Five million people have dropped ACA coverage for 2026 after Trump and Republicans let enhanced subsidies expire, roughly doubling premiums, new federal data shows.
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.
Trump threatens immediate 100% tariffs on any country that taxes U.S. tech giants, four months after the Supreme Court struck down his global tariffs as illegal.
New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board freezes rents on roughly one million stabilized apartments, the first freeze since 2020 and delivering on a central Mamdani campaign promise.
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.
Michigan erases more than $74 million in medical debt for nearly 72,000 residents through a state partnership with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.
The House passes the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act 358-32, sending it to Trump’s desk after the Senate’s 85-5 vote.
Iran vows permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz and the right to charge passage fees, rejecting U.S. demands as the ceasefire strains.
The Senate passes a bipartisan housing affordability bill 85 to 5, restricting large companies from buying single-family homes and waiving some environmental reviews for new construction.
Federal judge strikes down Agriculture Department waivers that let 22 states bar SNAP recipients from buying soda and candy, finding the agency rewrote the legal definition of food.
Vance says Iran will let U.N. nuclear inspectors back in, but Tehran says nuclear negotiations have not begun.
Trump threatens to hit Iran “very hard again” and seize the Strait of Hormuz as Vance opens the highest-level direct U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland.
Seattle commits $8 million to keep about 1,000 households a year in their homes, funding rental aid and eviction defense before residents fall into homelessness.
The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator spoke at a private Bank of America dinner for Wall Street clients during the Fed’s blackout period, hours after the rate decision.
The Pentagon tells lawmakers it needs $80 billion to cover the Iran war and other costs, warning the services could run out of operating money this summer, with no war authorization ever sought.
Warsh announces a sweeping Fed overhaul in his first meeting, launching five task forces and dropping the closely watched dot plot of rate projections.
The Interior Department pays Invenergy $765 million to drop four offshore wind leases, its third such buyout in three months totaling $2.6 billion.
Wyoming Governor Gordon sues the tax board he appointed to force certification of home values it withheld over a 2024 cap creating unequal assessments.
Trump signs the 60-day Iran ceasefire into effect and threatens to resume bombing if the deal collapses.
The TSA plans to fly thousands of supervisors to Nevada or Georgia for overnight stays to attend a four-hour training, despite the administration’s efficiency push.
Fired Homeland Security Secretary Noem, still serving as a Trump special envoy, joins a Canadian mining firm’s advisory board as it pursues critical minerals.
Two rural Tennessee communities pause data center development to write grid, water, and pollution rules first, after the industry targeted them expecting little local resistance.
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to its lowest level since 1983, months after the Trump administration ordered a 172 million-barrel drawdown.
The U.S. and Iran sign a 60-day ceasefire memorandum, then clash over frozen funds and whether the deal binds Israel in Lebanon.
Trump declares the Iran war over and lifts the Strait of Hormuz blockade, though the agreement is a 60-day ceasefire to begin nuclear talks.
Justice Department approves Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing a merger that puts CBS and CNN under one Trump-allied owner.
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.
Pakistan declares a final U.S.-Iran peace deal text reached as Iran attacks Strait of Hormuz shipping and Trump rejects Tehran’s account of the terms.
National Science Foundation decommissions a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network as Alaska’s fisheries face salmon crashes, crab collapses and repeated marine heatwaves.
HUD suspends federal funding for Los Angeles’s homeless services agency, citing fraud findings, as the mayor warns people will lose their lives.
Trump tells reporters he loves the inflation that just hit a three-year high, citing a secret mission moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Inflation tops 4% for the first time in three years as war-driven gas prices outpace wage growth and shrink real spending power.
Twenty House Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to pass a bill fast-tracking first contracts for new unions, the fourth successful discharge petition this Congress.
Trump administration warns over 500 hospitals to post clear prices or face fines up to $2 million yearly, with red states Texas and Indiana leading violators.
Social Security trustees project the trust fund empties in late 2032, forcing an automatic 22% benefit cut of roughly $500 monthly unless Congress acts.
New Mexico confirms its first New World screwworm case in 60 years as the flesh-eating parasite spreads beyond Texas.
Trump says he scheduled a meeting with major AI companies about the government taking equity stakes, but the firms say no one told them.
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, ruling he imposed a tax without congressional authorization.
Agriculture Department confirms a second Texas screwworm case, the flesh-eating pest’s first U.S. cattle return since 1982.
White House AI policy adviser Sriram Krishnan will leave at the end of June, days after the administration floated taking government equity stakes in AI companies.
U.S. strikes Iranian radar sites and downs six attack drones as Tehran accuses Washington of violating the ceasefire.
Senior Trump officials hold early talks with AI companies about the government taking equity stakes, with returns pitched as household dividends.
Trump invokes the 1950 Defense Production Act to steer nearly $700 million toward reviving coal plants, as the fuel sits in two-decade decline.
Rubio tells Congress the Iran war is over as an Iranian attack on Kuwait’s airport kills one and wounds 63.
Seven states sue to block the administration’s $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
U.S. proposes new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries over forced labor, reviving Trump’s nation-by-nation levies under a different law after the Supreme Court struck down the originals.
Trump administration releases Medicaid work-requirement rules exempting pregnant women and veterans, with an estimated 5 million still set to lose coverage by 2034.
Trump tells CNBC he could not care less if Iran negotiations collapse, saying the talks had become boring.
The U.S. military has quietly guided about 70 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in three weeks, most running dark to dodge Iranian attack.
