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'I like their money': Trump threatens lawsuits against ABC for reporting on Reflecting Pool

'I like their money': Trump threatens lawsuits against ABC for reporting on Reflecting Pool Published Mon, Jun 22 2026 10:54 PM EDT Lim Hui Jie @in/hui-jie-lim-a7371176/ KEY POINTS * U.S. President claimed ABC "failed to report that their close 'friends,' Dumocrats Obama and Biden, spent over 100 Million Dollars on the Reflecting Pool, and it never worked." * Trump said he was preparing lawsuits against the broadcaster for "false reporting." * The latest action against ABC ...

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Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes

June 22, 2026, 6:43 PM EDT WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill aimed at lowering costs, putting Congress on the brink of a rare bipartisan victory in President Donald Trump’s second term. The vote was 85-5. Several senators missed the vote due to severe thunderstorms in the Washington area that led to a ground stop at Ronald Reagan National Airport. The legislation, which would make it easier to build homes and slap limits on Wall ...

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Senate Republicans say it's time to give Trump a reality check

06/22/2026 08:35 PM EDT Donald Trump is about to come face to face with one of his frequent punching bags: Senate Republicans. They might just be in a mood to punch back. The president was invited to GOP senators’ Wednesday lunch to push for his No. 1 priority, the GOP election bill known as the SAVE America Act. But several outgoing Republicans who have clashed with Trump said Monday they will be there to deliver a reality check: The bill isn’t passing, and it’s time to move on. “I’m goi ...

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Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states

Updated June 22, 2026 3:37 PM ET By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court announced Monday that it will not review an Arkansas-based lawsuit, leaving in place a 2025 appeals panel ruling that ends a long-used tool for protecting minority voters from discrimination under the landmark law in seven mainly Midwestern states. That ruling found that in the states covered by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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A plan to sell artifacts from the Titanic faces US government opposition

Updated 5:36 PM EDT, June 22, 2026 A plan to auction more than 100 artifacts salvaged from the wreckage of the Titanic — including personal belongings, currency, kitchen items and decor — is facing pushback from the U.S. government, according to newly unsealed court documents. RMS Titanic Inc., the company that owns exclusive salvage rights to the famous wreck in the North Atlantic, wants to sell the artifacts for the first time despite previous agreements to only display them at museums and ...

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At least five people arrested in alleged tampering of Reflecting Pool, official says

June 22, 2026, 11:05 AM EDT / Updated June 22, 2026, 2:34 PM EDT At least five people have been arrested in connection with the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an administration official said Monday, as President Donald Trump threatened long prison terms for offenders. The five arrests and five additional citations to other people have come in the wake of Trump saying Saturday, with no evidence so far, that vandals at the Reflecting Pool cut a 250-foot-long “gash in ...

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States That Won't Adopt Trump's Sweeping Election Changes Risk Losing Millions in DHS Funding: CNN

Jun 22nd, 2026, 12:52 pm States that refuse to implement the Trump administration’s sweeping new election changes risk losing tens of millions of dollars in federal funding, CNN reported on Monday. The changes are meant to root out election fraud — which remains relatively rare — while giving the federal government greater influence over how states run elections. “Over the past 18 months, the administration has been going after election fraud, despite little evidence that there’s any sort o ...

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Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" shutting down permanently, sources say

Updated on: June 22, 2026 / 1:07 PM EDT Companies hired by the state to operate the Florida immigration facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" were notified Monday morning to begin "full demobilization" of the facility, quietly bringing an ignominious close a $1.2 billion experiment that had once been hailed by Governor Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump as a model other states should pursue, four sources familiar with the operations of the detention center told CBS Ne ...

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Democratic-led states balk at 'Great American State Fair'

06/22/26 6:00 AM ET A grand state fair highlighting American culture is set to kick off on the National Mall this week ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, but several states have publicly said they will not attend the event. At least seven states led by Democratic governors have opted not to send official representatives to the “Great American State Fair,” with some raising concerns that the event is shaping up to be more partisan than it has been billed. The 16 days of festivities o ...

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In blow to Trump, federal judge blocks DHS from using citizenship database to purge voters

A federal judge in Washington D.C. blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its citizenship database to remove voters from registration rolls, striking a significant blow against President Donald Trump's unconstitutional attempt to take control of federal elections. In her decision Monday, District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan excoriated Trump and DHS's implementation of his March 25 executive order for ignoring federal privacy laws as they overhauled the Systemic Alien ...

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FCC takes aim at Disney's push for public support amid regulatory probes

4 min ago - June 22, 2026, 8:24 PM EDT / Updated June 22, 2026, 10:04 PM EDT The Federal Communications Commission on Monday blasted Disney’s push for public support amid the agency’s probes of “The View” and ABC’s broadcast licenses, th ... (NBC News)

Exclusive: Downed US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in 'jellyfish' formation

51 min ago - PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2026, 4:00 AM ET A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in ... (CNN Politics)

Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit over LA sanctuary city policy

1 hr ago - Mon 22 Jun 2026 22.10 EDT A California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed ⁠by Donald Trump’s administration against Los Angeles over a city ordinance limiting ⁠its cooperation with federal ⁠immigration authorities. Fern ... (The Guardian)

