Trump News for Saturday, June 13, 2026

Bruce Springsteen Honored At Tribeca Festival, Rocks Out With Bono, Patti Smith In ‘People Have The Power’

Jillg366, Deadline

Bruce Springsteen brought a taste of his Land of Hopes And Dreams Tour to downtown Manhattan Saturday, hitting the Tribeca Festival to accept the Harry Belafonte Voices For Social Justice Award that he dedicated to “all the citizens of Minneapolis and Los Ang…

As Trump turns 80, what's it really like to work as an octogenarian?

BBC News

As President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday, we ask people who have worked into their 80s themselves about what it takes to keep going.

Trump taps former commodities regulator, ex-personal attorney as US attorney in NYC

Peter Charalambous, Aaron Katersky, Katherine Faulders, Abcnews.com

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he plans to nominate James McDonald to be the next United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

Terrence O’Brien, The Verge

According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. Accor…

Israel attacks Lebanon as US says Iran deal to be signed on Sunday

Al Jazeera English

Explosions shook southern Lebanon on Saturday as Israel continued its attacks.

Anthropic’s Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled

Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com

Who could have foreseen this?

‘A global rupture’: Carney calls for Canada-EU unity before G7 summit

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Canada's prime minister has warned that the 'rules-based' global order is 'breaking down' amid superpower dominance.

$35B AI Infrastructure Platform Plan Affirms Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) As a Promising Growth Stock to Buy

Neha Gupta, Yahoo Entertainment

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of the most promising growth stocks to buy now. On June 9, Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced it is teaming up with...

Target (TGT) Q1 FY2026 Sales Rise 6.7% to $25.4B on Strong Digital and Traffic Growth

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) is one of the most undervalued quality stocks to invest in. On May 20, Target reported its Q1 2026 financial results, with net ...

Accenture (ACN) to Acquire Whalar, Expanding Accenture Song into Creator Economy

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is one of the most undervalued quality stocks to invest in. On June 8, Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Whalar, a creator and...

Donald Trump’s Name Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center, Court Docs Say

Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone

Workers began the court-ordered process of removing Donald Trump’s name from the exterior of the Kennedy Center on Saturday morning.

Hungary’s former PM Orban re-elected party leader despite election loss

Mariamne Everett, Al Jazeera English

Viktor Orban, who ran unopposed, said he took full responsibility for his pro-Russian Fidesz party's defeat in April.

Ukraine to keep targeting Russian energy after hitting sea terminal

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Ukraine's SBU security service claimed attack sparking fires in Russia's Tamanneftegaz terminal.

Trump says Iran deal to be signed tomorrow, contradicting Iranian official

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Both sides have indicated a deal to end the war is close, but have diverged on details and timeline for a breakthrough.

US-Iran deal scheduled to be signed on Sunday, says Trump

BBC News

Before the US president's comments, Iran expressed caution about the exact timing.

US President Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed tomorrow

Al Jazeera English

US President Donald Trump says a deal between Washington and Tehran will be signed on Sunday.

31 Most Creative Responses To Viral Photo Of Donald Trump With Mysterious Figures

Rocio Corsi, Boredpanda.com

The internet has a special talent for turning a single strange photo into a full-blown mystery, and that is exactly what happened when an image supposedly showing Donald Trump meeting a group of unusual-looking figures began circulating online.

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) Posts Strong May Sales, UBS Names Stock a Top Pick on Agentic AI Outlook

Faheem Tahir, Yahoo Entertainment

With a profit margin of 47.34% and net income of $55.13 billion (FY25), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) ranks among the most...

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Partners With South Korea’s LG Group On Humanoid Robots And Data Centers

Faheem Tahir, Yahoo Entertainment

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) carries a profit margin of 62.97% and net income of $120.07 billion (FY26), securing its place on our list of the most...

