New York City’s CBS affiliate reports: During June, Pride flags are placed around the park’s fence. They usually include a mixture of rainbow LGBTQ+ flags, transgender flags and progress flags, which have stripes to include communities of color. Photographer and advocate Steven Love Menendez said he created and won federal approval for the installation nine years ago. Within a few …

The Associated Press reports: Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional …

Billboard Magazine reports: There’s no question that Broadway‘s Hamilton was (and still is) one of the most engrossing musicals on the Great White Way, but according to an original cast member, Madonna herself had other things to focus on. During his Thursday (June 19) appearance on Watch What Happens Live alongside singer Ciara, Anthony Ramos — who originated the roles …

CBS News reports: President Trump said he would address the nation Saturday at 10 p.m. ET on the U.S. strikes on Iran. Mr. Trump announced earlier on social media that the U.S. had launched strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites. “I will be giving an Address to the Nation at 10:00 P.M., at the White House, regarding our very successful …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. The decision to directly involve the U.S. comes after more …

“I HATE ‘GREEN TAX CREDITS’ IN THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. They are largely a giant SCAM. I would much prefer that this money be used somewhere else, including reductions. ‘Anywhere’ would be preferable! Windmills, and the rest of this ‘JUNK,’ are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is …

CBS News reports: The U.S. Department of State has begun assisted departure flights from Israel, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on X Saturday. His announcement comes days after confusion about whether the U.S. government would be assisting American citizens evacuating from Israel. Huckabee said on June 18, the sixth day of the Israel-Iran war, that the U.S. Embassy in …

The Washington Post reports: The National Institutes of Health’s support for federal guidelines that steer the treatment of more than a million HIV patients in the United States will be phased out by next June, according to the agency’s Office of AIDS Research, a move that troubled some doctors and raised questions about whether the guidelines themselves will change. It …

“I’m just reporting what I’m hearing from pretty good sources. The party is on. So another big weekend in this unfolding aspect of the Third World War, and no, anyone that’s telling you that the Third World War is not here, is absolutely, does not understand the development and evolution of kinetic energy.” – Steve Bannon, on today’s podcast. ABC …

The Texas Tribune reports: Former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a four-term Republican congressman from Corpus Christi and local radio host, died this week from a heart attack after struggling with chronic liver disease, according to a close friend who worked on his radio show. He was 63. Farenthold’s time in Washington came to a fraught end in April 2018, when …

The New York Times reports: Multiple U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers appeared to be airborne and heading west from the United States across the Pacific, and President Trump is scheduled to return to the White House late on Saturday afternoon from New Jersey as he deliberates about whether to join Israel’s efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites. Air traffic control …

CNN reports: The hottest temperatures of the year so far will soon reach the eastern half of the United States as a brutal heat dome starts to build over the weekend. Dangerous, record-breaking heat will impact millions next week. Tens of millions of people from the Midwest to the East Coast will face a level 4-of-4 extreme heat risk Sunday …

The Huffington Post reports: Turns out, there’s a line the Proud Boys say they won’t cross for President Donald Trump. The extremist group said on social media this week that it wouldn’t be able to support the president if the U.S. were to become involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. “If the United States gets directly involved in …

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump proclaimed that his own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was “wrong” about Iran in an exchange with reporters on a New Jersey tarmac on Friday after it was pointed out to him that she had said the intelligence community currently has no evidence Iran possesses or is building a nuclear weapon. Less than …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Stephen Miller wanted to keep the planes in the air—and that is where they stayed. When a federal judge in March told the Trump administration to turn around flights of deported migrants headed to El Salvador, senior officials hastily convened a Saturday evening conference call to figure out what to do. If they didn’t return …

The Washington Post reports: The Postal Service in 2022 embarked on plans to purchase 66,000 electric mail delivery vehicles, many of them bespoke “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” from the defense contractor Oshkosh. The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and …

Politico reports: Senate Republicans’ plan to force states to share the cost of the country’s largest nutrition program to pay for their policy megabill has been halted by the chamber’s rules. The Senate parliamentarian determined that the cost-sharing plan would violate the so-called Byrd Rule, which limits what can be included in the reconciliation process, and would be subject to …

Reuters reports: Pakistan said on Saturday it would recommend U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, an accolade that he has said he craves, for his work in helping to resolve the recent conflict between India and Pakistan. Some analysts in Pakistan said the move might persuade Trump to think again about potentially joining Israel in striking Iran’s …

Axios reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is shortening the period for enrolling in marketplace insurance by two weeks, starting for plan year 2027. Federal exchanges will then be open for sign-ups from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 of each year. It’s also repealing the monthly opportunity started under the Biden administration for lower-income people to get marketplace …

The New York Times reports: Eight days ago, Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference and handcuffed by federal agents after he interrupted Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles. At the same building on Friday, Vice President JD Vance disparaged Mr. Padilla for engaging in “political theater” and called …