Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search
Featured Stories
speak easy

Trump says both sides violate ceasefire, tells Israel: 'Do not drop those bombs'

WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV/ISTANBUL, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump accused both Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire on Tuesday hours after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel which had announced major new strikes on Tehran. "Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!" Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after he left the White House for a trip to a NATO summit in The Hague.[/ex ...

BumRushDaShow

Kennedy Center president rages at 'Hamilton' stars 'cosplaying as victims'

June 23, 2025 9:01PM ET Stars of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" drew the ire of Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell on Monday after announcing a boycott. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote and stars in the musical, and producer Jefferey Seller have said they will not perform the 2026 run of their Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at the Kennedy Center. Multiple other artists are boycotting the Kennedy Center as a protest against President Donald Trump's policies. Grenell, who served as ...

BumRushDaShow

Kennedy's new vaccine panel lacks experience and shouldn't meet, Sen. Cassidy says

June 23, 2025, 8:34 PM EDT Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Monday criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s picks for a key federal vaccine advisory committee and called for the group’s next meeting to be delayed until more members with relevant expertise can be appointed. Kennedy abruptly fired all 17 members of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this month and replaced them with eight new members, including kno ...

BumRushDaShow

Exclusive: Trump Organization pays off loan on 40 Wall Street in New York

June 23, 2025 8:22 PM EDT Updated 9 hours ago June 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's family business has paid off in full in cash the $160 million loan on its 40 Wall Street office tower in Manhattan, a Trump Organization spokesperson said on Monday, underscoring how the business' fortunes have improved since Trump's re-election last year. Trump has cited 40 Wall Street, a 72-story landmark building in the financial district of lower Manhattan which he bought for $1 million, as one of h ...

muriel_volestrangler

Last body found after boat capsizes on Lake Tahoe in storm, bringing death toll to 8

The body of the last person missing from a boat that capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a sudden and powerful weekend thunderstorm was found Monday, bringing the death toll to eight. Ten people were on board the 27-foot (8-meter) gold Chris-Craft vessel when it flipped Saturday afternoon near D.L. Bliss State Park on the lake's southwest edge as the storm whipped up high waves, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. Two people were rescued immediately and taken to a hospital in unknown cond ...

BumRushDaShow

'Will not sit idly by': DOJ sues to prevent Catholic priests from violating secrecy of confessional by having to report

Jun 23rd, 2025, 2:38 pm The Trump administration and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice are going to bat for Catholic priests, the sacrament of penance, and the seal of confession, claiming in a lawsuit against the state of Washington that newly-signed mandatory reporting legislation amounts to an attack on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. The DOJ said Monday that it's suing in order to intervene and protect Catholic priests from having to choos ...

BumRushDaShow

Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries

Updated 6:28 PM EDT, June 23, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homelands, lifting for now a court order requiring they get a chance to challenge the deportations. The high court majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices joined a scathing dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The court a ...

Jose Garcia

Trump announces Israel and Iran have agreed on a ceasefire

President Trump announced Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed on a "Complete and Total" ceasefire, a move he said would end a more than week-long conflict between the two countries. The ceasefire will start in about six hours, and after 12 hours, the "War will be considered, ENDED," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, indicating that the ceasefire would begin at midnight ET. "Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEA ...

highplainsdem

Trump rages over 'fake news media' reports that Iranian nuclear sites weren't destroyed by Midnight Hammer op: 'Sleazeba

President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at press reports indicating that the audacious bombing and missile strikes he ordered against three Iranian nuclear sites hadn’t been as effective as he and his top defense officials have claimed. In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed the target nuclear sites hit by the U.S. over the weekend “were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it” while accusing “the fake news” of trying to “demean” his administration by saying otherwise. He singled out CNN a ...

BumRushDaShow

Trump Administration Says Health Insurance Move Will Save $12 Billion

Published Jun 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM EDT The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it is in the final stages of implementing a new rule that it says will "lower individual health insurance premiums" by 5 percent on average. CMS said the move is expected to save American taxpayers up to $12 billion in 2026, by "combating the surge of improper enrollments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Exchanges." Concern has been raised by some that these new measures ...

Latest Breaking News

Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada make changes to lure business amid Delaware's 'Dexit' concern

1 min ago - June 23, 2025, 11:34 PM CLAYMONT, Del. -- Lawmakers in Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have recently approved changes aimed at helping their states dip into the lucrative side of corporate litigation that Delaware, with a specialized court and business-fr ... (ABC News/AP)

House subcommittee advances Legislative Branch spending bill

45 min ago - Posted June 23, 2025 at 9:29pm House Republicans' proposal to cut nearly half of the Government Accountability Office's budget could result in Congress missing out on billions of dollars of savings, Democrats argued on Monday. The cut is part of the ... (Roll Call)

House Democratic veterans back moves to limit Trump's military authority

1 hr ago - Mon 23 Jun 2025 11.41 EDT Last modified on Mon 23 Jun 2025 21.31 EDT A group of 12 House Democratic military veterans have thrown their weight behind efforts to constrain Donald Trump’s military authority, announcing they will support a War Powe ... (The Guardian)

