Trump overrules DHS Secretary Mullin’s pause on ICE traffic stops one day after it began, following MAGA criticism the shootings response looked weak.
Pentagon plans to keep National Guard troops in Washington through the 2029 inauguration, converting a crime surge into a garrison costing $3 million daily.
Trump says the FBI is wasting its time chasing conspiracy theories about Lindsey Graham’s death, a day after agents entered the senator’s Washington home.
Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission refers Musk to prosecutors after finding probable cause his $1 million voter payments broke the state’s election bribery law.
Danville, Virginia’s gang prevention program awards achieving youths a coin redeemable at local businesses, with outreach workers introducing them on first visits.
Feds hand Minnesota prosecutors long-withheld evidence in the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, six months after federal agents shot them.
ICE shoots and kills a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, who DHS Secretary Mullin admits was not the agents’ intended target.
Judge permanently dismisses Proud Boys leaders’ January 6 seditious conspiracy convictions at DOJ’s request, writing that granting the motion is not agreement with it.
Passengers say ICE shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo from the sides with no agent in front of his van, contradicting the agency’s self-defense claim.
Judge admonishes Chicago US Attorney Boutros for revealing sealed suspect photos at a DOJ press conference while one Tren de Aragua defendant remained at large.
Judge says the man charged with killing Guard member Sarah Beckstrom is in “dire circumstances” after a jail hunger strike, some days refusing water.
Three-time Olympian David Hearn pleads not guilty to felony property destruction for touching peeling coating on the Reflecting Pool during a June bike ride.
ICE’s acting director tells Rep. Sylvia Garcia that agents who killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo were not targeting him and wore no body cameras.
Appeals court upholds Illinois’s assault weapons ban 2-1 a week after the Supreme Court agreed to review similar bans, with a Trump appointee writing the majority.
Ohio grand jury indicts 8 men on terrorism and murder conspiracy charges in a foiled drone and sniper attack targeting Trump’s June White House UFC event.
Three more people plead not guilty to damaging the Reflecting Pool’s peeling $14.6 million liner as an Olympian faces a felony for pulling loose coating.
Harris County DA asks the public for video of ICE’s killing of a Houston worker, saying federal authorities are excluding local investigators entirely.
Judge fines ex-Judge Dugan $5,000 with no prison for helping an immigrant avoid ICE arrest, rejecting prosecutors’ 15-to-21-month recommendation.
DEA agent kills a fugitive during a Memphis hotel arrest, the second fatal shooting by federal task force members in the city in four days.
Florida prosecutors charge two sitting St. Johns County commissioners and three others with mailing fake voter guides bearing forged Republican Party endorsements before the 2024 election.
ICE officer kills Mexican construction worker during Houston traffic stop as DHS repeats the “weaponized his vehicle” claim that video undercut in Renee Good’s killing.
Judge rules Trump’s blanket January 6 pardon does not shield the accused DC pipe bomber, who was not charged until months after it issued.
Tennessee National Guard soldiers on Memphis task force duty fatally shoot a 20-year-old man police say turned a handgun toward them during a foot chase.
Paul Pelosi, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, is expected to face a misdemeanor charge after hitting a parked car in Napa County and driving away.
A medical examiner’s report shows Camp East Montana staff dismissed a detainee’s suicide attempt as manipulation and repeatedly skipped his antipsychotic drugs before his death, ruled a homicide.
A New Orleans special prosecutor refuses to withdraw the arrest warrant for Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill despite a state Supreme Court stay of her 16-count indictment.
Trump pardons six unnamed people imprisoned for disabling vehicle pollution controls, claiming they were persecuted for “fixing their car.”
Chicago FBI chief Douglas DePodesta abruptly departs as an official bureau account says anyone “not on board with THIS FBI” under Trump can leave.
FBI assigns 260 additional intelligence analysts to its Georgia 2020 election investigation, an internal memo priority revived by a White House election denier’s referral.
Orleans Parish grand jury indicts Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill on 16 felony counts over letters threatening New Orleans officials with removal from office.
Federal grand jury indicts 67-year-old Olympic canoeist on felony property destruction over Reflecting Pool sealant as Trump blames vandals for his failing $15 million repaint.
Fourteen Minnesota protesters plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges as prosecutors say they need 90 extra days to process 20 terabytes of evidence.
The Bureau of Prisons permanently closes six federal facilities across four states, citing an extreme staffing crisis despite receiving $5 billion from last year’s budget law.
Colorado Governor Polis fires two clemency board members who revealed the board unanimously rejected Tina Peters’ release twice before he freed her.
Federal judges sentence seven more people for terrorism over the shooting at a Texas immigration detention center protest, a week after eight others got up to 100 years.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor launches a review of more than 1,000 grand jury presentations after misconduct forced dismissal of charges against immigration crackdown protesters.
The Supreme Court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll.
A Virginia judge blocks the state’s assault weapons ban six days before it takes effect, citing Supreme Court gun rulings, as Attorney General Jay Jones vows to appeal.
A false abuse report removes former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s 4-year-old twins from his home for 24 hours before Michigan police rule it a hoax.
An Associated Press investigation finds the DEA let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills reach New Mexico streets from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger trafficking cases.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate cannot sue the Louisiana officials who shaved his head despite the religious-rights court order he showed them.
The Justice Department charges about 450 defendants in a $6.5 billion healthcare fraud crackdown, its largest, with a record number of Medicaid cases.
Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump’s antifa terrorism designation.
Trump’s $16 million Reflecting Pool renovation will miss July 4, as the administration fences it off and blames ‘leftist activists’ for the cracks and algae.
The Supreme Court refuses to let a Texas death row inmate present intellectual-disability evidence that could bar his execution, though state prosecutors backed his appeal.
A federal judge refuses to disqualify acting Attorney General Blanche and U.S. Attorney Pirro from prosecuting the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, despite their statements that they could have been victims.
Trump says five people were arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, offering no evidence, as a law professor says the bystanders merely witnessed damage his own botched renovation caused. 30 words
Trump says he personally inspected the troubled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and orders immediate repairs, blaming unconfirmed vandalism for damage to his $15 million restoration.
National Guard arrests a three-time Olympian for touching the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling paint as Trump threatens to drain the $14 million project.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester allegedly beaten unconscious and shackled to a hospital bed for five days, the 20th of 36 ICE-surge cases abandoned.
