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‼️ Trump's natsec loyalty test Senate Republicans have entered a new phase of national security tensions with President Trump. Why it matters: Trump is demanding Republicans move in lockstep with him on three high-stakes national-security fronts at once, even as his moves are generating many of their sharpest criticisms of him yet. 🕵️‍♀️ Section 702 of FISA: The spy powers lapsed Friday after Trump's choice of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence blew up bipartisan negotiations. Senators woke up today to a 3:54am "Truth" in which Trump said he was delaying Jay Clayton's nomination as DNI and demanding Republicans attach the SAVE Act. 💣 Iran: Some Republican senators are apoplectic over the Iran war deal text that came out today. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called Trump's Iran war "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades," and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters Trump "is receiving some very poor advice on this deal." 🚀 Defense funding: The White House wants $1.5 trillion for defense, including $350 billion through reconciliation. The regular appropriations topline has drawn fierce Democratic pushback and raised shutdown risks this fall. Trump also wanted the SAVE Act attached to it, even as Senate Majority Leader John Thune said key provisions would likely be stripped by the Senate parliamentarian. 🪤 The big picture: Thune has spent the past 18 months trying to keep Trump's national security demands aligned with what Senate Republicans can pass. That alignment looks more fragile than ever. Thune hadn't been briefed on the Iran deal. He also didn't get a heads-up on Trump delaying the Clayton nomination, and he called it a "good question" when asked what the president hoped to accomplish by postponing it. But Thune told Punchbowl News he and Trump are "fine." A source familiar with their relationship said that narratives about the two being at odds are overblown and that they're in frequent communication. "The White House and President Trump have enjoyed working closely with Leader Thune and Senate Republicans. ... We look forward to continuing these close relationships and fulfilling President Trump's priorities that Americans elected him to enact." White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told us. The bottom line: "The president has put Leader Thune in a very difficult position. ... We need a new DNI and we need to get FISA back," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told Semafor. — Justin Green

The Boomerang Effect View in browser In 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu draped buildings with giant banners that depicted him shaking hands with a grinning Donald Trump. Captioned with the words Another League, the posters presented Netanyahu’s ties with the American president as an argument for the Israeli prime minister’s reelection. No one else, Netanyahu’s campaign implied, could deliver the mercurial man in the White House. That was then. Today, Netanyahu’s boast has boomeranged, transformed from an electoral asset into an advertisement of his diminished influence. In June alone, Trump has labeled him “fucking crazy” and said that he has “no fucking judgment.” The reprimands have gone beyond rhetoric. According to Israeli and American reports, over the past week, the president forced Israel to abort imminent retaliatory strikes on Iran and demanded that the country restrict its response to Hezbollah fire from Lebanon that has pummeled the Israeli north. Trump also reportedly denied Israel’s request to view the memorandum of understanding that his administration negotiated with Iran until it was already a fait accompli. Desperate for a deal to wind down his ill-conceived war, the president effectively offered Israeli concessions to his Iranian interlocutors. Trump has railed against Netanyahu in the past, most famously after the Israeli leader congratulated Joe Biden on his 2020 election victory. But the current contretemps has much higher stakes and comes at the worst possible time for Netanyahu. Israel’s elections are slated for either September or October, and Trump has placed the Israeli prime minister in a fiendish vise that jeopardizes his political future. For years, Netanyahu has built his brand on two promises to the Israeli electorate: that he alone could withstand international pressure to compromise on Israeli security, and that he alone could handle Trump. Now the president is forcing Netanyahu to choose between the two. Either he defies Trump’s diktats about Lebanon and Iran to save his reputation as a stalwart security hawk, or he folds to preserve the perception of his alliance with the president. Whatever path Netanyahu picks, he will imperil Israel’s geopolitical standing and undermine his own case to Israeli voters. Those voters already aren’t buying what Bibi has been selling. Netanyahu’s coalition of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties received just 48.4 percent of the vote in Israel’s last election and obtained a parliamentary majority only due to a quirk of the country’s electoral system. Even before the horrors of October 7, 2023, polls had showed Netanyahu and his allies losing the next election. For years after, about two-thirds of Israelis regularly told pollsters that they wanted the prime minister to resign. A similar number today don’t want him to run for reelection. Israel’s opposition is leaderless and fragmented—but nonetheless projected to win markedly more seats than the current government. (Whether it can cobble together a viable coalition is another question.) Israel’s failed forever wars in Iran and Lebanon have further eroded Netanyahu’s prospects. At the outset of the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, the Israel Democracy Institute found that some 70 percent of Israeli Jews believed that the operation could succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs, and 61 percent thought that it would topple the Iranian regime. These expectations, stoked by Netanyahu and his media allies, were always unrealistic and have predictably curdled into disillusionment. The institute’s most recent survey found that less than a third of Israeli Jews expected a U.S.-Iran agreement to dismantle the ballistic-missile program or the Iranian regime, and just 29 percent believed that ending the war under current conditions was compatible with Israel’s security interests. According to Amit Segal, a journalist well sourced on the Israeli right, Netanyahu had hoped to host Trump in Israel before the looming election, in what would essentially have been a campaign rally in diplomatic disguise. Today, such festivities seem fantastical. After the interim Iran accord was announced, the Likud party reportedly canceled a planned electoral blitz meant to highlight its leader’s close ties to Trump. But as a student of power who has done everything he can to hoard it, Netanyahu should have seen this rug pull coming. As the president has demonstrated time and again, the only person whose interests matter to Trump is Trump. Those interests have often aligned with Netanyahu’s, but this was always a marriage of convenience. Like many of his party and generation, Trump has long held generally pro-Israel inclinations. He cares little for the aspirations of the Palestinian people and has openly fantasized about invading Iran since the 1980s. Tilting toward Israel played to the president’s evangelical-Christian base, as Trump noted when he declared that he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “for the evangelicals.” But Trump’s interests were bound to diverge from Netanyahu’s as the Iran war stretched on without resolution. Netanyahu needed military achievements to pitch to voters at the ballot box; Trump needed the markets to calm before the midterms. And so when the campaign failed to produce quick results, Trump pulled the plug, first acceding to a cease-fire in early April, then restraining Israel from bombing Iran and Lebanon this month, and today moving toward an interim accord that lifts sanctions on Iran even as it does little about its nuclear program and says nothing about its ballistic missiles or support for terrorist proxies. That 60-day accord is tentative and fragile and may yet collapse into renewed hostilities. But if the president chooses to see it through, the Israeli leader can do very little about it. As Trump put it today, “We’re the big partner, and he’s the very small partner.” For Netanyahu, who is finally facing a reckoning before the Israeli electorate, this is a disaster on his doorstep. For Trump, it’s someone else’s problem. Related: Netanyahu’s very useful war Jonathan Lemire: Trump in defeat

