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.
FBI Director Patel runs the New York Times leak investigation from the White House at its direction, hours before four reporters receive grand jury subpoenas.
Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times reporters, with agents visiting some homes, after stories revealed the Qatari Air Force One lacks antimissile defenses.
Smithsonian chief Bunch tells staff the White House report accusing the American History museum of “thinly veiled anti-Americanism” mischaracterizes its work.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Appeals court rules Florida’s Stop WOKE Act unconstitutional at state universities, with a Trump-appointed judge writing the state cannot puppeteer every professor it pays.
ICE’s internal watchdog office has opened 131 investigations of online critics while its detention facility inspection reports fell nearly half since 2023.
Rochester man sues DHS alleging agents violated the First Amendment by tracking him to a hotel over an angry email criticizing ICE’s former director.
Supreme Court lets Texas enforce its app store age-verification law while a First Amendment challenge proceeds, denying tech industry and student emergency appeals.
White House Independence Day report brands Smithsonian leadership radical activists who cannot be trusted to tell America’s story, signaling Trump may install loyalists.
Energy Department deletes its own 78-degree thermostat guidance after conservatives mock NYC Mayor Mamdani for giving identical heat wave advice.
Appeals court rules the Trump administration can keep slavery, climate, and immigration materials out of national parks, reversing a June restoration order.
Colorado Governor Polis fires two clemency board members who revealed the board unanimously rejected Tina Peters’ release twice before he freed her.
Justice Gorsuch warns the ruling lets presidents weaponize agencies against disfavored businesses, citing the FCC chairman’s threat over Jimmy Kimmel.
Federal agents track a vacationing ICE critic to his New York City hotel over an angry email he sent the agency in January.
Trump brands D.C.’s likely next mayor a “Communist” days after her primary win, and Janeese Lewis George rejects the claims while saying she will still work with him.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.
The Trump administration lets Anthropic release its most powerful AI model to roughly 100 approved companies and agencies, claiming new authority to decide who gets frontier AI.
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified notes from his memoir, a rare win in Trump’s campaign of prosecutions against critics.
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
FCC Chairman Carr opens a proceeding that could shrink or end E-Rate, the $2 billion program connecting schools and libraries to the internet, citing student screen time.
The administration asks OpenAI to limit its next model to government-approved partners before any public release, the first time Washington has preemptively restricted an AI model’s launch.
The fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman sues the Pentagon, alleging she was dismissed days after a column criticizing its efforts to control the military paper’s editorial independence.
An internal Interior Department memo bars National Park Service staff from confirming visitor deaths or injuries, reversing a longtime disclosure policy that rangers say keeps the public safe.
A nonprofit relaunches the government’s deleted climate.gov, restoring 15 years of data, research, and the National Climate Assessment the Trump administration took down.
The Justice Department withdraws subpoenas targeting Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporters in leak probes Trump pushed by handing his AG Iran-war articles marked ‘Treason.’
A Covid vaccine study showing the shots roughly halved severe illness was blocked from the CDC’s journal and published instead by the American Medical Association.
Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.
Trump declares on Truth Social that British Prime Minister Starmer “will resign,” faulting his immigration and energy record as UK media reports his Monday exit.
Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
The Kennedy Center refuses to book any performances despite a court order to stay open, telling the judge it will decide on closing at a mid-July board vote.
