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GOP divided on pursuing third reconciliation amid election tensions

06/13/26 6:00 AM ET Republicans are divided over whether to pursue a third party-line spending package, with some lawmakers expressing skepticism that such an ambitious effort can clear Congress in a high-stakes election year. GOP leaders and top budget writers have already begun laying the groundwork for a third package, which they hope will include defense funding, fraud prevention initiatives and a slate of affordability-focused measures. President Trump added momentum to the effort Wednes ...

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A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

By JACK DURA Updated 1:54 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death. Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “ind ...

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Trump to attend dinner at Versailles post-G7

06/13/2026 11:32 AM EDT President Donald Trump will attend dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday, according to a senior Trump administration official. The dinner will follow the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the president has scheduled a series of bilateral meetings, working sessions and discussions with allied leaders. Macron had earlier invited Trump to the one-on-one dinner to cap off the summit, but the White House, until now, hadn’t ...

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Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

7h ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged noncitizen voting has evolved into a multi-agency effort reaching into state and local voter systems. Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens, are voting illegally and that is why he lost the popular vote in 2016 and th ...

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Trump to meet with Mideast leaders, attend Ukraine session at G7, U.S. officials say

Published Sat, Jun 13 2026 12:28 PM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Middle Eastern leaders and attend a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the G7 summit in France next week, senior U.S. administration officials said on Saturday. Trump is scheduled to travel to Evian, France, for the G7 summit early Monday after attending Sunday’s mixed-martial-arts event at the White House. He will speak to a number of European leaders with whom he has squabbled ...

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ICE Officers Arrive Unannounced At Nonprofits Repping Migrant Kids

(Huff Post) ICE officers have arrived unannounced in recent days at the offices of nonprofit groups that provide legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children, the groups said. The groups called the visits “the latest example of intimidation tactics” from the Trump administration, and detailed visits in which ICE investigators, as well as agents from the Department of Health and Human Services, arrived at their offices and sought access to “documents and financial records relating to the organizations’ child clients.”

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IRS moves to hire 8,000 employees after DOGE cuts, memo reveals

(The Independent) The Internal Revenue Service has received special permission to quickly hire 8,000 employees through September, according to a memo obtained by NOTUS, after more than a quarter of the agency was downsized during Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts last year. Trump administration officials had initially brushed off concerns that the IRS would struggle to handle the 2026 tax season with significantly fewer employees. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers in April the agency was “still able to maintain current services and implement new initiatives.”

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Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

(The Guardian) A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”. In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.

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Elephant at Texas GOP Convention Shocks Audience by Peeing All Over the Floor

Jun 12th, 2026, 5:36 pm There’s an old Hollywood saying about never working with children or animals because of their unpredictable and uncontrollable nature and the Texas Republican Party may be wishing it had heeded that warning after an elephant brought to the party’s annual convention caused quite the disruption. Texas Republicans have gathered in Houston to elect party leaders, make preparations for the upcoming November midterm elections, and conduct other party business. Elected offic ...

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Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center

Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center After courts knocked down attempts to delay the signage change, the Kennedy Center missed the Friday deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name by midnight. June 13, 2026 at 3:33 a.m. EDT 21 minutes ago 8 min Spectators watch as workers put up scaffolding ahead of a court-mandated deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center's facade. (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) By Jonathan Edwards https://w ...

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Trump's $14M Reflecting Pool Project Couldn't Stop Algae From Blooming In The DC Heat

4 min ago - Jun 13th, 2026, 7:47 pm President Donald Trump’s $14 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation couldn’t stop algae from blooming in the D.C. heat and turning the water a murky shade of green once again. The unsightly hue plagued ... (MEDIAite)

British armed forces intercept Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in Channel

20 min ago - British armed forces intercepted and boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday, Keir Starmer has confirmed. In a six-hour operation, the first of its kind to be led by the UK, Royal Marine commandos and off ... (The Guardian)

ICE Barbie now cosplaying as Haiti gangbuster

48 min ago - 12h Kristi Noem says she has a new mission after she was fired as Homeland Security secretary and given a new hastily created role in government. In an interview on Saturday discussing her work as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, Noem s ... (msn/Daily Beast)

Trump and Pakistan say Iran deal could be signed Sunday but Tehran signals more time is needed

1 hr ago - Updated 5:09 PM EDT, June 13, 2026 ISLAMABAD (AP) — Key mediator Pakistan on Saturday said a deal to end the Iran war was closer than ever and U.S. President Donald Trump asserted it would be “signed tomorrow,” while Iran made some of ... (AP)

