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GOP divided on pursuing third reconciliation amid election tensions

06/13/26 6:00 AM ET Republicans are divided over whether to pursue a third party-line spending package, with some lawmakers expressing skepticism that such an ambitious effort can clear Congress in a high-stakes election year. GOP leaders and top budget writers have already begun laying the groundwork for a third package, which they hope will include defense funding, fraud prevention initiatives and a slate of affordability-focused measures. President Trump added momentum to the effort Wednes ...

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A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

By JACK DURA Updated 1:54 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death. Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “ind ...

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Trump to attend dinner at Versailles post-G7

06/13/2026 11:32 AM EDT President Donald Trump will attend dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday, according to a senior Trump administration official. The dinner will follow the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the president has scheduled a series of bilateral meetings, working sessions and discussions with allied leaders. Macron had earlier invited Trump to the one-on-one dinner to cap off the summit, but the White House, until now, hadn’t ...

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Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

7h ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged noncitizen voting has evolved into a multi-agency effort reaching into state and local voter systems. Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens, are voting illegally and that is why he lost the popular vote in 2016 and th ...

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Trump to meet with Mideast leaders, attend Ukraine session at G7, U.S. officials say

Published Sat, Jun 13 2026 12:28 PM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Middle Eastern leaders and attend a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the G7 summit in France next week, senior U.S. administration officials said on Saturday. Trump is scheduled to travel to Evian, France, for the G7 summit early Monday after attending Sunday’s mixed-martial-arts event at the White House. He will speak to a number of European leaders with whom he has squabbled ...

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ICE Officers Arrive Unannounced At Nonprofits Repping Migrant Kids

(Huff Post) ICE officers have arrived unannounced in recent days at the offices of nonprofit groups that provide legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children, the groups said. The groups called the visits “the latest example of intimidation tactics” from the Trump administration, and detailed visits in which ICE investigators, as well as agents from the Department of Health and Human Services, arrived at their offices and sought access to “documents and financial records relating to the organizations’ child clients.”

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IRS moves to hire 8,000 employees after DOGE cuts, memo reveals

(The Independent) The Internal Revenue Service has received special permission to quickly hire 8,000 employees through September, according to a memo obtained by NOTUS, after more than a quarter of the agency was downsized during Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts last year. Trump administration officials had initially brushed off concerns that the IRS would struggle to handle the 2026 tax season with significantly fewer employees. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers in April the agency was “still able to maintain current services and implement new initiatives.”

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Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

(The Guardian) A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”. In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.

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Elephant at Texas GOP Convention Shocks Audience by Peeing All Over the Floor

Jun 12th, 2026, 5:36 pm There’s an old Hollywood saying about never working with children or animals because of their unpredictable and uncontrollable nature and the Texas Republican Party may be wishing it had heeded that warning after an elephant brought to the party’s annual convention caused quite the disruption. Texas Republicans have gathered in Houston to elect party leaders, make preparations for the upcoming November midterm elections, and conduct other party business. Elected offic ...

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Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center

Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center After courts knocked down attempts to delay the signage change, the Kennedy Center missed the Friday deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name by midnight. June 13, 2026 at 3:33 a.m. EDT 21 minutes ago 8 min Spectators watch as workers put up scaffolding ahead of a court-mandated deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center's facade. (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) By Jonathan Edwards https://w ...

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US wants to avoid congressional vote on trade deal, Carney says

10 min ago - 8h (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Trump administration officials have been clear that they don’t want to trigger a vote in Congress by changing the “fundamental architecture” of the North American free trade de ... (msn/Bloomberg)

House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies

33 min ago - 06/13/26 12:00 PM ET Hard-line conservatives in the House are mounting an uphill push to codify President Trump’s border policies, demanding a vote by July 4 and warning that policies that have significantly cut down crossings at the southern bo ... (The Hill)

Trump to attend dinner at Versailles post-G7

53 min ago - 06/13/2026 11:32 AM EDT President Donald Trump will attend dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday, according to a senior Trump administration official. The dinner will follow the G7 summit in Év ... (Politico)

New law aims to ban 3D-printed guns after UnitedHealthcare CEO murder

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Trump names James M. McDonald to lead powerful New York federal prosecutor's office

