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Inflation rises to a 3-year high on spiking gas prices
Rising inflation has soured many Americans on the economy, as the cost of gas, groceries, and other necessities hammer many Americans financially.
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President Trump readying new strikes on Iranian power plants, bridges: ‘Have to pay the price’
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Trump also accused Iran in the phone call of "tapping the United States alone when it comes to the negotiating process."
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North Korea’s New Friends
Plus: the U.S. strikes Iranian air defenses after a helicopter downing, Kenyan police kill a protester at an Ebola quarantine demonstration, and Colombia’s former president tweets like Kanye West.
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Washington Examiner
Trump says Iran will ‘pay the price’ after taking too long to negotiate
President Donald Trump suggested more military action is to come in Iran, saying the negotiators there took too long to agree to a deal and would now “pay the price.” Trump has given mixed messages about the Iran war in the past week, saying at one point Tuesday the attack “wasn’t a big deal” because […]
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Washington Examiner
After four hours of retaliatory strikes, 20 targets, Trump says ‘Iran will have to pay the price.’
TRUMP: ‘IRAN WILL HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE’: Over a period of about four hours, beginning at 5 p.m. Washington time, U.S. warplanes bombed Iranian air defenses, ground-control stations, and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz in response to Monday’s downing of a U.S. Apache attack helicopter, in which two Army pilots were […]
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Alternet.org
Trump was 'biggest obstacle' for insiders 'paralyzed' by the Epstein scandal
President Donald Trump was the "biggest obstacle" in the way of his own administration handling the Epstein files, according to a legthy new report from The New York Times, as insiders were "paralyzed" with fear and paranoia about how to handle the growing "crisis" despite him not wanting them to say anything about it at all.The report was written by longtime Trump-beat veterans, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, based on material from their forthcoming book about his second administration. According to the pair, the sense that White House officials gave, that Jeffrey Epstein was a minor non-issue for the administration, could not have been further from the truth, and Trump's repeated insistence that the story was "boring" or a "hoax" made it nearly impossible for them to adequately address it."People in his orbit found him snapping at them if they even raised the issue of Jeffrey Epstein," Haberman explained in a video accompanying the report.In July of last year, several top administration officials convened a meeting about the issue in the Situation Room, a place typically reserved for "classified and high-stakes national security matters." At the meeting, Haberman and Swan said it was clear that Vice President JD Vance was the most adamant in pushing for full transparency on Epstein, with some in the administration suspecting that he had bought in fully to past conspiracy theories about the deceased sex trafficker.While the rest of the officials balked at Vance's suggestion, the meeting resulted in two moves that ultimately did nothing to quell the growing discontent over the Epstein files within the MAGA base: pushing for judges to release grand jury materials related to Epstein to the public, and having then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison. The latter idea was put forward as a way to make the White House seem like it was fighting for disclosure, but in a way that the judges would likely never allow.In the video, Haberman noted that the idea of releasing the files became a "non-starter" for the administration as soon as it discovered that Trump's name was mentioned many times within them, even if it was often in reports detailing unverified allegations made against him over the years.Among the new revelations from their reporting, the pair revealed that they were able to view an internal document from "Trump's top pollster," Tony Fabrizio, which revealed that the Epstein files were still the sixth most important issue for GOP voters, based on focus groups conducted in March, well after an act of Congress forced the release of the files. This made it a more pressing issue for them than things like crime, safety, the military and AI data centers.“There is also a consistent mention of the Epstein files, which came up in every group and is a real negative with some of these voters," Fabrizio wrote in the "key takeaways" section of the report.Swan said that Trump was growing "more and more fed up" with the story dominating the narrative around his presidency, with Haberman adding that he was not used to losing control over what his MAGA base thought about things. She also stressed that all of the conversations roiling the administration about Epstein had to do with how to contain or "spin" the narrative, not about getting justice for his many victims."The Epstein crisis had exposed something that some of Trump’s closest advisers spent months refusing to see," the report concluded. "The president could break institutions, redirect the federal government against his enemies and bring the world’s richest men into the Oval Office bearing tribute. But he could not, it turned out, make Jeffrey Epstein disappear."
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Raw Story
Trump's 'stunning' chat with reporters raises red flags for analyst: 'His brain is mush'
President Donald Trump's "stunning" chat with reporters before he boarded Air Force One to fly back to the White House after Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night raised red flags for one political analyst. David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, argued during a new reaction video on Tuesday that Trump's press gaggle with reporters revealed the state of the president's mental health. Trump seemed like a bird distracted by a piece of tinsel as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum responded to a reporter's question, Pakman argued. Trump then chimed in, taking the conversation in a strange direction. "We have a lot of respect for a lot of the people before me," Trump said, standing next to Burgum on the tarmac. "I know some of you very well. But take a look at that plane. See that plane? That's in perfect mint condition." "Take a look at that," the president said, pointing. "Look at that. Isn't that amazing? And everything should look that way. We work with the military. We do a real job. But you look at the polish. Everything is beautiful."Pakman said Trump's comments were "stunning" and concerning for multiple reasons. "His brain is mush," Pakman said, adding that Trump may have been "fully sundowning at this point in time," referring to a condition that is associated with dementia. Pakman also noted that Trump's attack against ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, whom he called "Low-IQ" after Smith told the president not to attend the game, was a sign of another disturbing pattern of behavior from the president. "This show is different in the sense that we don't really hurl allegations of racism and sexism haphazardly on this program. It's just not a big part of the political analysis that I tend to do. But I don't really have any other explanation for why Donald Trump's reflexive attack on Black women, Hispanic women, Black men is that they have a low IQ and he rarely applies to white men," Pakman said. And so is it overt racism? Is it implicit racism? I don't know. But it definitely seems to be something that Donald Trump goes to."