Alphabet (GOOGL) Places An Order With Intel To Manufacture More Than Three Million Tensor Processing Units In 2028

Faheem Tahir, Yahoo Entertainment

With a profit margin of 37.92% and net income of $132.17 billion (FY25), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) ranks among the most profitable blue chip stocks to buy...

U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Expected To Be Signed Sunday, Trump Says

Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff, Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/, Forbes

Pakistan is one of the key mediators between the U.S. and Iran as both sides have struggled to finalize a peace agreement since April.

Trump’s Name Removed From Kennedy Center After Judge’s Order, Official Says

Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff, Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/, Forbes

Donald Trump’s name was ordered to be removed from The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts despite multiple legal challenges.

Donald Trump’s Name Torn Off the Kennedy Center

Travis Bland, Consequence.net

The removal of the current president's name signals the end of a saga that began in early 2025. Donald Trump’s Name Torn Off the Kennedy Center Travis Bland

A name comes down: Trump’s name removed from Kennedy Center overnight

CK Smith, Salon

Crews removed the name overnight as onlookers, livestreams document the scene. A tarp and scaffolding still remain

Planet UFC

Nic Johnson, The New York Review of Books

For decades it has been White House tradition to invite Ireland’s prime minister, the Taoiseach, to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a ceremonial exchange of a bowl of shamrocks, symbolizing Irish-American friendship. But two months into Donald Trump’s retu…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned Mythos posed a national security threat. Washington just responded.

Peter Gelling, Business Insider

Anthropic's Dario Amodei warned his AI model, Mythos, was so powerful it posed serious threats. Then the government stepped in and Anthropic shut it down.

Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon

Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera English

MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.

Trump's Name Removed From Kennedy Center After Judge’s Order (Live Updates)

Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff, Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/, Forbes

Donald Trump’s name was ordered to be removed from The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts despite multiple legal challenges.

As Iran and US near a peace deal, Tehran remembers another bloody conflict

Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera English

Iranian authorities say assassinations and strikes over the past year have failed to deter them.

Wells Fargo Calls MannKind Corporation (MNKD)’s Commercial Potential a “Show-Me Story”

Rameen Kasana, Yahoo Entertainment

MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD) is among the hidden penny stocks to invest in. On June 1, Wells Fargo lifted the price target on MannKind Corporation...

Amtagvi Approval Boosted Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (IOVA), But Can the Rally Last?

Rameen Kasana, Yahoo Entertainment

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IOVA) is among the hidden penny stocks to invest in. As of June 10, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IOVA) was...

Taxpayers Won’t Fund UFC Freedom 250’s $60 Million White House Production, Dana White Says. TKO Expects to Lose $30 Million

Chris Lavergne, Thoughtcatalog.com

UFC Freedom 250 is set for June 14, 2026, with seven fights on the South Lawn, a fan fest on the Ellipse, and a Zac Brown Band concert built around Trump’s 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration…

Here is Why Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE) is One of the Best Buy-the-Dip Stocks

Muhammad Ali Khalid, Yahoo Entertainment

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ:RARE) is one of the 12 best buy-the-dip stocks to invest in now. As of June 5 closing, the consensus sentiment around ...

To redefine progress

Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com

In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the genesis of progressivism — a response to the Industrial Revolution and the (first) Gilded Age — we cannot now…

No, You Can’t Stream the UFC Fight at the White House for Free

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

At least not legally.

Ariana Grande Launches New Foundation After White House Uses Music in ICE Video

Travis Bland, Consequence.net

The pop star's foundation will help fund organizations helping vulnerable communities. Ariana Grande Launches New Foundation After White House Uses Music in ICE Video Travis Bland

Workers remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court ruling

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Judge says Trump-backed board's move to add president's name unlawful, requires Congressional approval.

Anthropic says it has taken its latest AI models offline to comply with U.S. directive

CBC News

AI giant Anthropic said on Friday it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.

Paramount Gets Justice Dept. Approval to Buy Warner Bros.