Georgia Democrats criticize bill mandating hand recounts while retaining ballot QR codes

1 hr ago - Updated on: June 22, 2026 / 9:50 PM EDT Legislation to keep Georgia's embattled vote-counting method in place for this year's midterm elections faced strong opposition from state Democrats on Monday after Republicans in the Georgia Senate approved an ... (CBS News/AP)

Senate Republicans say it's time to give Trump a reality check

2 hrs ago - 06/22/2026 08:35 PM EDT Donald Trump is about to come face to face with one of his frequent punching bags: Senate Republicans. They might just be in a mood to punch back. The president was invited to GOP senators’ Wednesday lunch to push for h ... (Politico)

Republican National Committee sues Nebraska over state election law

2 hrs ago - Lawsuit argues the law violates the state constitution by allowing U.S. citizens who have never lived in the country to vote in Nebraska elections By: Juan Salinas II - June 22, 2026 8:32 pm LINCOLN — The Republican National Committee and two Ne ... (Nebraska Examiner)

Amazon ordered to collectively bargain at San Francisco warehouse

2 hrs ago - Story by Josh Eidelson • 8h (Bloomberg) -- A US labor board judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. must collectively bargain with California warehouse workers, teeing up a legal battle that could end with President Donald Trump’s appointees rever ... (MSN-Bloomberg)

Challenger with same name as Alaska US Sen. Dan Sullivan sues to stay on ballot

2 hrs ago - Updated 7:15 PM EDT, June 22, 2026 JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on Monday challenged a decision by a top state elections official to disqualify his candidacy and ... (AP)

Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes

3 hrs ago - June 22, 2026, 6:43 PM EDT WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill aimed at lowering costs, putting Congress on the brink of a rare bipartisan victory in President Donald Trump’s sec ... (NBC News)

Trump team delays health funding with new screening process that uses AI to check for words like 'culture' and 'gender'

3 hrs ago - Monday 22 June 2026 18:07 EDT Billions of dollars in grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services have been reportedly delayed by new approval requirements. HHS funding opportunities are being held up by a new multi-step approval p ... (The Independent)

Democrats demand OMB rescind grant rule

4 hrs ago - 06/22/26 5:45 PM ET A group of House Democrats is calling on the Trump administration to rescind a sweeping new proposal to overhaul the federal grantmaking process that critics say would exert unprecedented political influence on scientific research ... (The Hill)

A plan to sell artifacts from the Titanic faces US government opposition

4 hrs ago - Updated 5:36 PM EDT, June 22, 2026 A plan to auction more than 100 artifacts salvaged from the wreckage of the Titanic — including personal belongings, currency, kitchen items and decor — is facing pushback from the U.S. government, accordi ... (AP)

Green Card Holders Face 75% Citizenship Fee Increase Under New DHS Proposal

5 hrs ago - Published Jun 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM EDT updated Jun 22, 2026 at 05:01 PM EDT The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed raising fees for citizenship applications by about 75 percent, while eliminating fee waivers and reduced rates for most ... (Newsweek)

Israel fears Trump is strengthening Iran's hand in Lebanon

5 hrs ago - 10h Israel's government is concerned that the U.S. is effectively legitimizing Iran's influence in Lebanon and eroding Israel's freedom of operation there through new understandings reached in Switzerland and the memorandum of understanding signed w ... (msn/Axios)

Dershowitz to sit for questioning in House Epstein probe

6 hrs ago - 06/22/26 3:58 PM ET Alan Dershowitz, a former defense attorney for late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will appear before the House Oversight Committee on July 20 for a transcribed interview, according to two sources familiar with the planni ... (The Hill)

Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states

6 hrs ago - Updated June 22, 2026 3:37 PM ET By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court announced Monday that it will not review an Arkansas-based lawsuit, leaving in place a 2 ... (NPR)

'I like their money': Trump threatens lawsuits against ABC for reporting on Reflecting Pool

6 hrs ago - 'I like their money': Trump threatens lawsuits against ABC for reporting on Reflecting Pool Published Mon, Jun 22 2026 10:54 PM EDT Lim Hui Jie @in/hui-jie-lim-a7371176/ KEY POINTS * U.S. President claimed ABC "failed to report that their close 'frie ... (CNBC)

Ken Paxton says he's 'a strong supporter of IVF' -- even as Texas GOP dreams of banning it

6 hrs ago - Jun 22, 2026, 03:14 PM EDT Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton told HuffPost he supports in vitro fertilization, despite the GOP in his state adding an IVF ban to its newly approved party platform. “Strong families ar ... (Huff Post)

Pope Leo XIV warns wars are 'fed' faster than people as aid money dries up

7 hrs ago - Posted 11:49 AM, Jun 22, 2026 and last updated 3:09 PM, Jun 22, 2026 Pope Leo XIV said Monday that wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed, urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger after a severe funding shortfall ... (Scripps News/AP)

On eve of direct Jerusalem-Beirut talks, Netanyahu vows to maintain presence in Lebanon

7 hrs ago - Hours before the latest round of direct talks between Jerusalem and Beirut were slated to kick off in Washington, Israeli leaders vowed to maintain an ongoing presence in southern Lebanon, while the slated negotiations appeared to be somewhat sidelin ... (The Times of Israel)