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#1 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Announces Resignation - Frank Andrews and Tucker Reals for CBS News, Keir Starmer, Rupert Lowe MP, Piers Morgan, Hazel Appleyard, and The British Patriot on X
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he was resigning from his position as the leader of the ruling Labour Party, which will also see him replaced as the country's leader. Starmer has been under mounting pressure to resign for weeks, following a disastrous round of local elections for his party in early May, but his decision came after a political rival from within Labour, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, made it clear that he would challenge the prime minister for his job. Starmer had vowed to stay in his post, but his position became untenable as more and more Labour Party colleagues concluded his time was up. The timetable for his departure sped up after Burnham left his role as mayor and then won a seat last week as a Member of Parliament for his local constituency — a necessary move as prime ministers have long been chosen from among sitting members of the House of Commons...
#2 VP Vance Takes Questions on Second Day of US-Iran Talks in Switzerland - Video and Fox News, Al Jazeera, Mossad Commentary, Good Morning America, The Right News, Right Now., PhoebeRWell, and BRICS News on X
Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner concluded the first round of U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland after more than 10 hours of negotiations. Pakistan and Qatar mediated the talks and said lower-level negotiations will continue this week. U.S. and Iranian negotiators discussed Tehran's nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz, and security issues in Lebanon. Mediators said the two sides agreed to establish a Lebanon "de-confliction" mechanism aimed at supporting the ceasefire. President Donald Trump has warned the U.S. could impose tolls in the Strait of Hormuz or take further action if diplomacy fails. Iran dismissed Trump's Strait of Hormuz threats as "empty bluffs." Israel says it will not withdraw from its security zone in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah is demanding a full Israeli withdrawal. Oil prices rose as markets monitored the outcome of the Switzerland negotiations...
#3 Alan Greenspan, Economist and Longtime Head of the Federal Reserve, Dies at 100 - Daniel Arkin for NBC News, CNBC, Kathy Lien, The Kobeissi Letter, Teddy Kassa, and Bogachan Ozdemir on X
The influential economist died Monday from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, said his wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. Alan Greenspan, the influential economist who steered U.S. monetary policy during his five terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve under four presidents, died Monday, his wife said in a statement. Greenspan helped shape modern American capitalism from the final years of the Cold War era through the dawn of the digital age. He presided over the Fed during one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, a boom stretching from 1991 to 2001. But he was also faulted for decisions that critics say created the conditions for the global financial crisis of 2007-08, such as advocating for deregulation of the financial sector...#4 LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho Resigns Four Months After FBI Raid - Chris Bradford for New York Post, The New York Times, ABC7 Eyewitness News, and OC Scanner/Matt Quan/TacosTacosTacos on X
Embattled Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned – almost four months after the FBI raided his home and office as part of a fraud and corruption probe. Carvalho, who held the role for just over four years, tendered his resignation Sunday and said it would be effective immediately, the Los Angeles Times reported. “It has been a great honor to serve you,” the 61-year-old wrote in the note seen by the outlet. “Over the past four years, together, we have made historic progress — gains that belong to our students, our educators, staff, and our communities.” In his resignation letter sent to the LAUSD, Carvalho said he didn’t want to become a “distraction” to students...
#5 Trump Says Reflecting Pool Repairs Will Begin ‘Immediately’ After Vandalism Arrests - Nicholas Kerr for ABC News, KDugan1850, nick borynack, James Tate, Conservative Brief, NewsRadio WHAM 1180, and Nick Sortor on X
President Donald Trump said Sunday that work would begin "immediately" to repair the peeling lining at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as an administration official confirmed that at least five people have been arrested on vandalism charges related to the pool. "Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool," Trump said in a post on Truth Social, claiming to have just inspected it himself. Trump said that he "could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE," adding, "we will fix it." An administration official said on Sunday that as of Saturday night, five individuals had been arrested for vandalism, and five others had been issued citations...
