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A 19-year-old is convicted of murder after a track meet stabbing; the U.S. launches new strikes on Iran.
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U.S. and Iran exchange strikes after Apache helicopter is downed, takeaways from Tuesday's primaries in four states, House Republicans approve a bill to fund ICE for the remainder of Trump's term.
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Pamela Evette, Alan Wilson advance to runoff in crowded South Carolina primary, CBS News projects
Rep. Nancy Mace, who led a high-profile campaign after sparring with President Trump, did not advance.
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Jim Jordan tells Fox News Trump just threw GOP victory in doubt: 'It's a standoff'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan went on Fox News to warn that a key national security law is heading toward expiration Friday — and acknowledged that his own side may not be able to stop it.FISA Section 702, which Jordan described as responsible for more than 50 percent of the nation's most sensitive intelligence, is set to expire this week. Democrats are blocking reauthorization unless President Trump removes Bill Pulte from his role as Acting Director of National Intelligence. Jordan admitted to host Maria Bartiromo the two sides are at an impasse."It's a standoff," Jordan said.Pulte, who simultaneously serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was installed as Acting DNI by Trump over Democratic objections that he lacks an intelligence background. Democrats have made his removal a condition for their votes on reauthorization.Jordan framed the Democratic position as political obstruction. "They're using this as leverage," he said. "This is typical Washington games. They want to play politics with national security."He defended Pulte as someone Trump trusts "to get the intelligence community back on track and focused on real threats, not going after conservatives or political opponents."But with the deadline days away and no deal in sight, Jordan's own description of the situation — a standoff — raises the possibility that a surveillance program Republicans have repeatedly called indispensable to national security could lapse because of a personnel dispute of the administration's own making.pic.twitter.com/q2QFsy4Z1Q— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 9, 2026
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Morning Joe panelists aghast at Trump's 'worrisome' new lies: 'Really sucks for democracy'
Panelists on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's latest election fraud lies.The president had proclaimed that GOP candidates in the Los Angeles mayoral race, including former reality TV star Spencer Pratt, have been "cheated" after losing last week's primary election, and "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski was aghast that House Speaker Mike Johnson and other high-ranking Republicans are going along with his claims."It's diabolical," Brzezinski said. "Unless you are waiting to become speaker of the House, and then you patiently wait for California to come in, that is hypocrisy at the highest extreme, performative hypocrisy ... Explain for us how California's slow vote-counting process, which Mike Johnson is fine with when it benefits him, is now diabolical, even though it's driven by the state's heavy reliance on mail voting, and it delays the final results for 30 days. I don't get it."California is a large and populous state that relies heavily on mail-in voting that can take longer to count, and The Dispatch's David Drucker said Trump was exploiting that laborious process and the conservative social media bubble for his own political purposes."The city of LA is seven points more democratic than the state of California, so you tell me how a Spencer Pratt is supposed to win this race," Drucker said. "It's just exceedingly unlikely, and even though he mastered the attention economy of this campaign and had people all over the country and particularly in Washington thinking, 'How can this guy lose? Look at his ads.'"Trump's false claims about California's election have also been echoed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), and the panelists lamented that Republicans are too afraid to challenge the president even when he's clearly lying."It really sucks for democracy," said Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei. "This is the stuff you see happen in a broken country, in a third-world country where they've not been able to govern effectively. Every time you call into question whether or not our elections are valid, you weaken the soul of the country, and that's why this is damaging."If the president or his GOP allies had evidence of fraud, VandeHei said they should present it, but he warned they appeared to be laying the groundwork to challenge potential election losses this fall – just as Trump attempted to overturn his own election loss in 2020."This is the 250th year of this country," said veteran diplomat Richard Haas. "Here we are, we're meant to be honoring celebrating the Declaration [of Independence], and we probably right now are facing, in some ways, the most concerted assault, potentially, hopefully it won't happen. But these rumblings, this is really worrisome stuff. This is preparing the ground, as you say, for serious pushback against, I think, the a free and fair election this November. So people ought to take this seriously." - YouTube youtu.be
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As Pratt Gets Bad News, CA Vote-Counting Fuels Distrust
For Spencer Pratt's supporters, the last four days of the Los Angeles mayoral primary vote-counting and conclusion were like a gut punch delivered in slow motion.
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'Did he fall asleep?' Morning Joe host calls out Trump for napping at NBA game
President Donald Trump was spotted dozing during Monday night's NBA Finals game after disrupting the arrival of thousands of fans and even commuters outside the event.The 79-year-old president's attendance necessitated enhanced security throughout New York City, and ticket holders waited in line for hours to get inside Madison Square Garden and watch parties were canceled outside the arena, but Trump was spotted nodding off as the New York Knicks saw their 13-game postseason win streak snapped by the San Antonio Spurs."There's a huge subplot to this game is that the Knicks went into it with a 13-game winning streak," said "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire. "Sort of remarkable, and people are like, what could possibly disrupt them for their rhythm? Well we have an answer – oh, President Trump." "Did he ruin everything?" asked co-host Mika Brzezinski."He showed up last night, creating a huge security perimeter," Lemire replied. "Fans had to stand in line for hours. There was a lot of grumbling when they showed him on the jumbotron during the National Anthem. Mind you, was probably intentional to try to put down the boos. Well, it didn't work. It was thunderous boos from those inside, from both the pool reporter in the building, and you could hear it on the TV broadcast as well. They were very, very, very loud.""I enjoy that our show notes here that were prepared, it says, you know, 'Trump was there on the same night the Knicks' 13-game winning streak was snapped, parentheses," Lemire added. "There is no evidence of correlation between the two circumstances. I don't know. I think there are a lot of Knicks fans that would beg to differ.""Did he fall asleep?" Brzezinski interjected.Lemire agreed there was video footage of Trump dozing, which was shared by the right-leaning New York Post on social media."He did not shut down New York and disrupt this game to fall asleep at it," Brzezinski marveled. "The New York Post Twitter account has footage of Trump pretty clearly falling asleep at some point in the second half," Lemire said. "No, it can't be," Brzezinski deadpanned. "Not with all that 'Sleepy Joe' stuff. I mean, you can't.""Well, he managed to find a way," Lemire replied. "He was there, he was booed and now, Game 4 is so gigantic." - YouTube youtu.be
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Israel and Iran agree to stop strikes for now, voters in four states head to the polls Tuesday for primaries, Trump makes baseless claims about election fraud in California.
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Raman defeats Pratt to face Bass in LA mayoral election, CBS News projects
CBS News projects that incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will face off against Nithya Raman in November's runoff election.
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