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Federal judge holds AG James Uthmeier in contempt of court

by Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
June 17, 2025

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is promoting President Donald Trump’s sweeping and highly controversial budget legislation by claiming it will guarantee access to the social safety net for the “right” people. He argues that, under the GOP plan, individuals will need to “earn” the right to use Medicaid, suggesting that many current recipients are capable of working but choose not to.

Nearly half (47.9%) of Medicaid users under 65 are children aged 0 to 18, according to KFF, the well-known nonpartisan health policy organization. Six in ten families accessing Medicaid have at least one family member who works full time.

A CNN anchor didn't mince words in describing a Republican senator's comments following a spate of targeted shootings in Minnesota over the weekend that left a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband dead.

Vance Boelter, 57, disguised himself as a police officer and targeted the homes of state lawmakers, authorities said. Early Saturday, Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot dead at their Brooklyn Park home. Shortly before that, authorities said Boelter targeted the home of state Sen. John Hoffman in Champlin, where both Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times. Both survived.

President Donald Trump is moving to grant yet another three-month extension for short-form video social media platform TikTok to arrange a deal, before enforcing the sale-or-ban legislation passed last year, CNN reported.

“President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Tuesday. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure.”

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace spoke to the former head of the National Economic Council on her show Tuesday to discuss a recent piece he wrote for The Washington Post detailing President Donald Trump's mistakes with the economy.

Gene Sperling wrote Monday that American business leaders who supported Trump overlooked his threats to the economy because they wanted tax cuts. He argued that it isn't merely tariffs that have harmed the U.S. economy for a generation, but Trump has also destabilized the brand of America.

Federal immigration raids are hurting some businesses in Los Angeles worse than the COVID-19 pandemic, local business owners told Reuters.

One fruit vendor told the wire service that his daily earnings have declined from $2,000 to roughly $300 because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. A restaurant owner said his weekly earnings have declined by about $7,000.

Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) new disclosure report stunned a Colorado Public Radio reporter on Tuesday.

Specifically, what was in it was nothing.

CNN's Kasie Hunt pressed Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) about a since-deleted tweet shared by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that blamed the assassination of Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker Rep. Melissa Hortman on unhappy "Marxists."

"This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way," Lee's post read.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) prompted a conversation on MSNBC about the GOP's dehumanization of people they oppose.

On Tuesday, Lee deleted posts on X that joked about the assassination of one Democratic official and her husband and the attempted assassination of another lawmaker in Minnesota over the weekend.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been rushed to a Washington, D.C., hospital in an ambulance, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon.

“Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told CNN.

A federal judge has once again handed President Donald Trump a loss in the administration's efforts to deport international student activist Mohammed Hoque.

According to Politico legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein, Judge Jerry Blackwell of the District of Minnesota granted Hoque's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, preventing him from being re-detained.

A group with Republican ties is targeting six GOP senators to preserve the IRA energy tax credits, according to an Axios exclusive report.

The ads are being put out by Built for America and will appear on several right-leaning outlets, including Fox, Newsmax, Truth Social, and others.