Justice Department sues Harvard to recoup federal grants and cut off future funding, alleging the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
DEA designates Colombian President Petro a “priority target” as federal prosecutors in New York investigate his alleged ties to drug traffickers.
Cuba refuses to let the U.S. Embassy import diesel for its generators, calling the request “shameless” while the administration blockades the island’s fuel supply.
Federal judge blocks Pentagon press restrictions that drove mainstream journalists from the building during the Iran war.
Trump signs executive order pressuring networks to protect the Army-Navy Game’s TV time slot from College Football Playoff competition.
Trump says he is considering “winding down” the Iran war after oil tops $112 and the S&P 500 closes its fourth straight losing week.
DOJ subpoenas former FBI Director Comey in a new probe of Obama officials over Russia, months after a judge threw out the administration’s first case against him.
ICE jails a Milwaukee woman a second time despite no criminal record in 36 years and a judge’s finding that she qualifies for permanent residency.
ICE buys a $145 million warehouse in Salt Lake City for a detention center without notifying Utah’s Republican governor or any member of the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation.
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
A 19-year-old Mexican migrant dies of a presumed suicide at a Florida ICE detention center that the Biden administration had restricted over medical care failures.
Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee is released on $10,000 bond after more than two weeks jailed by ICE, with her attorneys alleging First Amendment retaliation.
Protestant and Catholic clergy ask a federal judge to order pastoral access to immigrants held at the Minneapolis ICE facility that was the center of Operation Metro Surge.
Trump says he is “not putting troops anywhere” in Iran as 2,200 Marines head toward the Persian Gulf, calling the war an “excursion.”
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA’s endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Trump-appointed panel approves a 24-carat gold coin depicting the president for America’s 250th anniversary after the citizens advisory committee was bypassed.
Epstein’s longtime lawyer tells House panel he had “no knowledge whatsoever” of crimes, as Democrats press for details on a settlement with a woman who accused Trump.
Democratic Sen. Fetterman casts the deciding vote as Senate committee advances Mullin’s DHS nomination 8-7, after Chairman Paul votes no over anger and violence concerns.
Georgia charges a woman with felony murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion, in one of the first such cases since the state’s heartbeat law took effect.
Trump invokes Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japan’s prime minister, after a Japanese reporter asks why allies weren’t consulted on Iran.
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.’s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach “break it and see.”
Treasury takes over $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio as Education Department dismantlement continues, with the agency already down half its workforce.
Iran bombs Saudi, Qatari, and Kuwaiti energy facilities after Israeli strike on the world’s largest gas field, with oil prices up 60% since the war began.
Fired member of the board that hears federal workers’ appeals asks the Supreme Court to rule the president cannot remove officials whose only job is deciding cases.
Transportation lobbyists who never gave to prior candidates are donating thousands to Transportation Secretary Duffy’s 26-year-old son-in-law’s congressional campaign in Wisconsin, ProPublica finds.
GOP senators defeat a third war powers resolution on Iran 53-47 as Democrats demand public testimony from Rubio and Hegseth before they stop forcing votes on the unauthorized war.
FBI Director Patel confirms the agency is buying commercially available data that can track people’s movements, the first acknowledgment since the bureau said it stopped the practice in 2023.
Nebraska’s largest wildfires in state history burn more than 800,000 acres across four fires as Gov. Pillen seeks a federal disaster declaration and ranchers scramble to relocate livestock.
Bronx high school student jailed by ICE at a court hearing last May is released after nearly 10 months in a Pennsylvania prison, with his attorneys saying he was in the country legally.
Trump administration installs a statue of Declaration signer Caesar Rodney, who enslaved 200 people, in downtown D.C. after it was removed from Delaware during the 2020 racial justice protests.
Pentagon asks the White House to approve a $200 billion war funding request for Congress after spending $11.3 billion in the first six days of the Iran conflict.
Democrats walk out of Epstein briefing after Oversight Chairman Comer tells a congresswoman she was “bitching,” and AG Bondi declines to confirm she will testify under oath next month.
DNI Gabbard tells senators only Trump can determine whether Iran was an “imminent” threat, one day after her own NCTC director resigned saying it was not.
FAA requires radar separation between planes and helicopters near airports, ending reliance on visual “see and avoid” after the 2025 Reagan National crash that killed 67 people.
Trump attends his second dignified transfer since the war began as the remains of six airmen killed in an Iraq plane crash return to Dover, bringing the U.S. death toll to at least 13 with 200 wounded.
Trump waives the 106-year-old Jones Act and eases Venezuela oil sanctions on the same day as the administration scrambles to contain a 27% gas price surge three weeks into the Iran war.
Fed holds rates steady for the second straight meeting as Powell says the war’s economic impact is “too soon to know,” while signaling he will stay on the board until the DOJ investigation against him is resolved.
Bondi appoints Brad Schimel as First Assistant U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee after federal judges decline to make him permanent, bypassing Senate confirmation in the latest clash over who controls prosecutor appointments.
Senate Homeland Security chairman Rand Paul says he will vote against Trump’s DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin after a combative hearing in which the FBI found no record of foreign travel Mullin has long claimed was classified.
National debt passes $39 trillion three weeks into the Iran war, after jumping $2 trillion in seven months while the White House estimates the war has already cost more than $12 billion.
Iran attacks gas facilities across Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia after Israel hits the world’s largest gas field, pushing oil above $110 as both sides turn energy infrastructure into a weapon on day 20.
Texas reports 136 measles cases this year, with 99 concentrated in a single federal detention facility in Hudspeth County.
Trump posts “STATEHOOD!!!” after Venezuela defeats the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic final, two months after ordering Maduro’s capture.
Pearl Jam urges fans to call their senators and vote no on the SAVE America Act as Senate begins marathon debate on the nationwide voter ID bill.
Amazon plans to slash Postal Service deliveries by two-thirds this fall as agency warns it will run out of cash within a year.
New York’s MTA sues Trump administration for withholding $60 million in Second Avenue subway funding after Hochul warns “enough is enough.”
Postmaster General tells Congress the Postal Service will run out of cash in 12 months without action, as Trump pushes to privatize the agency.
Federal judge mocks Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom as a “brazen interpretation” of alteration law, signals ruling by month’s end.
American diplomatic facilities attacked 292 times in 19 days of war as State Department orders every embassy worldwide to immediately review security.
Federal judge ejects prosecutor from courtroom and orders three leaders of New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office to testify over what he calls a destroyed reputation.
