The Belmont Stakes is set to host a rematch in New York on Saturday of the top three finishing horses from the Kentucky Derby.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/belmont-stakes-horses-2025/
The organizers of prominent Pride celebrations saw huge sponsorship drop-offs this year, a pattern seen as a response to the Trump administration.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2025-pride-celebrations-corporate-sponsor-cancellations/
Trump and Musk trade barbs as public feud over budget bill turns personal; Runaway zebra sparks manhunt in Tennesseehttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/060525-cbs-evening-news/
Breaking down new numbers on immigration arrests under Trump; Reporter's Notebook: Is the heart of the budget debate getting lost in Trump-Musk feud?https://www.cbsnews.com/video/060525-cbs-evening-news-plus/
An Evanston Hospital security guard suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-inside-emergency-room-evanston-hospital-near-chicago/
"Piece by Piece" will feature Pharrell Williams voicing himself in animated LEGO form, accompanied by some A-list collaborators from his chart-topping career.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pharrell-lego-biopic-trailer-jay-z-snoop-dogg-justin-timberlake/
For years, right-wing civilians have eagerly patrolled the border. Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, has hinted that he might enlist their help.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-private-citizens-who-want-to-help-trump-deport-migrants
The Former Israeli Prime Minister explains how his view of the conflict in Gaza has shifted.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-ehud-olmert-thinks-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes
Government-backed institutions sometimes stand up more strongly to authoritarianism than their commercial counterparts.https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-public-media-survive-trump
The world’s richest man and its most powerful leader channel their inner middle schooler in a breakup for the ages.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-musk-trump-divorce-is-as-messy-as-you-thought-it-would-be
China views its rare earths as a national security issue, not a trade one, and that’s why Beijing is unlikely to loosen controls any time soon, experts say.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/china-rare-earths-trump-xi-call/
The Russian attacks come after President Donald Trump likened the two sides to children on a playground who needed “to fight for a while.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/ukraine-russia-trump-retaliation-strikes/
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke recently of “double standards” in international politics. Germany’s Friedrich Merz questioned Israel’s military goals in Gaza.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/israel-gaza-aid-macron-merz-europe/
He was 8 years old, with no acting experience, when director Vittorio De Sica cast him in the 1948 film that epitomized Italian neorealism.https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/05/enzo-staiola-bicycle-thief-dead/
The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/06/05/medieval-murder-map-study-violence/
The sudden fallout ended a nearly yearlong partnership, during which Mr. Musk helped propel Mr. Trump to the White House and became one of the president’s top advisers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/trump-musk-policy-bill.html
The falling-out between Elon Musk and President Trump went into overdrive on Thursday. Both men have powerful ways to keep it going.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/musk-trump-attacks-feud.html
Plus, a Friday news quiz.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-musk-fight.html
The legislation that Republicans are trying to push through Congress could swell the very fiscal imbalance that party leaders have promised to tame for years.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/business/deficit-trump-tax-legislation.html