
Mother Jones - 55 min 22 sec ago
While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting his friends to a party designed to honor himself: a multimillion-dollar cage fight on the White House grounds. The UFC Freedom 250 event is being billed (by its promoters, anyway) as “the most historic sporting […]...

US Weekly - 1 hour 11 min ago
Laverne Cox is opening up about her deep connection and meaningful relationship with a man who held opposing political views . "I was in sheer bliss with this man and you know, things would come up and we would agree to disagree about some political things," Cox, 54, said while appearing on Wednesday, June 10, episode of The New York Times ' "Modern Love" podcast . "Problematic but not, like, offensive. He had been, the way he grew up and algorithms he was given, information...

The Guardian - 1 hour 22 min ago
US president says all sides should stand down' as mediators seek to conclude preliminary US-Iran peace deal negotiations Middle East crisis live updates Donald Trump was forced to call for restraint on Sunday after Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut as mediators sought to conclude negotiations on a preliminary peace deal between Iran and the US that would bring the three-month war in the Middle East to a definitive end. Trump played down new Israeli strikes but said "all sides should...

The Raw Story - 2 hours 39 min ago
President Donald Trump publicly chided Israel on Sunday over a morning airstrike on Beirut, warning that the attack threatened to derail the Iran peace deal he is trying to sign on his 80th birthday. "This morning's attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at 10:46 a.m. Eastern. While allowing that "Israel has the right to defend itself against threats," Trump played...

NBC News - 3 hours 19 min ago
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on Sunday said "it is best" if Congress votes to ratify any potential deal to end the war in Iran, saying that a deal approved by Congress would have a more "lasting effect.""It is best if it is ratified by Congress; it has a more lasting effect on it," Lankford told NBC News' "Meet the Press."He added that President Donald Trump is seeking to "end Iran's constant attack of Americans and American assets and American allies...

NBC News - 3 hours 59 min ago
President Donald Trump has endorsed GOP Rep.

NBC News - 4 hours 39 min ago
Facing one of the roughest patches of his second term, Trump is devoting outsize energy to giving Washington its biggest facelift in living memory.

Yard Barker - 4 hours 44 min ago
Blessed' has weighed in on Sunday's UFC Freedom 250 main event. It is fight day in Washington, DC, as the UFC event at the White House is finally here a year after President Donald Trump first revealed plans for it.

NBC News - 4 hours 44 min ago
President Donald Trump's poor approval rating continues to weigh down his party ahead of the midterms though the GOP has a slim measure of separation from the president, with Democrats holding a 5-point lead in the battle for control of Congress, according to a new national NBC News poll...

ABC News - 4 hours 51 min ago
Days before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, President Donald Trump has made an endorsement...

Fox News - 4 hours 55 min ago
President Donald Trump congratulated the New York Knicks on their NBA championship win, calling the playoff victories maybe the greatest in basketball history.

NBC News - 5 hours 12 min ago
Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to discuss new NBC News polling that shows how Americans feel about President Donald Trump's job performance amid the war in Iran and ahead of the country's 250 birthday. "That's a new low for his second term and of course it does come, as we know, as this war is deeply unpopular, that President Trump has been underwater in his handling of the economy," Kirsten says.

NBC News - 5 hours 13 min ago
Iranian government-backed protesters are on the streets of Tehran demonstrating against a deal with America to end the war after President Donald Trump said it could be signed as early as Sunday. Mediator Pakistan is calling it an "electronic signing ceremony" and Iran says the agreement is close, though it disputed the timing. NBC's Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.

The Raw Story - 5 hours 32 min ago
A peace deal between Washington and Tehran one that President Donald Trump has shown a " strange insistence " on being finalized Sunday, his 80th birthday is at risk of collapse after a key Iranian demand was violated Sunday morning, Al Jazeera reported. Iran has demanded that Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon as a non-negotiable condition to ending the war, a demand that Israel has largely ignored, despite Trump's insistence that Israel halts its attacks on its northern neighbor...

Fox News - 5 hours 57 min ago
Stephen A. Smith refused to dunk on President Donald Trump after the Knicks won the NBA championship, saying politics was the furthest thing from his mind.

The Guardian - 6 hours 2 min ago
Leadership hopeful to also say tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills Wes Streeting's pitch to be the next Labour leader will include a plan to increase high-skilled immigration to the UK, arguing that Donald Trump is telling scientists and AI experts they are not welcome in the US. In a speech this coming week, the former health secretary will also say that tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills. Continue...

The Guardian - 7 hours 44 min ago
Strange things are afoot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, giving rise to an obvious question: how did we get here? Rising from the South Lawn of the White House is a 92ft-tall skeletal structure known as "the Claw". Beneath it sits an octagonal cage surrounded by sponsor logos, temporary grandstands and thousands of seats for a mixed martial arts card on Sunday night to celebrate Donald Trump 's 80th birthday and the Ultimate Fighting Championship brand. The event has prompted comparisons...

The Hill - 7 hours 44 min ago
President Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday Sunday with a night of UFC fights on the South Lawn of the White House. It's yet more proof that Trump is radically different from other presidents. And the spectacle carries risks as well as rewards, even as it plays into Trump's love of showmanship and ardor for...

Wired - 7 hours 44 min ago
President Donald Trump says a secret mission moved 100 million barrels of oil through the blocked Strait of Hormuz. That number is impossible to verify.

ABC News - 7 hours 47 min ago
Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate artificial intelligence, they are increasingly doing just that...

Slate - 7 hours 59 min ago
The longevity experts all agreed.

ABC News - 9 hours 7 min ago
President Donald Trump celebrates turning 80 with a UFC cage-fighting event on the White House's South Lawn...

NME - 9 hours 10 min ago
Celebrations have been kicking off outside the building, though the new signage remains covered by tarp The post Donald Trump's name has been fully removed from the Kennedy Center's facade appeared first on NME .

The Guardian - 9 hours 58 min ago
Deal could see strait of Hormuz immediately open to all', but Trump says US retains the ultimate alternative' if talks fail Hello and welcome to the Guardian's continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Peace talks between the US and Iran grind on with Donald Trump on Saturday saying the US is set to sign a new agreement with Iran today , and claiming the deal would prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, while reopening the strait of Hormuz to international shipping...