NEW: US only has about 25% of the Patriot missiles it needs for all of the Pentagon’s military plans after burning through stockpiles in the Middle East, a depletion that led to the Trump admin to try to pause transfers to Ukraine @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Pentagon believes Iran’s nuclear program was only set back roughly 1-2 years as a result of the US strikes last month, the chief spokesperson at the Defense Dept Sean Parnell said Wednesday @theguardian.com latest on the intel situation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Pete Hegseth says he’s launched another leak investigation with FBI into disclosure of classified report saying limited damage to Fordow — “We're doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments.“

New via NYT: A senior US official similarly acknowledged the American strike on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but said the strike had severely damaged it. The person noted that even 12 bunker-busting bombs could not destroy the site www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w...

New via NYT: A senior US official similarly acknowledged the American strike on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but said the strike had severely damaged it. The person noted that even 12 bunker-busting bombs could not destroy the site www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w...

Pete Hegseth repeated claims by Trump that US strikes had completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities even as the Pentagon acknowledged it was too early to provide a full damage assessment @theguardian.com latest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine are scheduled to appear at a news conference shortly. A big board has been set up in the Pentagon briefing room where they will show a graphic

BREAKING: Trump says the US completed an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.“

Trump will return to the White House tomorrow for a national security meeting in the Oval at 6pm, per guidance

Trump will return to the White House tomorrow for a national security meeting in the Oval at 6pm, per guidance

NEW: Trump wants to strike Iran only if the US can destroy the Fordow enrichment facility with bunker bomb. The Pentagon/DTRA concluded earlier this year they don’t go deep enough, and totally destroying Fordow requires a tactical nuke. @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

NEW: Trump will decide on Iran within the next two weeks based on the “substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place” in the near future, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says

NEW: Trump wants to strike Iran only if the US can destroy the Fordow enrichment facility with bunker bomb. The Pentagon/DTRA concluded earlier this year they don’t go deep enough, and totally destroying Fordow requires a tactical nuke. @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Trump will be doing flagpoles at the White House tomorrow morning, per his Truth post. Unclear whether this suggests possible US action in Iran is not imminent

Trump slams Macron on Truth Social for saying he was leaving G7 to work on a ceasefire deal: “Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that”

French president Emmanuel Macron tells reporters at G7 that Trump left early to consider ceasefire proposal between Iran and Israel: “There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kickstart broader discussions.“

Latest: Trump will return early to Washington on Monday from the G7 summit because of events in the Middle East, confronted by an escalating Iran-Israel conflict and the possibility of US involvement hanging in the balance @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"You probably see what I see and I have to be back as soon as I can,” Trump says per pool, in an apparent nod to the intensifying conflict in the Middle East, when asked why he’s cutting short his G7 trip and heading back to Washington tonight

Comes after Trump posted earlier that everyone should evacuate Tehran, following Israel issuing an evacuation order to residents in Iran’s capital ahead of strikes on military infrastructure there

NEW: President Trump is returning to DC tonight -- he was originally supposed to be back from the G7 summit Wednesday

NEW: President Trump is returning to DC tonight -- he was originally supposed to be back from the G7 summit Wednesday

NEW: President Trump is returning to DC tonight -- he was originally supposed to be back from the G7 summit Wednesday

New: Trump says in Truth Social post that Iran should have signed the nuclear deal he told them to sign, and now — “Everybody should immediately evacuate Tehran”

NEW: 9th Circuit panel has stayed Judge Breyer’s temporary restraining order against Trump federalizing the National Guard while they consider his appeal Remote hearing on Zoom set for June 17 at 12p PDT

BREAKING: Judge Breyer grants temporary restraining order blocking Trump from deploying National Guard to Los Angeles and returns control of the Guard to Gov Gavin Newsom

BREAKING: Judge Breyer grants temporary restraining order blocking Trump from deploying National Guard to Los Angeles and returns control of the Guard to Gov Gavin Newsom

Breyer suggests DOJ’s argument means in the context of a presidential appointment, Trump could declare a vacancy even if there isn’t “If the president finds it, it's a rebellion. How is that any different from what a monarchist does?” Breyer asks

New: Judge Breyer says he will issue a decision on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Trump federalizing the National Guard "very soon -- I'm hopeful that I can get it out today"

New: Judge Breyer trying to establish whether Trump followed procedures under the statute to call up National Guard — Breyer says statute says order has to go“through” the Gov but that Trump gave the order to the CA Adjutant General, not Newsom

New: Judge Breyer hearing arguments now in California Gov Gavin Newsom's request for an injunction to block Trump from deploying National Guard and Marines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Pete Hegseth's leak investigation, which he used to justify firing three aides last month, became dogged by bogus NSA wiretap claims after the ex-DOGE lead at the Pentagon pretended to have evidence he didn't, and no one checked @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Latest: Elon Musk called for Trump to be impeached after mocking his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, as the president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies in an extraordinary social media feud www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Trump says in a new escalation that he is banning foreign students from getting visas to study at Harvard, invoking presidential powers under the Immigration and Naturalization Act as he complains about them not giving DHS information about foreign students

NEW: Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense program is not expected to be operational before the end of Trump’s term, according to the Pentagon’s plans, despite his prediction that it would @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Trump says he’s nominating his former defense lawyer and current DOJ official Emil Bove for a vacancy on the US court of appeals for the 3rd circuit

NEW: The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told the aides had supposedly been outed by a warrantless NSA wiretap @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Trump is expected to announce that Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein will oversee the development of the “Golden Dome” missile defense system and discuss what areas of the US it will cover at the 3pm event at the White House with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Good luck to the intel agencies with dismantling every panel in the 747 that Qatar is giving Trump to check for bugs and trackers

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

NEW: Trump special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt is expected to appear before the House judiciary committee next week Wednesday, per three people familiar. @theguardian.com scoop w Chris Stein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Exasperated by the turmoil that has dogged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office in recent weeks, the White House will block his choice of chief of staff Ricky Buria and select a candidate of its own @theguardian.com scoop www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Trump says Ed Martin will simultaneously serve three roles at the Justice Department after pulling his nomination to be US Attorney in DC — as an Associate Deputy AG, the Pardon Attorney and the head of the Weaponization Working Group

New: Trump announces that Fox News host Jeanine Pirro will be the interim US Attorney for DC. She replaces Ed Martin who failed to get enough support to be confirmed in the Senate after a fraught tenure

NEW: Federal prosecutors have impaneled a grand jury in Virginia to investigate New York AG Letitia James after a Trump administration official alleged in a criminal referral she may have falsified real estate paperwork. @theguardian.com scoop www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Trump is expected to announce on Thursday the framework of a trade agreement with the UK. The specifics of any agreement were not clear and there was no comment from the WH or the British embassy on whether an actual deal had been reached. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

New: Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the US will strike a trade deal with the UK, according to a person familiar with the matter, the first agreement for the administration since it imposed sweeping tariffs against its trading partners last month @theguardian.com story TK

New: Trump says he will be making an announcement at 10am ET tomorrow in the Oval Office about the first trade deal since his tariff plans went into effect. Trump says it will be with a “BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY”

My reporting notes on Judge Howell's 102-page decision to strike down Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie -- open.substack.com/pub/hugolowe...

NEW: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional; permanently blocks the administration from implementing or enforcing the order in any way @guardian story TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...