02 U.S. Politics

Trump threatens Netanyahu with withdrawal of support – Axios — RT World News– www.rt.com

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The US president has reportedly urged the Israeli PM not to restart a full-blown war with Iran

US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw support for Israel during a tense phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Axios has reported.

Trump has held several heated phone conversations with the Israeli prime minister since Iran announced last week that it was suspending talks with the US over repeated Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Iran’s conditions for a peace agreement include the cessation of hostilities on “all fronts,” including Lebanon, where nearly 3,700 people have been killed since early March, when Israel resumed strikes in response to attacks by Hezbollah.

Israel and Iran exchanged strikes on Sunday and Monday for the first time since a ceasefire was reached in April, following an Israeli strike in Beirut.

JD Vance Sends the Minnesota Fraud Case to DOJ for Criminal Investigation– wltreport.com

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The House Oversight report landed Monday. By Monday night, it had teeth.

Vice President JD Vance announced that he referred allegations involving Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department’s Fraud Division for a potential criminal investigation over alleged fraud in federally funded social services programs.

Vance made the announcement on Fox News when asked about the freshly released committee report.

“We’re certainly going to investigate this, Jesse,” Vance said, according to Fox News. “And before I did, we actually referred this particular case to the Department of Justice for a full criminal investigation.”

Trump Now Wants to Buy Out Mauritius Directly – RedState– redstate.com

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The on-again, off-again discussion around the Chagos Islands would appear to be back on. Those islands happen to contain the strategic Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia. The United Kingdom, which controls the islands, balked at allowing American aircraft to use the base as a launching point for attacks on Iran, but Diego Garcia is well within range of Iran – and China, which the B-52 and B-2 bombers can reach from the Indian Ocean base.

Blind to irony, UN holds climate summit in nation crippled by green mandates– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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This week, United Nations climate negotiators will gather in Bonn, Germany, to tell the rest of the world how to save the planet.

The irony is staggering. Germany is the poster child of failed green paternalism. It shut down its nuclear plants, bet everything on renewables, and ended up burning more coal and buying gas from Russia. Germany has no idea how to save the planet — it cannot even save itself.

That’s because Germany and other big-government climate warriors assumed the only force capable of protecting the environment was mandates, all while the market was quietly working.

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Wants To Give America’s Power Plants, Data Centers An Anti-Drone Upgrade– dailycaller.com

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One congressman is moving to protect the soft underbelly of America’s critical infrastructure with a new bill.

Republican Tennessee Rep. Matt Van Epps unveiled a House version of Sen. Tom Cotton’s Critical Infrastructure Airspace Defense Act Tuesday, which aims to shield hospitals, power plants, water treatment sites, and dams from potential drone attacks. The bill would make grants available to private companies to purchase government-approved anti-drone technologies, and could even extend to data centers.

“The bill gives the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and others, the ability to determine which critical infrastructure facilities need these authorities,” Van Epps told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This could include anything from critical water systems to power plants and potentially even data centers.”

These Republican lawmakers challenged abortion bans. Then they faced backlash.– www.dailykos.com

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At least four of them lost reelection bids after anti-abortion groups and key party allies backed their challengers instead. Two others — a state representative from North Dakota and a state senator from Tennessee — face contested primaries.

If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why.

Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception.

 

Mamdani says ‘soccer would not exist without immigrants’ over ICE concerns in NYC for World Cup– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted the decision to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers headed to his city as the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins this week. He posted a comment on X on Monday afternoon, calling it “an attempt to divide us” before crediting immigrants as the reason soccer exists in the first place.

“Soccer would not exist without immigrants,” Mamdani said on X. “Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men’s National Team are immigrants.”

Republican leading AI effort has ambitious timeline for getting his bill through the House– www.politico.com

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Rep. Jay Obernolte has an aggressive timeline for getting his new bipartisan Artificial Intelligence proposal taken up in the House — and a path for getting a congressional hearing on a major part of the plan.

In an interview Monday night, the California Republican said he hoped to turn the draft framework he unveiled last Thursday into multiple bills, with the first expected to be introduced in the coming weeks. Each bill would be considered by its committee of jurisdiction.

“One of the challenges that we have is that the bill crosses so many different policy committee jurisdictions,” he said. “So I think we’ve got to divide it up into different titles that are in the jurisdiction of various policy committees and hear those individually.”

GOP-Run Indiana City Considers California-Style Homeless Center– thefederalist.com

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The Republican-run council in Indiana’s second-largest city votes Tuesday on its Democrat mayor’s proposal to install a homeless center that would serve drunk, high, and otherwise criminal residents without any expectations or ID checks. Research and experience show similar “low-barrier” centers in Democrat-run states such as Illinois and California increase homelessness and addiction, as well as crime, vagrancy, and public spending.

