President Donald Trump has replaced several days of concerts to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with one boring MAGA ralyl—and this time, he’s picking the music. Trump announced Monday that he plans to mark the Fourth of July with a “Trump Rally” designed to celebrate the
⚽🏀 Plus: Wild weekend of sports’ viral moments {beacon} It’s Monday. What a wild weekend it was in sports and viral moments. After seeing the Tartan Army taking over Boston, I’ve never wanted to be a part of something this much. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, keep
The Strait of Hormuz will not be reopening long-term and toll free, contrary to President Trump’s assertions. Vice President JD Vance was asked on CNBC Monday about Trump’s claim that the strait will fully reopen under the tentative deal with Iran, and his words exposed the
The Trump administration’s narrative on the Iran War is changing by the day. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was caught in his own lie by CBS News’s Margaret Brennan, who reminded him Sunday that America’s depleted missile stockpile was not a media fabrication but actually a
The British government is banning access to social media for children under 16, joining just a few countries across the globe trying to protect kids online through a strict age-based restriction on certain applications and platforms. The move, announced by Prime Minister Keir
President Trump's World Cup czar, Andrew Giuliani, said Sunday the Iranian soccer team's early entry into the U.S. was a "goodwill gesture" hours before Iran and the U.S. reached an initial agreement extending their ceasefire. "We want them to be able to compete," Giuliani told
Rainn Wilson is calling out "toxic partisanship" on both sides of the aisle, saying Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner and his controversial tattoo have elicited "hypocrisy" from both Democrats and Republicans. "I think there has been a bias in the media toward
Both President Trump and Vice President Vance electronically signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday, while Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, signed for the Iranian side, senior U.S. officials said Monday. The details of the memorandum
The White House may have hosted a fight this weekend, but the bigger fight is whether Americans will continue to accept leaders asking for their votes while showing so little regard for the financial struggles many families face every day.
The Kennedy Center is establishing a new endowment in President Trump’s name, according to CBS News. The outlet reported Sunday that the center’s board of trustees, which is chaired by Trump and consists of many of his hand-picked members, approved the fund at a Thursday
The strangest storyline emerging from the UFC fights on Sunday night came not from the White House lawn but from a former UFC fighter’s Twitter page. A few hours before the fights, Daniel Cormier, a heavyweight fighter who retired in 2020, posted screenshots of DMs between him
Fans are being taken advantage of by inflated ticket prices and fees, leading to empty seats at events, and politicians need to take action to protect fans from being fleeced.
UFC fighter Josh Hokit is facing intense backlash for making a distasteful comment about former first lady Michelle Obama after winning his bout on the South Lawn of the White House during the "UFC Freedom 250" event Sunday. During an interview with podcaster and UFC announcer
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital Sunday—but his office has provided scant details about what’s going on. “Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,” said McConnell adviser David Popp.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth crumbled when he tried to explain the difference between Donald Trump’s new deal with Iran and Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Spoiler alert: There is none. Speaking on CBS News’s Face the Nation Sunday, Hegseth struggled to
The bill has gone back and forth between the House and the Senate for months.
The White House last year weighed suspending habeas corpus rights, which allow for a challenge of someone’s detention, for immigrants in the country illegally, according to a new book from two New York Times reporters. According to a report from the Times published Monday
This new class of Democrats will have a chance to upend Congress and enact reforms not seen in 50 years.
Fox Corp. announced Monday it is buying streaming company Roku for $22 billion. In a release, Fox said it will pay $96 in cash and 0.9693 shares of its Class A common stock for each Roku Class A and Class B share outstanding. The deal values each Roku share at $160. The deal
President Trump arrived Monday at a summit with other Group of Seven (G7) leaders in the French Alps after announcing the U.S.'s deal to end the Iran war. The summit will bring Trump face-to-face with some European allies who have been openly critical of the U.S.-Israeli
Vice President JD Vance all but confirmed a detail being floated as part of the tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal: Iranian access to $300 billion in reconstruction funds. Vance was asked by CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Monday morning about whether the rumored detail was true, and he said that
If we fail to take this clear and concrete action to restore trust in maritime safety and security, soon there will be no one willing to pull us from the sea.
