News And Current Events

U.S. intelligence stands by its opinion that Iran has a large stockpile of enriched uranium but isn't close to creating a weapon. Trump said Wednesday that a weapon is “a few weeks” away.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-intelligence-assessment-irans-nuclear-program-remains-unchanged-rcna213879

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/trump-israel-iran-ceasefire

Though the health and human services secretary has been avid fan of raw milk, he hasn’t pushed for changes to federal policies — yet.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/raw-milk-kennedy-rcna213568

White House officials told NBC News that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a range of options including striking Iran directly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/b-2-stealth-bombers-30000-pound-bunker-busters-striking-irans-nuclear-rcna213796

The twice-yearly injectable drug’s potential could be compromised by the Trump administration’s dramatic cuts to HIV-prevention infrastructure in the U.S.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-hiv-prevention-drug-prep-lenacapavir-rcna208387

Supporters cited police investigations of more than 100 women for suspected illegal abortions in the past five years, including some who suffered natural miscarriages and stillbirths.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/british-lawmakers-vote-decriminalize-abortion-concern-prosecution-wome-rcna213673

https://www.europesays.com/2173157/

Held: Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and satisfies rational basis review. Pp. 8–24

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf

An Israeli official speaking to The Post said: "When the conditions are ripe for sending a negotiation delegation, it will proceed at a mutually agreed-upon location."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858165#google_vignette

The flight was part of Operation Safe Return, launched to bring home between 100,000 and 150,000 Israelis stuck abroad.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-858171#google_vignette

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/iran-threatens-irreparable-damage-if-us-enters-israel-conflict.html

Benjamin Netanyahu is once again firmly in control of Israeli politics.

The country’s longest-serving prime minister has pulled himself back from the abyss with what appears to be a wildly successful opening to a military campaign against Iran.

“Bibi had his Churchill moment,” said one Israeli official from within the coalition, using the prime minister’s nickname.

One day before launching what Israel dubbed Operation Rising Lion, Netanyahu’s government had faced a confidence vote from the opposition.

Two of the ultra-Orthodox parties threatened to vote against the government in what would have put major pressure on Netanyahu. But he survived the vote – with quite some margin.

Twenty-four hours later, Israel began attacking Iran. In one instant, Netanyahu’s political problems were swept away. No more ultra-Orthodox parties complaining about the military draft or far-right parties shouting about praying in the al-Aqsa compound.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1

Watchdog group warns of Planned Parenthood's growing online presence.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-keeps-closing-facilities-but-it-just-aborted-a-record-number-of-babies

As leaders escalate rhetoric against Tehran, officials say international backing remains firm and more covert operations yet to be revealed; Katz reminds Khamenei of Saddam’s fate

https://www.timesofisrael.com/five-days-into-iran-war-israel-emanates-confidence-flirts-with-regime-change/

The opening salvo of the Israel-Iran war was the ‘culmination of years of work,’ Israeli intelligence and military officials say, sharing a glimpse behind the scenes

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-used-spies-smuggled-drones-and-ai-to-stun-and-hobble-iran/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/palestinian-man-beaten-by-settlers-near-hebron-say-witnesses/

President Zelenskyy said more than 440 drones and 32 missiles struck Ukraine, and described the destruction in Kyiv as among the “most horrific” in the capital since the war started.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/russia-bombs-ukraine-kyiv-civilians-killed-rcna213426

Socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being “the Hitler of the 21st Century” in response to Israel’s airstrikes on Friday against Iran, a key ally of his authoritarian regime.

Maduro levied a barrage of accusations against Netanyahu and Israel’s “Nazi-Zionism” on Saturday night during his participation in a workshop of his regime’s “Seven Transformations” governance program, the latest iteration of the Maduro regime’s 2025-2031 socialist plans for Venezuela. According to Maduro, Netanyahu is allegedly carrying out a West-backed plan in the Middle East comparable to the actions carried out in the past by Adolf Hitler across Europe.

“For those who like to talk about religions, this is not a religious conflict. The conflict that has existed since the founding of the State of Israel is a geopolitical conflict,” Maduro claimed — disregarding the decades of openly antisemitic bigotry out of Tehran — “because that State was created to conquer the entire Middle East and Central Asia, and to take away their wealth and colonize those peoples.”

“It is the Zionist project, which they say goes from the Jordan River to the Euphrates and beyond. Europe did to Hitler what the West is doing to Netanyahu,” he continued. “From Venezuela we say it and nobody is going to prevent our voice from sounding here and there, and the peoples of the world to wake up in a conscience.”

The Venezuelan dictator also questioned the legitimacy of Netanyahu’s Jewish heritage and claimed that, unlike the Israeli prime minister, whom he described as originating from a “hodgepodge who comes from Poland,” Jewish blood runs through his veins.

“I am a Christian, but Jewish blood runs through my veins, Sephardic blood, from the authentic Jews of the twelve tribes, those of Moses. Those Jews of the twelve tribes, who are not the ones in charge today in the State of Israel, those who govern today under Netanyahu, are not authentic Jews. He is a hodgepodge who comes from Poland,” Maduro said.

Maduro asserted that Israel’s strikes against Iran stand in violation of the United Nations Charter and claimed that the U.N. is “dying, as nations died before the passing of Hitler, who ended the mechanism of nations that was created, before the UN, Hitler was fed and armed by the British empire.”

Pope Leo said the Christians "were killed with extreme cruelty."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrible-massacre-hundreds-of-christians-killed-by-jihadists

The Aliyah Minister was in Azerbaijan during the strike for a conference with the Jewish Agency, and was later directed to fly to Cyprus to return to Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-857966

https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/us-news/nyc-recycling-center-crop-dusting-neighborhood-with-choking-stink-that-has-state-fuming-literally-gag/