Via press release from Georgia Democrats: Rep. Mike Collins — who is reportedly weighing a run for U.S. Senate — said he wants to make it “more advantageous” for people to “get off of Medicaid, get off of Social Security,” in an interview on XTRA 106.3 yesterday. This comes after Collins voted for the GOP budget bill that could leave …

Billboard Magazine reports: How does a song become a gay anthem? Like the LGBTQ+ community itself, our soundtrack is vast and diverse. We have recorded our history and contribution to the culture through music, and with this list we acknowledge and remember the forerunners that have made possible the positive changes we’ve seen over the decades. These songs are a …

The Naples Daily News reports: Just hours before Naples Pride was set to go with an outdoors drag show performance in the city’s Cambier Park, a federal court ruled against Pride’s plan, forcing it to move the performance indoors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta on June 6 granted the city of Naples’ motion to …

Flying Magazine reports: President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order instructing the FAA to repeal its ban on supersonic flight over U.S. land. “America once led the world in supersonic aviation, but decades of stifling regulations grounded progress,” the order read. “This order removes regulatory barriers so that U.S. companies can dominate supersonic flight once again.” Under current …

The Associated Press reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-powered cars and trucks were illegal and moved to reverse them. Combined with Senate language in the pending budget bill to eliminate penalties for exceeding standards regulating how far vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel, automakers could come under less pressure from regulators to …

CTV News reports: New legislation introduced today would extend citizenship by descent rules beyond the first generation. Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act, would automatically give citizenship to anyone who would be a citizen today if not for the first-generation limit. Under the current rules, a Canadian citizen born outside Canada cannot pass their citizenship to their …

“The president treated him almost like a son. He invited his family to Christmas dinner. He let him sleep over. He let him walk in and out of meetings. The president went to the max informality to welcome this guy. You’re going to tell me we should allow some fucking punk to sit there and say he should be impeached …

The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon’s watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. The inspector general’s request focuses on how information about the March 15 …

The Hill reports: The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK scientists. The study, published in medRxiv, examined the stability of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in raw cow and sheep milk, with …

USA Today reports: A divided Supreme Court on June 6 said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency can access to the data of millions of Americans kept by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The court paused a judge’s order blocking DOGE from getting the data, which includes Social Security numbers, medical and mental health information, tax return information and citizenship …

Fox News reports: FBI Director Kash Patel told podcast host Joe Rogan during an interview Friday that his house was swatted this week. Patel was a guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” and during the interview, the FBI director broke news about his home getting swatted. “As Director of the FBI of responsibility, I’m not just gonna bring a case …

Axios reports: Two nonpartisan groups are launching a $5 million advertising campaign urging vulnerable Republican senators to oppose the GOP’s mega budget reconciliation bill, Axios has learned. It’s one of the first major media campaigns against the tax and spending cut package, landing as Senate Republicans negotiate changes to the bill. The two groups, Unrig Our Economy and Families Over …

ABC News reports: Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., according to sources familiar with the matter. More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El …

“Just inspected the site of the new Ballroom that will be built, compliments of a man known as Donald J. Trump, at the White House. For 150 years, Presidents, and many others, have wanted a beautiful Ballroom, but it never got built because nobody previously had any knowledge or experience in doing such things — But I do, like maybe …

The Hill reports: Five leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of spearheading the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack are accusing the government and FBI employees of violating their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, seeks $100 million in restitution and comes after President Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants …

NBC News reports: A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to bureau spokesperson Kristie Breshears. Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman who founded an inmate advocacy and rehabilitation nonprofit foundation, …

Politico Magazine reports: Sometimes the changes are subtler — a youthfulness that’s hard to pinpoint, a sense of vigor that’s hard to place. Lately, much of that suspicion has centered on the jaw. Across the internet and the gossip-journalism universe, it’s not hard to find speculation about the mandibles of everyone from the Trump sons to Elon Musk. And if …

The Washington Post reports: Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed the closure for the first time in a public radio appearance Friday afternoon. She called the closing an “unfortunate error” and said she would “continue to try to lean on” the National Park Service “for a different decision.” At the same time she appeared to defend the decision, saying police had “a …

The Roys Report reports: It’s been called Nashville’s worst-kept secret. For decades, allegations have circulated that Newsboys frontman Michael Tait, formerly of DC Talk, had groomed and sexually assaulted numerous victims. And after a two-and-a-half-year investigation by The Roys Report (TRR), which included interviewing more than 50 sources, TRR has documented Tait’s alleged predatory pattern with stories dating back more …

Courthouse News reports: President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court for help dismantling the Department of Education on Friday, pushing the justices to keep nearly 1,400 employees off the government’s payroll despite an unresolved legal dispute. Trump slashed the department’s staff by half in March, spurring a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 20 other states’ attorneys …