The Associated Press reports: A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses. The lawsuit filed Tuesday argues that the family’s arrests after fleeing Honduras and entering the US legally …

Politico Europe reports: A firebrand State Department political appointee proposed using American taxpayer money to support French far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she appeals her embezzlement conviction, according to two State Department officials. U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies have joined far-right politicians in Europe in condemning Le Pen’s conviction in March as politically motivated. Le Pen, one …

CBS News reports: A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia, creating booms heard by residents in the area, according to NASA. The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South Carolina at 12:25 p.m. ET. The …

The Washington Post reports: The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4, according to multiple people with knowledge of the efforts. The initial target was to change 47 regulations, an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s status …

Axios reports: Nate Morris — a pro-Trump entrepreneur who founded a waste-disposal company worth $2 billion — joined the frenzied race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) with a cutting but lighthearted ad showing Morris riding on the back of a bouncing garbage truck. “Let’s dump career politicians and take out the trash in Washington,” Morris says as his …

The Phoenix New Times reports: It’s a time-tested strategy, straight out of 1995: When someone calls you out for lying, falsely accuse that person of being gay. That’s the tack Kari Lake took while testifying in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I’ve seen you in action, including your behavior in the last two elections,” Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was challenged on Thursday to explain why she posted an image of the Statue of Liberty in a burqa following New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. On The Hill’s “RISING” show, co-host Niall Stanage brought up the image of the Statue of Liberty …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham commendably kept a straight face and the show moving after Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) committed an on-air gaffe while misquoting a Democrat’s private praise for President Donald Trump’s Iran strikes as a moment that would go down in the “anals of American history.” Moreno appeared on The Ingraham Angle Thursday to defend the …

Politico reports: Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding the ability of the United States to serve as an example of democracy worldwide. “Many in the rest of the world look to the United States to see what democracy is, to see what democracy ought to be,” Kennedy said …

Axios reports: A pro-Trump super PAC is out with its first TV ad against Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican targeted for defeat by the president, Axios has learned. President Trump’s powerful political operation is showing that it’s willing to unload part of its massive $500 million war chest to unseat Massie, who the White House views as its chief …

The New York Times reports: Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who helped spearhead a brazen legal effort to use phony slates of pro-Trump electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was disbarred in New York on Thursday, cementing an indefinite ban issued last year. In a seven-page opinion, the court cited a criminal racketeering case centered on the fake electors in …

NBC News reports: A top Republican senator is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, slashing the workforce of an organization that has expanded since it was created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.  Under a bill by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the Republican chair of the Intelligence Committee, the ODNI’s staff …

Reuters reports: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be “legal consequences” for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event planned for this weekend. Hungary’s parliament, in which Orban’s right-wing Fidesz Party has a big majority, passed legislation in March that created a legal basis for police to …

CNN reports: Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN. That leaves in place contingency plans he had established before the Democratic primary to challenge Zohran Mamdani and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in November. The former New York governor, who …

Variety reports: Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of American Vogue after 37 years, Variety has confirmed. Wintour announced to staffers on Thursday that Vogue will begin the search for a new head of editorial content. She will remain Condé Nast’s chief content officer as well as global editorial director at Vogue, continuing to oversee the fashion magazine’s worldwide …

Axios reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to meet with President Trump at the White House in the coming weeks to celebrate the joint U.S-Israeli bombing of Iran’s nuclear program, three Israeli officials said. Despite past tensions in their relationship, the two leaders are closer than ever and see the 12-day war against Iran as a monumental achievement — …

Wired reports: Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young technologists brought on to Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has returned to government shortly after resigning. “Edward Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee,” Stephen McGraw, an SSA spokesperson, tells WIRED. “His work will be focused on improving the functionality …

“You know, everyone’s feeling this huge swelling of patriotism and then CNN comes along and sullies it. Now, CNN says, ‘we didn’t do anything wrong,’ but CNN spent 48 hours with guests at the top of every single hour saying, ‘the mission failed,” saying, ‘the bombs didn’t work,” saying, ‘the Iranians still have a nuclear program.’ “What kind of effect …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: The budget now heads to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk for his signature, which he must sign by June 30. He can line-item veto provisions in the budget. A handful of anti-LGBTQ+ provisions are sprinkled throughout the budget, including a provision that would only recognize two sexes — male and female. The budget would require …

ABC News reports: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend against flu vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal. Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative, which is used to prevent microbial contamination of vaccines. Most flu vaccines currently used in the …