Fort Wayne has worked for the last 20 years and spent billions in taxpayer dollars and incentives to transform “from a Rust Belt downtown to vibrant and … flourishing,” Councilman Russ Jehl, a Republican, told The Federalist via phone. But he’s heard from his apolitical wife and many constituents they’re avoiding their revitalized downtown because of the increase in addicts and vagrants. That’s a nationwide problem affecting this Midwestern city of 280,000 with small-town vibes and bigger-city amenities.

Politico Defends LA Mayoral Vote Count Amid Concerns Over Nithya Raman Surge– www.newsbusters.org

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Candidate Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral race came in third place on election night, June 2, so far behind second place finisher Spencer Platt that she essentially conceded the election in a tearful farewell. And then, miracle of miracle, over the next few days as more and more mail-in ballots kept rolling in, Raman suddenly surged in the votes, often exceeding first place Karen Bass in some counts and doubling the percentage of her election day returns to the extent that by Sunday she surpassed Pratt in the vote, thus apparently landing a spot in the November runoff elections.

Oh, and for those of you who expressed skepticism about this electoral miracle in the midst of a questionable vote count of the mass ballot mailings in which voter identification requirements were at best laughable, Politico has written off your concerns as “baseless.”

Welker Mocks Americans Who Don’t Share Her Faith In CA Election– thefederalist.com

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Socialist Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman appeared to concede defeat Tuesday night after it looked like Spencer Pratt would advance to the November runoff election against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. But then votes kept pouring in days after the Tuesday election, and by Sunday evening, Raman had taken the lead over Pratt.

The 180-degree-turn has left many scratching their heads: How does a candidate who was down by roughly 40,000 votes suddenly jump to second place after she herself publicly signaled her path to victory had all but disappeared? (Raman currently leads Pratt by more than 20,000 votes, after post-election ballot dumps have gone overwhelmingly in her favor.)

For NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, however, questions about such outcomes are apparently evidence of nothing more than public ignorance. During a Sunday interview, President Donald Trump said the 2020 election was “rigged” (and he’s right — but more on that later) and that the same rigging is happening in California.

Supreme Court tosses DC Circuit ruling on Biden’s gas appliance rules – Washington Examiner

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The Supreme Court tossed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld Biden-era regulations on gas furnaces and commercial water heaters, which opponents argued were overreaching and would ban various gas appliances from being sold.

The high court announced its decision in an order list released Monday, sending the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit after quickly vacating the appeals court’s November 2025 ruling. The ruling comes as the Trump administration has already repealed several of the Biden administration’s controversial appliance rules and regulations since returning to the White House last year.

Trump said the pace of California ballot counting proves a rigged election. Pants on Fire!– www.politifact.com

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Shortly before abruptly ending his “Meet the Press” interview, President Donald Trump wrongly pointed to California’s ballot counting pace as evidence of “a rigged election.”

When Trump said the state was still counting ballots days after the June 2 election, host Kristen Welker said, “That’s how they count the votes in California.”

Trump said: “Do you know why they’re doing that? Because they’re cheating on the election.”

Welker asked Trump for his evidence that the election was rigged.

A year after Trump’s gestapo invaded LA, the fear remains– www.dailykos.com

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One year ago, Los Angeles was stormed by federal immigration agents as part of President Donald Trump’s pursuit to meet a lofty deportation goal. And the repercussions of that invasion are still felt.

At the time, despite the city’s protections for undocumented immigrants, videos quickly began dispersing online last year of agents across Los Angeles raiding Home Depot parking lots, food carts, and more. Many Angelenos witnessed federal agents ushering men and women into vans on the side of the street.

In response, locals flooded the streets to protest what was happening to immigrant families in their own backyard.

Iran and Israel say attacks halted after Trump tells both to “stop ‘shooting'” on war’s 101st day– www.cbsnews.com

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A Lebanese culture ministry official told the French news agency AFP on Monday that Israeli bombardment had damaged a UNESCO World Heritage site in the southern city of Tyre, as correspondents there reported damage at the site.

One of the oldest cities on the Mediterranean coast, Tyre, in antiquity, was at various times Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine.

The city is around 12 miles from Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, and its UNESCO World Heritage-listed ruins include the remains of Roman baths and a second-century triumphal arch and hippodrome.

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech– www.wired.com

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The UK government has laid out a $1.47 billion plan to shake its dependence on foreign-made artificial intelligence hardware.

Under the measures, announced Monday, the UK will spend more than $1 billion on a national AI supercomputer. It will be stocked with $530 million worth of hardware, including $200 million that will go toward specialist inference chips for processing AI tasks. Priority will be given to up-and-coming British firms in the procurement process; the government pointed to Olix and Fractile, two UK startups developing new styles of inference chip, as potential beneficiaries. British researchers and startups are expected to be able to use the supercomputer starting in 2030.

