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Fox News Poll: Voters embrace health agenda while rating RFK Jr negatively

June 22, 2026 6:00pm EDT / Fox News

Voters under age 30 favor prioritizing public health more than lowering food costs

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When it comes to the U.S. food supply, more voters prioritize protecting public health than lowering food prices, according to the latest Fox News Poll.

The survey, released Monday, also finds broad voter support for key elements of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, even as they give Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. negative job ratings.

By a 16-point margin, voters prefer safeguarding public health (58%) more than lowering food prices (42%).

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That view crosses party lines, with majorities of Democrats (57%), Republicans (58%), and independents (62%) prioritizing health and well-being.

MAHA was popularized by Kennedy during his 2024 presidential campaign and evolved into a national health-policy movement after he ended his bid and endorsed President Trump. Some of its goals include improving nutrition, eliminating harmful additives, and enhancing children’s health.

Roughly 9 in 10 voters say it is extremely or very important for the government to focus on improving food safety (89% important), lowering food costs (88%), and expanding access to healthy foods (85%). About 8 in 10 consider limiting harmful additives (83% important) and increasing transparency in food labeling (81%) important. About 6 in 10 place the same emphasis on reducing vaping and nicotine use (63% important) or limiting screen time for children under age 16 (60%).

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Support for new food regulations is prevalent. More than 9 in 10 voters favor requiring clearer food labeling (91%), and almost as many (87%) support banning food additives that other countries have restricted because of health concerns.

Smaller majorities support banning flavored nicotine products, including vapes and nicotine pouches (65% favor) and prohibiting children under 16 from using social media platforms (60%).

Eliminating vaccine requirements is less popular, as fewer than 4 in 10 are in favor (36%) – although that number is up 10 points since December.

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Most policies enjoy widespread support across key demographics, except on vaccines where differences emerge.

More Republicans (45%) than Democrats (25%) favor eliminating vaccine requirements in public schools by a 20-point margin (the only proposal where fewer than half of each group favor it), and more MAGA (53%) than non-MAGA Republicans (32%) support eliminating vaccines by 21 points.

Men, Black voters, and voters under age 30 are more likely to favor eliminating vaccine requirements than women, White voters, and voters 65 and up.

“If I were advising Republicans in state and local races in 2026, I would tell them to embrace key policy elements from the MAHA agenda,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw who helps conduct the Fox News Poll alongside Democratic counterpart Chris Anderson. “Protecting Americans, especially children, from bad food, bad drugs, and bad apps is extremely popular, particularly with groups Republicans have struggled with lately.”

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Despite support for many MAHA priorities, Kennedy’s job rating remains underwater: 45% approve of his performance, while 54% disapprove. Those numbers are largely unchanged since last September.

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About 9 in 10 MAGA Republicans (88%) approve of Kennedy, compared to 6 in 10 non-MAGA Republicans (58%).

Fathers (54% approve) and voters under 30 (51%) also boost Kennedy’s ratings, with more than half approving of his job performance, higher than mothers (43% approve), non-parents (44%), and voters 65 and over (39%).

A closer look at parents

Mothers and fathers differ in food-policy priorities. More moms prioritize keeping food costs low by 2 points, while dads favor protecting public health by 16 points.

Although parents and non-parents generally align on many MAHA-related issues, more dads than moms say it is important for the government to reduce screen time for children under 16 (68% vs. 47% important) and support banning children from social media platforms (67% vs. 59% favor).

Dads are also more likely than moms to favor eliminating vaccine requirements (52% vs. 33% favor), and more parents support eliminating them than non-parents (42% vs. 34% favor).

The generational divide

Voters under age 30 favor prioritizing public health more than lower food costs by 8 points, but that gap widens to 44 points among voters 65 and over.

On screen time, voters under 30 support banning children under 16 from social media by just 2 points, while that margin expands to 24 points among voters 65 and over.

When it comes to vaccines, young voters oppose eliminating them by 10 points, compared to a large 57-point opposition among those 65 and up.

Conducted June 12-15, 2026, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,002 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (101) and cellphones (644) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (257). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.

