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At least 117 dead dogs found in 'horrific scene' at California 'no-kill' shelter

Updated 9:42 AM CDT, June 28, 2026 FORTUNA, Calif. (AP) — The remains of at least 117 dogs were found on the grounds of a California “no-kill“ animal shelter, many of them with gunshot wounds, authorities said. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that it also discovered 21 canine skulls, hundreds of bones and other remains during searches at Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary, a 50-acre (20-hectare) facility in Fortuna, California. Investigators combing the site on Thursday locate ...

Omaha Steve

France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and JOHN LEICESTER Updated 12:27 PM CDT, June 28, 2026 Leer en español BERLIN (AP) — France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens. Temperature records were toppled in several countries on the weekend, wildfires were sparked in ...

BumRushDaShow

Conservative think tank behind 'broken windows' policing and Trump's anti-DEI push has a new target

Sunday 28 June 2026 09:35 EDT A conservative think tank that backed President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI push has its sights set on a new target. The Manhattan Institute has been a front-line supporter of Trump’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the U.S. It also championed “broken windows” policing, the idea that cracking down on smaller offenses like vandalism can help deter more serious crimes. Now, they’re advocating for state lawmakers to target protest-r ...

BumRushDaShow

Democrat Chris Murphy Says $25 Minimum Wage Could Win Back Trump Voters

Jun 28, 2026 at 11:21 AM EDT Senator Chris Murphy argued Sunday that an increase in the federal minimum wage could be the key to rebuilding the Democratic coalition, including winning back working-class voters who supported President Donald Trump in the last election. During an interview on NBC News' Meet the Press, the Connecticut Democrat pointed to his proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, calling it a “unifying issue” that could resonate across party lines. "I t ...

BumRushDaShow

US and Iran agree to halt strikes and meet this week, US official says

2h The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar's capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz. Why it matters: The ceasefire is barely 11 days old and already on shaky ground with renewed strikes by both sides and President Trump's threat to restart the war and "complete the job." The renewed fighting was sparked by competing interpretations of the memorandum of underst ...

riversedge

Donald Trump's golf club seeks approval for 11,330-square-foot expansion, and it has little to do with golf

Story by Sneha Abraham • 7h A golf club applying for a building expansion is not unusual. But when the club belongs to the sitting U.S. president, and the addition is not a fairway, the application is anything but routine. Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., has filed an application to add an 11,330-square-foot ballroom and covered rooftop terrace to its clubhouse. A Golfweek report published on June 24 stated that the Bedminster Township Land Use Board will discuss an applicatio ...

BumRushDaShow

'Horrifying': Pulte's choice for top spy aide stokes fears of Trump vote tampering

Jun. 27, 2026, 5:22 PM EDT Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has stirred fear by choosing as his chief of staff a GOP election lawyer who oversaw a poll watching program that included Jack Posobiec and other conservative conspiracy theorists. The lawyer, Christina Norton, also appears to have no experience working in the intelligence community. “It is horrfiying,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official told MS NOW Saturday. “Not only does Norton have absolutely no ...

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Anderson Cooper makes his feelings crystal clear on working for Bari Weiss at CBS News

Saturday 27 June 2026 22:01 EDT CNN star Anderson Cooper has reportedly made his feelings clear about working with CBS News boss Bari Weiss ahead of a corporate merger that would put the two media outlets under the same ownership. Paramount, which owns CBS, is poised to acquire CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, in a massive $111 billion consolidation. The merger would put David Ellison, the tech heir and Trump ally who controls Paramount, in charge of both the legacy broadcaster ...

BumRushDaShow

Trump pushes civil rights enforcement to the states

06/27/2026 03:00 PM EDT President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the federal office charged with protecting students from discrimination is creating new responsibilities for states that aren’t ready to take them up. Amid mass layoffs of government employees and Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department, the agency shuttered seven of its 12 regional Office for Civil Rights branches that families turned to when they felt their rights were violated. That pullback is starting to expos ...

DrFunkenstein

Israel divide grows in Democratic Party after New York primaries

The divide over Israel is only deepening in the Democratic Party after New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, helped propel three primary candidates to victory last week, unseating two incumbent Democrats in the process. The New York City primaries were unusually focused on Israel, with Mamdani-backed candidates making the issue a central line of attack as they blasted their opponents for being insufficiently critical of the war in Gaza or for taking money from AIPAC- ...

