Thursday, June 25, 2026
GOP hard-liners outline anti-abortion, military funding demands for party-line bill - Live Updates - POLITICO
In the letter, the members also told Johnson the next bill should eliminate clean energy tax credits — something they pushed for in the first reconciliation bill last year. The lawmakers are also asking for reforms to health care, the removal of certain firearm-related taxes and “responsible short-term funding for key government personnel and services” to prevent another government shutdown ahead of the midterms...
It could have been a peace summit. Instead, Trump clashed with senators inside ‘intense’ meeting. - POLITICO
The president arrived determined to prosecute his grudges against the Republican lawmakers who have opposed him...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/donald-trump-senate-lunch-00974397
Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre
“This data fires the starting pistol in a new age of exoplanet discovery, where we go from knowing about 6,000 exoplanets to finding more than 100,000 across the galaxy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/stars-galactic-bulge-milky-way-euclid-telescope
Hegseth’s budget sales pitch falls flat with GOP lawmakers - POLITICO
Some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress expressed concern about the impact of increased military spending on the national debt…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/hegseth-republicans-defense-budget-skepticism-00973978
Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
China’s LineShine debuts at number one in Top500 – a list sometimes viewed as a national measure of global tech prowess…
Congress passes the largest housing affordability bill in decades — and Trump cancels the signing : NPR
The bill, called the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, passed 358-32 in the House. The Senate approved it Monday with similarly overwhelming bipartisan support...
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5867575/congress-passes-housing-affordability-bill
SCOTUS Gave the Government a “Blank Check” to Weaken Due Process for Green Card Holders – Mother Jones
In a 6–3 decision signed by Justice Clarence Thomas, the conservative supermajority held that border officers don’t need to have “clear and convincing evidence” that a lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude—a vaguely defined immigration law term that can cover a wide spectrum of crimes generally involving intent to defraud or cause bodily harm—before jeopardizing their rights and ability to stay in the country. In other words, agents at the border have just been given exceptional discretion to bypass protections generally afforded to green card holders...
Michigan Senate candidate McMorrow accuses Trump of keeping Canada-US bridge closed to help donor
McMorrow argues that Trump is blocking the bridge because “the billionaire family that owns the other bridge gave him a million bucks."
That claim references the Moroun family, owners of the privately held Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor. Federal campaign finance records show Matthew Moroun donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC earlier this year...
Trump administration loses appeal over access to personal information of Michigan voters
Michigan can keep a lid on the personal information of registered voters. That is the ruling from a federal appeals court. It is the latest defeat for the Trump administration, which has been trying to get key details from dozens of states. The court says the release of birth dates, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers is not covered by a federal law cited by the U.S. Justice Department...
WATCH: Under proposed rule, USPS won't deliver mail ballots to states that don't provide voter rolls, postmaster general says | PBS News
Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots...
Crisis pregnancy centers questioned about ectopic pregnancy tactic : NPR
This week, Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog organization, sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James requesting that her office investigate whether crisis pregnancy centers in New York are fraudulently advertising to women about their ability to diagnose ectopic pregnancies.
"By leading patients to believe that their services are adequate substitutes for medical diagnoses, [crisis pregnancy centers] may cause women to forgo comprehensive medical care, resulting in their suffering grievous bodily injury," reads the letter, shared exclusively with NPR…
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/24/nx-s1-5860744/crisis-pregnancy-centers-ectopic-abortion
Senators revive push for AI labels - Live Updates - POLITICO
“People deserve to know whether or not the videos, photos, and content they see and read online is real or not,” Schatz said in a statement. Curtis touted the 31-page bill as having “commonsense transparency standards” to help consumers make informed decisions and discourage fraudsters from using AI for deception.
— The details: The legislation would compel AI providers to visibly label videos, audio and images generated using artificial intelligence and embed machine-readable disclosures within such content. It would also require AI developers to collaborate with all major social media platforms to make users aware of shared content’s authenticity...