Source: acting DNI Bill Pulte has begun mass firings

Published 7:30 PM EDT, Mon June 22, 2026 / CNN

Acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, who was just seen at the white house earlier today, is now slashing jobs at a large scale. Kristen Holmes reports on OutFront.

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Could the ROAD to Housing Act actually lower home prices? Here’s what experts say.

2026-06-22T18:04:00-0400 / CBS News

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Updated on: June 22, 2026 / 6:50 PM EDT / CBS News

A rare bipartisan bill passed in the Senate on Monday aims to make it easier and more affordable for Americans to buy a home by boosting the nation’s housing supply.

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act would restrict institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes, remove regulatory barriers to construction and take other steps to expand the availability of affordable housing.

It now heads to the House for a final vote. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law if it is approved. In a proclamation earlier this month, he urged Congress to pass the legislation, calling it “the most comprehensive and consequential housing legislation in the history of our country.”

Mr. Trump also pushed for a ban on institutional investors scooping up single-family homes during his January State of the Union address.

Along with the limit on investor ownership, the ROAD Act would seek to boost housing supply by establishing pre-approved home designs, streamlining environmental reviews and encouraging zoning reforms to accelerate homebuilding.

Another provision would create a grant program, the Innovation Fund, that awards $200 million a year for five years to localities with a track record of increasing housing supply.

The bill would also launch a pilot program to help local governments convert vacant commercial buildings into affordable housing; unlock more federal funding for the construction of factory-built homes; and eliminate a rule that requires homes to be built on a chassis, a steel framework used to transport them.

Why have home prices soared?

A major reason home prices have skyrocketed after crashing during the 2007-09 financial crisis is that housing demand across the U.S. has far outstripped supply.

“There’s a general recognition that a big part of the reason why home sale prices and rents have gone up significantly is that we have under-built housing by millions of homes since the Great Recession,” said Dennis Shea, executive vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank that has expressed support for the ROAD Act.

The median home price in the U.S. now hovers around $403,000, up 77% from roughly $227,000 in 2011, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Americans need an annual household income of $116,780 to afford the average home, according to real estate firm Redfin.

A provision in the bill would cap the number of single-family homes that institutional investors can buy across the U.S. at 350 properties. The goal is to restrict deep-pocketed investors, such as private equity firms and real estate investment trusts, from buying up vast swaths of residential real estate.

During the 2007-08 housing crash, such investors capitalized on low-cost financing to hoover up thousands of foreclosed properties. Although that helped stabilize the housing market at the time, financial firms have continued to expand their holdings in the years that followed.

However, investment firms whose residential real estate portfolios currently exceed the proposed 350-home limit would not be required to liquidate any properties if the bill becomes law.

Investor ownership higher in some cities

A Senate aide told CBS News that the proposed rules for institutional investors are aimed at curbing their control of the housing market, including in metro areas where investors have an outsized influence. The restrictions apply to existing single-family homes, not new construction, a carveout that preserves incentives for financial firms to invest in new housing construction, the staffer noted.

As of 2025, larger institutional investors — those that own more than 1,000 homes — owned a combined 500,000 properties, accounting for 0.34% of U.S. housing stock and roughly 3% of the total single-family rental supply, according to analysts with BofA Global Research.

Yet such investors are a much larger presence in some cities. In Jacksonville, Florida, for example, investors own more than 20% of single-family rental homes, according to a 2026 U.S. Government Accountability Office analysis. Between 2018 and 2024, Dallas and Phoenix each added at least 16,000 investor-owned homes, up 177% and 114%, respectively, over that period.

Institutional investors “don’t own a large percentage of all the single-family homes in the United States, but it’s concentrated in certain communities throughout the country, and that’s the concern,” Shea said.

Would limiting investors make a difference?

The bill’s legislative backers tout it as an important step in addressing the critical shortage of affordable homes around the country.

“This bill is the result of years of work to lower costs, expand housing supply, cut red tape, protect taxpayers and help more Americans achieve the dream of homeownership,” Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, one of the main architects of the bill, said in a statement last week.

Experts are more tempered in assessing the bill’s potential impact. Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at the real estate firm Redfin, expressed doubt that the bill would meaningfully boost the nation’s housing supply, noting that investors could potentially skirt the ownership cap by breaking their holdings into smaller entities.

