DC weather boldly daring to ask “have you ever wanted to experience the life cycle of a steamed dumpling while wearing business casual”

As news breaks of a potential Iranian retaliation against U.S. bases in the Middle East, President Trump is set to meet with his national security team at 1 pm EST.

al Udeid Air Base was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran today. At this time, there are no reports of U.S. casualties, per a defense official.

The difference 4 months makes.

Former Biden White House Coordinator for Middle East Brett McGurk, just now on CNN: "This is about the best place we could be. I give extremely high marks to this national security team and President Trump for managing this crisis."

WaPo: Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Trump: “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”:

NEWS: Stephen Miller owns a six-figure stock in Palantir, a company profiting off deportations, per Project On Government Oversight report migrantinsider.com/p/stephen-mill…

.President Donald J. Trump takes a question from Ukrainian reporter and wife of a soldier regarding the Patriot missile system: "We're going to see if we can make some available. They're very hard to get. We need them too... that's a very good question... I can see it's very upsetting to you."

Takeaways: Defiant Team Trump defends Iran strikes at NATO summit - Roll Call rollcall.com/2025/06/25/tak…

NEW: The Trump administration’s increasingly bare-knuckle tactics toward federal judges — and the courts’ pointed rejections of the administration’s due process shortcuts — are the defining fight of this political moment. And it’s not just being waged in the high profile cases

These six minutes of questioning capture why “spending cuts” that sound good in the abstract are problematic in the specific. Trump admin proposes multi-billion-dollar cut to VA medical services; secretary won’t identify—let alone defend—what’s being cut.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink says he expects it will take "just short of a year" to retrofit the interim Air Force One plane that was given to President Trump by Qatar. The AF1 replacement being built by Boeing will likely be delivered in 2028 at the earliest, he said.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink tells lawmakers that funds that will be used to retrofit the Qatari Air Force One plane will come from the Sentinel missile account. Those funds were "excess to need" in fiscal 2024, he says.

Newsy - Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks a supplemental to replenish resources used in defense of Israel is "definitely" needed.

The U.S. had no evidence prior to last weekend's strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities that any uranium was moved out of any of the three sites before American B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles struck them, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham says to Sen. Bernie Sanders in a floor speech: "World War II happened because people like Senator Sanders did not stand up to Hitler." Sanders, who is Jewish, has relatives who died in the Holocaust. His uncle was executed in 1942 for resisting Nazi orders.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took Personal Cut of Political Donations propublica.org/article/kristi…