Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day, Israeli officials said. Why it matters: This would be a major regional escalation. It would be the first Iranian missile attack on Israel since the ceasefire was announced on April 8. Iran's military said Israel had "crossed all red lines" in intensifying its attacks in southern Lebanon and targeting the south Beirut suburb of Dahieh. "If it expands its attacks in that area, or responds to Iran's action, it will face more forceful blows, and devastating attacks will be launched" against Israel and its supporters, the military added.
Amid ongoing scrutiny over the U.S. war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance " and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of "no new wars." In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's Kristen Welker that aired on Sunday's "Meet the Press," Trump said he built a "tremendous military." "First of all, I didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?" Trump said. "I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn't promise anything."
President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday " after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his "anti-weaponization" fund, and election fraud. The heated six-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump about the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund he continues to promote " despite his administration officially abandoning its efforts to launch the fund. Welker pressed " attempting to confirm that Trump is indeed throwing in the towel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the Kremlin ordered an attack on the infrastructure around the Chernobyl nuclear site in "an extremely vile Russian strike. As of now, [luckily] there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels."
Vladimir Putin is a desperate and vicious geriatric, like his counterparts Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu
The D.C. Superior Court has dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit against Chuck Redd after the musician backed out of a scheduled 2025 Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center. Redd backed out of the performance in protest of Trump's effort to rename the center after himself. The court found the suit brought against Redd violated DC's Anti-SLAPP law which blocks meritless lawsuits intended to silence political views.
Utah's two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves "Christian" off the designation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Department of War recently announced the reduction in the number of religious affiliation categories for service members from over 200 down to 31. Categories that were removed from the list include "atheist" and "humanist," and "Wicca." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is included as a religious category on the updated list. But the faith was not included in the list of faiths labeled "Christian."
A federal judge ordered CIA employee David Rush held in pre-trial detention. He was found recently with $40 million of gold bars in his house. Rush allegedly created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself.
What else will the FBI uncover?This case is a devastating and embarrassing blow to CIA counterintelligence agents and their Office of Security
For decades, oil traders, executives and analysts warned that closing the Strait of Hormuz would be a global economic catastrophe. It's now been more than three months since the waterway was effectively blocked, creating the worst supply shock in modern history. But a slew of workarounds is keeping crude oil below $100 a barrel, defying many of the industry's grimmest forecasts for prices as high as $200.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic "violent extremists" were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel. The fired employees included four intelligence analysts and a supervisory analyst. The FBI declined to comment. "This action is manifestly unjust, completely unsupported by the facts, and subverts standard FBI policy and procedure," their lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement. "These individuals deserved far better for the exceptional and faithful public service they rendered to protect our country."
Multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and a search for the suspects was ongoing as victims were taken to nearby hospitals, police said. Toledo police officers responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found multiple shooting victims, the police department said in a statement. Police said "many victims" were transported to medical facilities but did not provide further details on the injuries and how many people were shot. Authorities also did not provide any details on what may have set off the shooting.
Steve Bannon delivered a damning prediction for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Many political observers have forecast that the GOP could lose control of the House in November. But Bannon, the former first-term Trump White House chief strategist turned MAGA podcaster, suggested Republicans could lose the majority in the Senate as well.
"We're going to lose the Senate in the fall anyway," the convicted fraudster declared on Thursday's episode of his "War Room" podcast, while calling for a "showdown" with Senate Republicans he claimed are treating President Donald Trump worse than a lame duck.
Since election night in California, a single theory of election fraud has taken root like no other among online conspiracy theorists, bot accounts, conservative influencers and people close to President Trump. It proved to be a simple misreading of the voting data.
Container shipping rates jumped over the past week amid higher fuel costs, congestion at some Asian ports and a pickup in demand heading into a peak season for booking ocean freight.
Jun 6, 2026 - Stranger Things
"I've been traveling a little bit over the past few days, and as many of us have seen, I noticed the giant American flags to the side of the highways or in front of car dealerships. How everything seems to have a patriotic fervor that is over the top. It's all about celebrating America's 250th anniversary. and this hyper patriotism almost feels mandatory.
Upon seeing all of these things, I now realize that I am not nearly as patriotic as I used to be.
Now, I don't mean that I still don't appreciate the freedoms that we enjoy in America or the blessings that God has given us, but I now understand how America has become intertwined with Donald J. Trump. He has successfully convinced large numbers of people that America is Trump and Trump is America.
Right before our very eyes, Donald J. Trump and America are evolving into one entity.
Alcoholic US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth (R) ruined the solemn 6 June D-Day commemoration in France with an idiotic and hate-filled screed comparing the Operation Overlord Soldiers who died on Normandy Beach in 1944 with Europe being "stormed by dangerous ideologies" in 2026.
Vastly underqualified racist former TV tumor "prays that it's not too late to save Europe"
The U.S. military has killed more than 200 people in strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in the last nine months in what legal experts and former military lawyers broadly agree constitute illegal military orders that service members should refuse to follow.
