Listen to Eisenhower on the men who perished on D-Day: They "gave us a chance, and bought time for us, so that we could do better than we have before." cbsnews.com/video/eisenhower… via @CBSNLive

Spurs had 92.3% win odds in Game 1 up 13 in the 3rd. Spurs had 83.6% win odds in Game 2 up 12 in the 2nd. Spurs had 99.6% win odds in Game 4 up 20 in the 4th. Spurs had 97.1% win odds in Game 5 up 14 in the 3rd. They lost them all.

Trump told Iran’s repressed democracy activists that “help is on the way.” Then he started a war that fortified the IRGC and hardliners. Now he is prepared to release billions in Iranian assets to strengthen the regime further — and he deports a female Iranian rights activist to a war-ravaged African country.

“If a man’s past keeps surprising us, it’s a safe bet that his present and future will continue to surprise us as well,” former Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., said of the "moral dilemma" Democrats face with a Graham Platner-Susan Collins matchup.

Incredible for China to arrest an American citizen - who’d been invited to China by a Chinese university - on spurious charges weeks after Trump visited Beijing. US needs to treat this as a show-stopping problem. Business as usual would signal extraordinary weakness.

In reply brief, Public Integrity Project attys say UFC White House cage-fighting event is a “volcano of corruption” that will “mark an inflection point in American history.” POTUS’s “allies at the UFC will profit from the first private, for-profit sporting event ever held on WH grounds.” 1/3

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out." Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it." The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened. When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time. The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie." This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

Republican-appointed judge: “The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders.”

If this is such an acute fear, probably should have picked someone other than Bill Pulte for DNI, because that decision made the need for warrants almost comically obvious.

This is the type of crisis that a Democratic president would be held personally responsible for by the media. Instead it’s getting virtually no national attention despite the issue being directly connected to federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration

With the Iran war stalemated, the Ukraine war is shifting significantly in ways that could bring peace - but that more likely mean escalation: 1. For the first time in almost three years, Russia is losing more territory than it’s gaining. The battlefield momentum is shifting toward Ukraine. 2. Russia has now been at this longer than it fought World War II. 500,000 Russian soldiers dead, huge economic costs, and international isolation that has forced Moscow into partnership with the likes of North Korea. And all to subdue a Ukraine that wasn’t threatening Russia in the first place. 3. Ukraine’s military position is strengthening, thanks both to new European aid and a domestic defense industry that is cranking out drones and missiles. Kyiv can strike deep into Russia and is doing so. Russian forces, meanwhile,  are hampered by the loss of Starlink in February. 4. After years of enormous losses, Russia may finally be facing real manpower shortages. Its losses appear to exceed replacement rates and reports suggest Moscow is conscripting Ukrainians in occupied areas into the fight. 5. Both sides seem to have given up on the United States as a determinative force. Zelensky looks to Europe for far more assistance than America provides. Putin bet on Trump forcing Ukraine into a deal that never arrived. The administration itself seems tired of brokering peace where none is to be had. 6. The war has cost Russia’s global profile dearly. Moscow stood by as former client regimes in Syria and Venezuela were swept away, and as Iran came under massive attack. It played no meaningful role in Armenia-Azerbaijan talks. It is clearly the junior partner to China, with only its nukes helping it cling to great power status. 7. With the costs so high and the gains minimal at best, Putin will now look for peace, right? Unfortunately, no. When Russians can’t solve a problem they tend to enlarge it. That means escalation. 8. I’m just back from Europe and policymakers there are bracing for it. We’ve already seen a major increase in bombs landing on Kyiv. Projectiles have hit Romania. Russian nuclear forces on drill. Russian satellites maneuvering in a way that could expand the war to outer space. 9. The U.S. should bolster deterrence. Leave no doubt about U.S. commitment to defend every inch of NATO territory. Impose costs on Russia for gray zone activity in Europe. And it’d be nice to start aiding Ukraine again. The war is terrible. Its expansion to NATO soil would be worse still. 10. The upshot is that, for all the change of battlefield momentum, there is much more fighting ahead, and probably into 2027. The U.S. is no neutral arbiter in this war. It should help Ukraine survive until the end, and to prevail.

"Sure, some people criticize the supreme leader of a dictatorship that murdered thousands of peaceful protestors this year, but people also criticize me, so maybe he's not that bad."