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6/23/2026, 6:51:48 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and Begging the Question, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 26.4% saturation with 214 hits. Analysis detected 515 faulty-reasoning hits from 811 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.3% and a BS Rank of 9% (18,570 of 20,363 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.20% of the article peer group.
The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has yet to make a formal request to Congress, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, including Monday evening.
A top deputy defense secretary told senators about the Iran funding request last week, according to two people familiar with the situation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the developments.
The push for billions of dollars in Iran war funding comes at a fraught political moment.
Lawmakers are skeptical of the deal Trump struck with Iran to bring an end to the war, and wary of next steps.
The White House has requested a remarkable $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — a nearly 50% increase over the current fiscal year’s funding levels.
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Trump has heralded the peace talks with Iran as a win for U.S. farmers, saying that the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian money will be tied to that country buying American-grown corn, soybeans and wheat.
“These are things that are desperately needed by Iran,” Trump posted on social media.
“This is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it is necessary to help.”
But Iran is unlikely to start buying a vast amount of U.S. farm products.
“I don’t expect that trade would be very large in the short run,” said Joseph Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Glauber noted that Iran was “unlikely” to abandon its other trade partners on food for America.
He said Iran’s major suppliers include Brazil, India, Turkey, the European Union, Canada, Australia and Argentina and that Trump’s demand to buy from the U.S. would “create some hard feelings with some of our competitors.”
Two more people in Missouri and Washington state have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a planned attack targeting Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House earlier this month.
Law enforcement officials disrupted the plan a few days before the June 14 White House event, according to court documents.
William Lee Spartacus Falkner of Belfair, Washington, was arrested Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to court documents filed Monday in the Western District of Washington.
Jordan W.
Rincker, 28, was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the Western District of Missouri.
A defense attorney appointed to represent Falkner did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment, and court records do not reveal if Rincker has obtained an attorney.
Neither man has had the opportunity to enter a plea.
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A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalize elections can no longer be used.
U.S.
District Court Judge Sparkle L.
Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.
She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing Americans’ personal identifying information and that the federal agencies that created the SAVE program “knew that the database violates those statutory protections.”
The decision is a major legal setback for Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on having noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls.
The modified SAVE system had been a key pillar of the second election executive order the Republican president signed earlier this year.
The ruling leaves its future uncertain.
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National Guard members and U.S.
Park Police patrolled the deck around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday as President Donald Trump’s administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.
The patrols came two days after Trump said authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he insisted were responsible for damage to the peeling coating after an algae bloom occurred.
The liner was installed as part of his $14 million-plus project.
The president has confirmed the problems most likely require draining the pool again for liner repairs and he promised a quick fix.
Without offering substantiation, he also said vandals dumped fertilizer in the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter.
But the timeline was not clear Monday, with the White House saying damaged areas are still being assessed.
Contractors and federal workers in recent days have been using chemicals and ozone nanobubbles to combat the algae.
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