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  • The FBI is investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, with reports of multiple victims. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed agents are working alongside local law enforcement at the scene, calling it "an act of terror." Deputy Director Dan Bongino stated that all necessary resources are being deployed to the investigation. Details are currently scant. Once we have more information, I will let you know.
  • On June 14, the same day as Donald Trump's birthday, a historic celebration will take place at Rate Field to honor the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States and in Chicago. Tickets for the event quickly sold out, with Bishop Lawrence Sullivan calling it a moment many never thought they’d witness in America.
  • Ukraine has launched a major drone operation, dubbed “Spiderweb,” targeting multiple airbases deep inside Russia and destroying dozens of combat aircraft, according to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).
  • The strikes, which occurred just ahead of expected peace talks in Istanbul, marked Ukraine’s most extensive and coordinated drone attacks since the war began. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the operation had been in planning for over a year and a half and involved 117 drones launched from inside Russia.
  • The attacks reportedly damaged more than 40 Russian aircraft, including strategic bombers and a rare A-50 surveillance plane, causing an estimated $7 billion in damages and hitting a significant portion of Russia’s cruise missile carriers.
  • Initial exit polls in Poland’s presidential election project a narrow victory for moderate, pro-EU candidate Rafał Trzaskowski over Trump-backed nationalist Karol Nawrocki, with a margin of 50.3% to 49.7%. However, a late IPSOS poll based on actual precinct returns shows Nawrocki slightly ahead at 50.7% to Trzaskowski’s 49.3%, leaving the race too close to call.
  • According to Arizona residents, ICE agents are now posing as electricity employees. For over a decade, Christine Cariño's undocumented neighbor had avoided immigration enforcement — until Wednesday, when two men posing as utility workers showed up in her neighborhood. Cariño, suspicious of their behavior and lack of uniforms, realized one was carrying a hidden badge and suspected they were ICE agents; she ran to warn her neighbor as the men entered his yard.
  • Pro-democracy activists have announced a nationwide "No Kings" day of protest on June 14, coinciding with President Donald Trump’s planned military parade, which critics say resembles a display of authoritarian power. Over 1,000 events are already scheduled, with organizers aiming to reclaim patriotism and reject the idea of Trump as an all-powerful ruler.
  • Senior officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have directed VA physicians and scientists not to publish research or speak publicly without prior approval from political appointees of Donald Trump, according to internal emails obtained by The Guardian.
  • The move, issued shortly after VA doctors published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, has raised alarms among veterans advocates, who see it as part of a broader pattern of censorship by the Trump administration. The directive was conveyed by top VA officials Curt Cashour and John Bartrum, with Cashour criticizing the authors for not following internal guidance.
  • When asked by George Stephanopoulos when a trade agreement might be finalized, Kevin Hassett responded that he had expected one to be announced as early as the previous week, but it never came. While there was hope for progress, no deal had yet materialized.
  • Small businesses are grappling with the fallout from the Trump administration’s shifting tariff policies, with many owners expressing frustration and financial strain. “I’m so angry that my own government has done this to me,” one business owner said, reflecting a broader sentiment among entrepreneurs caught in the uncertainty and rising costs caused by the trade policy changes.
  • Senate Republicans are set to work this week on their version of the large spending and tax cuts package aimed at advancing former President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, which some have dubbed a “big, beautiful bill.” GOP leaders are focused on persuading conservative critics who worry the legislation could significantly increase the federal deficit.
  • Tulsa’s new mayor, Monroe Nichols—the city’s first Black mayor—unveiled a proposal Sunday for a $100 million private trust aimed at supporting descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through scholarships and housing assistance. Announced at the Greenwood Cultural Center, the plan stops short of offering direct cash payments to descendants or the last two living survivors. Nichols described the initiative not as reparations, a term he considers politically charged, but as a “road to repair” for one of the nation’s worst racial atrocities.

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    — Aaron