Marco Rubio Cracks Down on 'Birth Tourism' Scammers Who 'Sell Citizenship' to US

1 hr ago - Jun 13th, 2026, 4:50 pm Secretary of State Marco Rubio is spearheading the Trump administration’s crackdown on “birth tourism” by targeting scam artists who have been using bogus documents and visas to let pregnant travelers come to t ... (MEDIAite)

Trump administration suspends nearly $200 million for LA's main homeless agency

2 hrs ago - Posted 4:07 PM, Jun 13, 2026 The Trump administration has barred Los Angeles County’s main homelessness agency from accessing federal funds while it investigates the agency’s alleged “wanton mismanagement of public funds.” The mo ... (Scripps News/AP)

House Democrat slams US-Iran peace deal as 'basically a surrender document'

2 hrs ago - 06/13/26 4:02 PM ET Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) criticized the reported details of an agreement with Iran, after President Trump said the U.S. and Iran plan to sign the peace framework on Sunday. “This is a terrible deal,” Moulto ... (The Hill)

OpenAI hit with multistate probe into possible user harm as its IPO looms

3 hrs ago - Jun 13, 2026 3:52 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of users of its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time. The company behind the popular cha ... (PBS News/AP)

Jalen Brunson hits 3-pointer as Knicks hold on to win NBA Finals

6 hrs ago - Knicks come back to win first NBA title since 1973 ... (ESPN)

Nara Organics recalls baby formula sold at Target after multistate infant botulism outbreak

7 hrs ago - Updated 9:22 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nara Organics recalled its organic baby formula sold nationwide in Target stores and online Saturday after a multistate outbreak of infant botulism, federal authorities said. Three babies b ... (AP)

Trump's White House UFC headliner accused of assault, forced sex, stalking

9 hrs ago - Alex Pereira, a prominent mixed martial arts fighter set to headline the U.S. president's 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, is facing allegations of abuse from two women — and it isn't the first time. Court records reviewed by CBC News ... (Canadian Broadcasting Company)

Trump says U.S. and Iran will sign a peace deal on Sunday

9 hrs ago - President Trump said Saturday that the United States and Iran will sign a peace deal on Sunday. In a Truth Social post, Trump said Iran had agreed to give up its pursuit of a nuclear weapon "through purchase, development, or any other form of procure ... (Yahoo news)

U.S. deports migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, other countries to violence-torn Central African Republic

9 hrs ago - Updated on: June 13, 2026 / 1:27 PM EDT The Trump administration on Friday deported a group of roughly 20 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran and other nations to the Central African Republic, which the U.S. government warns Americans not to visit "for a ... (CBS News)

US wants to avoid congressional vote on trade deal, Carney says

10 hrs ago - 8h (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Trump administration officials have been clear that they don’t want to trigger a vote in Congress by changing the “fundamental architecture” of the North American free trade de ... (msn/Bloomberg)

House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies

10 hrs ago - 06/13/26 12:00 PM ET Hard-line conservatives in the House are mounting an uphill push to codify President Trump’s border policies, demanding a vote by July 4 and warning that policies that have significantly cut down crossings at the southern bo ... (The Hill)

Trump to attend dinner at Versailles post-G7

11 hrs ago - 06/13/2026 11:32 AM EDT President Donald Trump will attend dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday, according to a senior Trump administration official. The dinner will follow the G7 summit in Év ... (Politico)

New law aims to ban 3D-printed guns after UnitedHealthcare CEO murder

11 hrs ago - Saturday 13 June 2026 10:30 EDT New York is poised to enact a first-of-its-kind law that would mandate 3D printers sold for home and business use to incorporate technology preventing them from manufacturing firearms. The requirement, also under cons ... (The Independent)

Trump names James M. McDonald to lead powerful New York federal prosecutor's office

12 hrs ago - Updated 4:39 PM EDT, June 13, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced his intent Saturday to nominate James M. McDonald as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to replace Jay Clayton, who Trump nominated this week ... (AP)

Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

13 hrs ago - 7h ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged non ... (msn/Axios)

Tens of thousands join Pride marches in Romania, Bulgaria to call for equality

14 hrs ago - By VESELIN TOSHKOV and STEPHEN McGRATH Updated 2:27 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters took to the streets of Romania and Bulgaria’s capitals on Saturday for their annual Pride parades, again ... (AP)

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