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#1 At Least 164 People Dead After Twin Quakes in Venezuela, Acting President Says - CNN LIVE Updates, Ryan Rozbiani, Backpirch Weather, Shanaka Anslem Perera, Rizwan Ashraffi, and Phil Ferro on X
More than 900 people have been injured, but the complete death toll is feared to be much higher, given the number of collapsed and damaged buildings. At least 164 people have been killed and 971 injured after Venezuela’s most powerful earthquake in more than a century, according to the country’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez. The 7.5 magnitude quake struck just 40 seconds after a 7.2 magnitude foreshock. A resident who survived a quake that hit Caracas in 1967 said the disaster was unlike anything he had experienced. Another resident who escaped a damaged building said: “The scene was like a horror movie.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US is “immediately deploying” rescue teams and aid at the direction of President Donald Trump...#2 What’s in the Housing Affordability Bill That Trump Refused to Sign - Amna Nawaz and Jackson Hudgins for PBS News, Ron DeSantis/Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X, Acyn, CBS News, Erich Hartmann, French Hill/House Republicans, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, and Coach Tommy Tuberville on X
The landmark bipartisan housing bill that President Trump hasn't signed is the most significant overhaul of federal housing policy in decades. It contains no new spending, but it does seek to boost supply by making it cheaper and easier to build across the country. To break down the potential impact, Amna Nawaz discussed more with former HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan...#3 Trump Kicks off the Great American State Fair After Musical Acts Pulled Out - Henry J. Gomez for NBC News, U.S. Embassy Minsk, Florida's Voice, Michelle Maxwell ™, Gopinath Sivaprakasam/Secretary Brooke Rollins, Pat C in Central FL, and Freedom 250 on X
President Donald Trump treated the kickoff Wednesday to the Great American State Fair as a victory lap for the U.S. — and for himself. “Tonight, as we stand at the edge of our 250th year, I am thrilled to declare that America is back,” Trump said in a speech on the National Mall. “As you know very well, a short time ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. We’re respected by everybody. Nobody’s laughing at us anymore.” The event, organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership created by Trump that labels itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, marked the beginning of the 16-day exposition, envisioned as a modern-day world’s fair to celebrate America’s 250th birthday...#4 US Senate Approves Iran War Powers Resolution: What That Means for Trump - Reuters, The Americanum, Sam, NewsNation, OGM News, Gunther Eagleman, and LEB on X
The United States Senate has voted in favor of invoking its war powers to force President Donald Trump to halt his military campaign against Iran or seek congressional approval before any further action is taken. Here is a closer look at Tuesday’s vote – the 10th attempt Congress has made to rein in the US-Israel war on Iran – and what this means for the US government. A similar measure had already been approved in the House of Representatives on June 3 by a vote of 215 to 208, and on Tuesday, the Senate passed it in a 50-48 vote. Trump’s Republican Party has slim majorities in both chambers. Speaking on the Senate floor before the vote, top Democrat Chuck Schumer advocated for the war powers resolution as he criticized Trump’s military campaign against Iran...
#5 Watchdog Report Alleges Red-State University Trained Executives Tied to China’s Defense Sector - Kiera McDonald and Andrew Mark Miller for Fox News, Tracy, Spotlight on China, Byron Wan, Will Biagini, and Michael Ron Bowling on X
A public university in the American heartland spent more than two decades educating executives tied to China's military-industrial complex through a business program that allegedly received taxpayer support, a new watchdog report claims. The report, titled Heartland for Hire, compiled by the geopolitical research firm Strategy Risks, alleges that Missouri State University (MSU) operated an MBA and Executive MBA pipeline that trained more than 1,500 Chinese executives, government officials, and state-owned enterprise managers beginning in 2001, including personnel connected to China's defense sector...
