Emily Moreno sues Rep. Max Miller after 400,000 people accessed his posted Dropbox folder containing a nude photo of their 2-year-old daughter.
Pirro convenes a rare special grand jury that can issue reports on Trump critics without indictments after Trump’s rebuke over the Reflecting Pool dismissal.
DOJ tells the DC Council its request that 10 governors withdraw Guard troops is impotent theatrics as the deployment enters a second year.
Trump’s White House construction will cost at least $927 million with taxpayers covering most of it through a maintenance account, a Post review shows.
DOJ arrests far-right extremism expert Heidi Beirich on financial charges in its case against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s KKK informant program.
Burke Law Group withdraws from the no-bid contract worth up to $150 million to represent migrant children after advocacy groups flagged the Trump-connected award.
ICE names the third Delaney Hall detainee death after a policy change dropped the rule requiring review of deaths that occur after release.
Hegseth says Colombia’s new president requested joint U.S. military operations against cartels as he urges 19 Latin American nations to abandon the ICC.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt leaves at the end of August to spend more time with family, opening Trump’s most visible spokesperson role.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sue Trump over Truth API, arguing the $100,000 monthly feed sells early access to official statements.
Colorado’s June law protecting emotional support animals in housing takes effect after HUD stopped enforcing federal accommodation rules for untrained animals.
Trump claims total U.S. control of the Strait of Hormuz and says America may keep it as daily traffic falls to 8 ships from 130.
Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn settles with the city of Marion, Kansas, for $850,000, three years to the day after police raided her newspaper.
Seven FIU students sue after the university demanded apology videos for a silent anti-ICE protest, withholding their degrees unless they comply.
ICE agent points gun at a Northern Virginia counselor who cursed at agents, as DHS alleges a vehicle attack her own dashcam video disproves.
FDA data shows 46% of Taylor Farms’ recalled lettuce went to Walmart, not Taco Bell, as the cyclosporiasis outbreak passes 23,000 sickened.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
DOJ declares Trump’s talks with private advisers outside government covered by executive privilege, a shield against subpoenas if Democrats win Congress.
HHS awards $158 million for unaccompanied children’s legal services to a nonprofit led by an ex-ICE official, its first federal contract ever.
F-16s fire flares to intercept a plane over Trump’s Ohio visit to the Patriot Games, days after two intercepts at his Bedminster golf course.
Pentagon review admits U.S. strikes killed 153 Yemeni civilians in 2025, the first campaign after Hegseth gutted the office that prevents such deaths.
Treasury exempts U.S. companies from disclosing their true owners and will delete existing records, rolling back a 2021 anti-money-laundering law.
Trump administration bans Medicaid and CHIP from covering hormone treatment for transgender youth, effective immediately for some care despite doctors’ recommendations.
Kennedy Center must pay musician Chuck Redd $250,000 in legal fees after its retaliatory suit over his canceled Christmas concert protesting Trump’s name.
Trump says “stranger things have happened” when asked about declaring a national emergency to impose voting restrictions the Senate refused to pass.
Judge expands to all 50 states her block on the Postal Service carrying out Trump’s mail voting limits, noting DOJ never defended the order’s constitutionality.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of electric shock gloves for officers through a no-bid contract, AP reports.
Four human rights groups sue over Trump’s ICC sanctions, calling them an unconstitutional attack on justice weeks after Rubio vowed to systematically disable the court.
North Carolina prints three mental health crisis numbers on student IDs for grades six through college this fall under a new state budget provision.
U.S. helicopter fires Hellfire missiles into a Panama-flagged cargo ship CENTCOM says ran the Iran blockade, as Pakistan calls a peace deal near.
Judge orders VA to restore its 320,000-employee union contract after the department’s third termination attempt this year defied her standing injunction.
ICE will pay LexisNexis $6.7 million to pipe 82 billion records into Palantir systems that map neighborhoods for deportation targeting, procurement documents show.
Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
State Department announces 175,000 visa revocations since January 2025, including some for social media posts and 100 at one embassy over birth tourism.
Florida AG Uthmeier demands six years of New York Times board records, wielding the state pension’s 160,000 shares and threatening suit within two weeks.
Trump Media signs high-frequency trading firms at up to $100,000 monthly for millisecond access to the president’s market-moving posts, its first customers.
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior’s inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Trump signs an order limiting hepatitis and meningitis vaccines to high-risk children and splitting the MMR shot, repeating debunked autism claims as he signs.
Hegseth dedicates Joint Base Lindsey Graham a month after the senator’s death, joined by the sister appointed to his seat within a day.
Former Air Force Secretary Kendall will sue to restore the security clearance stripped after reports on the Qatari jet’s missing antimissile defenses.
White House staged a decoy Air Force One with press aboard as Trump secretly flew from Turkey after an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reveals.
Massachusetts creates its first licensing system for home care agencies, requiring background checks, abuse-prevention training, and insurance before firms can operate.
Trump demands Iran pay compensation for the USS Cole and 52,000 war dead after Tehran conditions reopening the Strait of Hormuz on U.S. damage payments.
Florida AG Uthmeier threatens to charge WNBA players with assault after a flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham, though no WNBA team plays in Florida.
Taylor Farms recalls 20 jalapeño products from Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods as the salmonella outbreak sickening 345 people spans 27 states.
Rep. Max Miller stays on Ohio’s November ballot after letting the GOP’s last replacement deadline pass despite domestic abuse allegations and an Ethics probe.
Trump names staff secretary Will Scharf White House counsel, elevating the personal attorney who won his Supreme Court presidential immunity case.
Westbrook, Maine approves free unlimited bus passes for 700 high schoolers after finding students living in poverty walk up to 40 minutes to school.
Iran demands the U.S. end its blockade, withdraw from the region, and pay war damages as Netanyahu rejects a U.S.-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan.
