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At least 12 people were shot near the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio on Saturday evening around 5:37 PM, two of them critically, with victims ranging in age from 14 to 61. Police believe at least two gunmen were targeting each other near the festival crowd. No suspects are in custody; Toledo authorities are urging the public to submit any video footage.
A Senate vote to advance Section 702 reauthorization failed 47-52, with seven Republicans joining Democrats to kill the motion over objections to Trump's acting DNI pick and missing privacy reforms. Congress then left for the weekend without a deal. The warrantless surveillance program expires in five days.
Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary 54-46 to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, the latest in a string of anti-Trump Republicans to fall this cycle. He joins Senators Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn on the list of critics now heading for the exits. Trump's White House Deputy Chief of Staff has taken a leave of absence to personally run the president's midterm political operation.
The Republican-led Senate voted to formally rescind approximately $9 billion in previously appropriated spending, including $535 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, effectively defunding NPR and PBS for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The vote codifies DOGE-recommended cuts into statute. Senate Minority Leader Schumer vowed to restore the funding if Democrats retake the chamber.
Iran formally accused Washington of violating the ceasefire after U.S. forces shot down six Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and then struck Iranian radar and coastal surveillance sites in retaliation for Tehran's attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain. An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader said talks are "at a deadlock" and the next move is Washington's. Pakistan's interior minister is in Tehran attempting mediation.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed his department to use all available authority to redirect frozen Iranian assets toward Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE to cover damage from Iranian drone and missile strikes. The announcement came one day after Iran's attacks on the two Gulf states. Whether frozen cash reserves or hard assets such as oil tankers would be targeted first remains unresolved.
On day two of a seven-day apostolic visit to Spain, Pope Leo XIV presided over an open-air Corpus Christi Mass at Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles, the city's first papal Mass in fifteen years. He meets with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Parliament members on Monday. The trip concludes June 10 in Barcelona, where the Pope will bless the completed Tower of Jesus Christ atop the Sagrada Familia and mark the centenary of architect Antoni Gaudi's death.
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute have confirmed that homing pigeons find their way home via iron-oxide nanoparticles inside immune cells in their livers, not their beaks as long assumed. In tests on 34 trained birds, removing the liver cells left pigeons unable to navigate home under overcast skies, while untreated birds returned within 70 minutes. The paper, published in Science, identifies the liver cells as a magnetic backup navigation system.
Physicists digitizing Richard Feynman's personal papers have found unpublished notes in which the Nobel laureate worked out a complete mathematical framework for making the optimal restaurant menu choice, a real-world application of optimal stopping theory. The notes are drawing attention from mathematicians and decision theorists worldwide. Feynman appears to have worked it out, in characteristic fashion, purely for fun.
The U.S. Men's National Team beat Senegal 3-2 in Charlotte before falling 2-1 to Germany in Chicago in its final pre-tournament friendlies, with Balogun, Dest, and Pulisic among the scorers against Senegal. The squad's World Cup Group D opener against Paraguay is set for June 12 in Los Angeles, on home soil. American soccer fans have been waiting a long time for this moment.