Chicago Co-Founder Walt Parazaider Dies After Bout With Alzheimer’s Disease https://www.thedailybeast.com/founding-member-of-chicago-walter-parazaider-dead-at-81-from-tragic-illness/?

Trump Throws Wild Tantrum and Reverses His Own Decision The president has torpedoed confirmation of the next director of national intelligence unless he gets his own way. Donald Trump went on an almost incomprehensible rant while lashing out at Republicans for hindering his agenda. Trump, who is in France for the G7 summit, launched into a 259-word tirade on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, touching on topics including his SAVE America Act, so-called “blue slips,” Senate tradition, and efforts to replace Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. At the heart of the 80-year-old president’s meltdown is the announcement that he has canceled Monday’s scheduled confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton to become the next DNI. Trump’s original choice, MAGA super-loyalist Bill Pulte, will remain acting DNI despite having no intelligence background. Trump also demanded that one of his personal lawyers, Jamie McDonald, be confirmed as Clayton’s replacement for the highly influential role of U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, while suggesting Republicans had “fallen into a trap” during the confirmation process. “The Republicans agreed with Dumocrats to remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte, from serving as Acting DNI in return for getting FISA approved by the Dumocrats,” Trump wrote. “However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the Great Jay Clayton, current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Dumocrats would vote on FISA. Now, the Dumocrats are saying they will vote against FISA — So, the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but Dumocrats broke the Deal.” FISA, or Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is a controversial surveillance authority used by U.S. intelligence agencies that allows them to monitor foreign individuals deemed national security risks without a warrant. Congress rejected a short-term extension of FISA last week, causing it to lapse for the first time since it was established in 2008. Trump has repeatedly said he will not support any renewal of FISA unless it includes his SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and largely ban mail-in voting. The bill, which would significantly overhaul the election process ahead of November’s midterm elections, has stalled in Congress because it lacks sufficient support in the Senate and has virtually no chance of being attached to a FISA renewal. “In addition, the newly nominated U.S. Attorney, Jamie McDonald, must be confirmed and blue slipped,” Trump continued, referring to the decades-old Senate tradition that allows home-state senators to object to certain federal nominations. “Because of the ridiculous views of Republicans on blue slipping (Dumocrats are often willing to nix it), I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place.” “Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap,” Trump added. The president concluded the rant by confirming that he will “not be going forward” with Clayton’s confirmation hearing until McDonald is confirmed as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-throws-wild-tantrum-over-tulsi-gabbard-replacement/?