#6 Trump Touts ‘Best Economy Ever’ in Father’s Day Message - Ryan Mancini for The Hill, David Poland/The White House, Republicans Against Trump/Grok, The Right Trader, Growth Wealth BluePrint/Watcher.Guru, and PatriotTakes on X
President Trump on Sunday celebrated Father’s Day with a social media post touting that the U.S. has the “BEST ECONOMY EVER.” “Happy Father’s Day!” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Our Country is doing GREAT. Record Jobs Numbers and Stock Market, BEST ECONOMY EVER! Greatest Military in the World, by far. We are WINNING on all fronts, WINNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!”
#7 FEC Filings Confirm GOP Meddling in Dem Primaries - Jessica Piper for POLITICO, Frank Amari, David Wright, Bayliss Wagner, Patrick Svitek, and Robbie Jaeger on X
Two shadowy groups, Lead Left and Real Change, received all their funds from a super PAC that also supports Republicans. A Republican-linked group was the sole funded of two pop-up super PACs that spent more than $4.3 million across a swath of Democratic congressional primaries to support candidates seen as less electable. Democrats had speculated that the two groups, Real Change PAC and Lead Left, were Republican meddling as they spent heavily across Democratic primary races in Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska, and Maine in recent months... Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who switched party affiliation over unheeded warning signs about President Joe Biden’s decline in the 2024 election, is revealing new details about the red flags the party blew by. "Whatever was out there, it wasn’t the truth. They wanted him to go, and also in my book, I will be telling people exactly who was aware of Biden’s cognitive decline but pretended otherwise," Li told Fox News Digital during a phone interview. Li, who is publishing a new book titled "Unburdened" later this year, adds to the picture of the internal discussions, the research, and the panic behind the scenes of the Democratic Party, indicating that Biden enjoyed only shaky support even among his own camp long before he ultimately dropped out of the 2024 election... A flamboyant U.S.-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia's polarizing presidential runoff Sunday, swinging the country hard right and sparking violent protests. With almost all the ballots counted, Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66% of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda's 48.70%. The 47-year-old's slender win triggered demonstrations, but will ease ties with Washington and extend a regional right-wing wave centered on "iron fist" security policies. "We are beginning a new era!" he told supporters in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla from behind thick bulletproof glass...
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) repeatedly used campaign cash for child care and luxury outings with his family since launching his campaign for Senate in 2023. According to a report Sunday by Politico that scrutinized the senator’s campaign finance records and spoke with an unnamed source familiar with the lawmaker’s spending. The Arizona Democrat used his leadership political action committee (PAC) to fund recent trips to Miami, Chicago, Disneyland, and Disney World with his family, according to the report. Federal Election Commission records also show Gallego tapped his PAC and his main campaign committee for more than $18,000 in reimbursements for child care since 2019, including paying his wife’s mother $400 for babysitting. Gallego also used a joint campaign account with disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to attend the 2023 Super Bowl in Arizona with his wife, Sydney, according to the political news outlet...
#8 Ruben Gallego Used Campaign Donations for Babysitting and Luxury Family Trips, Including Disneyland, Disney World, Super Bowl - Lowell Cauffiel for Breitbart, Benjamin Domenech, POLITICO, David Strom, Reverend Jordan Wells, Fearless45, and CareWeMust on X
#9 Ex-Dem Insider Reveals She Will Expose Democrats Who Covered up Biden’s Cognitive Decline in New Book - Leo Briceno for Fox News, Major Anthony Jones, Nevada Moon, JAKORA HAYES, Unbiased Headlines, and FLETCH elle/Lindi Li on X
#10 Trump-Backed Populist Wins Tight Colombia Presidential Vote, Sparking Protests - CBS News, Owen Shroyer/Mario Nawfal, GlobalFleischmanInvestments., M, the Ninja Sheep, Owen Gregorian, and Warren Kinsella on X
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