Federal judge finds ICE likely violated the First Amendment when agents tracked a Rochester man to three locations over a scathing email calling its director a Nazi.
Interior Department plans to post a dozen signs costing $84,000 outside the National Museum of American History warning visitors of Smithsonian leaders’ “anti-white animus,” The Atlantic reports.
Federal judge tosses Nashville Spanish-language reporter’s claim ICE arrested her in retaliation for covering raids, ruling on procedure and leaving the First Amendment question unanswered.
Jimmy Kimmel moves his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico off ABC and onto YouTube to shield local stations from FCC license threats.
Federal judge permanently bars West Point from making professors seek approval to publish or speak, a rule adopted a month after Trump’s “un-American” ideas order.
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, 73, the institution’s first Black leader, announces he will retire at year’s end, saying Trump’s “improper ideology” attacks played no role.
Federal judge lets Pentagon fire 3 Stars and Stripes journalists for telling CBS their reporting should be free of government influence, finding no clear First Amendment violation.
Federal appeals court refuses to rehear Philadelphia’s fight to restore President’s House panels on 9 people Washington enslaved, leaving the city only a Supreme Court petition.
Trump administration threatens to end federal artifact loans, grants and contracts to the Smithsonian “under current leadership,” escalating a year-long campaign over its slavery and diversity exhibits.
Pentagon yanks decades of classified deployment records off its secret network, days after the Washington Post reported top commanders used them to warn the Iran war is unsustainable.
Pentagon gives 3 million personnel ChatGPT and Musk’s Grok for unclassified work, days after a judge ruled it unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for refusing surveillance and weapons uses.
Treasury Department denies credentials to New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reporters for the G20 finance meeting it hosts in North Carolina, offering no explanation.
Trump vows to report NBC’s Kristen Welker to the FCC “for rebuke or punishment” over calling his endorsement record “mixed,” after 6 of his picks lost Republican primaries this month.
Homeland Security uses a customs-import law to obtain a Minneapolis journalist’s phone records without court approval, weeks after a judge twice rejected its warrant request.
Pentagon pauses the firing of 3 Stars and Stripes journalists until September 4 after a judge asked for more time to weigh their First Amendment suit.
Federal judge rules unconstitutional the immigration provision Rubio used to deport foreign students for criticizing Israel, in a case won by Stanford’s student newspaper.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Federal judge rules the Pentagon violated the First Amendment by barring Anthropic from defense work to “make a public example” of its criticism of military AI plans.
Secret Service puts 3 communications officials on leave, including its comms chief, stripping their clearances as leak investigations roil the agency.
Judge blocks Florida International University from punishing students who silently protested campus police working as ICE agents, citing 60 years of precedent.
Arbitrator orders the Washington Post to rehire columnist Karen Attiah, ruling the paper failed to prove her posts refusing to mourn Charlie Kirk were misconduct.
Pentagon fires the Stars and Stripes editor in chief and a reporter for insubordination after both defended the paper’s independence in CBS interviews.
Trump threatens the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion suit unless it retracts a report finding his Guard deployments had no effect on crime.
US sanctions 9 Cuban state firms and detains American citizens returning from Castro centenary events, seizing their phones at the Miami airport.
Stars and Stripes publisher retires after 19 years citing fundamental differences with Hegseth’s Pentagon, months after it fired the paper’s editorial independence ombudsman.
Disney sues the FCC and Chair Carr to halt the early license review of all eight ABC stations, calling it retaliation for speech Trump dislikes.
EPA quietly stops publishing cancer risk estimates from air pollution after 2 decades, leaving raw emissions data the public cannot interpret alone.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sue Trump over Truth API, arguing the $100,000 monthly feed sells early access to official statements.
State Department announces 175,000 visa revocations since January 2025, including some for social media posts and 100 at one embassy over birth tourism.
Florida AG Uthmeier demands six years of New York Times board records, wielding the state pension’s 160,000 shares and threatening suit within two weeks.
Former Air Force Secretary Kendall will sue to restore the security clearance stripped after reports on the Qatari jet’s missing antimissile defenses.
Pentagon strips former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s security clearance, blaming him for reports that Trump’s Qatari jet lacks antimissile defenses.
Federal judge voids the Energy Department’s policy closing older public records requests unless requesters emailed to reconfirm interest, ruling FOIA grants no such authority.
Trump vows to hunt down and jail leakers of missile-shortage reports as Iran and Oman agree on a route to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
DOJ demands a New York Times freelancer’s testimony and 2 years of notes to unmask sources on a botched SEAL mission that killed unarmed North Koreans.
ABC argues in an FCC filing that early license review of eight stations is retaliation for Trump coverage, warning every network faces the same choice.
Kennedy Center halts free public tours after 55 years, days after a volunteer guide criticized Trump’s overhaul in the New York Times.
Ex-FBI Director Comey moves to dismiss the felony case over his seashell photo, arguing 86 means eject in every dictionary and the prosecution itself punishes speech.
Trump orders the Smithsonian’s American History museum to post signs warning visitors about exhibits a White House report calls radical social justice activism.
DOJ withdraws subpoenas of three New York Times reporters and their family members after a judge threatens sanctions, though it vows to keep hunting their sources.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
Energy Department deletes its entire 1,600-page consumer energy section without explanation, wiping utility-savings guidance drawing 160,000 monthly views during heat waves.
Trump orders debarment officials to review a judicial science manual over its climate chapter, which the judiciary already withdrew under Republican pressure.
Justice Department seeks phone records of New York Times reporters’ spouses and one reporter’s mother in its hunt for Qatari jet story sources.
Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep requiring government escorts for journalists, overturning a judge who found the restrictions defied his prior order.
Trump demands ABC and NBC lose their broadcast licenses for declining to air his election address live, while merger-seeking CBS carried it.
Federal judge blocks State Department from revoking visas and green cards of researchers targeted solely for working in content moderation and disinformation fields.
National Park Service installs panels overnight at Philadelphia’s President’s House saying Washington’s enslaved staff enjoyed autonomy and theater tickets, replacing exhibits on slavery’s brutality.
New York Times moves to quash grand jury subpoenas FBI agents served at three reporters’ homes demanding they name confidential sources.
Hegseth creates a Pentagon-DOJ task force to prosecute leakers, over a year after sharing airstrike timing in Signal chats with his wife and brother.