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court decision that dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) against Concordia University… The post Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal in Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Governance Dispute appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Bill C-9, the *Combatting Hate Act*, has cleared the Canadian Senate, instituting expansive new criminal penalties for hate-motivated activities. The legislation creates a specific criminal offense for intimidating or obstructing… The post Canada’s "Combatting Hate Act": Legislative Expansion of Criminal Speech Laws appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Before dawn in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, the roosters do not get to finish. The men arrive with rifles and machetes while the village is still folded in sleep, and by… The post U.S. Brands Nigeria a Religious Freedom Violator as Christian Death Toll Climbs appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

In April, Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill that cut a hole in Connecticut’s own Religious Freedom Restoration Act. House Bill 5044, sold as a vaccine-standards measure, declares that the… The post Conscience Is Not a Coupon appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

In 1890 the Supreme Court knew exactly what religion was, which should have been the first warning. Certainty on a question like this is usually the sound of a man… The post What is "Religion" anyway? appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The big picture: The intersection of faith and public policy is tightening. Courts and legislatures remain the primary battlegrounds, with a distinct shift toward administrative action and conscience protections as… The post RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: A WEEKLY BRIEFING appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Three Protestant bodies spent one week at war over the body. The only church adding members is the one that refused to hold the argument. The Southern Baptist Convention reached… The post Everybody’s Wrong, and Rome Is Filling Up appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

On the evening of June 5, 2026, in a chapel in Riverside, the president of La Sierra University stood before seven graduates and told them, “I am La Sierra,” and… The post The Shield They Are Dismantling appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The view from Pepperdine’s law school in Malibu runs straight out to the Pacific. For three days in early June the people gathered there kept their attention on something harder… The post Pepperdine and Founders’ First Freedom Bring the Religious Freedom Conversation Home to Malibu appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

A dozen men gathered to pray in a private home in University Heights, Ohio. The city responded with a cease-and-desist letter. That sequence, simple on its face, now sits before… The post An Orthodox Jew Prayed at Home. The Supreme Court Will Decide if He Can Sue the City That Stopped Him. appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

🤖 1 for the road: How to use AI "loops" Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes in his weekly C-Suite newsletter: The most important concept in AI right now isn't agents — it's "loops." 👩‍💻 The smartest builders have stopped prompting AI directly. They design systems called "loops" that prompt AI automatically, check the results, remember what worked and improve with every run. My version that helps surface ideas for my newsletter: I ask for vital, verified info for CEOs. Then my agents scout, research and cite. I judge what matters. A story repository stores that judgment and improves. And my next brief starts smarter than the last. 🔑 That self-improvement aspect is the key. Every cycle, it gets a little better — or a little worse, depending on what's in the judgment layer.

🌊 Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season this morning. Forecasters are warning of potentially life-threatening flooding in the Southeast. More from Axios' Carlie Kollath Wells.

US and Iran sign initial deal to end war, ease sanctions and open strait as nuclear talks continue WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an agreement with Iran Wednesday that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country, immediately allowing Iran to sell its oil freely in a major concession from Washington, according to details released by both countries. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-oil-deal-june-17-2026-19652f4611b704c0a991bf1f5bc9a4b9?

Luigi Mangione will assert psychiatric defense in murder case in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial, claiming he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday. It wouldn’t absolve him of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing, but could free him from prison sooner. https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-brian-thompson-united-healthcare-psychiatric-4ddb015ce3937689b41615571b3a1732? ‘A million years isn’t enough': Victims’ relatives confront Gilgo Beach serial killer at sentencing RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison. He told them: “I am responsible” for the crimes. https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-ny-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-387005d77f2d7b699ee9692a81d1b0b7?

