“My stomach is in knots. The idea that a self-avowed socialist and Hamas Terrorist sympathizer like Zohran Mamdani could become the next mayor of New York City truly makes me sick. NY Post: ‘Mamdani backer who works for NYC Campaign Finance Board is a longtime socialist operative with links to terror groups.’ “New York City is home to the Statue of …

Axios reports: The Trump White House has decided that nine former senior Biden aides won’t be protected by executive privilege during their interviews for a congressional probe into Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office. Why it matters: The White House’s move means the former Biden aides will have to answer questions about their private conversations with Biden, unless they or …

The Daily Beast reports: A classified report leaked to CNN and The New York Times on Tuesday revealed that Trump’s much-touted attacks on three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites over the weekend did not kill the country’s nuclear program. At worst, they likely set the program back by a few months, which counters the president’s repeated claims of “complete and total …

The New York Times reports: Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City on Tuesday night, building a lead so commanding that Mr. Cuomo conceded. Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist from Queens, tapped into a …

Deadline reports: The defense has rested in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial after delivering a very short presentation with no witnesses, Before his lawyers began their blink-and-you-miss-it case today, Combs himself told the judge in the Manhattan courtroom that he would not be taking the stand. “That is my decision, your honor,” the 55-year old Baby Boy Records founder replied …

The New York Post reports: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands turned heads in a striking lime-green jumpsuit as she and hubby King Willem-Alexander gave President Trump and fellow world leaders a royal welcome at the NATO summit. The Dutch royal couple beamed as they greeted world leaders from 32 countries – including Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime …

“This is not the candidate that I voted for. It’s all of the same rhetoric dating back to 9/11. All of the same tactic trying to smear people who are against this war as ‘jihadists.’ There was no imminent threat to the United States when Trump made this decision to do what Bibi wanted. This was not Trump’s decision it …

Newsweek reports: Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said during a closed-door meeting with Republicans on Tuesday that people worried about cuts to Medicaid in the Senate’s reconciliation bill will “get over it,” Punchbowl News reported. The Republican Party has drawn sharp criticism over the reconciliation package, which is currently making its way through the Senate after passing the GOP-controlled House of …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday asserted that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, pushing back forcefully against the lawmakers in both parties who are invoking the law in an effort to block President Trump from further military action in Iran. Johnson has already rejected calls to stage a vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution in …

Wired reports: Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first technologists hired as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is no longer working for the federal government, according to multiple sources. “Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,” a White House official tells WIRED. Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE member who WIRED first identified at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs …

Politico reports: Donald Trump waged his latest courtroom bid Tuesday to avoid paying the $83.3 million judgment he owes the writer E. Jean Carroll for defamatory remarks he made about her after she accused him of rape. A lawyer for Trump told a panel of appeals court judges that the judgment should be tossed out because Trump should have been …

The Los Angeles Times reports: National Guard troops who were deployed to combat immigration protesters in Los Angeles have also taken part in a raid on a suspected marijuana farm in rural Riverside County, more than 130 miles away, Trump administration lawyers told a federal judge Monday. In a filing supporting President Donald Trump’s orders for 4,000 National Guard troops …

The Hill reports: White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Tuesday the administration is waiting to announce trade deals until after President Trump’s megabill passes Congress, which the president is pressuring Republicans to do by the Fourth of July recess. “We know that we’re very, very close to a few countries and are waiting to announce after we …

Atlanta’s NPR affiliate reports: Four teenagers were arrested early Tuesday morning and have hate crime charges pending against them after police say they stole and cut up Pride flags outside one of Atlanta’s most well-known gay bars. Atlanta police say they responded to a vandalism call at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue. Witnesses …

CNN reports: The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it. The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by …

Courthouse News reports: For the past several months, dozens of lawsuits have cropped up in response to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to federal funding. But on Tuesday, a coalition of 21 Democratic states and the District of Columbia went on the offensive by suing the administration over the controversial provision it’s been using to justify those cuts: a clause …

Politico Playbook reports: Senate Republicans are scrambling to finalize their version of the GOP megabill, pass it this weekend and then get out of town. They’re not much concerned at the moment with what happens after that. The House, they’re convinced, will swallow the bill rather than defy President Donald Trump, who made clear today “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION …

“He doesn’t think that you should have law enforcement in dangerous parts of the city, that you should send in social workers. See how that works out for you. It ain’t going to work out well. I can tell you if this socialist mayoral candidate wins in New York City, you’re going to see real estate value skyrocket even more …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker will announce Thursday that he will seek a third term next year, answering a question about his immediate political future but leaving unanswered whether he will pursue a longer-term goal of running for president in 2028. Multiple sources close to Pritzker’s campaign confirmed to the Tribune Tuesday that the governor will make …

The Washington Post reports: S.B. 1362, known as the Anti-Red Flag Act, preemptively bars the state from adopting or enforcing most kinds of extreme risk protective orders. ERPOs, as they’re known, allow a judge or magistrate to temporarily restrict a person’s access to firearms — either ones they already own or ones they plan to buy — during a crisis. …