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Quote and headline: New York Times, 6/13/2026
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Iran still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers across the country and has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, according to the assessments. That stockpile encompasses both ballistic missiles, which can target other nations in the region, and a smaller supply of cruise missiles, which can be used against shorter-range targets on land or at sea.
Military intelligence agencies have also reported, based on information from multiple collection streams including satellite imagery and other surveillance technologies, that Iran has regained access to roughly 90 percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide, which are now assessed to be “partially or fully operational,” the people with knowledge of the assessments said.
The findings undercut months of public assurances from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who have told Americans that the Iranian military was “decimated” and “no longer” a threat. [emphasis added]
The decision didn't come without fiery opposition from most in attendance.
Board members voted, 7-1, May 12 to prohibit the wind symphony from playing "A Mother of a Revolution" by Omar Thomas, a work inspired by Marsha Johnson, a trans woman credited with being an instigator of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, considered to be a pivotal event of the LGBTQ liberation movement, according to Thomas' website.
Laurie Hoffmann [top left], the board's president, was the only board member to vote against banning the piece. Board member Craig Wortman [bottom right] was not at the meeting. The board's decision was met with a loud round of boos and shouting from most of the people in attendance before they walked out. [emphasis added]
Just over a year ago, Mr. Trump imposed high tariffs on steel to try to stifle imports of the metal and bolster domestic production.
But imports of the kind of steel used to make cans surged in 2025, and American can makers say they will remain heavily dependent on foreign supplies — now made more expensive by the tariffs — for a long time.
“We have to import all this tin plate,” said Scott Breen, the president of the Can Manufacturers Institute, referring to the thinly rolled steel that is coated with tin and used to make cans. “There’s not any more being produced here than there was before.” The institute is a trade group representing some of the largest can makers in the United States.
Unlike some of Mr. Trump’s other tariffs, which have been overturned by courts, the steel levies have strong legal standing, according to scholars, which means they are unlikely to go away anytime soon. [emphasis added]
There have been hundreds of hantavirus cases in the U.S. over the 30 years that the CDC has been tracking it -- and most of those cases have been in one region.
CDC began tracking laboratory-confirmed hantavirus cases in the U.S. in 1993 when there was an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses in the Four Corners region where Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico meet. Two years later, hantavirus became a nationally notifiable disease, meaning it is now reported through the Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System when a patient has a fever and diagnosis is laboratory confirmed. The most recent CDC hantavirus data are from 2023.
In that 30-year time period, there have been 890 laboratory-confirmed hantavirus cases; 859 involved hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases while the remainder were non-pulmonary infections. About a third (35%) of people who had hantavirus died. [emphasis added]
Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s Republican treasurer, who has Trump’s endorsement for the gubernatorial nomination, told a crowd gathered at the state capitol on Jan. 5, 2021, that “the election from this November is tarnished forever.” At a campaign event with Trump in 2022, she said, “We know that he won.”