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Top News Stories for Sunday, June 15th 2025
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
A fter striking back on Friday night, Iran launched a new wave of strikes toward Israel on Saturday morning. Now, the two countries continue to exchange deadly missiles and threats, with fatalities and injuries reported on both sides. Iran followed through on its vow to after Israel carried out a "precise and integrated preemptive strike" against Iranian nuclear facilities, In a video address on Saturday evening , ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
A top Democratic state leader, and former House speaker, and her husband were shot and killed in Minnesota, and a second lawmaker and his wife were wounded, in what appear to be politically motivated assassination attempts in the United States, local officials say. The suspect is on the run. Later on Saturday local time, officials said hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb in pursuit of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
US Steel and Nippon Steel said they are eager to 'make American steelmaking and manufacturing great again' President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday approving U.S. Steel's merger with Japan's Nippon Steel through a National Security Agreement (NSA). The NSA includes a commitment to more than $11 billion in new steelmaking investments in the United States by 2028 and the creation of more than ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Mahmoud Khalil denied release from ICE after Trump administration's 'cruel and shocking' tactics, lawyers say Attorneys blast the government's shifting legal grounds to keep the Columbia student activist in detention After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from imprisoning and deporting ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Workplace raids will be stopped after Trump conceded that deportations are hurting agricultural and hospitality industries The Trump administration deportation campaign is reportedly shifting its focus away from raids on the agricultural and hospitality sectors after Donald Trump conceded this week that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries. The New York Times reported that an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, most of them near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said. Medics at Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Hospitals in central Gaza areas, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The stunning downward spiral of Michael Madigan's political career ended Friday with a 7 1/2-year prison sentence and a $2.5 million fine for the former Illinois House speaker and the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history after he was convicted of trading legislation for the enrichment of his friends and allies. U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey sentenced ...
Source: foxnews.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – The fifth week of ' sex trafficking trial featured four days of testimony from a former Combs' girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane and a surprise appearance at the courthouse on the fifth day by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Ye said he came to show his support for his good friend but couldn't get into the courtroom and watched for a few minutes on an overflow courtroom ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Two federal appellate judges appointed by Donald Trump during his first term in office went to bat for the president on Friday and criticized the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals majority for refusing to grant a rehearing en banc in one of two E. Jean Carroll cases. U.S. Circuit Judges Steven Menashi and Michael Park were the only two dissenting voices among the participating jurists, and they insisted in clear ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Nineteen states convinced a federal judge on Friday to block the Trump administration from implementing provisions of an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and banning counting valid mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The states challenging the executive order are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that its provisions are unconstitutional, Judge Denise J. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
The Salvadoran migrant at the heart of a row over US President Donald Trump's hardline deportation policies pleaded not guilty on Friday to human smuggling charges. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, was summarily deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March and brought back to the United States last week. He was immediately arrested on his return and charged in Nashville, Tennessee, with smuggling ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
A federal judge barred Donald Trump from deploying the California National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles . U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ruled on Thursday that the president's takeover of the troops in California was unlawful and ordered Trump to return control of the state-level force to Gov. Gavin Newsom . Breyer wrote that "the founders" intended control of the National Guard to remain ...
Source: salon.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Kim Sajet's departure comes after the Smithsonian Institute rebuffed the president's attempt to fire her over DEI The director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, has resigned just two weeks after Donald Trump attempted to fire her and accused her of being "highly partisan and a strong supporter of DEI". "We thank Kim for her service. Her decision to put the museum first is to be applauded and appreciated. ...
Source: theguardian.com