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Sen. Thom Tillis attends a hearing in Washington on June 25, 2025.
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Sen. Thom Tillis announces he’s not seeking reelection, a day after voting against Trump’s agenda bill
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America at a glance

CNN Poll of Polls: Trump approval rating over time
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The 06/25/25 Poll of Polls is an average of the following polls:
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June 2-19 40% 57% -3 1,000 Adults +/-4.0% pts.
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June 21-23 41% 57% 0 1,139 Adults +/-3.2% pts.
Pew Research Center 
June 2-8 41% 58% +1 5,044 Adults +/-1.6% pts.
Strength In Numbers/Verasight  
June 6-12 42% 56% +2 1,500 Adults +/-2.6% pts.
AP-NORC 
June 5-9 39% 60% -3 1,158 Adults +/-4.0% pts.
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Analysis

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, on June 27.
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US President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 26, 2025. A Republican plan to cut $250 billion in Medicaid and other health-care spending hit a procedural roadblock in the Senate Thursday, complicating efforts to pass Donald Trump's massive tax and spending package. Photographer: Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Facts First

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 26.
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Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill
US President Donald Trump, center, during a news conference with Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, left, and Marco Rubio, US secretary of state on the second day of the 2025 NATO Summit on June 25, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. Among other matters, members are to approve a new defense investment plan that raises the target for defense spending to 5% of GDP.
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Trump's Tariffs

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Trump’s trade deals are stalling out at the worst possible time
This photo taken at the Port of Vancouver shows cargo containers stacked at the Centerm container terminal, Vancouver, Canada, June 5, 2025. Canada's merchandise trade dropped in April with the trade deficit hitting a record high, Statistics Canada said Thursday. Exports dropped 10.8 percent while imports fell 3.5 percent. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade deficit with the world widened to 7.1 billion Canadian dollars 5.2 billion U.S. dollars in April. This was the largest deficit on record, said the national statistical agency.
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Trump is ending trade talks with Canada
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq on Friday closed at all-time highs.
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Legal Actions

Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Roberts speaks during a lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, May 12, 2025.
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After Supreme Court term, Chief Justice Roberts shrugs off ‘venting’ by those who lost
Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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Initially wary of Trump, Roberts and Barrett offer the president his biggest win of the Supreme Court term
President Donald Trump gestures next to Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Truman Balcony after she was sworn in as a US Supreme Court Associate Justice during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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Amy Coney Barrett leaves no doubt that she stands with Trump and the conservative supermajority

US and the world

Traffic builds as people flee Tehran on June 15.
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Hundreds of Americans have fled Iran and others face difficulties leaving as Trump weighs US military action
Harvard banners in front Widener Library during the 374th Harvard Commencement in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29.
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A cyclist passes in front of the former US embassy while a vendor waits for customers, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 5.
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Reforming the federal government

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This satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran on June 24, 2025. The image shows new damage to the facility caused by June 23 strikes, including craters along the access roads that lead to the tunnel entrances and the Fordow underground complex. Multiple craters are visible at several of the tunnel openings and several buildings along the northeastern perimeter road have been destroyed. An additional crater is seen in the middle of the access road to the northwest of the facility.
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Trump's first 100 days: Reader questions

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How Trump won

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The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Senate Republicans unveiled a new version of their $4.2 trillion tax cut package, moving closer to a vote as they near a July 4 deadline set by President Donald Trump. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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