News for June 9, 2026

President Donald Trump is moving ahead with Bill Pulte’s appointment to a top intelligence role, even as the choice has sparked bipartisan backlash and put a major spy law renewal at risk.

Trump’s choice to make Bill Pulte acting intelligence chief is complicating efforts to renew a key U.S. surveillance law before it expires.

A Government Accountability Office report says ICE’s Camp East Montana detention center had major safety and health failures, including a lost loaded gun, poor medical care, and missed tuberculosis testing.

Trump said Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter and said the United States would respond, as both sides traded strikes and threats.

The House passed a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies through the rest of President Donald Trump’s term, ending a long fight with the Senate over the money.

Kurt Olsen, a 2020 election denier now working at the Justice Department, is facing criticism from Free Speech For People and others over his new role in a probe aimed at Trump’s political foes.

President Donald Trump drew backlash from Republicans and Democrats after he left open the idea of using taxpayer money to compensate some Jan. 6 rioters, including people convicted of attacking police.