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.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is now projected to run short in 2032, one year sooner than expected, while Medicare’s hospital fund is still set to fall short in 2033.

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 said the United States must respond after an Army helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormuz and he blamed Iran for the incident, deepening already tense fighting in the region.

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.