FBI resisted opening probe into Trump's role in Jan. 6 for more than a year  —  In the DOJ's investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump's orbit  —  Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general …

Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News  —  The former president, facing charges of mishandling classified information, nearly confessed to the crime — while blaming his “golf shirts” … But he ended up essentially confessing to the crime of which he's accused …

North Carolina GOP House speaker ‘engaged in group sex with people seeking political favor’: lawsuit  —  The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused to using his position to secure sexual favors.  —  As WSOC-TV reports, a new lawsuit filed …

Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way  —  A submersible used to take people to view the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean.  —  The Boston Coastguard told BBC News that a search and rescue operation was under way off the coast of Newfoundland.

Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case  —  A magistrate judge has signed off on special counsel Jack Smith's request that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta be prohibited from disclosing information …

The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat.  Experts fear his anti-vaccine activism threatens public health in America.

G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election  —  A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.  —  On Capitol Hill and in the courts …

Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll  —  Former President Trump tore into Quinnipiac and Fox News over a poll showing him trailing President Biden in a head-to-head matchup.  —  “The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on “TRUMP” vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights  —  Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’  —  With the US besieged by a rightwing culture war campaign that aims to strip away rights from LGBTQ+ people and others …

Bud Light's struggles have been a ‘wake-up call,’ says AB InBev CMO at Cannes  —  Marcel Marcondes says the brewer's goal is to ‘celebrate and appreciate every consumer that loves our brands’  —  Anheuser-Busch InBev's top global marketer on Monday addressed the backlash to Bud Light's use …

Blinken and Xi pledge to stabilize the deteriorating ties between the US and China  —  The United States and China have pledged to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties during a critical visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The 15-minute city is a working-class nightmare  —  A car-free lifestyle is only possible for those whose profession and income permit it.  —  Is there a global conspiracy to confine people to “15-minute cities”?  At the recent UK local elections, MPs and councillors heard this message from voters.

House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records  —  The proposal comes after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several Republican politicians who were current or former members of the armed forces.  —  House Republicans are attempting …

Biden calls Tuberville hold on military nominations ‘bizarre’  —  LOS GATOS, Calif. — President Biden on Monday called Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) hold on military nominees over the Department of Defense's abortion policy “bizarre.”  —  Biden, during a fundraiser in Los Gatos, Calif. …

Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing  —  From technology to energy to capital markets and universities, the EU cannot compete with the US  —  The Ukraine war has revived the transatlantic alliance.  But the relationship between the US and its European allies is increasingly lopsided.

'I'll Blow It Up': Far-right MKs Threaten Summer Camp for Israeli and Palestinian Orphans  —  At a Knesset Education Committee meeting, coalition MKs slam a youth village for renting its complex to host a summer camp for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian children, warning that ‘this government will respond’

Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change  —  Several firefighters injured in ‘ginormous’ blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project … Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed …

Jewish teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from 12-year-old student  —  A Jewish middle school teacher in Massachusetts has resigned after facing antisemitic harassment by a 12-year-old student - who allegedly made Nazi jokes and sent him a drawing of Adolf Hitler.

What Americans Get Wrong When They Talk about Race  —  On Juneteenth, we celebrate black progress.  But if we want to achieve more of it, writes Tomiwa Owolade, we need ideas that aren't born in the U.S.A.  —  On this day in 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect …

Rocked by 2 mass shootings in 2 days, this small country chose a different path  —  After last month's violence, Serbia launched an amnesty period allowing citizens to give up unregistered weapons.  —  Serbians turn outrage into action after recent gun violence