The Sacramento Bee reports: A Sacramento County man, who was convicted for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol and later pardoned by President Donald Trump, was convicted on Tuesday of possessing child pornography. After a one‑day trial, a jury in federal court found Kyle Travis Colton, 37, of Citrus Heights, guilty of one count …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., rushed to his father’s defense in the wake of a Wall Street Journal exclusive Friday morning, arguing he’s never seen his dad “doodle” — despite reports of the contrary. Don Jr.’s tirade was in reply to a post by Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, who claimed he asked X’s AI bot …

Axios reports: The director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios. The spy chief, David Barnea, told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking in particular with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya. The …

Just in via HHS press release: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio today issued a Joint Statement of formal rejection by the United States of the 2024 International Heath Regulations (IHR) Amendments by the World Health Organization (WHO). The amended IHR would give the WHO the ability to order global …

The New Republic reports: Alina Habba, Trump’s shamelessly biased personal lawyer, will soon be out of the job he gave her. The president appointed Habba, who defended him in his hush-money and E. Jean Carroll defamation cases, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey in March. The role was for 120 days, allowing Habba to bypass Senate …

The Baltimore Banner reports: A conservative legal group founded by a member of the Trump administration has filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice against the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, alleging racial discrimination. America First Legal, founded and run by Trump advisor Stephen Miller, filed the complaint Thursday alleging that the Hopkins’ medical school is discriminating …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: An explosion in East Los Angeles Friday morning killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies. The blast occurred at 1060 N. Eastern Ave. at about 7:30 a.m., the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. That address corresponds with the LASD’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy. Details are limited, and sheriff’s officials have only confirmed that there …

West Palm Beach’s ABC affiliate reports: The rainbow colors of a pride intersection in Boynton Beach, Florida, have been painted over in black. It wasn’t the work of vandals, but an official action by the city. Officials say they did it, not because they wanted to, but because they had to by following an order from the Trump administration. On …

“There are a lot of praises to sing, and everyone will be singing that tune, and certainly the voters will when they come to the midterms in 2026. This is the beginning of a great run for America. President Trump called me early this morning, we were doing a victory lap together on the phone about the passage of the …

404 Media reports: Conservative content mill PragerU is partnering with the White House to make AI-generated videos of founding fathers and Revolutionary War-era randos. It’s been criticized for advancing climate denial and slavery apologism, frequently publishes videos critical of “wokeness” and “DEI,” and is very concerned about “the death of the West.” It has also been increasingly integrated into school curricula …

NBC News reports: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that the TSA will open security lanes dedicated to families and military service members. TSA will also begin offering Gold Star families TSA pre-check enrollment free of charge, she said. “Families on the Fly” will create dedicated security lines for families with small children and give families a …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged Thursday that his program made a mistake in reporting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s phone conversation with President Trump during last month’s immigration raids in Los Angeles. Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News on June 27 after the host reported on comments Trump made about …

NewsNation reports: President Trump said Friday morning that he was thrilled by the news that CBS is canceling the decade-running Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than his ratings.” The president also took aim at ABC’s “Late Night” talk show …

The Associated Press reports: More than 1 million low-income households — most of them working families with children — who depend on the nation’s public housing and Section 8 voucher programs could be at risk of losing their government-subsidized homes under the Trump administration’s proposal to impose a two-year time limit on rental assistance. That’s according to new research from …

Bloomberg News reports: Brazil’s Supreme Court sent police to raid the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro and attach a monitor to his ankle just as Donald Trump piles pressure on the country to drop criminal charges against the right-wing leader. Bolsonaro, who is about to stand trial over an alleged coup attempt, will now face an evening curfew and …

Reuters reports: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed U.S. diplomats worldwide not to comment on the fairness or integrity of elections conducted by foreign countries, according to an internal note seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a significant departure from Washington’s traditional approach of promoting free and fair elections overseas. The order, sent to all U.S. diplomatic posts in …

NPR reports: Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare.gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday. The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. Summer is …

Cedar Rapids’ Fox affiliate reports: A SkyWest Airlines flight from Omaha, Nebraska, to Detroit was diverted to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, due to a disturbance involving a passenger. Cedar Rapids police arrested 23-year-old Mario Nikprelaj, of Nebraska, at the Eastern Iowa Airport after 6 p.m. on Thursday following the “in-air disturbance.” According to CNN, witnesses said Nikprelaj was fighting with a …

The Hill reports: President Trump penned a new executive order on Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda.” The employees will be listed under the classification “Schedule G” and will engage in “policy-making or policy-advocating work,” according to the White House. Schedule G jobs will …

The Daily Beast reports: The Harry Potter reboot series has yet to announce who will play Voldemort, but Gavin Newsom has a casting suggestion. On Thursday, the California governor seized an opportunity to drag White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, likening him to Harry Potter antagonist Lord Voldemort. On June 10, the governor’s press office reposted two TikToks …