“A lot of people think that if we get rid of private equity, there will be all these houses available for sale for first-time homebuyers,” she said. “But that’s not going to happen.”

Yet Fairweather noted that the legislation could work to spur new home construction, potentially easing price pressures.

“Developers, they focus on large single-family homes or small apartments and condos,” she said. “With these new incentives in the act, we should see developers building more of that missing middle housing like town homes, multi-family or smaller condo buildings,” she told CBS News.

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US agencies probe near-miss between American, Delta jets at Boston airport

By David Shepardson
June 22, 2026 10:16 PM UTC Updated 29 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday it is opening ​an investigation into a near-miss incident that happened on Saturday between two passenger ‌jetliners at Boston Logan airport.

The crew of a Delta Air Lines DAL.N Airbus A319 on Saturday performed a go-around as an American Airlines AAL.O Boeing 737-800 was departing from an ​intersecting runway, said the Federal Aviation Administration, which is also investigating.

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Flightradar24, ​a flight tracking site, said the planes were about 325 ⁠to 350 feet apart at the intersection between the runways, based on ​barometric pressure readings, so actual distance between the closest parts of the aircraft ​was likely a bit smaller.

Delta said the crew of the flight arriving from Dallas followed established procedures in coordination with air traffic control and performed a go around ​on approach and landed safely.

American did not immediately comment.

Senator Jerry Moran, ​a Republican who chairs an aviation subcommittee, was scheduled on Tuesday to hold a hearing on close ‌calls ⁠in aviation, and he cited the incident.

“It is critical that we address the challenges facing our aviation system and improve the procedures and technologies that keep the flying public safe,” Moran said.

Airlines for America CEO Chris Sununu will testify at ​the Senate Commerce ​aviation subcommittee hearing ⁠Tuesday, saying the system is safe but must improve.

“When any layer exhibits signs of stress, whether localized or systemic, ​it demands a deliberate and appropriate response,” Sununu’s written ​testimony says. “We ⁠must methodically strengthen the system, capturing every insight to ensure we are not just responding to incidents but preventing them entirely.”

Congress is considering competing aviation safety ⁠reform measures ​after a January 2025 collision between an ​American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people near Reagan ​Washington National Airport.

Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Nia Williams and David Gregorio

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Mamdani defends criticism of AIPAC after being accused of antisemitism

2026-06-22T20:15:20.864Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/mamdani-aipac-new-york-primaries

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended his criticism of AIPAC after Jewish leaders accused him of antisemitism.

Mamdani faced scrutiny after describing groups who he said fund misleading political ads as “monsters” and denouncing the pro-Israel lobbying group.

The mayor on Monday argued that AIPAC supports a status quo he called immoral and cited the death toll in Gaza despite a ceasefire.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended his remarks last week sharply denouncing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after prominent Jewish leaders accused him of antisemitism.

“When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people, not just in Palestine, but frankly, through much of the region, and it is a status quo for immorality,” Mamdani said during a press conference at City Hall, pointing to Israeli operations in Gaza. “And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York.”

The mayor, a prominent critic of Israel’s government, is facing pushback after Jewish leaders argued that he went too far in his recent condemnation of the pro-Israel lobby’s spending in a New York House primary.

As Mamdani rallied with a slate of progressive challengers he has endorsed on Thursday, he described“monsters” that he said include “those who fund television ads that blanket the airwaves with misleading and bad faith attacks” against his three endorsed candidates. Mamdani then ripped into AIPAC, which has spent millions to boost pro-Israel candidates in congressional primaries this year, often by running ads that reference domestic issues rather than foreign policy.

“They move millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal, to preserve their power, so that they can turn us against one another, instead of our leaders turning towards the moral change we all know to be necessary,” Mamdani said.

According to Federal Election Commission filings, AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, made two political contributions last month totaling over $600,000 to BOLD America, which has been funding ads in support of Rep. Adriano Espaillat – whom Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is challenging in New York’s 13th District.

CNN has reached out to AIPAC for comment.

