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NBC News reports: A federal judge found Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt late Tuesday after he snubbed a court order in a high-profile immigration case and then boasted about it in interviews. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote that Uthmeier offered “a series of implausible interpretations of the language he used” to argue he was complying with …

Orlando’s NBC affiliate reports: Michael Wilcox, 35, is in custody after being accused of making threats on social media by a special agent of the FBI. According to court documents, the Marion County man is accused of making Pride-related threats on Facebook and Instagram. The official term for the offense is transmission of an interstate threat to injure. Wilcox posted …

The Associated Press reports: The trustee overseeing Infowars host Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from creditors, including relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut. Three new lawsuits filed by the trustee on Friday alleging fraudulent asset transfers are the latest …

USA Today reports: TV evangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart remained clinging to life at a Louisiana hospital on Monday, June 17, after suffering a cardiac arrest over the weekend with only a miracle likely to save him, his family said. “I wish I could tell you that (he’s) recovering and things are going better but there has been no change,” his …

The Washington Post reports: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Wednesday in a post on X that his country does not fear President Donald Trump’s threats and “absurd rhetoric.” In a separate television address, he vowed that Iran “will not surrender” and said any U.S. military intervention in the conflict would bring “irreparable damage.” Trump is weighing whether to …

The Scranton Times-Tribune reports: Bob Bolus refiled a lawsuit to get the pride flag, which is a symbol of support for LGBTQ+ people and inclusivity, removed from Scranton City Hall and barred from display at all government buildings in Lackawanna County. The city has been flying a rainbow-motif pride flag on a flagpole at the municipal building at 340 N. …

Wired reports: A controversial “Appeal to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC. On June 11, Kelly Loeffler, the former senator from Georgia and current administrator of the SBA, participated in a ceremony where a new flag …

The Times Of Israel reports: On his social media site, Trump shared a screenshot of a text from Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, who is also a Baptist minister and a former Arkansas governor. Huckabee opens by referencing last year’s attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania, saying Trump was spared by God to be the “most consequential President …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city’s landmark Twin Peaks. Police arrested the suspect after receiving a report around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday of someone vandalizing portions of the dozens of pieces …

Politico reports: As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel’s campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction. At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly …