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.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore climate change and Wabanaki Nations signs removed from Acadia and other national parks, ruling the removals rewrote history “with a white-out pen.”
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration’s appeal to strip Philadelphia’s President’s House slavery exhibits, undoing a February order that had forced their restoration.
A federal appeals court lets Ohio enforce its 2023 law requiring parental consent before children under 16 use social media, reversing a block in place since 2024.
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
Anthropic sends staff to Washington to get the export controls lifted after they forced it to shut down its two most powerful AI models.
Homeland Security says foreign influencers need work visas to make money posting from the World Cup, threatening FIFA’s deals with dozens of TikTok and YouTube creators.
Anthropic’s investor Amazon triggers Friday’s White House takedown of the AI firm’s new Fable model, calling it a security threat days after launch.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery and climate it stripped from national parks, ruling the removals unlawful censorship.
Crews begin prying Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center after two courts reject the board’s last-ditch bid to keep it past a judge’s deadline.
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic’s two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
FCC proposes requiring telecoms to collect government ID numbers and addresses from every phone customer, effectively ending anonymous burner phones in the U.S.
Activists move their “Trump and Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released DOJ files, to downtown Washington for the president’s birthday.
Judge dismisses the Trump Kennedy Center’s lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd, ruling it retaliation for his objection to Trump’s name.
American Diabetes Association has state troopers remove five doctors from its conference for handing out an editorial from its own journal criticizing Trump’s research cuts.
Senator Rick Scott urges the taxpayer-funded Tampa Sports Authority to cancel two Kanye West concerts over the rapper’s antisemitism.
Trump’s presidential library says it cannot find a single Twitter direct message from his first term, despite evidence he sent them.
The National Science Foundation suspends $21 million in UC Berkeley grants over undisclosed foreign funding from allied nations that several researchers say they never received.
Federal judge blocks the National Park Service from revoking a DC anti-Trump protest permit over an “86 47” flag, finding no evidence the speech threatens the president.
Pentagon bars journalists from its press office by reclassifying the room as a secure facility for handling classified material, calling the move uncontroversial.
White House launches a space-themed website mocking immigrants as extraterrestrials that lists more than 700 locations where arrests were made of people born in the United States.
New York criminalizes blocking entry to houses of worship and authorizes 50-foot no-protest zones after synagogue demonstrations.
OPM proposes requiring all federal employees to sign NDA barring disclosure of internal information after leaks exposed controversial layoff and performance management plans.
Supreme Court reverses ruling that would have let immigration judges challenge DOJ rules requiring permission for public speeches on immigration.
Ball State pays $225K to settle health director’s ACLU suit, fourth Kirk-speech payout this year after Indiana AG Rokita amplified private post.
NIAID scientists at NIH barred from speaking with WHO during active U.S. hantavirus and Congo Ebola outbreaks, four months after Trump’s WHO withdrawal.
Justice Department deletes press releases documenting Jan. 6 prosecutions from its website, calling the official record of insurrection charges ‘partisan propaganda.’
White House orders all federal agencies to auto-install its official app on every government phone, pushing Trump policy statements, social media feeds, and a “text President Trump” button to millions of employees.
OMB orders agencies to report all federal spending on 49 nonprofits doing DEI, LGBTQ+, immigration, civil rights, environmental and humanitarian work, including funding under active litigation.
Official White House Instagram posts AI video of Trump throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster on the Ed Sullivan stage one day after the Late Show finale.
Louisiana House committee advances new congressional map eliminating second majority-Black district three weeks after Supreme Court’s Callais ruling, hiding voided ballot counts from disclosure.
CFPB deletes 1,700 pre-Vought pages including medical debt and solar loan consumer advisories as Russell Vought seeks to cut staff from 1,174 to 556.
Florida pays $485,000 to biologist fired over Kirk parody, second First Amendment payout this week after Tennessee’s $835,000.
Federal judge orders White House staff to comply with 1978 Presidential Records Act, rejecting DOJ memo declaring the post-Watergate law unconstitutional.