In the following days, the leaders of the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee condemned Mamdani’s remarks, accusing Mamdani of using antisemitic tropes and warning of the dangers of such language coming from the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel.

“Mayor Mamdani, referring to fellow New Yorkers as ‘monsters’ is outrageous and dangerous, and the impact of your words extends far beyond politics,” said Ted Deutch, the AJC’s CEO, in a post on X.

New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, echoed those concerns on Sunday evening.

“Swap ‘AIPAC’ for ‘Jews’ and it’s the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theory in the books,” Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, said in a post on X. “That’s not criticizing a lobby. That’s laundering antisemitism from your podium as Mayor of a city with more than a million Jews. This bullshit is dangerous.”

Mamdani stood by his remarks on Monday, noting the increasing death toll in Gaza despite a fragile, US-brokered ceasefire. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,000 people in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect in mid-October.

“I think that it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place,” he told reporters.

When pressed on his use of the term “monsters,” Mamdani said he was quoting Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, as he condemned super PAC spending in several New York races.

“I used the term to describe all those who are preventing the birth of a new world, not solely AIPAC, but frankly super PACs at large, who are spending millions of dollars in deceptive and misleading ads that are blanketing airwaves, not just in the case of Darializa Avila Chevalier, but also we see that kind of PAC spending when it comes to oppose Brad Lander, who’s running for Congress, as well as Claire Valdez, as well as a number of other races,” the mayor said.

“And I also use the term to describe a politics that, for far too long, has asked working people to lower their expectations,” he continued. “My use of the term is a broad use that speaks to the untenable nature of a status quo that is quite literally starving people in the city, all in the name of sustaining something that we simply cannot defend any longer.”

Lander has made Rep. Dan Goldman’s past support from AIPAC a key part of his campaign against the two-term incumbent, who declined to endorse Mamdani in either the primary or general election of last year’s mayoral race because he was concerned about the now-mayor’s stance on antisemitism.

Avila Chevalier, meanwhile, has faced criticism for attending a pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel – where militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages.

Political leaders widely condemned the rally in the aftermath of the attack and Lander said earlier this month that he canceled his membership with the Democratic Socialists of America for promoting it.

Accused by Espaillat of attending the rally to “celebrate the death of innocent people in Israel right after the attack,” Avila Chevalier pushed back at a debate earlier this month.

“I would never celebrate the death of any human being,” she said. “I was there at that rally on October 8 because I remembered what happened in 2014 and I knew that the reaction would be an outsize reaction that would cause the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people. And that is what I was there to protest.”

This story has been updated with additional details.

美国称伊朗同意恢复核设施检查 伊朗予以否认

2026年6月23日 07:06 / 联合早报

伊朗外交部发言人巴加埃说，伊朗与联合国核查人员的任何接触都将“按照现有程序”进行，同时得取得伊朗议会和最高国家安全委员会的同意。 （路透社 档案照片）

伊朗外交部说，瑞士四方会谈并未就核问题展开谈判，伊朗也没有作出任何“新的承诺”。

综合路透社和彭博社报道，美方首席谈判代表、副总统万斯星期一（6月22日）回国前在瑞士比尔根山召开记者会时说，德黑兰已同意邀请国际原子能机构（IAEA）的核查人员重返伊朗。美国总统特朗普随后也证实这一说法。

特朗普星期一在Truth Social发文称，各方都完全清楚，伊朗将“同意接受大规模武器核查”，以确保伊朗在未来长期保持“核诚信”。

不过，伊朗官员却对美方说法提出质疑，称万斯的言论“虚假且不符合事实”。

伊朗外交部发言人巴加埃接受伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社（IRNA）采访时说，伊朗未就核查做出任何新的承诺。伊朗与联合国核查人员的任何接触都将“按照现有程序”进行，同时得取得伊朗议会和最高国家安全委员会的同意。

这一分歧凸显美国和伊朗在履行上周签署的谅解备忘录方面仍面临挑战。美伊谅解备忘录旨在结束战争，并为达成一项长期协议铺平道路。然而，美伊谅解备忘录并未解决一些关键问题，甚至旨在向伊朗提供即时的经济利益，这招致了特朗普共和党盟友的猛烈批评。

Senate passes landmark housing affordability bill after bipartisan breakthrough

June 22, 2026 / 6:45 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The Senate passed a bill aimed at lowering housing costs on Monday after a major breakthrough and rare bipartisan consensus that comes as affordability remains top of mind for voters heading into the midterm elections.