Former President Obama predicted any U.S. deal with Iran would be similar to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal his administration struck with Iran. “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different, or in a
President Donald Trump’s giant birthday party at the White House appears to have grounded flights at a local airport in Washington, D.C. All flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were “paused” Sunday evening due to the president’s birthday celebration, according
Senior technical staff from Anthropic are in Washington to meet with White House officials after the company pulled its latest AI models Friday in response to an order from the Trump administration. A source close to Anthropic confirmed to The Hill that top staff are in D.C.
But Trump doesn’t give a damn about fair play.
Donald Trump has again upended efforts to renew a critical surveillance statute just as lawmakers had begun to reopen stalled talks. The president declared on Truth Social Monday that any work to renew FISA Section 702, a statute that allows federal agencies such as the NSA and
Stocks rose on Monday after the U.S. and Iran reached a tentative deal to end hostilities, with oil prices falling ahead of the potential opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Futures for the S&P 500 were up more than 1.2 percent as of just after 9 a.m. EDT. Nasdaq futures,
President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are scheduled to meet Monday at the G7 summit in France. The meeting comes after the Trump administration on Sunday reached a preliminary deal with Iran that it said would open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is also threatening
From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, was a combination of contradictory specs, product images that were clearly not photographs of a real phone, and the worrying
Vice President Vance said on Monday the U.S. has signed the preliminary agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and that the text of the deal would be released this week. “We’ll be releasing the text this week and what everybody will see is that Iran doesn’t get a
Jane Fonda says the country has "come under attack" by the Trump administration and its allies, and that Hollywood needs to be "unwilling to engage in anticipatory obedience" in order to push back. "We have come under attack, but this time, what is really different from the
Israel is refusing to remove its IDF troops from Lebanon, even after the U.S. and Iran announced a memorandum of understanding that hinges on the withdrawal. The move could once again jeopardize any chance of a peace deal, as one of Iran’s primary demands is the end of Israel’s
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid from Carter Page, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, to continue his suit against former FBI Director James Comey and several other officials. Page brought the suit against Comey and seven other FBI officials, including former
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky each spoke by phone with President Trump on Sunday, coming as the president celebrated his 80th birthday ahead of the Group of 7 summit this week. Trump has stepped back from mediating talks between
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the oldest active federal judge’s bid to end her suspension, which her colleagues issued after she refused their demands for mental fitness testing. Pauline Newman, who turns 99 on Saturday and rejects the notion she is unfit to
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is urging Black voters to turn out in the midterm elections, speaking at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s former church in Atlanta, while also drawing on the energy of Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" to build a multi-racial coalition
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday said their country will not withdraw from land seized in Lebanon after the U.S. and Iran agreed to an initial agreement extending their ceasefire. "Trump's agreement does not bind us,"
Last year, the Trump administration was considering suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus, The New York Times reports. Some officials pushing President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, chiefly White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, wanted to get rid of
As President Trump arrives in France for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, the globe is parsing the preliminary deal between the U.S. and Iran, announced Sunday. It would open the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, after it is signed in Geneva, but it pushes thornier issues, like Iran's
What stood out from Sunday night's UFC card at the White House? Plus, a new college sports bill getting attention on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, the latest updates on the U.S.-Iran deal and President Trump's trip to the G7. Finally, a preview of what’s ahead for key policy fights,
If the legacy media are to be saved, we must not romanticize their work. Today, more than ever, journalists need our support and our help to keep the press free.
President Trump said in a new interview he was “pissed off” at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for striking Lebanon as the U.S. was seeking to wrap up negotiations with Iran over the weekend. “Why did Bibi have to do a f---ing attack?” Trump told Axios in a phone
President Trump has unveiled the plans for what he called a “most spectacular TRUMP RALLY” in Washington, D.C. on July 4, when the nation will celebrate its 250th birthday. “On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we
President Trump was seen smiling after a UFC fighter used his post-victory interview to shout that former first lady Michelle Obama was a man—a racist right-wing conspiracy theory that has followed her since 2008. “Fuck the speech. Aye, shoutout to Trump for having the balls to
The bipartisan coalition is already in place.
It’s apparent that Democrats can and should no longer avoid this conversation
Over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on its children. We are letting oil oligarchs get rich by robbing our children’s
The group — which is no stranger to reinventing itself — has a number of relatively unknown members ready to become the new faces of the hard right in the House.
President Trump is pressing for an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. “A few Dumocrats are against FISA, with or without Bill Pulte going to DNI, as Acting. What