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/24/congress/senate-revives-push-for-ai-labels-00974818
‘Hugely Troubling’: A Former Wall Street Regulator Is Getting Nervous - POLITICO
She pointed to a simple measure of banks’ capital levels — one that considers how much debt they’re taking on without factoring in what kind of risks they’re taking — that suggests megabanks’ capital buffers are now roughly where they were in 2009. It’s unclear where the next threats to the financial system might come from. Bair is less worried about crypto, for instance, than she is about turmoil in private credit markets, where lenders that aren’t banks make riskier loans to businesses. But the whole point of capital is that it’s intended to guard against the unexpected.
And right now, she’s worried that regulators are letting their guard down...
Israeli former leaders and security chiefs threaten legal action over ‘Jewish terrorism’
“The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] has clear policy of ignoring the crimes of Jewish terrorism, and in many incidents soldiers from the regional defense units and [settlement] security squads are themselves involved in the crimes of Jewish terrorism,” the letter said.
Since 2020, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children, UN data shows. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.
The attacks jeopardise Israeli security because they risk spurring Palestinian revenge attacks or even an uprising, or intifada, against Israeli occupation, the group warned...
Kennedy Center judge orders tarp and programming update : NPR
The tarp and scaffolding on the center's front portico went up after the Kennedy Center's administration slow-walked the court-mandated removal of President Trump's name from the front of the center and from all digital materials, which was supposed to happen no later than June 12. Workers removed the lettering overnight into the following morning, hours after the federal court's original deadline, and covered the center's sign with a tarpaulin...
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/24/nx-s1-5869578/kennedy-center-tarp
Judge tosses DOJ lawsuit against four New Jersey ‘sanctuary cities’ - POLITICO
The Department of Justice lacks the standing to challenge “sanctuary” immigration policies in four New Jersey cities, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the Trump administration a striking setback after more than a year of litigation...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/new-jersey-tosses-doj-lawsuit-sanctuary-cities-00975065
The EPA Relied on an Influential Glyphosate Study Even After Learning Monsanto Was a “Ghost Writer” – Mother Jones
The US Environmental Protection Agency has known for nearly a decade that an influential 2013 scientific paper that concluded glyphosate is safe was actually ghostwritten by developer Monsanto. But the agency never informed the public and continued to rely on it, according to an EPA memo obtained by Mother Jones and revealed here for the first time...
Jared Kushner Helped Make This Mess in Iran While Making a Mess of Money – Mother Jones
Kushner proselytized Bibi’s claim that Iran was weeks, if not days, away from building a nuclear weapon—a view widely dismissed by nuclear experts—and appeared naive as to how the Iranians negotiate. His antipathy toward Tehran was no secret. According to author Andrea Bernstein, Kushner bonded with the dictator of the United Arab Emirates over their mutual loathing of Iran long before the UAE began bankrolling his firm. But Trump wasn’t troubled by his team’s inexperience, ineptness, or conflicts of interest. Kushner, Netanyahu, and the other Iran hawks got their way, resulting in America’s greatest humiliation on the global stage since the Iraq War...
Washtenaw County asks for federal immigration lawsuit to be dismissed
“It's just Washtenaw County telling the federal government, ‘We're not going to do your job, and if you want to do your job and do immigration enforcement, you can, but you can't do it with our county's resources,’” said Philip Mayor, deputy legal director at the ACLU of Michigan...
‘Extremely overwhelmed’: apartment renters face rising tide of fees
Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims….gif?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/apartment-renters-rising-fees
Trump wants $88B for Iran war, disaster aid in emergency request - POLITICO
Many Democrats, who oppose the war and contend the conflict is illegal, are almost certain to object to spending such a substantial sum.
The request for tens of billions of dollars in extra war spending comes as Trump pushes for a record-breaking $1.5 trillion military budget, a roughly 50 percent hike from this year’s level. Democrats have balked at the historic request as wasteful and criticized Trump and Republicans for simultaneously pushing to slash domestic programs…
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