In an 85-5 vote, the Senate approved the legislation along wide bipartisan margins. It now heads to the House for approval.

The bill, known as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aims to increase housing supply and bring down costs, including by limiting institutional investors from purchasing certain single-family homes.

The Senate approved an earlier version of the package in March, before the House in May approved another version. Then last week, the Senate Banking and House Financial Services committees announced a bicameral agreement on the long-sought legislation.

The bill represents the most sweeping housing legislation in decades. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement that it was the result of “years of work to lower costs, expand housing supply, cut red tape, protect taxpayers, and help more Americans achieve the dream of homeownership.”

“Now it is time to move forward, get this bill across the finish line, and deliver real relief for the American people,” Scott said.

Speaking from the Senate floor last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Banking Committee, outlined some of the bill’s more than 45 housing provisions. The legislation would remove some regulatory barriers and streamline environmental reviews to increase development of affordable housing; update chassis requirements for manufactured housing; create an innovation fund for communities increasing housing supply; and support housing opportunities for veterans, among other things.

“There is so much in this bill,” Warren said. “Each piece, directing us toward increasing the supply of housing, bringing down the cost, and making housing something that is not just a Wall Street investment, but is actually there for American families.”

The White House has pushed for the provision limiting purchases of single-family homes by institutional investors, which proponents say would benefit homebuyers by cutting competition.

The legislation now heads to the House, which is returning from recess this week and is expected to move quickly.

GOP Rep. French Hill of Arkansas, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, touted the adoption of “key House priorities” in the final text of the bill in a statement last week, pointing to nine community banking bills and the language limiting institutional investors.

“This bill is a meaningful step toward increasing housing supply, improving affordability, and helping more Americans achieve homeownership,” Hill said. “I look forward to President Trump signing it into law.”

Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, also cheered the final agreement. She noted that while “no compromise is perfect, this legislation reflects meaningful progress.”

“This is an important step forward, not the final destination,” Waters said. “I look forward to continuing my work to lower housing costs, address homelessness, expand affordable housing, and ensure every family has access to a safe and stable place to call home.”

The bill’s progress marks a major and rare bipartisan achievement during an election year, and comes as Congress has been marred in recent months by gridlock and obstruction. But with the affordability issue’s continued salience for Americans, lawmakers are moving forward in bipartisan fashion as the midterm elections approach.

When the Senate advanced the bill last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune touted the legislation as “a significant bill to make life more affordable for hardworking Americans,” while adding that “it’s just the latest item on Republicans’ agenda to address the cost of living.”

“I look forward to getting this bill through Congress in short order, sending it to the president’s desk and delivering another major win for the American people,” the South Dakota Republican said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the bipartisan bill “shows Americans how we should govern,” while noting that “the fact that Democrats and Republicans were able to come together on the ROAD to Housing, at a time of such division, shows just how dire America’s housing crisis is today.”

“I’m pleased we’ve seized this opportunity to come up with a reasonable, bipartisan solution to help the American people — opportunities that have become few and far between thanks to the chaos coming out of the White House,” the New York Democrat added. “This is how Americans want Congress to govern.”

Trump-backed housing overhaul targeting Wall Street investors clears Senate

June 22, 2026 6:39pm EDT / Fox News

The 21st Century Road to Housing Act is the first major push by Congress to address housing regulations in decades

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The Senate advanced a massive, Trump-backed housing package that proponents say will prevent the U.S. from becoming a “nation of renters.”

The upper chamber sent the 21st Century Road to Housing Act to the House on Monday after months of delay. After the heads of the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee reached a deal last week, the package is on a glide path to President Donald Trump’s desk.

It’s the first major push by Congress to address housing regulations in decades, and one Trump has been calling on lawmakers to complete as the midterm elections near.