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Senator Chris Coons Recovering After Multi-Car Crash

1 hr ago - Jun 28th, 2026, 5:44 pm Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is recovering from minor injuries sustained during a multi-car crash in Delaware Sunday. Coons was reportedly a passenger in one of several cars struck, and his office says he expects a swift recovery. ... (MEDIAite)

Despite Gov. DeSantis' union crackdowns, AFSCME Florida keeps winning

1 hr ago - Labor groups are preparing for another organizing fight as new recertification requirements take effect July 1. Jesse Scheckner June 28, 2026 14min Three years after Florida enacted sweeping restrictions on public-sector unions, AFSCME Florida contin ... (Florida Politics)

Kaine says guardrails on Pentagon firings could see bipartisan support in Congress

2 hrs ago - June 28, 2026 / 1:09 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said Sunday that following a string of high-level officers exiting the military during the second Trump administration, guardrails on Pentagon firings coul ... (CBS News)

Eleven killed after plane carrying skydivers crashes in eastern France

2 hrs ago - Eleven killed after plane carrying skydivers crashes in eastern France 5 hours ago Ian Aikman and Neil Murphy Reuters A pilot and ten skydivers died after a light aircraft crashed in Tomblaine, eastern France, on Sunday Eleven people have died after ... (BBC)

US and Iran agree to halt strikes and meet this week, US official says

2 hrs ago - 2h The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar's capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz. Why it matters: The ceasefire is barely 11 da ... (msn/Axios)

Housing bill will be sent to Trump on Monday, US House speaker says

3 hrs ago - June 28, 2026 10:26 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he would send a bipartisan housing affordability bill to Donald Trump on Monday, ​days after the Re ... (Reuters)

Democrat Chris Murphy Says $25 Minimum Wage Could Win Back Trump Voters

3 hrs ago - Jun 28, 2026 at 11:21 AM EDT Senator Chris Murphy argued Sunday that an increase in the federal minimum wage could be the key to rebuilding the Democratic coalition, including winning back working-class voters who supported President Donald Trump in ... (Newsweek)

Conservative think tank behind 'broken windows' policing and Trump's anti-DEI push has a new target

4 hrs ago - Sunday 28 June 2026 09:35 EDT A conservative think tank that backed President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI push has its sights set on a new target. The Manhattan Institute has been a front-line supporter of Trump’s efforts to dismantle diversit ... (The Independent)

France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records

4 hrs ago - By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and JOHN LEICESTER Updated 12:27 PM CDT, June 28, 2026 Leer en español BERLIN (AP) — France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public heal ... (AP)

The military is searching for a US Marine missing off the coast of California

5 hrs ago - Updated 12:14 PM CDT, June 28, 2026 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Multiple agencies continued to search Sunday for a U.S. Marine who went missing during a training exercise off the coast of southern California, military officials said. Crews began searching ... (AP)

At least 117 dead dogs found in 'horrific scene' at California 'no-kill' shelter

7 hrs ago - Updated 9:42 AM CDT, June 28, 2026 FORTUNA, Calif. (AP) — The remains of at least 117 dogs were found on the grounds of a California “no-kill“ animal shelter, many of them with gunshot wounds, authorities said. The Humboldt County Sher ... (AP)

States don't expect feds to reliably share election threats: Exclusive

8 hrs ago - June 28, 2026, 6:03 a.m. ET State election officials do not expect the federal government to reliably share election threat information during the midterm elections, according to internal National Association of Secretaries of State documents obtaine ... (USA Today)

Postmaster general's remarks on mail ballots stoke fears among voting rights advocates

9 hrs ago - 06/28/26 6:00 AM ET Postmaster General David Steiner stoked fears among Democrats and voting rights groups this week after confirming the U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver mail ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to ... (The Hill)

It's dangerous and it's going to erode trust': redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears

9 hrs ago - An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, vo ... (The Guardian)

NYT bombshell: Trump sons cash in on $1.6 billion federal mining deal

10 hrs ago - Story by Matthew Rozsa • 4h • President Donald Trump’s sons are profiting off of their father’s connections, including in a previously-undisclosed deal over a lucrative metal. “Their sons were soon doing business with partner ... (msn)

Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health "upon a foundation of lies"

10 hrs ago - Updated on: June 28, 2026 / 9:49 AM EDT Washington — Sen. Bill Cassidy strongly criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his vaccine skepticism and handling of the nation's public health, despite having delivered ... (CBS News)

Ukrainian strike sets fire to oil refinery in southern Russia

11 hrs ago - June 28, 2026, 6:17 AM KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday. Kyiv's campaign of massive long-range stri ... (ABC News/AP)

Authorities say 14 have been killed in an oil company helicopter crash in Saudi Arabia

11 hrs ago - At least 14 people were killed in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter crashed Sunday, killing everyone aboard, the Saudi Ministry of Energy said. The accident occurred around 6 a.m. in Ras Tanura, and everyone killed was a Saudi national, the statement sa ... (AP)

3 firefighters killed, 2 injured responding to Snyder wildfire on Utah-Colorado border

12 hrs ago - Several wildfires were burn on Saturday across the West. By Tristan Maglunog and Ahmad Hemingway June 28, 2026, 3:53 AM Three firefighters were killed on Saturday while responding to the Snyder Fire, a wildfire burning along the Utah-Colorado bord ... (abc news)

White House unveils new images of US 'patriot passports' for America's 250th

12 hrs ago - Sat 27 Jun 2026 14.05 EDT Last modified on Sun 28 Jun 2026 04.27 EDT Donald Trump’s efforts to brand the US government with his name and image advanced on Friday when the White House unveiled new images of a passport watermarked with his portrai ... (The Guardian)

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