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The heads of two key American intelligence agencies issued statements Wednesday on what they said was “new” intelligence on the damage resulting from the recent U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, each noting the Iranian program was likely to have been set back by “years.” The statements were released after President Trump decried a leaked, preliminary assessment produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency that said Tehran’s nuclear program had only been pushed back by a matter of months. Mr. Trump had ordered airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities late Saturday, adding to a more than weeklong Israeli campaign against targets in Iran.CIA…

People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for PBS and NPR outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration’s bid to kill federal funding that Congress already has approved for public broadcasting and international aid programs. In President Trump’s request to Congress, sent last month, he justified the cuts because the targeted foreign aid programs were “antithetical to American interests,” and because “[f]ederal spending…

In-N-Out Burger is suing a popular YouTuber who it says posed as an employee of the burger chain and filmed his interactions with customers, later posting the videos online. The lawsuit, filed in district court in central California, alleges that internet personality Bryan Arnett impersonated an In-N-Out worker by wearing a fake uniform bearing the company’s trademarked branding. He duped customers into believing he represented the brand in order to damage its reputation, the complaint claims. Arnett filmed himself engaging with customers as he made “lewd, derogatory and profane remarks,” In-N-Out Burger states in the suit. For example, while impersonating an employee, he…

Amazingly, he then translated that into a real-life victory that will forever change the way elections are fought. Ad Policy Zorhran Mamdani held his first rally at a nightclub on May 4, 2025 in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn.(Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images) Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist who won a commanding upset victory in New York City’s Democratic primary last night, had already won long ago in the eyes of the Internet. Many pundits and pollsters forecast an inevitable triumph for the scandal-scarred Andrew Cuomo—who resigned as New York’s governor in 2021 after facing sexual harassment…

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre’s wife last month, he doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went. When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for…

Bumble will lay off roughly 30% of its workforce, or 240 employees, according to a regulatory filing filed by the online dating company on Wednesday. The jobs cuts come as the company moves to reduce costs and refocus on growing its customer base. Bumble estimates the layoffs, which are slated to take place in the second half of the year, will save $40 million. The Texas-based company said it will reinvest most of that money into “product and technology development.” In announcing the decision to staff on Wednesday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, who also co-founded Tinder, said the online dating business as…

President Trump speaks during a media conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands on June 25. Matthias Schrader/AP hide caption toggle caption Matthias Schrader/AP President Trump used a press conference at the NATO summit Wednesday to expand on his insistence that U.S. strikes heavily damaged Iran’s nuclear operation, despite a preliminary U.S. intelligence report that suggested a more limited impact. “It was very, very successful,” he told reporters. “It was called ‘obliteration.’ No other military on Earth could have done it.” The press conference came as the world watches to see whether a ceasefire between Israel and Iran…

President Trump says the U.S. will meet with Iran next week, as a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran holds for now. During a news conference Wednesday to cap off the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, the president said there may be a formal agreement at some point with Iran, but he doesn’t believe one is necessary because their nuclear sites were “blown up to kingdom come.””We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran,” the president told reporters at the press conference, adding that the U.S. is going to “meet” with them, although he didn’t specify who will…

June 25, 2025 With a new GOP majority, the incoming FCC boss aims to punish criticism, reward obedience—and screw the public. Ad Policy FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House on May 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.(John McDonnell / Getty Images) When the Federal Communications Commission meets on Thursday in Washington, DC, the agency will have undergone a drastic transformation in just five months. Once a wonky telecom regulator that mostly avoided politics, the FCC is now at the leading edge of President Donald Trump’s crusade to turn the federal government into an instrument of his own will. Since…

A cargo ship that had been delivering new vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean, weeks after crew members abandoned ship when they couldn’t extinguish an onboard fire that left the carrier dead in the water.The Morning Midas sank Monday in international water off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain, the ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime, said in a statement.”There is no visible pollution,” said Petty Officer Cameron Snell, an Alaska-based U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson. “Right now we also have vessels on scene to respond to any pollution.”The Coast Guard said that the vessel reportedly had 350 metric tons…