CNN reports: President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center’s opening night of “Les Misérables” – with a greeting of cheers and boos, drama at intermission and drag queens in the audience. When the lights came on after the end of the first act Wednesday, many people cheered and clapped as the president …

NBC News reports: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new members to a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the entire group just days earlier. His picks include some well-known vaccine critics, including Dr. Robert Malone. Malone suggested earlier this year, without evidence, that recent deaths from measles among children were …

“So many of the activists you see on the streets, these are the — the Latino ones at least — a lot of them are the really ungrateful children of immigrants who come to America, legal and illegal, working hard trying to get the American dream and what happens? They have to send their kids to school, and they end …

Politico reports: Sen. Rand Paul says he and his family have been uninvited from the White House picnic for members of Congress, accusing the administration of targeting him over his opposition to some of President Donald Trump’s policies. “I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic,” Paul …

The Washington Post reports: David Hogg will step down from his role as Democratic National Committee vice chair, capping months of party infighting and turmoil centering on the Gen Z activist’s pledge to involve himself in primaries and back challengers against some incumbents. Hogg said Wednesday that he will not to run to retain his position, following the conclusion of …

The BBC reports: A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people has crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. Flight AI171 was travelling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick. There were 169 Indian nationals on the flight, as well as 53 Britons, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals, Air India says. Tracking website Flightradar24 says it received the last …

Variety reports: Disney and NBCUniversal are the first Hollywood players to take a shot across the bow of a generative AI company that they claim has stolen their copyrighted characters. Disney and NBCU filed suit Tuesday against Midjourney, a generative AI start-up, alleging copyright infringement. The companies alleged that Midjourney’s own website “displays hundreds, if not thousands, of images generated …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: The Kroger Co. continues to earn a perfect score on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s national benchmarking tool for corporate policies and practices supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees. The annual survey assesses non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care, competency programs, and …

Ars Technica reports: Amid all the Gemini hype at Google I/O last month, the company also turned one of its experiments into a (kind of) real product. Project Starline was reborn as Google Beam, a 3D video conferencing system that makes it look like you’re in the same room with the other party. Google said HP would reveal the first …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump is set to attend the opening night of “Les Misérables,” a musical set against a background of revolution and protest, at Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday. “I love the songs, I love the play,” Trump told Fox News Digital last week. “I think it’s great.” Protests against …

The Guardian reports: A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned. Climate.gov, the gateway website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)’s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for …

Florida Politics reports: Florida law enforcement can look forward to serving a federal mission on the road in the foreseeable future. That’s according to Attorney General James Uthmeier, who said that “we’ll be sending any resources we have to California to help the President carry out his mission.” Uthmeier’s comments, made on the Sean Hannity radio show, preceded Gov. Ron DeSantis …

Via press release from the National Park Service: On June 10, a 30-year-old man from Randolph, New Jersey, was injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. At approximately 9:45 a.m. in the Upper Geyser Basin at Old Faithful, a man was gored by a bison after a large group of visitors approached it too closely. The individual was treated …

Pew Research reports: U.S. President Donald Trump receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations. More than half in 19 of these countries say they lack confidence in Trump’s leadership of world affairs. Majorities in most countries also express little or no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle specific issues, including immigration, the Russia-Ukraine …

From the just-approved resolution: WHEREAS, God calls His people to holiness and Christ has specifically summoned His followers to sexual purity (Matthew 5:27–28; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5); and WHEREAS, Sexual sin robs us of our joy in God and is especially grievous to our souls (1 Corinthians 6:18); and WHEREAS, Increasing numbers of men and women report their addiction and enslavement …

“Honestly, you know, my whole life, I’ve heard people complain about traffic on the 405. Mass deportations will help solve that. I mean, you can’t bring in millions of people and then, you know, act as if they have the public infrastructure for it. And, look, as a nation, we have a big heart, but you cannot simultaneously have domestic …

TRUMP, YESTERDAY: “For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force. And I haven’t even heard about a protest, but you know, this is [sic] people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.” REPORTER, TODAY: “Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does support or …

“I rebuke the devil out of your mind! You were not born that way! Young man, you are a man with testosterone! And God has given to the ability to lead and be ahead. He calls you to be a provider and be a protector. “He didn’t call you to be a ballerina [flails wrists]. May the holy ghost break …

Raw Story reports: The Department of Homeland Security posted an extreme meme asking X users, “Don’t make me tap the sign.” The meme was a screenshot from a Simpsons episode where Homer is tempted to tap a bus sign that says “Do not talk to driver” to get Lisa to stop talking. The “Do not talk to driver” phrase was …

Deadline Hollywood reports: A week into jury deliberations on Harvey Weinstein‘s New York rape retrial, the proceedings appear to be descending into chaos. The jurors just informed Judge Curtis Farber that they have reached a split verdict: guilty on Count 1 of a criminal sexual act in the first degree against Miriam Haley, not guilty of the same charge involving …