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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, home to the nation's premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub, despite a critical pollinator crisis.

The closure arrives as beekeepers face unprecedented challenges: in Winter 2025, pesticide-resistant varroa mites caused beekeepers to lose over half their operations, with nearly 1.7 million colonies dying nationwide. This cost the industry an estimated $600 million in lost production and replacement costs.

The Supreme Court rejected Florida's attempt to sue California and Washington for issuing commercial truck driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants.

The lawsuit followed a fatal 2024 crash in Florida involving an undocumented immigrant.

Republican pollster Sarah Longwell reports Candace Owens is repeatedly mentioned in her focus groups when voters discuss potential 2028 presidential candidates, surpassing conventional frontrunners like Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Focus group participants, including Biden-to-Trump voters, expressed strong support for Owens as a leader.

Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner expressed grave concerns about President Donald Trump's physical and mental health ahead of his third Walter Reed medical checkup in 13 months.

In conversation with "CNN News Central" Reiner called for mandatory presidential health disclosures to Congress and the public, comparing the matter to fitness requirements for pilots and Secret Service agents.

The threat of a catastrophic tank explosion in Orange County, California has been eliminated, though the overall situation remains unstable, according to reporting by CNN on Monday.

At least 50,000 residents have been displaced following Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump's declaration of a national state of emergency. The GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove houses a tank containing methyl methacrylate, a flammable and reactive chemical used in resin and plastic manufacturing. A potential boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion, or BLEVE, has been averted, according to the Orange County Fire Authority -- which confirmed no chemical leak has been detected through continuous atmospheric monitoring.

Crews at the White House are preparing for a UFC Freedom 250 event scheduled for June 14th, celebrating the nation's 250th and President Donald Trump's 80th birthdays.

Described as a "construction zone eyesore," The Daily Beast reports two cranes are constructing a metal arch for lighting over the UFC stage near the Executive Residence.

Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodríguez claimed Saturday that alleged direct energy weapon attacks have left her "permanently injured."

“They attack you at your most vulnerable and trusting, in your home, in bed, and do not kill right away. They plant pain and illness that can take years, months, weeks, days to kill, and do it in a manner intended to gaslight the target into doubting their own experience, as the pulsed energy can hit one person and not the others,” said Valdes-Rodríguez in a Saturday Substack post.

Foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi questioned whether President Donald Trump authored his Saturday Truth Social post announcing a negotiated Iran war settlement.

During his appearance in the "Breaking Points" show, Parsi highlighted the lack of characteristic misspellings, grammatical errors, and personal attacks — all typical of Trump's posts. He also noted the post correctly cited world leaders' titles and names — a stark contrast to Trump's usual social media style.

Despite publicly appearing defiant about Iran peace negotiations, President Donald Trump is allegedly backing away from a deal with Iran under extreme internal pressure from Israel and its domestic allies, according to Israeli-American academic Shaiel Ben-Ephraim.

Ben-Ephraim cited sources indicating Trump is reconsidering the agreement, describing it as a "terrifying turn of events."

President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum Monday via Truth Social to nearly a dozen Muslim-majority nations, threatening exclusion from his Iran deal if they refuse to simultaneously sign the Abraham Accords — normalizing relations with Israel.

Named countries include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain. Said nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, have resisted Israeli normalization for domestic political reasons, lining out a credible path towards Palestinian statehood — a condition Israel's current government rejects.

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang received the maximum 10-day contempt sentence under Tennessee law Thursday after being removed from a bond hearing for Dalton Eatherly, a white livestreamer known as "Chud the Builder" charged with attempted murder, according to NBC News.

Judge H. Reid Poland III ordered Lang removed after he attempted to speak despite being told he had no speaking role.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared to run away Friday when reporters asked about President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

DeSantis broke into a sprint up stairs to exit onto the street.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi published an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday criticizing Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) for xenophobic and anti-Muslim remarks targeting Virginia state Sen. Saddam Salim, an immigrant from Bangladesh who authored gun violence prevention legislation.

Clyde's social media post called for denaturalizing and deporting Salim, claiming immigrants with beliefs incompatible with the Constitution endanger the country.