Federal judge orders CBP to free a Montana father of three detained without warrant in a case of mistaken identity and driven across four towns in 30 hours.
USPS narrows its quarterly loss to $2.5 billion but still projects running out of cash by early 2027 under its $15 billion borrowing cap Congress set in 1990.
Hunter Biden says his father’s prostate cancer has metastasized into his bones and beyond, calling the former president’s condition painful and very debilitating.
Pentagon strips former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s security clearance, blaming him for reports that Trump’s Qatari jet lacks antimissile defenses.
Lake Mead falls to its lowest level ever recorded after record-low winter snowpack, as Lake Powell nears the threshold where Hoover Dam’s twin loses hydropower.
Iran strikes a UAE tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, then demands the U.S. never threaten it again and pay war damages to reopen the strait.
Chicago’s Austin Green Line station reopens fully accessible 36 years after the ADA exempted existing transit stations from retrofits, pushing the CTA to 75% compliance.
Senate confirms Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
U.S. economy sheds 23,000 jobs in July as 264,000 people stop working or looking, pushing labor force participation to its lowest since 1976 outside COVID.
Pentagon releases 41 UFO documents, photos, and videos spanning 1950 to 2026, its fifth batch since Trump ordered the records public in February.
Federal judge blocks HUD from redirecting $4 billion in homelessness funding away from permanent housing, the agency’s third loss on the same overhaul.
New Jersey subpoenas GEO Group in a civil rights investigation of Delaney Hall days after a third detainee death at the Newark immigration jail.
Kennedy tells CDC scientists not to trust scientific authorities a day before the anniversary of the shooting that killed an officer at their campus.
Federal judge orders a Virginia school board to strip the Confederate names it restored in 2024, ruling the reversal violated Black students’ civil rights.
Fired federal prosecutor sues DOJ, alleging Bondi dismissed him within 3 hours of a MAGA influencer surfacing his decade-old anti-Trump blog.
Senate confirms Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA 15 months after he was fired for telling Congress the agency should not be eliminated.
Trump moves again to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud claims, giving her 21 days to respond after the Supreme Court blocked his first attempt.
Appeals court halts construction on Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, ruling 2-1 that only Congress can approve changes to the building.
ICE will finish equipping officers with body cameras by late September under a policy letting its director block footage releases not in the agency’s interests.
Senate votes 90-6 to fund the government through December 11, adding a provision barring Trump from blocking federal grants to states for political reasons.
San Francisco unanimously cuts its paid parental leave waiting period in half, making workers eligible 90 days into a new job.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign a mutual defense pact in Mecca a day after Houthi strikes killed 58 Yemeni government troops.
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to resume wind project reviews it froze for a year, stalling 125 projects across 25 states on radar claims.
Ohio’s second GOP senator calls on Rep. Max Miller to resign over abuse allegations 4 days before the deadline to replace him on the ballot.
CDC and FDA tie a salmonella outbreak sickening 345 people across 27 states to Mexican jalapeños served at Chipotle and Qdoba.
GAO finds DOGE’s Wall of Receipts claimed billions from contracts never canceled, unable to verify 96% of the $47 billion in reported grant savings.
FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% TV ownership cap Congress wrote into law in 2004, claiming authority to repeal the statutory limit itself.
White House weighs an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, overriding aides’ advice to avoid the issue before midterms, Bloomberg reports.
Trump calls Washington Post reporting on his Camp David clash with Hegseth over depleted missile stockpiles treasonous and completely false.
The union for career IRS auditors sues to block the audit immunity acting AG Blanche granted Trump’s family, calling the settlement breathtakingly corrupt.
DOJ finds Duke Law intentionally used race in admissions through essay tags correlated with race, threatening suit if the university refuses a settlement.
DOJ and a Louisiana school board end 61 years of desegregation oversight dating to a 1964 suit whose original parent plaintiffs have died.
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate youth harms, finding Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance connecting predators to children.
Detectives say the suspect in Spokane’s Old Trails fire, which razed 700 homes, confessed to planning the blaze 2 weeks ahead around forecast winds.
HHS proposes erasing 1,400 Head Start regulations, letting class sizes rise and dropping health screening deadlines for 700,000 of the nation’s poorest children.
Senate Republicans vote to hold Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, arguing his Biden pardon voids the protection.
The Interior Department agrees to pay German energy giant RWE $1.22B to abandon 3 offshore wind leases, its fifth buyout pushing total payouts past $3.9B.
Sen. McConnell, 84, leaves rehab for home recovery 7 weeks after his hospitalization, still refusing live appearances as Kentucky’s governor demands proof of capacity or resignation.
Trump signs new orders restricting birthright citizenship 5 weeks after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 his broader denial violated the 14th Amendment.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey signs a law barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and courthouses as ICE detains a second-term monthly record 46,000 people in July.
New California rent caps take effect limiting annual increases to 8.1% to 8.8% by region under the state’s 5% plus inflation formula.
Iran and Oman near a deal routing ships through the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran insists the strait stays shut until the U.S. lifts its blockade.
Federal judge voids the Energy Department’s policy closing older public records requests unless requesters emailed to reconfirm interest, ruling FOIA grants no such authority.
Federal judge holds DHS in contempt for slow-walking her order to turn over 800 immigration agents’ cellphone records from the Los Angeles raids.
U.S. sends more spies and intelligence assets into Cuba, a step officials say could pave the way for military action, POLITICO reports.
Marine One carrying Trump flies too close to a jet leaving Reagan National, prompting an NTSB review, the third presidential air travel incident this year.
FDA approves the nation’s first mRNA flu shot for adults 50 and up, a year after Kennedy’s HHS canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA research.
Kennedy’s HHS hands Sen. Ron Johnson’s panel a copy of Fauci’s government iPhone, days after his released journals exposed private medical histories.
New Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
Federal judge in Texas voids 90-year-old registration rules for gun suppressors and short-barreled rifles, a year after Trump’s tax bill eliminated the $200 tax underpinning them.
