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What Happened Today – June 16

June 16, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 184 🔥
Extreme. News volume is off the charts.
This is an indexed score based on news activity.
100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 84% above normal.
Recent trend: 32% above the long-term baseline.
Previous 5 Days 80 | 96 | 168 | 168 | 192

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Immigration, Criminal Justice, Foreign Relations
7 Day Trending Topics: ICE, Israel, Iran

⚠️ Trump is brushing away every safety system that keeps Americans alive, treating radiation standards and cancer protections like paperwork cluttering his desk. What took him four years to attempt in his first term, he’s now accomplishing in months with a GOP Congress that cheers while he waves away laws in the interest of his agenda. The casual cruelty is his entire operating system. Safety is expensive and inconvenient.

Get to your elected representatives now with the power of the No Kings march behind you. Tell them that wildfire, science, nuclear power, and asbestos regulations are critical.

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Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

US border agents detained Australian writer Alistair Kitchen for 12 hours at LAX, downloaded his phone’s contents, and expelled him over Israel-Gaza views.

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