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The New Republic
Can the 2026 World Cup Be Rescued From Trump and Infantino?
Omar Abdulkadir Artan may be the best soccer referee in Africa. He’s certainly one of the best in the world. We know this because he was one of just 52 people chosen to officiate the 2026 World Cup, which kicks off on Thursday. His appointment was historic, as well as deserved: He was set to become the first Somali to referee a World Cup game. Artan is decorated and experienced—but he’s Somali. That, ultimately, is probably the reason why he won’t make history. On Monday, Artan was turned away at customs at the Miami International Airport, after border officials reportedly questioned him about, among other things, the Islamic insurgent group Al Shabab. The Trump administration has waged a bitterly racist campaign against Somalis and Somali Americans in recent months. The nation is on the president’s travel ban list, and President Donald Trump has called Somali Americans “garbage” and said “they’re all crooks.” The Trump administration, it seems, determined it would not allow a World Cup principally hosted by the United States to provide a showcase for a Somali—even if he earned his place; even if he really wasn’t there to represent his country. Just last year, Gianni Infantino assured fans that none of this would happen. “There is a lot of misconception out there,” the FIFA president said in August. “Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.” That tune has changed: When the Artan news broke, a FIFA spokesperson shrugged off the fact that one of its handpicked referees had been denied entry to participate in a tournament where “everyone will be welcome.” FIFA, the spokesperson said, is not involved in host-country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr. Artan’s status will not be changed at present.” Welcome to the 2026 World Cup, a Frankenstein’s monster of a tournament, stitching together the rot of FIFA with the ruin of its principal host nation. With kickoff a day away, there are many reasons to despair—or just to tune the whole thing out. But there are also reasons to be hopeful. Donald Trump poisons everything he touches, as does Infantino. But the competitive spirit of the World Cup, in spite of it all, can be remarkably resilient—an often poignant, sometimes magical spectacle that often reminds us that there are many things that vulgarians like Trump and Infantino simply can’t desecrate. At the moment, the vibe is bad; there is very little magic and almost no poignancy. Instead there are the stories, like Artan’s, bubbling up as the World Cup approaches. The United States has denied visas to Iranian officials, detained Iraq’s star striker Aymen Hussein for seven hours at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and has denied entry or put up significant hurdles for many fans who are citizens of nations that aren’t subject to the administration’s travel restrictions, like Jordan and Scotland. If you have followed U.S. politics in any capacity since Trump returned to the White House last January, you have probably spotted Infantino lurking. He was at the inauguration and has popped up at Trump’s side in the Oval Office and on state visits—he even donned a red Trump hat at a meeting of the president’s absurd, fantastically corrupt “Board of Peace”—where he pledged to spend tens of millions building soccer stadiums in Gaza, a tin-eared, inhumane gesture even by Infantino’s depraved standards. The conventional wisdom at the time was that Infantino was playing the long game. Sucking up to Trump would be humiliating for most, but Infantino is a virtuoso at ritual self-abasement—indeed it might be his only real talent. The prevailing theory was that Infantino was attaching himself like a barnacle to America’s gormless and corrupt president for the sake of the World Cup. By June—which is to say by now—the effort would pay off in the form of a tournament that ran smoothly, the way he wanted it. To accomplish this, Infantino went so far as to create the single dumbest and most ridiculous award in the history of humanity—the fantastically absurd “FIFA Peace Prize”—which he bestowed on Trump. A month later, Trump sent U.S. troops to kidnap the president of Venezuela; a month after that, he started a war with Iran, a World Cup qualifier. Infantino, of course, doesn’t care about national sovereignty or human suffering; he certainly doesn’t care what kind of a person leads World Cup host nations. He does care that he—and by extension FIFA—gets what he wants from the tournament. And if that requires a warmonger to be the first—and let’s face it, likely only—recipient of a FIFA-branded award, so be it. It can be credibly argued that Infantino debased himself for little in return. The lead-up to the tournament has been pure chaos and dysfunction. FIFA has known—or at least should have known—that there would be travel issues related to the tournament from the moment Trump won the election in 2024.
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Bloomberg Politics
US & Iran Trade Strikes, Testing Ceasefire Agreement | Daybreak Europe 6/10/2026
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. US forces carried out strikes against Iran hours after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for shooting down an American military helicopter off the coast of Oman. Iran’s joint military command said it had targeted “several US bases in the region.” Stocks resumed their slide as technology shares remained under pressure and investors trimmed positions ahead of a key inflation reading in the US. Gold dropped. And Anthropic is widely releasing a version of Mythos that will be blocked from carrying out cybersecurity tasks, months after warning that the powerful artificial intelligence model could spot and exploit vulnerabilities in critical software. Today's guests: Pilar Gomez-Bravo, MFS Investment Management, Co-CIO of Fixed Income; Julian Salisbury, Co-CIO, Sixth Street. (Source: Bloomberg)
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