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Trump team is sending out fundraising emails in advance of his address to the nation tomorrow night.

Iran is increasingly unlikely to give Trump the clear-cut victory he desires. The “fee” proposal, as short-lived as it was, suggests the president struggling to find a way to frame this as a win for America. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump retreat over Hormuz tolls suggests struggle to end Iran war

The abrupt about-face from the US president was the latest twist in a conflict that has now lasted more than four months.

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Spain is putting on a clinic against France.

Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social · 4w ago

From critic to loyalist to critic to loyalist. Lindsey Graham was a Republican barometer for the Trump era. www.bbc.com/news/article...

From Trump critic to ally, Lindsey Graham was a political survivor of the Maga era

The senator's career was marked by a willingness to adapt to America's dramatically changing political climate, writes the BBC's North America correspondent.

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BBC News reaches an audience of half a billion people every week. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BBC reveals record-breaking global audience figures of over half a billion

Across BBC News, the BBC World Service and content distributed by BBC Studios, the BBC saw its international audience grow to 502 million people weekly

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Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social · 4w ago

A political obituary for a candidate few people had heard of a year ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Graham Platner's Platner's disastrous candidacy exposes rifts that could dampen Democrats' Senate hopes

Along with creating tumult in a must-win race for Democrats, Graham Platner's exit is laying bare division between the party's left wing and moderates.

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Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social · 4w ago

I can’t help but wonder how we would have done if they had let Balogun play.

Happy Fourth of July. Even though the US today may be all but unrecognisable to the nation's founders 250 years ago, the cultural and political influences in the country would likely be familiar. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump's new take on 250 years of American expansionism

The US has grown, both in terms of its land and its people, over the last 250 years. What's next?

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The conservative-dominated Supreme Court rarely sees an expansion of presidential power it doesn't like. But sometimes, like today, there are a some surprises elsewhere on the docket. www.bbc.com/news/article...

One big win and three defeats for Trump in dramatic day at Supreme Court

While Trump celebrated a ruling expanding presidential power to remove and replace regulators, other decisions were major setbacks.

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Wait, so beating Paraguay is supposed to be hard?

It doesn’t seem fair that the US has to play Bosnia *and* Herzegovina.

Trump likes to boast about his endorsement power, but Mamdani picked three insurgent candidates - two going up against incumbent congressmen - and all three won. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New York's Democratic primaries show Mamdani's win was no fluke

Candidates backed by the New York mayor won a clean-sweep, exposing a political divide within the Democratic party.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump started today at Camp David, flew to Joint Base Andrews, motorcaded to the White House without stopping and has been there ever since.

Trump: “Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool. I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE! We will fix it? President DJT”

a man in a military uniform is sitting in a chair holding a cigarette .

ALT: a man in a military uniform is sitting in a chair holding a cigarette .

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Success or failure of this deal will hinge on the details. And here, the details are scarce. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump's Iran announcement may ease pressure but uncertainty lingers

The announcement of an Iran deal was a welcome birthday gift for the president – but its success or failure may hinge on the details.

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The thing I learned about putting things off till the last minute in college is that sometimes shit happens, it makes you miss your deadline and then you’re screwed.

Here is Matt Floca’s declaration. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case 1:25-cv-04480-CRC Document 58-1 Filed 06/12/26 Page 2 of 2
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JOYCE BEATTY,
Plaintiff,
V.
Civil Action No. 25-4480 (CRC)
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
DECLARATION OF CHARLES MATTHEW ("MATT") FLOCA
In accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I, Charles Matthew Floca, state as follows, under penalty of perjury, pertinent to the above-styled and numbered case:
1. I currently serve as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ("the Center"). In this capacity, I exercise operational authority over all institutional departments, managing a complex integration of both trust and federal functions, including all elements of the Center's physical footprint.
2. The matters set forth in this Declaration are true and correct from my own personal knowledge and from information made available to me in the course of my official duties.
3. I make this declaration to explain why Defendants need additional time to submit the compliance declaration required by this Court's order. Work to remove physical signage from the Kennedy Center front portico-signage purporting to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump—is ongoing. That work was delayed earlier today, June 12, due to thunderstorms, which presented safety concerns to workers completing the compliance task. I expect the work to conclude in the early hours of the morning on June 13, 2026.
Executed in Washington, DC, on Friday, June 12, 2026.
Mothere
Charles Matthew Floca

I’ve never seen a US team look this good in a World Cup match.

So we're back to the kind of White House we saw for the last three months of his first term - insulur and understaffed. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Platner didn’t get this far without having notable political talent. He’s good on the stump and has a message that has built a loyal base of support. But will his past end his rise before it reaches Washington? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will Maine's scandal-hit Graham Platner help save or sink Democrats?

Graham Platner, who won his Maine primary on a left-wing, anti-establishment message, now faces a formiddable Republican in key Senate race.

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From "Three Amigos" to uneasy neighbors. The World Cup, billed as an event that would unify the continent, has become a lot more politically fraught in the past year. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Uneasy neighbours: Can three World Cup hosts put differences aside for a month?

The tournament comes after a period of fractious relations between the US, Canada and Mexico.

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It turns out Trump's endrosement isn't always the golden ticket to a Republican primary victory. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump-backed candidate in Iowa loses primary

Randy Feenstra's defeat could prove to be a case of the president's political instincts being off.

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Trump becoming the central act of the "Great American State Fair" in Washington makes perfect sense. There's nothing he likes more than being in the spotlight - and the nation's 250th birthday celebrations could be the biggest stage he's had yet. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump inserts himself into America's 250th birthday celebrations

Instead of a uniting event, America's Independence Day celebrations are becoming yet another partisan battleground.

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OSINTdefender (MIRROR)@sentdefenderx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have we checked to see if the meteor was launched by a hostile insectoid alien race targeting one of our major cities?

Flash density appears to confirm that the unknown explosion heard earlier in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island was caused by a meteor reentry to the east of Boston. Original post

Back in 2024, Biden generated headlines when he mixed up Egypt and Mexico in public remarks. Trump, in his Cabinet meeting, just referred to Iran as Venezuela.