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Nasa has named the Artemis III crew - what is their mission?
Artemis III will help test crucial systems needed for the planned Artemis V Moon landing in 2028.
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The real reason Bill Pulte was named director of national intelligence
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President Trump appointed Bill Pulte, with no intelligence or national security experience, as the interim director of national intelligence to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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President Donald Trump booed during the National Anthem at NBA Finals
President Donald Trump was booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden during the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. As the anthem played, ABC cameras captured the President saluting in his suit. The crowd reacted loudly; this marked the only time Trump appeared on screen during the introduction. A crowd outside the arena also booed his motorcade upon arrival.Trump attended the Knicks' first home game with son-in-law Jared Kushner and administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and EPA head Lee Zeldin. Trump's attendance disrupted the fan experience significantly: the official watch party was relocated to Bryant Park to accommodate additional security measures, and attendees were required to arrive several hours before tip-off due to heightened security protocols.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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Speaker Johnson meets with Trump amid FISA struggles over Pulte
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is meeting with President Trump Tuesday morning as Democratic outrage about Trump tapping Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) endangers reauthorization of the nation’s foreign spy powers set to expire at the end of the week. On the way out of the U.S. Capitol for the meeting, Johnson…
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Pulte appointment ups pressure for Congress to punt on reauthorizing spy powers
The looming deadline to renew the nation’s warrantless spy powers is clashing with a pressure campaign on the White House to yank the appointment of Bill Pulte, a controversial figure tapped to lead the intelligence community. A growing number of Democrats have said they will not vote to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence…
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Thune: White House weighing pick to replace Pulte as long-term DNI
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the White House is “weighing seriously” a long-term nominee to replace Bill Pulte as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a move that could resolve the Democratic blockade of enhanced intelligence surveillance authorities that are due to expire on Friday. Thune said he has been in contact with…
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Bill Pulte's family entangled with shadowy Christian group backing Trump allies: report
For more than two generations, Bill Pulte's family has had close ties with a covert Christian group that has backed allies of President Donald Trump and other conservatives, according to a report on Tuesday.The acting national intelligence director's grandfather and father have been closely involved with a group known as The Family, or The Fellowship, which organizes the National Prayer Breakfast and a C Street congressional residence on Capitol Hill. These are "leaders and financial backers of a secretive Christian organization that conducts shadow diplomacy around the world, according to public records and documents I obtained," wrote Jonathan Larsen in a Substack post, which was republished by Salon."Pulte’s grandfather, at one point one of the wealthiest men in the world, built a Fortune 500 company and gave tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to charity before his 2018 death," Larsen wrote. "He was also friends with Doug Coe, died in 2017 after decades leading the secretive, controversial Fellowship Foundation that built and sustained a global right-wing network including dictators, lobbyists, and corrupt millionaires largely united against labor, LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights."Pulte's exact connection to The Fellowship remains unclear. It's said he was close to his grandfather, his namesake, who was a longtime friend of Coe's, Larsen wrote. Pulte's father has continued to fund religious charities connected to The Fellowship."If Pulte is personally connected to The Fellowship, he’d hardly be alone in the administration’s upper ranks," Larsen wrote."Secretary of State Marco Rubio used to live at the C Street townhouse, as did Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the United Kingdom, former 'Apprentice' producer Mark Burnett, is a regular at The Fellowship’s National Prayer Breakfast," Larsen explained."But the ties extend beyond overlapping at religious charities in the orbits of Michigan philanthropists. Pulte had a significant personal relationship with Coe, who hobnobbed with presidents of both parties and leaders of nations around the world," Larsen wrote.And that's not the only connection the Pulte family has to top political families — or the Trump family.Pulte's father also played a role in Trump's bidding war against Epstein for a Palm Beach property, which was noted by Substacker Greg Conners."The notorious bidding war for a Palm Beach estate between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein involved a third party. It was Mark Pulte, who veered off from the Pulte home-building business to focus on luxury properties. As Conners notes, Pulte, father of Trump’s appointee, outbid Epstein and was the one who actually bid up the price Trump ended up paying," Larsen added.
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Watch live: House Democrats speak amid battle over FISA, Pulte
House Democratic leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as their GOP counterparts are seeking to pass an extension of the nation’s warrantless spying powers ahead of a June 12 deadline. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday he will not vote to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unless acting Director…
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One demand could sink House Republicans' immigration bill at the last minute
House Republican leaders were uncertain Monday whether they had enough votes to pass a Senate-approved immigration enforcement bill, as the GOP simultaneously began laying groundwork for another budget reconciliation measure ahead of the 2026 midterms.GOP leaders could not confirm they had secured the votes needed to advance the immigration bill, which requires a procedural vote before reaching the House floor, but some Republicans remain undecided and want more enduring changes baked into the bill, a demand that could tank everything, reported Politico."We're literally bending over backwards just to get back to the status quo and to remove people that are just going to come back in four years under the next administration, because we're not codifying anything," said one of the holdouts, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX).Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) also indicated he would oppose the bill, saying he would not support it without enacted reforms. Leadership's whip operation kept other members on a watchlist as well, with attendance an added concern due to primary elections Tuesday in four states.Despite the uncertainty, House Republicans moved forward with preliminary planning for what some members are calling "Reconciliation 3.0." The Republican Study Committee held a Monday evening briefing with nonpartisan legislative scoring officials to examine the fiscal parameters of assembling another party-line bill.RSC Chair Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) described the session as an early effort to get ahead of the process and ensure accurate data.In a separate meeting in Speaker Mike Johnson's office, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, floated incorporating partisan elements of the regular appropriations process into the bill — a suggestion that drew concern from some Republican appropriators.Johnson acknowledged the idea had come up but said he was not committing to anything. Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) struck a similar note, saying the party remained "far from agreement on 3.0."
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