Pro-Life Republican Sen. Jon Husted is Behind in Ohio Senate Race– www.lifenews.com

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New polling data suggests that a Senate race in a state Trump won by double digits could fall to Democrats in the midterms.

Incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted is facing a challenge from former three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his 2024 bid for reelection. But now just two years after President Donald Trump carried Ohio by 11 percentage points in the 2024 election, Brown is leading Husted by an eight-point margin 53% to 45%, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

Brown has 98% of support among Democrats, whereas Husted only has the support of 86% of support among Republicans, according to the poll.

Fifty-seven percent of Ohio residents view Trump negatively, while 42% still hold a favorable opinion, the poll found. Husted’s ratings are comparable to Trump’s ratings in the state, as 50% view him unfavorably and 41% view him favorably. Brown, on the other hand, holds a 53% favorable rating and 44% unfavorable rating.

Virginia Democrats Air Budget Feud in Public – RedState– redstate.com

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Less than three weeks after Virginia Democrats lost their congressional redistricting fight in court, the party’s top leaders spent the weekend publicly battling over data centers and a state budget that remains unfinished.

Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas blasted Gov. Abigail Spanberger and House Speaker Don Scott after budget negotiations broke down Friday, accusing fellow Democrats of protecting data center interests while refusing to make the industry pay more for the costs associated with its rapid growth across Virginia.

The disagreement quickly turned personal and public.

Trump storms out of interview after election fraud, DOJ fund questions– www.cnbc.com

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President Donald Trump stormed out of a taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after being pressed on his controversial “weaponization” fund and on evidence of his persistent claims of election fraud.

Trump sat with NBC’s Kristen Welker for a taped interview on a Wisconsin farm that touched on the Iran war, potential interest rate hikes and the $1.776 billion “weaponization” fund that could financially compensate convicted violent rioters who attacked police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. Thousands of people stormed the Capitol that day, attempting to disrupt the certification of former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

The president said he would like to see the weaponization fund proceed despite setbacks that prompted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to say it was permanently halted.

“If it was up to me, I’d pay them the kind of money that they deserve,” Trump said of the fund. “People have been destroyed. Lives have been destroyed. Many suicides, think of it.” The president has repeatedly made such claims without providing evidence.

Minnesota officials were afraid of being called ‘racist’ so they ignored Somali fraud warnings for years: House Oversight | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“Fraud warnings were elevated to the most senior levels of the Minnesota state government, meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided.”

A Republican-led House Oversight Committee report has alleged that the fraud that has been highlighted in Minnesota’s social services programs was caused by year of inaction from Democrat Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and other officials, allowing for the siphoning off of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds going to fraud. The report found that fears of getting called “racist” also contributed to the inaction.

“Fraud warnings were elevated to the most senior levels of the Minnesota state government, meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided, and payments continued long after credible signs of fraud emerged,” the report read in part.

After Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, another US president gets drawn into Epstein scandal– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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The Jeffrey Epstein saga has once again reached the highest levels of American politics, with former President George W. Bush becoming linked to questions surrounding the pedophile’s controversial treatment by the justice system.A new report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, published in the Miami Herald, suggests that senior officials within Bush’s Department of Justice (DOJ) may have played a role in decisions that allowed Epstein to avoid more serious federal prosecution in the mid-2000s.The report centres on Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach police chief who launched the first major criminal investigation into Epstein. Reiter and his team spent months gathering evidence.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Immigration Policy Affecting 39 Countries › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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A federal judge struck down a Trump administration immigration policy that tightened requirements for immigrants from dozens of countries seeking to enter or remain in the United States.

District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. invalidated the policy in a sharply worded ruling that accused US Citizenship and Immigration Services of exceeding its legal authority and failing to follow required administrative procedures.

The policy was enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members and affected immigrants from 39 countries.

In his ruling, McConnell argued that the administration’s actions left immigrants facing uncertainty about their legal status and failed to comply with federal law.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls for Federal Funding Cuts Until California Cleans Up Its Disastrous Elections– townhall.com

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As people watch the insane vote counting in the Los Angeles Mayor’s race, which comes just weeks after Newsom said the state had a ‘break glass in case of emergency’ plan in the event Republicans won the gubernatorial jungle primary, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is calling on Congress to cut off federal funding to California until it cleans up its ‘shady election process.’

Trump Has a Simple Message for Middle East After Weekend Conflict– townhall.com

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President Donald Trump wants to get an agreement signed with Iran, regardless of the strikes between Iran and Israel over the weekend.

Iran fired strikes at Israel over the weekend, and Israel Defense Forces later announced that “the Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran a short while ago.”

“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,’” he posted to Truth Social early Monday morning.