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[Americana:] Hegseth Pantsed In Pentagon Men’s Room

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  Hegseth Pantsed In Pentagon Men’s Room (AP) Newswire In a bizarre incident at the Pentagon today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was reportedly pantsed in a men’s room by a disgruntled female soldier angry about Hegseth’s stance on women in combat. Assisted by PFPA officers, a shaken Hegseth is seen emerging from a men's room at the Pentagon. Hegseth later remarked that the assailant was remarkably strong, although he said he would not revisit his stance on women in combat roles. The unidentified woman remains at large inside the Pentagon. According to unnamed sources at the Pentagon, Hegseth had just left a high level meeting where he had once again berated high level officers and other military leadership, calling them effeminate, weak, and out of shape. Once the meeting adjourned, Hegseth reportedly entered a men’s room where he was confronted by an unidentified woman, dressed in combat fatigues, hiding in one of the stalls. Hegseth claims to have then been overpowered and, whi...
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Hungary lifts block on Ukraine’s E.U. bid, but long timeline could put Kyiv at risk

Hungary agreed to drop its opposition to opening the formal access talks but is still opposed to the fast-track membership process that Ukraine says it needs as protection from Russia. June 4, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EDT 4 min/ Summary Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar, flanked by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addresses the media at E.U. headquarters in Brussels on May 29. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By Serhii Korolchuk, David L. Stern and Beatriz Ríos, The Washington Post KYIV — Hungary has lifted its longtime opposition to Ukraine opening formal talks to join the European Union − offering a glimmer of hope to a country traumatized by war that sees membership as crucial to escaping the claws of Russia and securing a free, democratic future. But even as Hungary lowered the roadblock imposed by then-Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was voted out in April, his successor, Peter Magyar, said the country would continue to oppose a fast-track accession process sought by Ukra...
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Why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hangs over tennis like no other sport

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Elina Svitolina is one Ukrainian player on the WTA Tour, where Ukrainians and Russians meet regularly.   Sebastien Bozon / AFP via Getty Images By Charlie Eccleshare [see below for bio] The New York Times , June 2, 2026 l Updated June 3, 2026;  original article contains numerous links The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 French Open quarterfinals. It’s easy to think of tennis’ relationship with Russia’s war in Ukraine through the prism of a few key moments. Russian player Andrey Rublev wrote “no war please” on a camera lens in February 2022, shortly after Russia’s invasion. In September 2022, Daria Kasatkina, also Russian, described the war as a “full-blown nightmare” in a series of interviews in which she also came out as gay. Kasatkina earlier this year defected to Australia, saying in a news conference, “if I want to be myself, I have to make this step.” Wimbledon banned Russian and Belarusian players from competing in 2022, to which the ATP and WTA Tours responded b...
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

For the first time since the 1930s, more   people are moving out of the U.S. than moving in .   From:  The Wall Street Journal , June 2, 2026
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House Advances New Sanctions on Russia and Aid to Ukraine

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After G.O.P. leaders blocked additional aid to Ukraine, six Republicans and an Independent joined Democrats to force the measure to the floor against the wishes of the speaker. Damage from Russian strikes in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in February. The House took up legislation that aims to target Russia’s oil and gas sector, its primary source of wartime revenue. Credit... Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times By Robert Jimison Reporting from the Capitol June 3, 2026, 5:41 p.m. ET The New York Times Defying Republican leaders, the House voted on Wednesday to take up a bill to impose sweeping new sanctions on Russia and provide additional aid to Ukraine, after a bloc of G.O.P. defectors joined Democrats in an effort to ratchet up pressure on Moscow more than four years into the war. The bill, which still must win passage in the House, faces a difficult path to enactment, given divisions in the Senate over a sanctions package and objections from the White House. President Trump has ...
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Ukraine Strikes St. Petersburg on First Day of a Marquee Putin Event

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As an annual economic conference was set to begin, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had targeted a navy base and an oil terminal in the region that includes Russia’s second-largest city. Smoke rising from the port of St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday. Ukraine has been expanding a campaign of long-range strikes aimed at inflicting economic damage on Russia. Credit... Associated Press By Ivan Nechepurenko and Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times Ivan Nechepurenko reported from St. Petersburg, Russia, and Andrew E. Kramer from Kyiv, Ukraine. June 3, 2026;   Updated 8:30 a.m. ET ; see  also and also Ukrainian drones on Wednesday attacked St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, on the opening day of an annual economic conference that President Vladimir V. Putin has tried to cultivate into a showcase of a modern and prosperous country. It was the second time in a month that Ukraine had struck a major Russian city before an event important to Mr. Putin, as Ky...
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Putin’s deliberate brutality in Ukraine has a backstory

Image that could not be reproduced properly: Russian service members walk in a Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 5. (Anastasia Barashkova/Reuters)    Opinion The past holds Russia prisoner. This cruelty in war shows how. Yesterday at 7:30 a.m. EDT By Antony Beevor Antony Beevor is the author, most recently, of “Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs.” The deliberate brutality of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has raised a debate about its origins. Were killings such as the 2022 Bucha massacre “casual savagery,” as one commentator put it? Or did they derive from an ancient, underlying assumption in Russia that conspicuous cruelty is a necessary weapon of war? One can never generalize about a whole nation, especially not Russia, with all its different component nationalities and its split between Slavophiles and Westerners. Nor can there be such a thing as a DNA-based national character. At the same time, most countries are influenced, at least subconsciously, by a certain s...
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