Trump Administration

The Associated Press reports: National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California’s National Guard were seen staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the …

The Daily Beast reports: MAGA is going off on an ABC reporter who dared attack White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. ABC’s Terry Moran wrote Saturday night on X in a since-deleted post that “what’s interesting about [Stephen] Miller” is “not brains. It’s bile,” further describing President Donald Trump’s top aide as “a man who’s richly endowed with …

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s …

The Wall Street Journal reports: When the curtain rises in the John F. Kennedy Center Opera House for a performance of “Les Misérables” this week, President Trump is scheduled to be surrounded by supporters who have paid up to $2 million to watch the musical with him. A coup de théâtre earlier this year put the president and his deputies …

The New York Times reports: A third day of protests against immigration raids was expected to take place in the Los Angeles area on Sunday, hours after President Trump took the extraordinary action of ordering at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist immigration agents clashing with demonstrators. The announcement by Mr. Trump — who said that any protest or …

NBC News reports: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to at least 1.7 million eggs, according to a news release issued on Saturday. The brown cage-free and brown certified organic eggs were distributed by the August Egg Company from Feb. 3 through May 15 to …

The Washington Post reports: Elon Musk’s team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. The people said those who were managing White House communications …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Axios reports: House Democrats are asking the Department of Justice and FBI whether it is true, as Elon Musk now claims, that President Trump is in the Epstein files, Axios has learned. It’s the starkest example to date of how the highly public feud between the president and his onetime lieutenant is playing right into the hands of the Trump’s …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: Dupont Circle is officially closed for WorldPride weekend. Police were in the area early Friday morning roping it off. The latest move comes after the original closure sparked backlash from neighbors, prompting a reversal from D.C.’s police chief. Now it appears the temporary closure is back on. A spokesperson for the National Park Service told …

The New York Times reports: The labor market persevered in May, continuing a consistent run of job creation that has outlasted inflation, interest rate increases and now an on-again-off-again trade war. Employers added 139,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, about in line with economists’ expectations. The steady hiring is an indication that businesses are still seeing enough …

The New Republic reports: “What’s the tariff on bananas? Americans, by the way, love bananas. We buy billions of them a year,” asked Pennsylvania Representative Madeleine Dean. “What’s the tariff on bananas?” “The tariff on bananas would be representative of the countries that produce them,” said Lutnick, eventually clarifying that the tariff rate would be generally 10 percent. “As countries …