HEGSETH: We have controlled the straits this entire time BRENNAN: You're negotiating with them to reopen it

CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false? JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation

Americans have a bleak outlook on the nation’s future ahead of its 250th birthday next month, with most saying the U.S. has already seen its best days and a record-low number saying they are extremely proud to be Americans, according to a new NBC News poll. nbcnews.com/politics/politic…

When asked: “The WH understandably protests when people insult First Lady Trump. How does your refusal to criticize Hokit for his remarks about First Lady Obama square with that?” the WH would not directly answer the question.

President Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities in the first three months of the year — an unprecedented sum for a sitting president. cbsn.ws/4eqg612

Despite a multimillion dollar renovation project which saw President Donald Trump ordering workers to paint the base of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool blue, algae could be seen in the water, turning the water green

President Trump is blitzing through construction projects in the nation’s capital faster than the courts can keep up on.wsj.com/4vcMThr

🎂Donald Trump turns 80 today, June 14. He is one of the 20 oldest national leaders in the world, per our analysis of 186 United Nations member states. In 2023, 49% of U.S. adults said the best age for a president is in their 50s. What age do you think is best for a world leader? 🤔

The Trumps have not only enriched themselves to an unprecedented extent for a sitting US president and his family, but have done so through crypto deals that carried little to no downside risk for them while resulting in big losses for retail investors reut.rs/4uZf4QB

Hegseth: The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one. Brennan: JCPOA said that too. Hegseth: The huge difference is we did this from a position of strength.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge in the 1400s. Here’s how it works:

How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable axios.com/2026/06/13/anthrop…

#Didyouknow that blood groups were discovered 125 years ago? In 1901, Karl Landsteiner explained that people have different types of blood cells, that is, there are different blood groups. The discovery led to safe blood transfusions between people with compatible blood groups.

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. propublica.org/article/vitam…

💡 California law allows Vote by Mail ballots with a postmark by Election Day to be received within 7 days of Election Day. Take a look at the number of ballots (and party breakdown) Los Angeles County received within the legal timeline.

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan have funded a platform called Objection.ai that allows anyone to file a complaint against a journalist's story for a starting price of $2,000. A team of human investigators examines the story, then submits findings to a "jury" of AI models - OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Google - which publish a "verdict" on the story's truthfulness and rank individual journalists on metrics including truth-telling and corrections. If the journalist doesn't respond to defend their reporting, the verdict is issued and published online anyway. The platform is being sold as "letting anyone fight the press like a billionaire." The creator is Aron D'Souza, who led the Thiel-funded lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker in 2016. The design choices tell you what this is. The system treats anonymous sources as less trustworthy and ranks anonymous whistleblower claims near the bottom. Anonymous sources are how most significant accountability journalism happens - they're how the Pentagon Papers got out, how the CIA's black site program got exposed, how the HHS stories we've covered this week were reported. The people who most need protection from powerful interests are specifically deprioritized by Objection's scoring system. The creator calls it "the same as Community Notes." A civil rights and defamation attorney calls it "a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful." One of those descriptions is accurate. The AI models being used as the "tribunal" were trained on journalists' work without consent or compensation. They hallucinate. They amplify bias. They are being deployed here specifically to issue verdicts on the work of the people whose labor built them. Thiel killed Gawker with a lawsuit. This is faster and cheaper.

If it feels like it's getting harder and harder to avoid being scammed, that's because it is. In the age of artificial intelligence, scammers are using voice cloning that can sound very real, and seniors are often the target. Paul Solman reports on the problem and what you can do to protect yourself. to.pbs.org/4nsIpju

White House, East Wing, Rose Garden, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and South Lawn as they used to look (Encyclopedia Britannica):

In the 1960s, a direct flight to Neptune would have taken nearly 30 years. That was longer than most spacecraft could survive. Reaching the outer planets seemed almost impossible. But one engineer, working quietly with a pencil, found a way around this problem. Gary Flandro, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was asked to study how spacecraft might travel to the distant planets despite the limits of rocket technology at the time. Fuel was scarce, and engines were not powerful enough for such long journeys. Flandro turned to a clever idea from physics called a gravity assist, sometimes known as a planetary slingshot. The concept is simple in principle. When a spacecraft passes close to a large planet, the planet’s gravity pulls it in and then flings it forward. In doing so, the spacecraft steals a tiny bit of the planet’s motion around the Sun. The planet slows down by an amount too small to notice, but the spacecraft gains a huge increase in speed without using any fuel. With only paper, pencil, and the limited computers of 1965, Flandro calculated the future positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. What he found was remarkable. In the late 1970s, these giant planets would line up in a rare formation. This alignment would allow a single spacecraft to travel from one planet to the next, gaining speed at each step. This opportunity appears only once every 176 years. Flandro showed that a spacecraft could use Jupiter’s gravity to reach Saturn, then use Saturn to reach Uranus, and finally use Uranus to reach Neptune. This chain of boosts would cut the travel time to Neptune from about 30 years down to just 12. This elegant piece of mathematics changed everything. It became the foundation for the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions, both launched in 1977. Thanks to this precise planning, the two spacecraft sent back the first close images of the outer planets. They later continued their journey beyond the solar system, becoming the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space. All of it began with a simple insight, worked out by hand, that turned an impossible journey into a reachable one.

The Trump administration put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. abcnews.link/jvOelwB