The Ohio Capital Journal reports: Kent State University is closing its LGBTQ+ Center, Women’s Center and Student Multicultural Center because of a new state law banning diversity efforts that is set to take effect at the end of the month. Kent State’s LBGTQ+ Living-Learning Community will cease to exist because of Senate Bill 1 going into effect, according to a …

The Hill reports: Allies of President Trump are attempting a takeover of the D.C. Bar Association as voting ends Wednesday in the election to lead the prestigious organization. The two-way race for president is between Diane Seltzer and Brad Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi. It comes at a moment of heightened tension between the White House and …

The New York Times reports: Edmund White, who became a pioneer in gay literature by mining his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books and hundreds of articles and essays, died on Tuesday. He was 85. Mr. White died of natural causes at home in New York City, his agent, Bill Clegg, said in an email …

The Associated Press reports: Law enforcement discovered a cache of weaponry and armor, including a machine gun and grenade launchers, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a home in Washington state, authorities said Tuesday. Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for …

Mediaite reports: Reacting on Jesse Watters Primetime to model Livvy Dunne’s split at the end of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit runway show this past weekend, Fox News host Julie Banderas remarked, “This was a great strip show, I thought. I mean, did you see what they weren’t wearing?” Watters then declared, “Remember back in the Biden era, all of the …

The Palm Beach Daily News reports: A Texas man has been arrested after Palm Beach Police said he jumped the wall of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and told officers that he wanted to “spread the gospel” to Trump and marry his granddaughter. Anthony Thomas Reyes, 23, was arrested in the early morning of June 3 and faces a misdemeanor …

Politico reports: Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year, according to two people familiar with the matter. The numbers run counter to President Donald Trump’s messaging that his economic policies, including tariffs, will reduce U.S. trade imbalances. The politically inconvenient data prompted …

The Associated Press reports: The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. It’s a process known as “rescission,” which requires President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress to return money that had previously been appropriated. Trump’s aides …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk continued his rampage against Donald Trump’s spending bill on Tuesday night, setting the stage for an ugly showdown with the president’s faithful. “Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America!” he wrote, sharing a graphic depicting rising national debt over the past three decades. “ENOUGH,” he added. He also responded with a “100″ emoji to an …

“Remember that? That was about six years ago. That was Hurricane Dorian as it was absolutely devastating the Northwest Bahamas as a Category 5. Sat over that region two days, was headed straight west. Lots of people in Florida were concerned the hurricane was heading here. Confidently, I went on TV and I told you, ‘It’s going to turn — …

The New York Times reports: U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports doubled on Wednesday, as President Trump continued to ratchet up levies on foreign metals that he claims will help revitalize American steel mills and aluminum smelters. The White House called the increased tariffs, which rose to 50 percent from 25 percent just after midnight Eastern time, a matter …

Axios reports: Butterworth’s, the MAGA-favorite watering hole on Capitol Hill, is partnering with the Kennedy Center and will offer discounts to some of its customers, according to plans first shared with Axios. The deal is the latest sign of MAGA’s growing entrenchment in the Washington cultural scene, and comes as the Kennedy Center faces backlash for President Trump’s takeover of …

Politico reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend a Wednesday meeting of 50 defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels that has been critical to coordinating military aid for Ukraine, marking the first time in three years a Pentagon chief has skipped the event. The regular meetings of NATO defense ministers and others have coordinated funding for the Ukraine …

Variety reports: Jimmy Kimmel is roasting Donald Trump yet again, this time for the president’s decision to share a “deranged” conspiracy on his Truth Social profile that claims Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with robot clones. The theory alleges that Democrats had no idea about Biden’s real identity as a robot. “This is a theory that …

Winston-Salem’s NBC affiliate reports: A Siler City pastor accused of possessing child pornography is facing multiple charges, according to the Siler City Police Department. Nelson Chay, 57, is charged with 10 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. In April, the department received an online tip about Chay, a pastor at Casa de Dios. Chay is accused of using …

“Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about. Deport.” – New York City Council member Vickie Paladino, above a 2019 tweet …

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire reports: Republican Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller introduced a resolution on Tuesday declaring June as “Family Month,” a bid to reclaim the first month of summer from LGBTQ ideology, The Daily Wire can first report. The resolution is supported by a number of parental rights advocacy groups, including Moms for America, the American Family Project, the Family …

Reuters reports: Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the U.S. CDC resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID-19 vaccines and is leaving the agency, two sources familiar with the move told Reuters. Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to work group colleagues that her decision to step down was based on …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition. That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upended national abortion rights in the U.S. It was …

Mediaite reports: While railing against the bill on Tuesday, Musk shared a post from an X user slamming the GOP and replied, “In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.” The Tesla billionaire’s call to remove the entire House GOP, except for Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH), came after he called the …