Saturday, June 13, 2026

The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2026-06-12

Domestic

The latest inflation number are out, and prices are rising fast. Last month, prices soared at the fastest rates seen in three years.

A new $70 billion immigration enforcement bill narrowly passed the Senate on Tuesday. The package funds ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump’s second term in office.

And the World Cup began on Thursday, with Mexico taking on South Africa in a replay of the opening match of the 2010 tournament.
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International

Early in the week President Donald Trump told reporters the U.S. would hit Iran hard after Iranian forces attacked a helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz this week. He also threatened to “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas industries. On Thursday, he canceled plans for those attacks.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are going through a rough patch. When the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, they appeared to be shoulder to shoulder. But over the past 100 days, things have changed. Reports of expletive filled calls and defiance on the part of each leader continue to grow.

And on Tuesday, anti-immigrant riots broke out in Belfast after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder in a stabbing attack that left a man with serious face and neck wounds.

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You Will Be Shocked to Learn That Donald Trump Pardoned a Corrupt Politician – Mother Jones

With Donald Trump’s pardon of former Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer over the weekend, he has now pardoned at least 11 former GOP politicians, almost all of them on charges of corruption or somehow violating the public trust...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-steve-buyer-pardon/


 

Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr

Profoundly stressed parents are being wooed to the clinics with promises that a high-dose infusion of umbilical cord stem cells can lead to dramatic improvements in their children’s ability to speak, socialise, or avoid aggressive or self-harming behaviour. Yet there is no scientific evidence that the procedure works – the most comprehensive clinical trial staged so far, a placebo experiment conducted by Duke University, found insignificant benefits for most of the 180 children tested. 

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly cautions parents that if they are being offered stem cell treatments outside an approved clinical trial, “you are likely being deceived and offered a product illegally”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/autism-stem-cell-infusions-rfk-jr


 

BREAKING: Fed up judge CALLS TRUMP’S BLUFF with CLEVER trick

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY4xhnxAX0I

Its All You Donald | Paula Poundstone #shorts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j90_X8PlvWg

 

House Dems propose add-ons to "Ratepayer Bill of Rights"

The new bills would cap utility profits at a little over 8.2% return on equity, and block power companies from spending revenue from ratepayers on things like lobbying and executive salaries. The package would also require companies to re-evaluate their infrastructure every five years to avoid outages and improve service...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-06-12/house-dems-propose-add-ons-to-ratepayer-bill-of-rights


 

Morality Challenge Christopher Hitchens #shorts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1W61YZlPFB0

Has the US really carried out a secret mission to get oil through Hormuz?

“Things are going to get worse,” according to Jan Stuart, global energy economist and strategist at Piper Sandler. He expects the price of Brent crude to average $130 a barrel in July and August as global oil inventories continue to sink and demand for fuels during the summer driving season rises...

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/12/us-secret-mission-oil-hormuz-trump-iran-blockade


 

Isaac Asimov: If god Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oygvB1bInLo

Wes Huff Knows Christians Won't Check His Historical Claims (Paulogia)

When Wes Huff appeared on Mikhaila Peterson's podcast, his historical arguments sounded compelling—but how well do they hold up when someone actually checks them?

0:00:00 Introduction: Evaluating Wes Huff and Michaela Peterson
0:01:35 Michaela Peterson's Journey to Faith & Vibes
0:09:05 The Alexander the Great Comparison DEBUNKED
0:12:19 Roman Historians & Proximity to Jesus
0:14:02 Does Popularity Prove the Resurrection?
0:17:37 Where Did the 11 Disciples Actually Go?
0:21:20 The Martyrdom Argument & Contradictions
0:26:42 C.S. Lewis's Trilemma Missed a Major Option
0:29:05 The Reality of Peterson Academy
0:32:15 The Gnostic Gospels vs. Canonical Texts
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Secret Recording Exposes Claims of Toxic Leadership After a Marine’s Suicide – Mother Jones

During an internal investigation after Mobley’s death, a number of his fellow Marines complained about the command climate, accusing leadership of tormenting Mobley after an injury sidelined him from regular duty and ignoring his declining mental health...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/secret-recording-exposes-claims-of-toxic-leadership-after-a-marines-suicide/ 


Did Isaiah predict the Messiah?

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oRzKaH-5oZg

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Trump's FBI RAIDS voting rights organization in Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-ufNkNnHg

 

Dr. Joseph Mercola Reverses Opposition to Vitamin K Shot — ProPublica

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies


 

Scott Pelley Responds to Trump’s Comments on His Firing

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8mjU3WXBU4U

Freedom 250’s fair on National Mall highlights conservative groups - POLITICO

Some Democrats have charged that Trump has taken the bipartisanship out of the monumental anniversary. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) in February said that the administration was working to “hijack the country’s 250th anniversary and sell access, hide his donors and rewrite history.” Also in February, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) launched a probe into Freedom 250’s fundraising practices...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/freedom-250-national-mall-fair-conservative-groups-00960904


 

Trump's GOP allies draw a line in the sand on Iran - POLITICO

Their new deadline for the war: Labor Day...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/iran-war-trump-midterms-labor-day-00960925


Iran says no final decision on deal with US

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMRQEkgGx8

Trump’s inexperienced federal prosecutors are running into trouble in court - POLITICO

“This administration seems to think of U.S. attorneys as messenger boys for the president and his people at the top of the Justice Department, rather than independent actors of substance,” said Dan Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former federal prosecutor… 

In recent months, the lack of prosecutorial experience by some Trump-selected U.S. attorneys has had serious consequences...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/us-attorneys-trump-administration-00960728  


Ohio Trump voters express buyer's remorse, disappointment

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5cfANVfzsH8

Music, theatre among degree programs in Michigan that could lose federal loan access under new rule

“Making it so that students in the arts and humanities are possibly not able to be eligible for loans, really is setting up a larger class divide... it makes it so that those people who want to study the arts and humanities have to come from means.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2026-06-12/music-theatre-among-degree-programs-in-michigan-that-could-lose-federal-loan-access-under-new-rule


 

The Religious Roots of Fascism | Hitchens at Notre Dame

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-IxlpjUyn9o








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