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The Senate advanced a massive, Trump-backed housing package geared toward lowering the costs of homes and supercharging the housing supply. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pitched it as legislation to prevent America from becoming a “nation of renters.”(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Protect Borrowers; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Loaded with nearly 60 different provisions, the package broadly tackles rolling back some permitting regulations, launches several pilot grant programs to build, repair and push affordable housing construction, and blocks investors from buying up housing stock — a key provision pushed by Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of the architects of the package, said the legislation was “not the federal government big footing local government,” but instead the federal government laying out tweaks to current programs and policies that “over time will make housing more affordable.”

“This is a housing package that will help increase supply and bring down costs,” Warren said. “One way is by beating back private equity, so they won’t invade your neighborhood, buy up all the houses, and turn America into a nation of renters.”

Warren said that among several things, the package increases access to manufactured housing by changing the federal definition to open up for more units to be constructed, pre-approved plan books for local governments to quickly approve new construction, and the waiving of some environmental review regulations for the construction of new homes.

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“It’s not just one piece that’s gonna solve a problem,” Warren said. “It’s a whole lot of smaller pieces that push in the same direction that’s important.”

The package also tries to turbocharge housing stock by tying federal grants and incentives sought by local governments to housing construction. And there are tweaks to mortgages, with a push for small-dollar mortgages at $100,000 and updates to lending standards for manufactured homes.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, whose provision to establish pre-approved housing designs to speed up home construction made it into the package, said the legislation “sends a signal to state and local communities, to say, ‘Hey, guys, you really have to drive down the cost of housing, and you do that by not torturing homebuilders.’”

TRUMP CAN SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS, BUT HE NEEDS TO GET TOUGH WITH STATES

Sen. Bernie Moreno speaks as President Donald Trump hosts Republican lawmakers and auto executives in the Oval Office to announce changes to fuel economy standards on Dec. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

While there are several moving parts to the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, it does not tackle every facet of housing costs.

For instance, it does not allocate fresh federal funding for the issue, as Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., has lauded the package as being deficit neutral. Nor does it directly address rising costs of homeownership, given that much of the thrust is focused on building new homes and lowering the barrier of entry for Americans to get into a home.

And for some, it does not go far enough to address permitting issues.

Sen. Alan Armstrong, R-Okla., argued that the “legislation as drafted fails to meaningfully address” the issues of housing costs.

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“Instead, this legislation makes a half-hearted attempt to waive minor environmental laws while failing to address the need for permitting reform at large,” Armstrong said.

“Our permitting process deserves its own committed effort, and attaching weak slivers of those reforms to unrelated legislation undermines the work currently being done to pass comprehensive, meaningful permitting reform,” he said.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Justice Department charges two more in alleged plot to attack White House UFC event

2026-06-22T21:41:23.486Z / CNN

Two additional men face federal charges in an alleged plot to attack a UFC event at the White House earlier this month.
One defendant allegedly discussed rigging drones with explosives and controlling over 40 drones at once, according to court complaints.
Another suspect told investigators he felt he had armed a terrorist by providing a firearm to the alleged group leader.

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Two more men have been charged in the alleged plot to attack the UFC White House fight earlier this month, providing new insight on how far in preparation the Justice Department believes the group came in carrying out the would-be attack.

One man, who was arrested Sunday at his mother’s home in Missouri, told officers he felt he had “armed a terrorist,” according to a new criminal complaint.

The man, Jordan Rincker, allegedly gave another defendant in the case a firearm in exchange for money, a computer and a 3D printer to help build drones rigged with explosives.

Rincker, according to the complaint, told law enforcement he had been lying to the group and didn’t know how to build drones and had no explosives.

Another man whose criminal complaint was released Monday, William Lee Spartacus Falkner, spoke at length in a group chat with several other defendants about how he could rig drones with explosives, which explosives would be best to cause maximum damage, and how they could purchase the drones and other parts.

Both Falkner and Rincker made their initial appearances in federal court Monday, according to the Justice Department. CNN has reached out to their attorneys.

In early June, when one person from the group warned they had a week before the UFC fight to get drones – adding that, “It’s gonna be a f*cking bloodbath (heartface emoji)” – Falkner replied they had five drones so far, according to the complaint.