👋 Good morning! Happy Hump Day. Stat of the day: Nationals slugger James Wood hasn't even been in MLB for two full seasons (310 games) and he's already faced as many different pitchers as Ted Williams did in his entire career (447). In today's edition: Goal-scoring bonanza, CWS Final Four is set, golf's next American star, NBA mock draft, MLB power rankings, make your U.S. Open picks, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES ⚾️ Final Four: The College World Series semifinals were finalized on Wednesday, with No. 16 West Virginia (who trounced Troy, 12-0) set to face No. 5 North Carolina and No. 3 Georgia (who beat No. 6 Texas, 2-0) set to face Oklahoma. 🏒 Torts out in Vegas: John Tortorella will not return as head coach of the Golden Knights, the team announced Tuesday, two days after losing in the Stanley Cup Final. Torts was only hired in March on an interim basis, and there was no guarantee he'd be retained beyond that. 🏈 Smith's brain to be studied: Aldon Smith's family will donate his brain to the Boston University CTE Center to determine whether CTE played a role in the former lineman's death after he passed away on Saturday at the age of 36. (Read my buddy Adam's post about his friend, Aldon). ⏱️ Lyles sets world record: Reigning Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles broke the 150m world record on Tuesday at the Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic. He notched a time of 14.67 seconds, eclipsing the previous mark of 14.92 set in April by Jamaica's Kishane Thompson. 🏈 Jordan's last dance: Cameron Jordan, the eight-time Pro Bowl defensive end who's spent all 15 of his NFL seasons with the Saints, is returning to New Orleans for "one final season." The 37-year-old has 132 career sacks, second only to Von Miller (138.5) among active players.   ⚽️ GROUP STAGE WORLD CUP: 3 STARS, 7 GOALS (Dan Mullan/Getty Images) Three of the world's best scorers took the field on Tuesday for their World Cup openers. And boy, did they deliver. Kylian Mbappé got things started in New Jersey, scoring twice in France's 3-1 win over Senegal to move into third place on the World Cup scoring list with 14 goals. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) Erling Haaland followed with a brace of his own in his World Cup debut, leading Norway to a 4-1 victory over Iraq in Foxborough. (Charlotte Wilson/Getty Images) Lionel Messi saved the best for last, scoring a hat trick in Argentina's 3-0 win over Algeria in Kansas City to leapfrog Mbappé and tie Miroslav Klose for the most goals in World Cup history (16). Up next: Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane, two more world-class scorers, take the field today for Portugal and England. How many times will they find the back of the net?   🏀 CLASS OF 2026 NBA MOCK DRAFT 9.0 (Dillon Minshall/Yahoo Sports) With the 2026 NBA Draft less than a week away (next Tuesday), we've got a fresh two-round mock draft, courtesy of Yahoo Sports' Kevin O'Connor. Drama at the top? On Monday, ESPN's Shams Charania reported that AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson both believe they'll be the first pick. Dybantsa worked out for both Washington and Utah, while Peterson worked out only for Washington and won't meet with any other teams. Top 10: Wizards: AJ Dybantsa (BYU) Jazz: Cameroon Boozer (Duke) Grizzlies: Darryn Peterson (Kansas) Bulls: Caleb Wilson (UNC) Clippers: Darius Acuff Jr. (Arkansas) Nets: Mikel Brown Jr. (Louisville) Kings: Keaton Wagler (Illinois) Hawks: Brayden Burries (Arizona) Mavericks: Karim López (Mexico) Bucks: Kingston Flemings (Houston) Be sure to check out our 2026 NBA Draft Guide, which features full scouting reports for every prospect, player comparisons, and multiple big boards.   ⛳️ NAME TO KNOW JACKSON KOIVUN: GOLF'S NEXT AMERICAN STAR? Koivun after leading Auburn to another national championship last month. (Tanner Pearson/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) Jackson Koivun has conquered college golf. Now he's set his sights on becoming the No. 1 player in the world. Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports: Don't let the clear eyes and the calm, measured voice fool you. Jackson Koivun is an assassin with the highest of goals: "I want to be," he declares, "the number-one player in the world." He says it in the middle of a long conversation, he says it without bravado or defiance, he says it with the same certainty that he'd say the sky is blue and the Auburn summers are hot. And he's about to get the chance to carry through on it. Later this week, Koivun, the star of Auburn's national champion golf team, will make his final start as an amateur at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. Soon afterward, he'll officially turn pro, making his first start as a professional in early July at the John Deere Classic. He'll surrender his amateur, guaranteed slot at the Open Championship, which you only do if you're highly confident you'll play your way back into the field very soon. "He's the most positive, optimistic person I ever coached," says Nick Clinard, Koivun's head coach at Auburn. "Negative thoughts never really creep into his mind." Koivun hits a shot from the bunker during Monday's practice round at Shinnecock Hills. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images) The college-to-pro pipeline in golf isn't quite as sanctified as, say, football or basketball. So let's put this in a cross-sport context: Koivun is the most anticipated amateur in a generation, on the level of LeBron James or fellow Auburn Tiger Cam Newton. Yes, he's that good. Koivun, who's forgoing his senior year, is a two-time individual national champion and a three-time SEC champion, plus he's led Auburn to two national titles. He already ranks 28th in the world in true strokes gained, per DataGolf, among multiple recent major winners. During his three years in college, he won 11 times — six this past season alone — and finished with 34 top-10s and 87 rounds below par, all of which are school records. His career 68.89 scoring average is the best in NCAA history. Shall we keep going? We'll keep going. His freshman year, Koivun won all three major individual awards — the Ben Hogan, the Fred Haskins and Jack Nicklaus awards — along with the Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award. This past year, he again won all three individual honors, becoming the first player ever to hit the trifecta twice.   ⚾️ 1-30 MLB POWER RANKINGS (Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports) Three NL teams sit atop our latest MLB power rankings, in which Yahoo Sports' Jordan Shusterman highlights a first-time All-Star candidate or two from each team. (Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports)   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 (Yahoo Sports) ⚽️ World Cup, Day 7 Cristiano Ronaldo's sixth and final World Cup begins today in Houston, where Portugal faces DR Congo (1pm ET, Fox). Then it's England vs. Croatia in Dallas (4pm, Fox), Ghana vs. Panama in Toronto (7pm, FS1) and Uzbekistan vs. Colombia in Mexico City (10pm, FS1). Climbing the ladder: Ronaldo and England's Harry Kane have both scored eight career World Cup goals, two shy of joining the 15 players who've scored at least 10. It's not hard to imagine both of them entering that exclusive club this summer considering Ronaldo is, well, Ronaldo, and Kane just scored 61 goals across 51 games this past season. ⚾️ CWS, Semifinals The College World Series Final Four begins today in Omaha, where No. 5 North Carolina faces No. 16 West Virginia in one semifinal (2pm, ESPN) and Oklahoma faces No. 3 Georgia in the other (7pm, ESPN). Where it stands: North Carolina and Oklahoma are undefeated, so they need only one win to advance to the CWS Finals. If either lose, winner-take-all games will be played tomorrow. More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: White Sox at Yankees (7pm, Prime) … Chicago (38-33) currently sits atop the AL Central with 38 wins in mid-June. Two years ago, they won 41 games all season. 🏀 WNBA: Liberty at Sky (8pm, USA); Aces at Mercury (10pm, USA) … New York (10-4) and Las Vegas (10-4) are tied for the league's second-best record behind Minnesota (11-3). Got plans tonight? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   ⚽️ LEADERBOARD WORLD CUP TRIVIA (Yahoo Sports) Lionel Messi is now tied for first in World Cup goals with 16 and Kylian Mbappé ranks fourth with 14. Question: Who ranks third with 15? Hint: South America. Answer at the bottom.   ⛳️ WHO YA GOT? U.S. OPEN: MAKE YOUR PICKS (Tracy Wilcox/PGA Tour via Getty Images) The third major of the PGA Tour season tees off tomorrow at Shinnecock Hills. Which golfer will come out on top? Will the winner be under par? Who finishes higher: Scottie Scheffler or Rory McIlroy? Make your picks: Golf Pick 'Em is live, and we have a Yahoo Sports AM group that you can join to see where your picks stack up against us and other readers. And yes, the group winner(s) get a prize. Picks are due by 6:30am ET tomorrow, so get them in now! And make sure you're in the "Yahoo Sports AM" group to compete alongside Kendall, Jeff and other readers.   Trivia answer: Ronaldo (Brazil)

