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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said she was “struck” by how President Donald Trump not only dismissed his own intelligence chief’s analysis on Iran’s nuclear activity – but also leaned entirely on his personal opinion.

Appearing on The Source with Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday, Haberman responded to new comments from Trump in which he contradicts testimony his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, delivered in March.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) ridiculed Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) in a Fox News interview, where she suggested the Democratic senator suffers from “low T” hours after he delivered his account on the Senate floor of being pushed to the ground by federal agents.

The disparaging remarks came Tuesday when Fox News anchor Jesse Watters asked the MAGA lawmaker if it was “an attractive look” for men to cry at work, "or when men cry on national TV like Sen. Padilla."

The right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial board argued Tuesday that New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has only himself to blame for his brief arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lander, a candidate in the crowded race for New York City mayor, was arrested while observing immigration court proceedings at a federal facility in Manhattan and later released. Footage from the incident showed him asking the agents for a warrant for another person they were trying to arrest as they wrestled him.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson — who's found himself at odds with President Donald Trump and ex-Fox colleagues in recent days — and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the senator's knowledge — or perceived lack thereof — of the country he "seeks to topple."

Carlson shared on X a nearly two-minute clip of his tense interview with Cruz, who has consistently advocated for a hardline U.S. stance against Iran and has supported various forms of U.S. involvement targeting the Iranian regime. Recently, Cruz explicitly called for regime change in Iran, saying: “I think it is very much in the interest of America to see regime change. I don’t think there’s any redeeming the ayatollah."

Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya is urging the Trump administration to reconsider its hardline approach toward immigration, as he warned Tuesday that the country’s food supply chain is being threatened by aggressive nationwide enforcement raids.

“We need to be very realistic,” Ulukaya said at the Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum in Chicago. “We need immigration, and we need workers for our food system to work.”

Democratic and Republican senators alike tore into the World Anti-Doping Agency at a Senate hearing on Tuesday over an ongoing scandal about how they have handled positive banned substances tests in Chinese Olympic athletes, The New York Times reported.

"At a hearing before a subcommittee of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Democratic and Republican lawmakers also signaled their support for the decisions by the Biden and Trump administrations to withhold key funding from the [WADA] over its handling of the positive tests," said the report. Furthermore, "the senators said they supported new legislation that would give the president even more authority to withhold American funding for the regulator."

President Donald Trump said digging and placement of two flag poles will begin Wednesday morning, calling it his "great honor" to place them on both sides of the White House.

"It is my Great Honor to announce that I will be putting up two beautiful Flag Poles on both sides of the White House, North and South Lawns," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening. "It is a GIFT from me of something which was always missing from this magnificent place."

The Trump administration's lofty quotas are "killing morale" at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — and some agents are leaving dangerous criminals on the street to go after migrants at Home Depots and bus stops, according to a new report.

The Trump administration has set explicit quotas for ICE arrests. Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller last month directed ICE to up its arrests to target 3,000 per day, up from 1,000 or 1,800 per day. That quota was part of a broader effort to implement what President Donald Trump has called "the largest mass deportation initiative in history."

Executives in charge of rural hospitals are horrified by the newest changes in the Senate version of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, Politico reported on Tuesday.

The House version of the bill already slashed $600 billion from Medicaid, a move that could cause millions of lower-income Americans to lose coverage. But the Senate goes even further, restricting how much states can charge in federally-matched provider taxes.

Federal judge holds AG James Uthmeier in contempt of court

by Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
June 17, 2025

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.