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Tuesday, June 09, 2026

A federal lawsuit seeks to shut down the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight night on the White House's South Lawn on President Trump's birthday. read more


A federal judge vacated President Donald Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employers' H-1B visa applications. The policy violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin declared in the ruling. read more


Monday, June 08, 2026

NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced another spate of street closures and security measures in anticipation of President Donald Trump's historic trip to the Knicks' NBA Finals game. read more


Rick Jackson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, appears to believe women should have to prove they were raped before being eligible for an abortion exception under the state's six-week ban, according to leaked audio reviewed by HuffPost. read more


A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton's defense during his 2023 impeachment trial is endorsing Democrat James Talarico in the state's critical Senate race this November. read more


Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. read more


"The party, as a whole, has lost its focus on working people," Mamdani said in an interview with MS Now. read more


Trump is considering buying the Chagos Islands from Mauritius ... read more


Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived by car to Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, where a military band and a "jubilant crowd" eagerly awaited their arrival, according to Chinese state news outlet Xinhua. read more


A slew of workarounds is keeping crude oil below $100 a barrel, defying many of the industry's grimmest forecasts for prices as high as $200. read more


Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day, Israeli officials said. read more


Utah's two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves "Christian" off the designation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. read more


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the Kremlin ordered an attack on the infrastructure around the Chernobyl nuclear site ... read more


A former senior CIA official accused of stealing over US$40 million worth of gold bars from the federal government and storing them in the basement of his Virginia home was ordered to remain jailed ... read more


President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday -- after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his "anti-weaponization" fund, and election fraud. read more


Firings are part of a broader personnel purge under the leadership of director Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist read more


 

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