2 hrs ago - Updated 4:39 PM EDT, June 13, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced his intent Saturday to nominate James M. McDonald as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to replace Jay Clayton, who Trump nominated this week ... (AP)

Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties

3 hrs ago - 7h ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged non ... (msn/Axios)

Tens of thousands join Pride marches in Romania, Bulgaria to call for equality

4 hrs ago - By VESELIN TOSHKOV and STEPHEN McGRATH Updated 2:27 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters took to the streets of Romania and Bulgaria’s capitals on Saturday for their annual Pride parades, again ... (AP)

Trump to meet with Mideast leaders, attend Ukraine session at G7, U.S. officials say

4 hrs ago - Published Sat, Jun 13 2026 12:28 PM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Middle Eastern leaders and attend a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the G7 summit in France next week, senior U.S. administration o ... (CNBC)

A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

4 hrs ago - By JACK DURA Updated 1:54 PM CDT, June 13, 2026 A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigrati ... (AP)

GOP divided on pursuing third reconciliation amid election tensions

5 hrs ago - 06/13/26 6:00 AM ET Republicans are divided over whether to pursue a third party-line spending package, with some lawmakers expressing skepticism that such an ambitious effort can clear Congress in a high-stakes election year. GOP leaders and top bud ... (The Hill)

Canada's Carney says middle-power countries shouldn't compete for favor with the US

5 hrs ago - DUBLIN (AP) — Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to pivot away from the United States and allign with Europe, meeting with the leader of Ireland on Saturday ahead of the upcoming G7 summit and saying middle power countries ... (AP)

Kennedy Center official tells judge that Trump's name has been removed from its building and website

6 hrs ago - June 13, 2026, 10:18 AM EDT / Updated June 13, 2026, 11:44 AM EDT A Kennedy Center official on Saturday told a federal judge that all references to President Donald Trump inside, outside and online have been removed from the Kennedy Center, in compli ... (NBC News)

Chisago County workers continue long strike

7 hrs ago - Regina Medina June 13, 2026 7:00 AM Teamsters Local 320 members who work for Chisago County have been on strike since May 1. On Saturday, that means workers have been striking for 43 days. Some county employees have quit their jobs since negotiations ... (MPR News)

Trump prosecutor in LA pushing unusual public search for voter fraud before count is in

8 hrs ago - 5h First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli — President Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his intention to ferret out voter fraud in California’s primary election and crimin ... (msn/Los Angeles Times)

Trump's White House UFC Circus Accused of Blinding Pilots

9 hrs ago - Updated Jun. 13 2026 3:44AM EDT Published Jun. 12 2026 9:51PM EDT Bright lights from the site of Donald Trump’s UFC birthday extravaganza on the White House lawn are partially blinding flight crews approaching a major U.S. airport, a pilot has ... (Daily Beast)

Emboldened Senate Democrats block even bipartisan bills in hardball approach to counter Trump

10 hrs ago - Updated 7:39 AM EDT, June 13, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats’ decision to let a key surveillance authority lapse comes as they are increasingly emboldened in their legislative fights against President Donald Trump, blocking even tr ... (AP)

Gas prices are falling toward $4 a gallon but outlook uncertain, analysts say

11 hrs ago - June 13, 2026, 5:02 AM Gas prices have fallen toward $4 per gallon in recent weeks, nearing the milestone as oil costs have eased in response to negotiations between the United States and Iran. The national average price of a gallon of gas stands at ... (ABC News)

Trump's GOP allies draw a line in the sand on Iran

12 hrs ago - 06/12/2026 04:29 PM EDT Updated: 06/12/2026 08:04 PM EDT Republicans keep lengthening President Donald Trump’s leash on Iran. First, they hoped he would stick to his initial four- to six-week timeline for the war. Then, they gave him 60 days; t ... (Politico)

US EPA sends California emissions rules to Congress for potential reversal

12 hrs ago - 11h WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it was sending the Republican-controlled Congress landmark California vehicle emissions rules for potential repeal, its latest effort to prevent tougher stat ... (msn/Reuters)

Trump mulls inaugural flight of new Air Force One at Mount Rushmore event

13 hrs ago - June 12, 2026, 7:02 PM EDT President Donald Trump is considering taking the inaugural flight of the new Air Force One jet, gifted to him from Qatar, when he travels to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next month as part of celebrations for America’ ... (NBC News)