Preston Damsky, an avowed white supremacist and antisemite, received the "book award" for a paper he wrote for a class last fall. In the paper,Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase "We the People," in the Constitution's preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against "criminal infiltrators at the border."
An area of stormy weather in the open Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Azores became Tropical Storm Andrea on Tuesday morning, the first of the Atlantic hurricane season, according to the National Hurricane Center. Andrea is not a threat to land. The storm is roughly 1,200 miles away from The Azores, or about 1,400 miles east of the US East Coast, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as of 11:00 a.m. ET Tuesday.
New York City's mayoral primary will be be decided by a ranked choice count after no Democrat received a majority of the vote. Self-described Democratic Socialist state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani leads former Governor Andrew Cuomo with votes still being counted. With 87% of the expected vote in, Mamdani held a roughly 70,000 vote lead over Cuomo.
Many independent hospitals join health systems to save money on expenses such as malpractice insurance, accounting and legal work. Hospitals can also pool their purchasing power to negotiate better rates for drugs and supplies. Hospitals pay the health system for their share of those costs. The model is now common across the United States, including in Connecticut, where most acute and general care hospitals are part of a larger system.
President Donald Trump's strikes likely did not "obliterate" Iranian nuclear facilities as he claims they did, according to an initial assessment by U.S. intelligence. Rather, the damage was limited due to the sheer depth of the sites and the apparent fact that much of Iran's enriched uranium had been moved. Citing four unnamed people familiar with the early assessment, CNN was first to report that Saturday's bombings did not destroy the core components of Iran's nuclear program, likely setting it back by only a few months. Other outlets subsequently confirmed the report, similarly citing unnamed officials because the intelligence assessment is still classified. The strikes appear to have collapsed the entrances to the facilities, but Iran's nuclear facilities are housed deep underground in the sides of mountains, beneath layers of concrete. Read more
Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old college graduate with no previous experience, has been appointed by US President Donald Trump to to a major terrorism-prevention post in the DHS.
House Democrats voted Tuesday to formally elect Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker's bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon. Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344"79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself. Read more
Russia has a shadow Fleet that apparently needs to be destroyed by English Pirates.
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday.
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday.
California National Guard soldiers operating under federal orders helped the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal personnel carry out a raid on a large marijuana growth operation in the eastern Coachella Valley last week, 130 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
US Marshals in Florida led a missing child operation that resulted in the recovery or safe location of 60 critically missing children from across Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties. Operation DRAGON EYE included federal, state, and local government agencies, social service entities, the medical community, and NGOs. This operation had three primary objectives: recover critically missing youth, provide them with essential services including appropriate placement, and to deter bad actors exploiting missing child vulnerabilities. Recovered children were provided with medical resources, nourishment, social services, and child advocates. This was deemed the most successful missing child operation in USMS history. Read more
Mexico has reported a surge in measles cases in the border state of Chihuahua following an outbreak of the highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease in unvaccinated communities in Texas. Dr. Paul Offit, a Philadelphia pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, says RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation is to blame. The measles outbreak, Mexico's largest in decades, has spread beyond the Mennonite settlements, impacting neighboring Indigenous populations and raising concerns about international transmission, particularly given Chihuahua's location on the US border. While Mexico health officials acknowledge the progress made through collaboration with Mennonite leaders and report tens of thousands of new vaccinations, the infection rate continues to rise. There may be as many as 2,000 cases of measles in northern Mexico. Read more
Former US Army NCO Joseph Daniel Schmidt (31) pleaded guilty to selling secrets to China. He faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced by USDJ John C. Coughenour on 9 Sep 2025. Schmidt was an active-duty soldier from Jan 2015 to Jan 2020. At the 109th MI BN, Schmidt had access to SECRET and TOP SECRET information. After he left the US Army, Schmidt reached out to the Chinese Consulate in Turkiye and ten the MSS via email offering national defense information (NDI). In March 2020, Schmidt traveled to Hong Kong and continued his efforts to provide the MSS with NDI he obtained from his military service. He retained a device that allows for access to secure military computer networks and offered the device to Chinese authorities to assist them in efforts to gain access to such networks. Schmidt remained in China, primarily Hong Kong, until Oct 2023, when he flew to San Francisco and was arrested by the FBI at the airport. Read more
The crew of Houston-based Axiom Space's next launch to the space station is back on the board. Axiom's fourth astronaut mission (Ax-4) to the International Space Station (ISS) has a new launch date. The crew of four will liftoff aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than June 25, NASA announced Monday evening (June 23). Read more
