Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it obstructs reopening the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Iran announced a shipping route agreement with the Gulf state.
Trump administration refuses to renew Arkansas’ 13-year Medicaid waiver under new budget rules, threatening coverage changes for 200,000 low-income residents.
Kentucky Governor Beshear says McConnell has ignored his request for proof of capacity as the 84-year-old senator recovers at home after leaving rehab.
CENTCOM commander calls mental health a valid concern after visiting the USS Abraham Lincoln, a day after Trump dismissed families’ worries as nonexistent.
BBC tells a court Trump refused to accept subpoenas on his family’s behalf in his $10 billion defamation suit, with Secret Service blocking service.
Trump blames vandals for dead grass on the Mall where webcam photos show his July 4 stage and crowds covered the lawn.
Lake Powell hits its lowest level ever days after Lake Mead did, with combined contents last this low in 1957 before Powell existed.
Trump orders Hegseth to scale back military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with Kim Jong Un and the ally’s refusal to join the Iran war.
Mono County, California, opens an air curtain burner that destroys 3 to 5 tons of wildfire fuel hourly while trapping smoke.
Iran’s army offers $30,000 bounties for killing or capturing US troops, doubling the reward for women who carry out attacks.
Trump posts 21 times in a Saturday spree, mixing AI images of himself with George Washington and a “Trump 2028” photo captioned “We are going to win.”
CENTCOM commander visits the USS Abraham Lincoln after a sailor went overboard and families reported mental health struggles aboard.
Federal prosecutors spent a year investigating the daughter of the judge who oversaw Trump’s hush-money conviction, narrowing their sweeping subpoena to a $468 payment.
Over 170,000 Canadians petition Parliament to expel US ambassador Hoekstra for normalizing annexation threats and US diplomatic interference in Canadian unity.
Renderings in Trump’s Supreme Court filing show gold presidential seals on the ballroom exterior, gilding absent from the plans federal commissions approved.
Navy weighs moving carrier command towers to match Trump’s preferred World War II look, a redesign his own first-term study priced in billions.
Colusa County, California, offers residents up to $10,000 to replace woodstoves made before 1988 with cleaner, cheaper-to-run heating.
Israeli airstrikes kill 11 in southern Lebanon, the deadliest since June’s truce, as Iran hits a seventh UAE oil tanker in Hormuz.
DFW Airport drops plans for two Muslim foot-washing stations after Governor Abbott orders a state grant review and refers the airport for federal investigation.
Federal regulator approves a bank charter for Trump family crypto firm World Liberty, letting it issue digital money convertible to dollars.
Texas police arrest an activist for “tumultuous behavior” at 3 AM, a week after he said “bullshit” at a meeting over cutting polling places.
Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at Trump’s New York campaign rally one week after his confirmation, breaking the department’s political neutrality norm.
Trump vows to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory after defeating Iran, telling voters he’ll never apologize for $4 gas.
Trump administration formally calls the July missile threat against his plane an assassination attempt to argue the Supreme Court should allow ballroom construction.
USDA undersecretary Michael Boren pressed Forest Service staff for more firefighting aircraft on a 7-acre blaze near his Idaho ranch, the Washington Post reports.
Federal discrimination cases frozen for months suddenly restarted days after a union sued the EEOC, which calls the halt a judge’s error.
Fauci refuses Senator Ron Johnson’s request to testify voluntarily, days after Republicans voted him in contempt for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Army wife Maisa Lopes Eliaser returns home after an unexplained mid-flight phone call let her stay aboard her Brazil deportation flight and fly back.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to let White House ballroom construction continue, arguing the 65% built project is nuclear-grade concrete, impossible to deconstruct.
Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot, says Trump “knows nothing about this stuff” after the catapult reversal order likely to cost billions.
Judge rules border security outweighs Tohono O’odham objections, refusing to block 62 miles of wall on the tribe’s Arizona reservation without its consent.
Trump says the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record 260-day deployment is “not nearly long enough” as families report sailors trying to jump overboard.
Los Angeles County links city, county, and nonprofit agencies into one network so aging and disabled residents find help from any starting point.
UAE blames Iran for drone attacks on two of its state oil company’s tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the sixth such ship struck in about a week.
Judge Sullivan warns he will hold DOJ lawyers in contempt over Epstein files, citing the Stevens case where he did exactly that.
North Carolina’s attorney general says Duke Energy gave wrong rate-hike figures under oath, with residential increases reaching 9.3% instead of 6.8%.
Washington judge orders Kalshi to stop taking bets on sports, elections, and politics, ruling the prediction platform violates state gambling law.
22 states sue to block DHS from seizing 17 million commercial drivers’ records after the administration threatened $10 million in grant funding.
Federal judge rules the 14th Amendment protects abortion when pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, blocking Idaho’s ban in those cases.
CBP employees used government databases to stalk exes, track coworkers’ phones, and tip smugglers, records spanning more than a decade show.
A covert CIA program was behind the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos that left eight men missing, the Washington Post reports.
Massachusetts judge orders a county sheriff to release ICE detainees’ anonymized health records, ruling a federal contract cannot override state public records law.
US attorney confirms FBI tests found no meth in the van of ICE shooting victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo but withholds the results.
Nevada judge dismisses forgery charges against the state’s six 2020 fake electors a second time, ruling prosecutors failed to prove fraudulent intent.
Judge dismisses the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, calling the cited incidents too isolated to show institutional civil rights violations.
Kennedy Center board votes 20-3 to add Trump’s name to the building three months after a judge ruled only Congress can rename it.
Trump orders the Navy to rip electromagnetic catapults from its newest carriers and return to steam, a swap likely costing billions.
New York City eliminates all childcare fees for 22,000 voucher families as Mamdani takes another step toward promised universal care.
Iran’s military rejects Trump’s claim of total Hormuz control as lies while Bessent threatens economic isolation surpassing anything the world has seen.
Fusion centers monitor anti-surveillance TikTok and Instagram accounts and warn police ahead of a national week of protests against license plate readers.