Russian missile terror reaches Ukrainian civilians on train. The attack on Dnipro leaves people dead, injured [updated

1 hr ago - Latest news Ukraine The train incident was part of a devastating Russian assault on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast that killed at least nine people and wounded over 70 others by Vira Kravchuk 24/06/2025 ..... Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast hi ... (euromaidenpress)

Trump says both sides violate ceasefire, tells Israel: 'Do not drop those bombs'

1 hr ago - WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV/ISTANBUL, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump accused both Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire on Tuesday hours after he announced it, expressing particular frustration with Israel which had announced major new st ... (Reuters)

Kennedy Center president rages at 'Hamilton' stars 'cosplaying as victims'

1 hr ago - June 23, 2025 9:01PM ET Stars of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" drew the ire of Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell on Monday after announcing a boycott. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote and stars in the musical, and producer Jefferey Seller have ... (Raw Story)

House panel recommends Garcia to lead Dems on Oversight panel

2 hrs ago - 06/23/25 9:13 PM ET A key Democratic committee voted Monday night to recommend Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) to lead the party on the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, lending a good deal of momentum to the second-term Califor ... (The Hill)

Bondi defends Justice Department proposal to end standalone ATF

2 hrs ago - Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:50pm Attorney General Pamela Bondi on Monday defended a Trump administration proposal to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a major shakeup experts say would likely require congressional actio ... (Roll Call)

Kennedy's new vaccine panel lacks experience and shouldn't meet, Sen. Cassidy says

3 hrs ago - June 23, 2025, 8:34 PM EDT Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Monday criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s picks for a key federal vaccine advisory committee and called for the group’s next meeting to be delayed u ... (NBC News)

Israel says Iran violates ceasefire announced by Trump, orders new strikes

3 hrs ago - JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL, June 24 (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were Iranian missiles fired in a violation of the ceasefire announced hou ... (Reuters)

Exclusive: Trump Organization pays off loan on 40 Wall Street in New York

3 hrs ago - June 23, 2025 8:22 PM EDT Updated 9 hours ago June 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's family business has paid off in full in cash the $160 million loan on its 40 Wall Street office tower in Manhattan, a Trump Organization spokesperson said on M ... (Reuters)

Democratic Arkansas state senator announces bid for governor

4 hrs ago - Updated 7:03 PM EDT, June 23, 2025 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas state Sen. Fred Love announced Monday he’s seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders next year. Love, who represents a Little R ... (AP)

Pam Bondi Clashes With Democrats at Heated House Hearing

4 hrs ago - Published Jun 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM EDT U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday faced intense questioning during her first congressional testimony since confirmation hearings as lawmakers challenged the Department of Justice's (DOJ) proposed $33.6 bi ... (Newsweek)

Judge indefinitely blocks Trump's proclamation suspending new Harvard international students

4 hrs ago - (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday indefinitely blocked a recent attempt by President Donald Trump to deprive Harvard University of its ability to bring thousands of international students to its campus. Judge Allison Burroughs of the US District ... (CNN)

'Assassination attempts' on Zelensky revealed as 10 killed in attack on Kyiv

4 hrs ago - Comes as British defence ministry said more than a million Russian soldiers had died or suffered injuries so far Namita Sing Tuesday 24 June 2025 03:41 BST Ukrainian security services have revealed details of assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zel ... (independent.co)

'Not going to pass': Another MAGA senator turns on megabill over GOP provision

5 hrs ago - June 23, 2025 6:37PM ET A prominent pro-Trump senator is coming out against one of the more controversial provisions proposed for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Punchbowl News congressional reporter Max ... (Raw Story)

Israel accuses Iran of violating ceasefire, vows to 'respond forcefully'

5 hrs ago - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has just issued a statement, saying he has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to "respond forcefully to Iran's violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran". As a re ... (BBC)

Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of 'rewarding lawlessness' by Trump administration in fiery dissent

5 hrs ago - Published 6:02 PM EDT, Mon June 23, 2025 CNN — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of &# ... (CNN Politics)

Last body found after boat capsizes on Lake Tahoe in storm, bringing death toll to 8

5 hrs ago - The body of the last person missing from a boat that capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a sudden and powerful weekend thunderstorm was found Monday, bringing the death toll to eight. Ten people were on board the 27-foot (8-meter) gold Chris- ... (NPR)

Lawmakers will get classified briefing on Iran strikes and retaliation

5 hrs ago - Posted 4:39 PM, Jun 23, 2025 and last updated 5:28 PM, Jun 23, 2025 U.S. lawmakers will receive a classified briefing on the recent U.S. strikes on nuclear development facilities in Iran. CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intellig ... (Scripps News)

Archives

2025 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2024 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2023 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2022 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2021 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2020 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2019 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2018 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2017 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2016 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2015 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2014 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2013 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2012 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2011 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2010 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2009 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2008 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2007 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2006 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2005 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2004 J F M A M J J A S O N D

2003 J F M A M J J A S O N D

Latest Videos
Back to the top
Enter Discussion Forums