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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

California lawmakers are looking to stop local police officers and federal agents from wearing face masks or coverings while carrying out operations in the state. read more


Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Lawmakers say ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is at risk of violating U.S. law if it continues to spend at its current pace ... Lawmakers who oversee DHS's appropriations say it could run out of money as soon as July, causing it to violate the Antideficiency Act. read more


Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a "menacing" show of force to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday -- but got a "festive" parade instead. "He's pissed off at the soldiers," [biographer Michael] Wolff said. "He's accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face." read more


President Donald Trump appeared to offer confirmation that the United States is now participating in Israel's attack on Iran in a Tuesday social media post. Amid escalating tensions and the exchange of bombings after Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities last week, Trump has faced questions about the extent of U.S. involvement in the conflict. In a new post on Truth Social using the term "We," Trump wrote: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured "stuff." Nobody does it better than the good ol' USA." Screenshot Politico White House reporter Jake Traylor confirmed with a White House official that "we" in Trump's post is indeed referring to the United States.


Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) plan to introduce a measure that would force President Trump to get approval to Congress to enter Israel's conflict with Iran.


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More: Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.

Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The changes also affect chiropractors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, podiatrists, licensed clinical social workers and speech therapists.

In making the changes, VA officials cite the president's 30 January executive order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government". The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including "gender affirming" and "transgender", from clinical settings.

Medical experts said the implications of rule changes uncovered by the Guardian could be far-reaching.

They "seem to open the door to discrimination on the basis of anything that is not legally protected", said Dr Kenneth Kizer, the VA's top healthcare official during the Clinton administration. He said the changes open up the possibility that doctors could refuse to treat veterans based on their "reason for seeking care " including allegations of rape and sexual assault " current or past political party affiliation or political activity, and personal behavior such as alcohol or marijuana use".

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