Source: CBS News
“An intruder is dead after being shot by a homeowner in Simi Valley Wednesday morning. … Police said a woman called saying her ex-boyfriend broke into her home and her husband confronted the man, firing a handgun. … The man was struck and was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.” (06/18/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/simi-valley-intruder-fatal-shooting-break-in/
Source: The Atlantic
“What Comes Next for Iran?” (06/18/25)
Source: Drop Site
by Murtaza Hussain
“Israel has framed the U.S. entering the fray as a way to bring its conflict with Iran to a quick conclusion. But, absent an Iranian diplomatic capitulation, a U.S. attack would likely only be a prelude to a much longer and drawn-out military engagement with Iran. A U.S. war with Iran focused on stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, rather than beginning and ending with the destruction of Fordow, would need to extend to a much broader campaign of searching for and destroying new and undisclosed nuclear sites across the country, particularly as Iran is likely to respond to an attack by diverting nuclear equipment to other sites across its vast territory.” (06/18/25)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/donald-trump-united-states-military-iran
Source: Associated Press
“An Iranian missile hit the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, wounding people and causing ‘extensive damage’ but no serious injuries, the medical facility said. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke. Other missiles hit a high-rise apartment building in Tel Aviv and other sites in central Israel. At least 40 people were wounded, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service. Israel, meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, its latest attack on Iran’s sprawling nuclear program. Iranian state television said there was ‘no radiation danger whatsoever’ and that the facility had been evacuated before the attack.” (06/19/25)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Scott Horton
“In the last 25 years, in the name of spreading democracy and freedom, the U.S. completely destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Mali, Syria, Iraq again, Yemen and major parts of Pakistan and Ukraine, killing and getting killed upwards of four million people, displacing 40 million more and spreading terrorism and chaos in reaction all across the Middle East, Central Asia, North and Eastern Africa and now Eastern Europe as well. You noticed, right? That the US government has shown no interest in spreading democracy to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, or Egypt – because they’re Washington’s allies. And that when the people vote wrong, like in Algeria, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgystan, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine or Egypt – after they overthrew America’s last puppet dictator there – the U.S. will immediately move to intervene with a coup if necessary to protect what they consider to be their interests.” (06/18/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2025/06/17/debate-no-america-should-not-export-freedom-abroad/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Americans Want Trump To Say Out of Israel’s War in Iran.” (06/18/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-811-americans-want-trump-to-say-out-of-israels-war-in-iran
Source: Fox News
“The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said that it will leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged following its June monetary policy meeting as policymakers continue to monitor inflation and labor market data amid elevated economic uncertainty. The central bank’s decision leaves the benchmark federal funds rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. It comes after the Fed left rates at that level at its three prior meetings in January, March and May. The central bank cut rates at its final three meetings last year, which involved a 50-basis-point cut in September and a pair of 25-basis-point reductions in November and December. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which guides the central bank’s monetary policy moves, noted in its announcement that, ‘Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace.'” (06/18/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rate-decision-june-2025
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“If you want to make people angry, mention immigration. If you want to make some of them really angry, scoff at the whole concept. There is no immigration; there are people where they have a right to be, and there are trespassers. Their place of origin and government permission, or the lack thereof, don’t figure into it at all. An uninvited police officer on your front step is a trespasser. The guy from Central America living in the house next door, with the owner’s permission, but without jumping through the government hoops, is not. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow for immigration control by the federal government, no matter how its words are ‘interpreted.'” (06/18/25)
Source: New York Times
“Hurricane Erick was expected to make landfall in Mexico as a Category 4 storm early Thursday after prompting flash floods, school closings and evacuations in the southern states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. The storm was expected to make landfall west of the port town of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca. Officials said its destructive winds and heavy rain threatened to unleash a dangerous storm surge. … Erick is the fifth named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific Ocean this year. The Pacific hurricane season, like the Atlantic one, runs through Nov. 30.” (06/19/25)
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The public interest theory of regulation offers a lovely fairy tale: wise functionaries, armed with clipboards and rectitude, stand vigilant against corporate predators’ rapacious appetites. … Purveyors of public choice economics commit the unforgivable sin of treating regulators as mere mortals rather than secular saints. Heretics such as [James] Buchanan and writing partner Gordon Tullock dared to explain that civil servants are no angels, and like the rest of our species, are motivated by self-interest. Public choice economists champion what’s known as ‘capture theory’ — the idea that government regulations too often serve the firms they were set up to constrain.” (06/18/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/regulation-without-romance