
The Raw Story - 16 min 53 sec ago
President Donald Trump's account of a phone call he says he had with Iranian officials, in which he reportedly threatened to wipe out their country, take over the Strait of Hormuz, and more, has set off a wave of disbelief, ridicule, and alarm across the political spectrum. The threats were relayed by Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst, who said he spoke with Trump for more than 20 minutes and came away with what he called "new insight" into the president's posture as nuclear talks...

Attack of the Fanboy - 20 min 43 sec ago
Jeff Bezos reportedly shared a brutal assessment of the staff at The Washington Post, allegedly telling President Donald Trump that employees at his own...

The Raw Story - 39 min 37 sec ago
President Donald Trump appeared to threaten Iranian peace negotiators with assassination Sunday in a " bonkers " phone call with Fox News' Trey Yingst, the details of which Yingst revealed on air just moments later. Last week, Trump officially agreed to a tentative peace deal with Iran, giving the two parties 60 days to finalize a more permanent agreement to end hostilities. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland Sunday to meet with an Iranian delegation of negotiators led by...

The Raw Story - 53 min 14 sec ago
JD Vance's path to the presidency may run through Tehran, and not in a way that helps him. That is the striking implication of a new analysis by Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, who argues in The Atlantic that the vice president's political future now depends heavily on whether hardline Iranian officials decide to play along with Donald Trump's latest gamble. Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, lays out how Trump handed Vance responsibility for...

Daily Signal - 1 hour 5 min ago
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL As the Department of Health and Human Services continues to commemorate Men’s Health Month, the department’s assistant secretary for health told the Daily Signal that President Donald Trump’s administration is focused on revitalizing fatherhood for the benefit of the nation. “We want to make a positive impact on men’s health during...

The Raw Story - 1 hour 32 min ago
Authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat is predicting that President Donald Trump's praise for China's Xi Jinping will end the same way his Iran standoff did: with the president backing down to a strongman he admires. Her forecast came in response to an Axios clip in which Trump gushed about the Chinese leader on "The Axios Show." Asked about Xi, Trump described him in the language of physical admiration he often reserves for fellow autocrats, calling him tall, "6-foot-2,"...

NBC News - 1 hour 58 min ago
Vice President JD Vance meets with officials from Pakistan, Qatar and Iran for talks in Lucerne, Switzerland as Iran threatened to close down the Strait of Hormuz after Israel's strikes on Lebanon. NBC News' Keir Simmons and Gary Grumbach report on President Donald Trump's intentions to reset relations with Tehran and his threats to attack again if the Hezbollah and Israel conflict escalates.

The Raw Story - 2 hours 4 min ago
Donald Trump's habit of punishing Republicans who cross him may have just cost him the political cover he needs to sell his Iran deal, according to political analyst Sabrina Haake, who argues the president's domestic vendettas are actively undermining him abroad. In her latest newsletter , Haake makes the case that Trump's "personal thirst for revenge at home is hurting him on Iran." Her logic is straightforward: the lawmakers Trump targeted in primaries, several of whom lost...

TMZ - 2 hours 14 min ago
President Donald Trump set off a wave of online confusion late Saturday night after posting a photo on Truth Social featuring a blonde woman he described in the caption as "Great daughter." The only problem ... the woman in the image doesn't…...

NBC News - 2 hours 24 min ago
Sen. Cory Booker criticized President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling them both criminal" leaders.

The Independent - 2 hours 38 min ago
US president Donald Trump said on Truth Social that Sir Keir Starmer will resign' as UK prime minister...

NBC News - 4 hours 31 min ago
President Donald Trump signed a "memorandum of understanding" with Iran to wind-down four months of war, but critics, including politicians and media figures who typically support the president, say it concedes too much to a radical Iranian regime. So how does it stack up with the Obama administration's 2015 deal with Iran which Trump attacked on the campaign trail and then repealed as president? NBC's Keir Simmons reports in this week's Sunday Focus.

NBC News - 4 hours 42 min ago
President Donald Trump is threatening years in jail for anyone who vandalizes the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. On Friday, U.S. Park police arrested Olympic canoeist David Hearn, charging him with destruction of government property after he reached into the water to touch a piece of the peeling paint. Hearn denies the charge. NBC's Gary Grumbach reports for Sunday TODAY.

NBC News - 4 hours 45 min ago
NBC's Garrett Haake, filling in for Kristen Welker as Moderator of Meet the Press, joins Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to discuss the reaction from Americans and some of President Donald Trump's allies to his handling of the Iran war. "Only about one-third of the country say they support how the President has handled the war so far. He needs the country to be with him on how to handle the peace, or else this could be a disaster for Republicans in the midterms," Garrett says.

The Independent - 5 hours 5 min ago
Netanyahu faces overwhelming pressure domestically to continue the conflict despite Donald Trump's efforts to end it...

ABC News - 6 hours 15 min ago
President Donald Trump said the U.S. Park Police had arrested multiple people he alleged were vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has seen algae.

The Guardian - 7 hours 1 min ago
JD Vance says talks aim to make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue' Middle East crisis live updates Talks between Iran and the US aimed at building out the fragile interim deal to end the war are due to get under way in Switzerland, beset by difficulties including an Iranian decision to keep the strait of Hormuz closed in protest at Donald Trump's inability to force Israel to end the fighting in Lebanon. The US vice-president, JD Vance, leading the...

The Guardian - 7 hours 5 min ago
Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket operating in areas with limited resources for people with gambling problems Public health resources across the US are failing to keep pace with the rapid growth of online gambling, problem health advocates warned, after Donald Trump endorsed the controversial nationwide surge of prediction markets. Prediction market platforms, where users can wager on everything from Tony Award winners to World Cup goals, have pushed betting even further into American life. Continue...

The Guardian - 8 hours 5 min ago
A small but dedicated band is keeping tabs on taskforce agents here's what the activist monitors have to say Nine months after Donald Trump ordered an anti-crime taskforce onto the streets of Memphis, a small band of dedicated observers is attempting to monitor its actions. They have alleged widespread intimidation by agents, who stand accused in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee of having tailed cars, surveilled homes and even "falsely arrested"...

The Independent - 8 hours 25 min ago
U.S. and Iranian negotiators are in Switzerland for talks to work on key details of their interim agreement to end the Iran war...

Sky News - 10 hours 39 min ago
Donald Trump has claimed vandals are responsible for issues with the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC following a refurbishment costing more than $14m ( 10.5m).

The Guardian - 11 hours 5 min ago
What has the Israeli PM's whirlwind of violence achieved? His closest ally now turning against him and an emboldened Iran Benjamin Netanyahu, the biggest loser in last week's preliminary deal to halt the US-Israel-Iran war , will be remembered and reviled as the man who put the Middle East to the sword. Whether the "problem" was Hamas in Gaza, illegal West Bank land seizures, supposed Israeli-Arab fifth columnists, peace campaigners' aid flotillas , Hezbollah in Lebanon, hostile...

US Weekly - 12 hours 8 min ago
Jimmy Kimmel is enlisting Rosie O'Donnell to guest host his ABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a "special treat" for President Donald Trump . "I will be taking the next two months off — this time voluntarily," Kimmel, 58, joked during his monologue on Thursday, June 18. The comedian was referencing his September 2025 suspension by ABC for comments related to political fallout of the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk . (Trump has repeatedly called for ABC to fire...

NBC News - 14 hours 49 sec ago
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Saturday said that multiple people had been arrested in connection with alleged vandalism of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, including an Olympic canoeist, as the administration's $14 million project to renovate the site has faced multiple setbacks.