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Good Government 1 of 16

Des Moines approves a 20-year lease and zoning permit for a tiny-home village offering 50 chronically homeless residents permanent housing at $300 a month with on-site healthcare.

No income required to move in

Source: Good Good Good

June 24, 2026

Fighting Back 2 of 16

North Carolina's attorney general reaches a $7 million settlement barring a major landlord from algorithmic rent-setting, the third such deal in a case prosecutors say inflated rents statewide.

Greystar and Cortland already settled

Source: GovTech

June 24, 2026

Culture 3 of 16

Trump headlines his own Great American State Fair on the National Mall after musical acts quit over the event's partisan tone, declaring a once "dead" America now the world's hottest country.

Greenwood sang, Duffy mocked "libtards"

Source: NBC News

June 24, 2026

Intelligence 4 of 16

Acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte removes about 50 staff from the national intelligence office in his first days, gutting the directorate that coordinates all 18 U.S. spy agencies.

Pulte still runs Fannie and Freddie

Source: NextGov

June 24, 2026

Foreign Relations 5 of 16

France calls for an orderly U.S. military drawdown from Europe, telling Washington to coordinate its troop and weapons pullbacks rather than blindsiding allies as it has repeatedly this year.

Won't replace U.S. capabilities one-for-one

Source: Politico

June 24, 2026

Immigration 6 of 16

A federal judge throws out the Trump administration's lawsuit against four New Jersey sanctuary cities, ruling it had no standing because state law already bars the cooperation it sought to end.

Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Hoboken

Source: The New Jersey Monitor

June 24, 2026

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