Trump news at a glance: President mulls whether ‘bunker busters’ can destroy Iranian nuclear site

Trump sets deadline of two weeks to decide if US will join Israel’s war on Iran

Trump has set a two-week deadline to decide whether the US will join Israel’s war with Iran, allowing time to seek a negotiated end to the conflict, the White House has said.

The president also denied a report by the Wall Street Journal that he told senior aides he had approved attack plans but was delaying on giving the final order to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear program. The report cited three anonymous officials.

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LA Dodgers say they denied Ice agents entry to Dodger Stadium

The Los Angeles Dodgers said they blocked US immigration enforcement agents from accessing the parking lot at Dodger Stadium on Thursday and got into public back-and-forth statements with Ice and the Department of Homeland Security, which denied their agents were ever there.

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Outrage as DHS moves to restrict lawmaker visits to detention centers

The Department of Homeland Security is now requiring lawmakers to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance. The guidance comes after a slew of tense visits from Democratic lawmakers to detention centers amid Trump’s crackdowns in immigrant communities across the country.

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Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement

A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding.

Chief US district judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department for Transportation’s policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims.

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Hegseth reportedly orders ‘passive approach to Juneteenth’ at Pentagon

The office of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, requested “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging”, according to an exclusive Rolling Stone report citing a Pentagon email.

The messaging request for Juneteenth – a federal holiday commemorating when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free – was transmitted by the Pentagon’s office of the chief of public affairs. This office said it was not poised to publish web content related to Juneteenth, Rolling Stone reported.

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Were the ‘No Kings’ protests the largest single-day demonstration in US history?

Depending on who you ask, between 4 and 6 million people showed up to last weekend’s “No Kings” protests. Now the real number is becoming clearer, with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest.

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Karen Bass in hot seat as Trump targets Los Angeles – but it’s not her first crisis

Karen Bass, a 71-year-old former community organizer, is leading Los Angeles’ response to an extraordinary confrontation staged by the federal government, as federal agents have raided workplaces and parking lots, arresting immigrant workers in ways family members have compared to “kidnappings”. Here’s what to know about the mayor of Los Angeles.

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