Justin Carter, Gizmodo.com

The Department of Justice has no issue with Paramount getting what it wants, but state AGs and overseas regulators still have concerns.

Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center by noon Saturday, judge says

Steven Portnoy, Katherine Faulders, Abcnews.com

A judge granted a brief extension requested by the Department of Justice.

U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Likely To Be Finalized Within ‘24 Hours,’ Pakistan’s Leader Says

Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff, Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/, Forbes

Pakistan is one of the key mediators between the U.S. and Iran as both sides have struggled to finalize a peace agreement since April.

Trump Is Throwing Himself a UFC-Themed Birthday Party. Actors and Activists Are Fighting Back

Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone

The "Rise Up Sing Out" concert will be headlined by Jane Fonda, who relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment — a McCarthy Era protest group founded by her father — last year

Trump’s new tariffs will put America’s rivals on notice

Aiden Buzzetti, TheBlaze

Though the Trump administration has faced a series of legal setbacks on tariffs, it seems to have found a solution. After the Supreme Court ruled that the administration’s reciprocal tariffs were wrongfully imposed, the president immediately leapt to Plan B: …

Donald Trump and his GOP allies are the real voter fraud

Kirk Swearingen, Salon

For Trump and his base, losing can only be the result of a conspiracy — and evidence is beside the point

‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Grist

As the US shuts its doors to most refugees, there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts.

Your guide to voting in NYC congressional and state comptroller primaries

Brigid Bergin, Gothamist

It's time to vote. Voting begins Saturday in an unusually competitive slate of congressional primaries with big implications for the Democratic Party's future. [ more › ]

Dodgers Decline White House Visit Inquiry After Donald Trump’s Knicks Reception

Peter Chawaga, Contributor, Peter Chawaga, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterchawaga/, Forbes

The Los Angeles Dodgers could be having second thoughts about visiting the president to celebrate their latest championship.

Final text of a peace deal between US, Iran agreed upon, Pakistan says

Ashley N. Soriano, Newsnationnow.com

"Peace has never been this close as it is now," Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on X.

Emboldened Senate Democrats block even bipartisan bills in hardball approach to counter Trump

Yahoo Entertainment

GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security

Heather Digby Parton, Salon

Trump has repeatedly vowed to defend these landmark safety-net programs. It was another lie

Trump wants Iran’s uranium. Tehran buried it behind collapsed tunnels and mines: Report

Express Global Desk, The Indian Express

The stockpile in question consists of roughly half a tonne of highly enriched uranium (HEU), material that experts say is close to weapons-grade.

At $23,000 An IVF Cycle, Fertility Benefits Are ‘Life Changing’ For Workers. Will They Keep Growing?

Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes Staff, Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/courtney-connley-hampton/, Forbes

Companies added IVF coverage when workers were scarce. Employers now have the upper hand, but the national focus on the declining birthrate could protect these benefits.

Claude Fable 5 caught bugs GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 missed, then the US government forced it offline

Adam Conway, XDA Developers

Claude Fable 5 is the best model I've ever used, hands down, but it's expensive and carries several asterisks.

ICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from WWDC 2026 to Trump's not-so-made-in-America phone

hamish.hector@futurenet.com (Hamish Hector) , Hamish Hector, TechRadar

The week's biggest tech news from Nintendo, Apple, Trump Mobile, and more for June 13, 2026.

The US border runs straight through the World Cup

Belén Fernández, Al Jazeera English

The tournament was sold as a symbol of unity, but Trump’s border politics have turned it into a spectacle of exclusion.

Trump's name removed from Kennedy Center in predawn operation

Joey Garrison, Susan Page and Michael Loria, USA TODAY, USA Today

President Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center after a federal judge denied the administration's request that his order be put on hold.

Iran war day 106: US and Iran say deal close but Lebanon fighting continues

Elizabeth Melimopoulos, Al Jazeera English

US and Iran say a deal to end the war is close, with a final text agreed but key steps still pending.

