YOU’RE HIRED: Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, indicating that business is healthy even while wages are not keeping up with the cost of living for people doing the work.   Many of the added jobs are in restaurants, bars, and hotels.  …

THE MONEY WALL: The Senate stayed up all night while Republicans rammed through a $70 billion immigration bill that pays for President Trump’s hard line through the end of his presidency.    The vote was 52-47, a big win for Trump and …

THE WAR ROOM: Four House Republicans joined the Democrats in a vote to direct President Trump to withdraw US forces from the Iran theater or win approval from Congress to continue the fighting.  The Democrats broke into cheers.   The undeclared war has entered …

TICK, TICK, BOOM: “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired yesterday as the result of a contentious staff meeting with the show’s new executive producer in which Pelley told Nick Bilton that he was barely qualified for his job and news …

THE WAR ROOM: The US and Iran traded attacks in the past day shaking the ceasefire once again. The US hit  radar and command sites in southern Iran and Iran struck an American military base in Kuwait.   The US said it had …

THE WAR ROOM: The US and Iran traded attacks in the past day shaking the ceasefire once again. The US hit  radar and command sites in southern Iran and Iran struck an American military base in Kuwait.   The US said it had …

JUDICIAL SCRUTINY: President Trump had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in the courts yesterday with one federal judge reviving his lawsuit against the IRS and another ordering that his name be taken off the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in …

DEAL OR NO DEAL: The US and Iran are reported to be closing in on what’s described as a “framework” of understanding that could extend the current cease-fire, lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and to more substantial talks …

PARTY POLITICS: Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton with the endorsement of Donald Trump soundly defeated four-term Senator John Cornyn in the state’s Republican primary runoff for senate. It’s proof that Trump still has a firm grip on the MAGA wing of …

DEAL OR NO DEAL: The US carried out what it described as “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran yesterday “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” Iran threatened to retaliate, putting the ceasefire and peace talks in jeopardy.   The Pentagon said …