“You have a governor who let the city burn down, didn’t want water to be sent down to him. I mean, I sent billions of gallons of water. [This is a lie.] I wanted to do it in the first term. He wouldn’t do it over. I don’t know, they have environmental reasons, but there were no environmental reasons. It’s, …

Axios reports: Senate Republican leadership is urging senators to double down on condemning the chaotic protests that erupted over the weekend in Los Angeles, Axios has learned. Republicans are convinced they have a winning issue. “This gives us an opportunity to remind Americans how extreme the Democratic party is on immigration,” Sen. Tom Cotton’s office wrote to communications staff on …

CNN reports: Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to three people familiar with the matter, and will join the National Guard troops that were activated by Trump over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s …

Pitchfork reports: The legendary singer, songwriter, and musician Sly Stone has died due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other health issues. The leader of Sly and the Family Stone was 82 years old. Sly and the Family Stone were known for wearing flamboyant stage attire, as well as their adventurous blend of funk, R&B, soul, and Motown arrangements. …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: President Donald Trump’s rush to deploy California National Guard troops to Los Angeles has left dozens of soldiers without adequate sleeping arrangements, forced to pack together in one or more federal buildings, resting on the floors of what appear to be basements or loading docks, the Chronicle has learned. The state troops federalized by the …

NBC News reports: Bradley Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi, lost his bid for president of the D.C. Bar, receiving 3,490 votes compared with opponent Diane Seltzer’s 34,982. Seltzer, an employment lawyer who ran a campaign focused on supporting members of the organization at a time of “governmental chaos,” said after the results were announced Monday that she …

“They all hate Christendom. They hate Western civilization. They hate what we have built. This is a global movement of freaks and misanthropes. Anti-Israel, anti-West, anti-America, anti-capitalism, anti-law, anti-order, and it all comes together. “The same people that are doing the Gaza encampments are the same people that are now waving the La Raza Mexican flag. It is order versus …

NOTUS reports: The reconciliation bill has given Republicans a way to target abortion access in states that legally protect it: threatening their federal health care funding. House Republicans added a last-minute provision to their reconciliation bill via a manager’s amendment that would block certain Affordable Care Act funds from going to state health plans that cover abortion services. There are …

The Washington Post reports: California sued the Trump administration Monday over its deployment of 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles, a move with little precedent that has dramatically increased tensions between the federal government and America’s largest Democratic-led state. The lawsuit argues that Trump overstepped his authority when he called up by the National Guard in defiance of …

Jackson, Tennessee’s ABC affiliate reports: In June 2024, then 39-year-old Ryan McElrath, a former youth pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Jackson, was booked into the Madison County jail on charges involving inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor. In February 2025, McElrath pled guilty to “use of a facility and means of interstate commerce to persuade, induce, entice a minor …

FOX REPORTER PETER DOOCY: “Gavin Newsom is, he’s daring Tom Homan to come and arrest him. Should he do it?” TRUMP: “I would do it if I was Tom, I think it’s great. Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing. He’s done a terrible job, look– I like Gavin Newsom. He’s a nice guy, …

Florida Politics reports: Attorney General James Uthmeier says Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony must enforce U.S. immigration laws, including arresting “illegal aliens (who) are responsible for horrific crimes,” or face removal from office. In a sharply worded letter posted to X, Uthmeier demanded clarification on Tony’s recent remarks about immigration enforcement. He called Tony’s statements, made during a June 3 budget …

The New York Times reports: Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found. In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling, the researchers reported, and in some, they …

“We made a great decision in sending the National Guard to deal with the violent, instigated riots in California. If we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated. The very incompetent ‘Governor,’ Gavin Newscum, and ‘Mayor,’ Karen Bass, should be saying, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR. …

CBNC reports: The CEOs of Uber, Dell, Goldman Sachs and more are expected to announce Monday that they will collectively invest billions of dollars into so-called “Trump accounts” for the children of their employees, a White House spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The executive are slated to make the commitments during President Donald Trump’s roundtable event touting the eponymous pilot program, …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): Right there, LAPD. The mayor is involved in this and having the stand down. She ought to be arrested today. Immediately. Ben Bergquam, our own Ben Bergquam was supposed to be on ICE raids throughout the country today, but he’s in the war zone. Ben, your report, sir. BEN BERGQUAM (GUEST): Yeah, …

Everett Piper writes for the Washington Times: Dear Christians, please stop calling people gay. Don’t you realize that by doing so, you are parroting the lie that our desires define us and that people can be pigeonholed into categories of appetites, proclivities, drives and desires? Don’t you see that your labels consign your neighbors to little more than the status …

The New York Times reports: For years, YouTube has removed videos with derogatory slurs, misinformation about Covid vaccines and election falsehoods, saying the content violated the platform’s rules. But since President Trump’s return to the White House, YouTube has encouraged its content moderators to leave up videos with content that may break the platform’s rules rather than remove them, as …

CNN reports: As federal agents prepared to fan out in Los Angeles for a controversial immigration crackdown, the officers were greeted by a familiar face: Dr. Phil McGraw. The television personality and his camera crew were embedded with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement when some of the raids took place on Friday. The footage is being incorporated into a special …

Reuters reports: Dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the U.S. National Institutes of Health issued a rare public rebuke Monday criticizing the Trump administration for major spending cuts that “harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,” politicize research and “waste public resources.” More than 60 current employees sent their letter to NIH director Dr. Jay …