Hegseth tells senators the Iran war will cost $37.5 billion by September as the Pentagon seeks $88 billion, most unrelated to the war.
HHS withholds another $1 billion in Medicaid payments from California and Minnesota over fraud claims, adding to $1.5 billion already frozen from both states.
Canada cancels Friday’s joint ceremony with U.S. officials for the Gordie Howe Bridge opening one day after Trump announced 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.
House passes a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 4 on a mostly party-line vote as Senate Republicans plan a rewrite and Thune threatens reconciliation as backup.
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.
Federal judge pauses Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover for 14 days after 12 states sue, one month after Trump’s Justice Department approved it.
Trump imposes 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods using a 1930 law never before used for tariffs, after courts struck down two prior schemes.
Taylor Farms’ 27-state recall notice hides which brands carry cyclospora-linked lettuce behind internal abbreviations as the outbreak nears 7,000 cases.
Greensboro, North Carolina commits $1.6 million in rental assistance to keep up to 80 low-income households stably housed for as long as two years.
Taylor Farms pulls all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico a day after FDA linked its Taco Bell supply to the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Citizens Bank ends lending to ICE detention contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic after months of protests and $300 million in withdrawals.
Federal judge rules the administration illegally used an OMB budget clause to cancel billions in grants Congress already approved for states.
U.S. completes a seventh straight night of strikes on Iran as Iranian attacks on Jordanian bases injure American service members.
Treasury forces out its top tax official after he warned a White House request would break the law barring presidents from directing IRS audits.
Trump’s media company will sell Wall Street firms high-speed access to his Truth Social posts, letting traders profit from presidential announcements before markets react.
DHS lets immigration officers weigh food, housing, and health benefit use against green card applicants, reversing a 2022 rule limiting reviews to cash welfare.
New Jersey job-protected leave expands today to part-time workers, new employees, and small business staff previously excluded from coverage.
New York becomes the first state to ban new large AI data centers, freezing 50-megawatt projects for a year as electric bills climb 68% since 2019.
Trump’s company took $2 million from a top Korea Aluminium investor while the firm fought a Commerce Department case over dodging Chinese aluminum duties.
U.S. blockade of Iranian ports resumes and strikes hit a fourth night as Trump scraps the 20% cargo fee he announced a day earlier.
Twelve states sue to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger the Justice Department approved over its own staff lawyers’ objections.
Bank regulators direct lenders to treat undocumented immigrants as elevated credit risks, telling banks to weigh deportation in loan decisions.
Trump declares the US will run the Strait of Hormuz and charge 20% on cargo, reinstating the blockade as strikes hit Iran a third night.
New York Mayor Mamdani orders businesses to make subscription cancellations as easy as signups, reviving the federal rule courts blocked under Trump.
Trump refuses to sign the decades-biggest housing affordability bill, which becomes law at midnight anyway, protesting the Senate’s failure to pass his voting restrictions.
Gordie Howe Bridge opens July 27 after Canada grants the US toll oversight and profit sharing, five months after Trump demanded half ownership of the span.
USDA slashes its reported beef export sales 90% after publishing record numbers to Chile and Italy it had defended as confirmed a week earlier.
U.S. strikes kill at least 14 in Iran and hit the Bushehr nuclear plant perimeter as Trump claims Tehran “wants to make a deal so badly.”
Rubio notifies Congress the U.S. will lift Syria’s 47-year state sponsor of terrorism designation, clearing Chevron and ConocoPhillips deals already signed.
White House announces and promotes Freedom Fuel stations selling gas around Philadelphia at $3.47 while insisting the unnamed company behind them gets no government money.
John Deere settles the FTC’s right-to-repair suit, agreeing to give farmers and independent shops dealer-level repair access for 10 years.
U.S. hits 90 more Iranian targets in a second night of strikes as Trump threatens to seize Kharg Island and reimpose the naval blockade.
USDA officials pressured Walmart, Kroger, and Albertsons on beef prices days before Trump claimed credit for cuts Walmart had already put on shelves June 29.
FEMA will withhold 20% of states’ antiterrorism grants unless they adopt hand-marked paper ballots, citizenship verification, and manual audits Trump’s executive orders failed to impose.
Trump declares the Iran ceasefire “over” at the NATO summit after U.S. strikes on 80 targets trigger Iranian missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait.
Trump claims Walmart cut prices “at my Administration’s request” while the retailer’s own statement announcing the reductions never mentions him or the government.
Nearly 1 million buyers of Trump’s memecoin have lost a combined $3.8 billion while his disclosure shows the coin paid him $636 million in royalties.
The Justice Department tells a federal judge its bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani was baseless, calling charges he misled U.S. investors a foreign matter.
Belgium’s diamond industry gifts Trump a ring jewelers value at up to $35,000 months after winning removal of U.S. tariffs on its $2 billion in exports.
Iran warns France and Britain against military moves in the Strait of Hormuz after the two allies pledge to help Oman keep shipping safe.
Iowa restores SNAP recipients’ ability to buy soda and candy after a federal court rules the food-restriction waivers violate the federal definition of food.
The Justice Department urges state attorneys general to investigate gas price “gouging” after Trump complains prices are not falling fast enough from war-driven highs.
U.S. adds 57,000 jobs in June, half what economists expected, while April and May payrolls are revised down a combined 74,000.
Trump defends his $1.4 billion in 2025 crypto profits by saying he leaves investing to others and “everybody’s profiting” from rising stocks. 23 words
New York City prepares two Manhattan heliports for electric air taxi service, with first commercial flights under an FAA pilot program expected this year.
The U.S. declines to renew the North American trade deal Trump negotiated in his first term, pushing the agreement into a decade of annual reviews.
California becomes the first state to ban “sell by” food labels, requiring standardized dates aimed at the 6 million tons of unexpired food tossed yearly.
New York City will open a $1,000 college savings account for every public school kindergartner, the largest universal program of its kind in the country.
The Commerce Department lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 AI model, restoring public access 18 days after officials pulled the Mythos-class system over a security flaw.
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