#6 New Inflation Report Could Fuel Concerns Over Higher Interest Rates, Even as Oil Prices Fall - Rob Wile for NBC News, Tracy Solomon, Cryptocratico, Anti-Left Memes/rob, LiberalandPress, Juliette Declercq, and crypto ciara on X
A closely watched inflation report is set to reveal how much price growth picked up in May — and whether many American consumers remain mired in an affordability crunch. Wall Street forecasters expected the pace of personal consumption expenditures (PCE) to have quickened compared with April data amid higher oil prices and stronger consumer spending. The monthly PCE report is the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge. New Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has said the central bank is committed to bringing inflation back to its 2% target — a level it has failed to reach for the past five years. Wall Street now anticipates the Fed will raise its key interest rate at least once by year’s end in a bid to counteract the stronger price growth. By making it more expensive to borrow money, the Fed slows overall economic activity and, with it, the pace of price increases...#7 Military Requiring Flu Vaccines for Recruits as Air Force Base Deals With Outbreak - Eleanor Watson and Joe Walsh for CBS News, NewsRadio WHAM 1180, Jerome Adams/MikeSka MD, Military Times, Magachurch Pastor/Bill Marcks, and Barry Watches & Worries - for the next generation. on X
All branches of the U.S. military began once again requiring their recruits to get flu vaccines earlier this month, an exception to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to lift the military's vaccine mandate, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The news comes as Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — home to the Air Force's Basic Military Training program — grapples with a flu outbreak that has infected 275 people in recent weeks, a congressional staffer with knowledge of the matter told CBS News. The process of reinstating the mandate for recruits began before the Lackland outbreak was publicly acknowledged...
#8 “Vaccines” Are the COVID Cover Story. Why They Couldn’t Fail. - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, SqueekyWheal, Sophie still fighting, Tom Renz, Jim Byrne, and MAHA Institute on X
After extensive validation, a glaring and frightening truth is currently making the rounds, and it is one we’ve been saying for years. In reality, COVID-19 was not a random bat-to-human accident that caught humanity off guard and wreaked havoc for years. Likewise, SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA gene-altering “vaccine” did not conveniently arrive in sequence by coincidence. Instead, official documentation, including government reports, declassified intelligence files, and peer-reviewed medical literature, exposes a dark plot far more calculated and sinister. American taxpayer money, funneled through health agencies, largely helped create the dangerous COVID-19 pathogen at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the mRNA platform was already well in development as a medical countermeasure. When that is understood, along with the fact that they must stop at nothing to hide it, the tyrannical reality of the plot at hand makes sense...#9 The Mandami Effect: First NYC. Now DC. Can Mamdani’s Win Keep Powering Progressives? - Michael Collins for USA TODAY, Joanne, Wall Street Mav/@LuvTX, Occupy Democrats/Capitalist Conservative, and Havoc on X
In her campaign to become the next mayor of the nation’s capital, Janeese Lewis George seduced voters in the District of Columbia with promises of affordable housing, universal child care, lower utility bills, and a willingness to stand up to President Donald Trump. It’s a winning message, progressive organizers argue, one that already has catapulted democratic socialists to the front of mayoral races around the country over the past year. Voters in Washington liked what they heard. Lewis George easily won the Democratic primary over a more centrist candidate, putting her on the pathway to becoming the city’s first new mayor in a dozen years – and making her the first-ever democratic socialist to run the city...
#10 Trump Orders DOJ Probe of Oil Firms, Alleges Pump Price 'Gouging' - Jim Thomas for NEWSMAX, j, Owen Gregorian/Donald J. Trump, DutchForce17, Algofinix Inc, Woodrow Williams, and NationPress on X
President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department early Wednesday to investigate major oil companies, accusing them of "gouging" American drivers by failing to pass along the steep drop in crude prices that followed the U.S.-Iran peace deal. The Truth Social post arrived as the national gasoline average sat near $3.91 a gallon, far below May's wartime peak but still about $1.14 above the level recorded in January, before U.S. forces opened the Iran campaign. "The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil," Trump wrote...
