going to see if I can stop it. So as soon as I get away from you, I'm going to see if I can stop it."
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Fuller Trump quotes now in thanks to Linda Feldmann of CSM & John Bennett of CQ Roll Call for pooling in extreme heat & with noise: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f--- they’re doing. Do you understand that?”
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Following that is a panel on “Key Issues in State Fiscal Policy”
w/introductory remarks by @fitzsimon.bsky.social publisher of @statesnewsroom.com ; livestream here & directions on submitting a question www.pew.org/en/about/eve...
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Aaaand DHS official Tricia McLaughlin on social media: "Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a dangerous criminal illegal alien.
We have said it for months and it remains true to this day: he will never go free on American soil."
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And here is the story now from the Tennessee Lookout: tennesseelookout.com/2025/06/22/f...
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Whatever happens next, she concludes he deserves due process: "Abrego, like
every person arrested on federal criminal charges, is entitled to a full and fair determination of
whether he must remain in federal custody pending trial. The Court will give Abrego the due
process that he is guaranteed"
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The judge writes her order is"little more than an academic exercise" because "either he will remain in the custody of the
Attorney General... if detained under the Bail Reform Act" or "likely" will remain in ICE custody "subject to
anticipated removal proceedings" outside her jurisdiction.
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Here is the 51-page order releasing him
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Seyed Abbas Araghchi, foreign minister for Iran, said early this morning on social media that "In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people."
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As the graphic shows, the B-2 stealth bombers left from Whiteman Air Force Base, where its website says "the unit can launch combat sorties directly from Missouri to any spot on the globe." The base is near Knob Noster and south and east of Kansas City.
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Hegseth does add "our initial assessment, as the chairman said, is that all of our precision munitions struck where we wanted them to strike and had the desired effect"
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In response to a question, Hegseth says, "This mission was not, has not been about regime change." Caine is holding off on a total battle damage assessment, an important Q about how much nuclear capability has been taken out.
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Caine: This was the largest B-2 operational strike in U.S. history, and the second longest B-2 mission ever flown exceeded only by those in the days following 9/11
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Updated with comments including from from Don Beyer of Virginia:
“President Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it,” Beyer wrote on X.
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Here is the statement
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Take it from Trump: “...all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done,”
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"Three judges on the appeals court issued a unanimous opinion Thursday evening that courts had to afford the president wide discretion to decide when a state National Guard can be federalized...The president has the authority to deploy troops to a state with or without the governor’s consent"