The Huffington Post reports: After persistent questioning about the cost of sending National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles, Hegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who said it would cost $134 million. Hegseth defended Trump’s decision to send the troops, saying they are needed to protect federal agents as they do their jobs. The House Defense …

The Daily Beast reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to instruct soldiers deployed to Los Angeles to help arrest rioters, even though the military is generally barred from domestic law enforcement. In a leaked letter, Noem asked Hegseth on Sunday to have the Pentagon give “direction to [Department of Defense] forces to either detain, …

Reuters reports: US government agencies tracked foreign nationals’ visits to businessman Elon Musk’s proprieties amid concerns over possible attempts to influence the tech billionaire, the Wall Street Journal reported on June 10, citing people familiar with the matter. The investigation, which tracked the foreigners in 2022 and 2023, included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, according to …

NBC News reports: Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who heads the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, raised concerns in a brief post on social media about the Health and Human Services Department’s gutting of an independent vaccine advisory committee. Cassidy wouldn’t elaborate on that warning when Capitol reporters asked about it last night. But the decision comes weeks …

The Associated Press reports: In a series of questions on the news that Marines would be sent to Los Angeles, House Appropriations defense subcommittee ranking member Rep. Betty McCollum told Hegseth “this is a deeply unfair position to put our Marines in,” she said. “There’s no need for the Marines to be deployed.” McCollum asked what the cost of the …

ABC News reports: A Michigan man has been arrested after missing his flight to Los Angeles and calling in a fake bomb threat after being made to book another flight, officials said. The incident took place last Thursday at approximately 6:25 a.m. at Detroit Metropolitan Airport when an individual, later identified as 23-year-old John Charles Robinson of Monore, Michigan. “During …

Religion News Service reports: The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for separation of state and church and for nontheism, is experiencing what its co-president calls a “Trump bump.”  The American Humanist Association, a nonprofit that promotes secular humanism, reported a 68% rise in donations since Trump won the 2024 election — and a 77% increase since …

“It was Joe Biden and the Democrats that locked down Washington, D.C under military control around the time of his inauguration because they’re such victims. But, you know, President Trump and federal officials are fighting to keep our streets safe while the left — and they are definitely the international left — they want criminal gangbangers to be loose on …

The New York Times reports: The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year as President Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty, the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war. The trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s. …

ABC News reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to testify before a House panel on Tuesday, his first time on Capitol Hill since being sworn in five months ago and as questions swirl about the deployment of troops to Los Angeles as part of an immigration crackdown. During the hearing, Hegseth is widely expected to dodge many of the …

“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. do to an incompetent Governor and Mayor – Incidentally, the much more difficult, time consuming, and stringent FEDERAL PERMITTING PROCESS is virtually …

Yahoo News reports: The Trump administration late on Monday argued to an appeals court that a lower court’s invalidation of the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs was “illegal” and that reimposing a halt to those duties would risk “irreparable economic and national security harms.” The administration made these statements in a document filed Monday with the US Federal Court of Appeals …

Just in via press release: Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) announced he will introduce legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to take severe action against those who assault law enforcement personnel, including ICE Agents or CBP officials. If enacted, the Curbing Offenses on Policing Services (COPS Act) would increase jail time and civil fines for assaulting a law enforcement …

NOTUS reports: Rep. Ted Lieu is co-chairing the Democratic Veterans Caucus with Reps. Pat Ryan and Chris Deluzio. As vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, Lieu’s involvement also brings strong support from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the group said. There are already a few congressional military veteran caucuses, like the For Country Caucus, that are bipartisan, as well …

CNN reports: A shooter opened fire at a high school in the Austrian city of Graz, authorities said Tuesday, killing nine people including teenagers. Austria’s interior ministry confirmed the fatalities, telling CNN that the victims included children between 14 and 18 years old. The perpetrator is also dead and the school has been secured, the ministry and Austrian police said. …

Politico reports: California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Donald Trump’s threats against him and other Democrats following the president’s unilateral deployment of National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area carried all the markings of authoritarianism. “It’s just an extraordinary moment, and I don’t want to overstate it, but these are the words of an authoritarian,” Newsom said in a Monday …

The Daily Beast reports: “We’re coming in and doing what the president has said that he’s going to do,” Kristi Noem told Fox News’ Hannity. “The more that people conduct violence against law enforcement officers, boy, we’re going to hit ‘em back, and we’re going to hit ‘em back harder than we ever have before.” Noem also took a swipe …

The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. When troops are overseas, how they can respond …

The New York Daily News reports: Protesters railing against ICE raids took over the lobby of Manhattan’s Trump Tower Monday, with police making at least 24 arrests as Mayor Adams warned that any demonstrations similar to what happened in Los Angeles over the weekend would “not be tolerated” in New York. “The escalation of protests in Los Angeles over the …

CBS News reports: White House “border czar” Tom Homan told CBS News on Monday “there’s no intention to arrest” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, after President Trump suggested he was open to the idea — escalating a war of words over the protests and law enforcement response in Los Angeles. “That whole thing’s been taken out of context,” Homan said. “They …