Republicans in US Senate left in dark by Trump on Iran deal, but want details and a vote WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both political parties said Tuesday they had yet to see the text of the deal Trump administration officials struck over the weekend to end the war in Iran, though several indicated any final agreement will require their approval. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/16/repub/republicans-in-us-senate-left-in-dark-by-trump-on-iran-deal-but-want-details-and-a-vote/?

Florida’s GOP AGs used to intervene in utility rate cases, but no longer As electricity cost increases outpace other measures of inflation, attorneys general around the country have intervened to stop what they consider exorbitant rate hikes: https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/17/floridas-gop-ags-used-to-intervene-in-utility-rate-cases-but-no-longer/? ps:But of course Florida's AG could care less!!!!! To veto or not? All eyes are on DeSantis, sovereign immunity bill Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recently pushed for a major overhaul of property taxes paid to cities and counties, will soon decide whether to increase the amount of money local governments and the state must pay out in negligence lawsuits. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/16/to-veto-or-not-all-eyes-are-desantis-sovereign-immunity-bill/? Uthmeier, federal partners warn of human trafficking during FIFA World Cup Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and a coalition of state, federal, and private partners warned Floridians Tuesday of a heightened risk of human trafficking, a day after Miami hosted its first of seven FIFA World Cup matches. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/16/uthmeier-federal-partners-warn-of-human-trafficking-during-fifa-world-cup/?