“We’re looking at 200-300$/drone if you want this done right,” Falkner allegedly told one of the groups, adding that they should purchase specific drones that can’t be remotely jammed by law enforcement and can carry “at least 12 pounds.”

The complaint quotes messages allegedly from Falkner discussing how he alone could control over 40 drones at a time and what explosives they should use for maximum damage but does not say if Falkner had any drones or explosives in his possession.

When news of the first spate of arrests over the alleged plot were first reported and announced by FBI Director Kash Patel last week, Falkner allegedly sent a message over Instagram.

“Work trip is canceled. My boss got picked up,” Falkner wrote, with a news article on the arrests attached, the complaint says.

“In the article I sent you it mentions the involvement of everyone but me and the people you already know,” Falkner allegedly added. “Because we took precautions. My phone is jailbroken btw.”

According to the complaint, Falkner also wrote that “we didn’t trust my boss to do this right going into everything” and that “we all felt something was going wrong.”

Falkner allegedly said he was “still being paid.”

In the days leading up to the UFC event, Rincker was added to a private chat – discussing plans to attack the UFC fight using drones rigged with explosives and snipers – by another defendant and alleged leader of the group, Abraham Alvarez, the complaint says.

Alvarez introduced Rincker in the group as “our manufacturer” and Rincker himself said he could help make small drones rigged with explosives, according to the complaint.

Alvarez gave Rincker a 3D printer, shield, night vision goggles, over $1,000, and a Mac minicomputer, according to the complaint.

Rincker later told Alvarez he found explosives and sent pictures of the 3D printer to Alvarez, adding that it was working “like a damn champ brother.” Rincker also allegedly shared with others what law enforcement believes was a proposed plot by Alvarez to attack a FIFA World Cup game in Missouri in early July.

Rincker told the agents he knew why they were there, that he had no explosives, and had only drove to meet Alvarez because he wanted a friend.

“I’m a real idiot for not stepping aside the moment he said what he wanted. But it’s what you guys know,” he told investigators, according to the complaint. He also allegedly said he “armed a terrorist” by giving his shotgun to Alvarez.

Rincker also said, according to the complaint, when asked about his idea to the group of using PVC pipe in building drones, that he “was just giving them bullsh*t ideas to make them think I was building a drone” and planned to just pocket the money and keep the printer.

“Rincker stated that Alvarez gave him the 3D printer to make drones,” the complaint states, “and that he didn’t know if Alvarez wanted him to load the drones with explosives, but ‘from the sounds of everything, that’s probably where this [was] leaning.’”

Nancy Guthrie ransom notes likely came from abductor who said she died, investigators believe

2026-06-22 6:36 PM EDT / CBS News

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Authorities believe two ransom notes addressed to Nancy Guthrie’s family days after her disappearance — including a note that said she had died — were likely sent by the person or group of people who abducted her, according to investigators familiar with the case. Investigators believe the same person or people sent both notes and that both were likely sent from the same computer IP address.

The first note demanded millions in bitcoin for Nancy Guthrie’s release. In the second note, sent a few days later, the apparent abductors revealed that Nancy Guthrie had died. The note indicated that they did not mean for her to die, according to sources who reviewed the notes.

Her daughter, “Today” show co-hostSavannah Guthrie, said in an interview with NBC in March that the family believes the two notes are authentic.

“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came, and I think most of them — it’s my understanding — are not real, and I didn’t see them,” she said. “But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”

The first note, sent on Feb. 2, one day after Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, was sent to three media outlets — two local news stations and TMZ — via their online tiplines. That note gave highly specific details about Guthrie’s home, including that an Apple Watch with a white band was on the floor of her bedroom and that her back porch light was broken, according to investigators. The note was addressed to Savannah Guthrie, according to multiple sources familiar with the note.

The second note was sent on Feb. 6 and was similar in language and style but did not make any demands, according to sources who reviewed both notes.

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings publicly addressed their mother’s kidnappers in an Instagram video posted after the second note was sent.

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“We received your message and we understand,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. … This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”

The task force made up of FBI and Pima County detectives continues to investigate her kidnapping and search for Guthrie and her abductors.

Editor’s note: The video featured on this page was recorded on May 12.