Aren’t You Just Loving Gas Prices?

Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers, Slate Magazine

Inflation is on the rise, but the Trump administration doesn’t seem concerned.

The epic story of how the World Cup became Trump's trophy

Insider Inc., Business Insider

From Zurich to the Meadowlands, the inside story of how the United Bid for the World Cup became the Trump Cup.

Michael Hudson: Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be

Yves Smith, Nakedcapitalism.com

R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson on debt, rentierism, and the geopolitical rift around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system

Trump's White House UFC headliner accused of assault, forced sex, stalking

CBC News

Alex Pereira, a prominent mixed martial arts fighter set to headline the U.S. president's 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, is facing allegations of violence from two women — and it isn’t the first time.

Trump seeks ‘off-ramp’ from war in ‘Iran deal’

Al Jazeera English

As reports emerge of a possible US-Iran agreement, President Donald Trump is looking for an ‘off-ramp’ from Iran war.

Trump says US strike killed Tren de Aragua gang boss with Venezuelan help

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Gang leader Flores had controlled the vast criminal syndicate from Venezuela for years.

Leaving Mozilla

Unitedheroes.net

> On burn-out and bull-headedness

As Deadline Passes, Kennedy Center Asks For More Time To Remove Trump’s Name From Facade

Ted Johnson, Deadline

The Kennedy Center said that it will remove Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the arts complex — but that may not happen until early Saturday morning. As a court-ordered deadline passed midnight, Justice Department attorneys asked a judge for a 12-hour e…

Donald Trump’s Imperial Birthday Spectacle

The New Yorker

On The Political Scene Podcast: How this weekend’s U.F.C. cage fight might mask a Presidency in decline.

Trump says U.S. military strike killed leader of Tren de Aragua gang

The Associated Press, NPR

President Trump said Friday that a U.S. strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called "the infamous leader" of the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela.

'Baffling' or 'based'? Tech world reacts to export controls on Anthropic's new AI models

Tracy Connor, Business Insider

One CEO said the move by the Trump administration and the response by Anthropic would 'send shockwaves' across AI labs.

American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

As we near the halfway point in the second Trump presidential term, there’s something that is worth remembering: Donald Trump, like most nasty viruses, is a temporary condition. Trumpism may not be, though I have my doubts as to how long a cult of personality…

Tren de Aragua leader killed in US military strike, Trump says

ABC NEWS, Abcnews.com

The leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has been killed in a U.S. military strike, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Friday night.

Anthropic will disable access to Mythos and Fable models to comply with the Trump Administration's export control

Lloyd Lee, Business Insider

Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, will be disabled due to US export controls that cited national security risks.

Trump says Tren de Aragua gang leader killed via U.S. military strike

CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said U.S. forces carried out a strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also ‌known as Niño Guerrero, the leader of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.

Iran peace deal looms while new military action flares near Strait of Hormuz

By Parisa Hafezi, Phil Stewart and Steve Holland, Yahoo Entertainment

By Parisa Hafezi, Phil Stewart and Steve Holland DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that an agreement to end...

Anthropic pulls Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 following US government directive

Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac

Anthropic confirmed tonight that it has disabled access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 to all customers, following an export control directive from the US government. Here are the details.

Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace

Robin Wright, The New Yorker

Robin Wright on Iran’s enduring strategy of taking hostages—now evolved to include strategic ports like the Strait of Hormuz—and how it has flummoxed Donald Trump.

Watch: Why is Trump not at the World Cup?

BBC News

All three leaders of the North America host nations have missed the tournament opening matches.

Kennedy Center removes Trump's name from the building

Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR

Workers finished removing President Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building.

Appeals court rejects Kennedy Center leaders' ask to keep Trump's name on building

CBC News

An appeals court rejected a last-ditch effort by the Kennedy Center's leadership to keep U.S. President Donald Trump's name on the building, leaving the institution with few options other than removing the name in the coming hours.