Trump returns to the rescheduled correspondents’ dinner three months after the shooting, insults journalists for an hour, and dons a Trump 2028 cap.
Taylor Farms called the White House through a former Trump aide turned lobbyist to seek delay of the recall announcement in the cyclospora outbreak, WSJ reports.
Lab tests confirm the white powder in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was electrolyte mix, not drugs, after an ICE officer killed him and the FBI implied methamphetamine.
Trump left the NATO summit on the old Air Force One after intelligence showed Iranian proxies planned a missile attack on the Qatari jet, reports say.
Trump administration plans to send two State Department envoys to Brazil to question its electoral system before the October presidential vote, officials tell the Washington Post.
Paramount agrees to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger for months after 12 states suing to block it won a restraining order.
Trump launches a trade investigation of the EU one day after it fined Google 890 million euros, calling European tech penalties robbery of American taxpayers.
Biden drops his lawsuit blocking release of his private ghostwriter recordings, clearing DOJ to hand them to House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation.
CDC links cyclosporiasis outbreaks in four more states to tainted lettuce as confirmed and suspected cases near 12,000 nationwide.
Trump orders the Smithsonian’s American History museum to post signs warning visitors about exhibits a White House report calls radical social justice activism.
Post Falls, Idaho, mayor vows the city will never use Flock cameras and asks state lawmakers to require deleting license plate data in 90 days.
Iran attacks U.S. bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as officials warn the war is depleting interceptor stockpiles planned to deter China.
Leaked document catalogs the surveillance tools available across ICE, a 404 Media review shows, from smartphone location tracking to 1.8 billion insurance claims.
Appeals court blocks the end of TPS for Haitians through Monday, a four-day reprieve for 350,000 people whose work permits were set to expire Friday.
Pentagon erases four soldiers killed this month from the Iran war death toll, claiming their deaths came after Trump declared a ceasefire in April.
Colorado prosecutors charge a GEO Group detention worker with felony assault for shooting an anti-ICE protester in the foot outside the Aurora facility.
ODNI quietly loses about 200 personnel to firings and reassignments since acting chief Pulte arrived June 2, shrinking the spy coordinator to about half its size.
DOJ withdraws subpoenas of three New York Times reporters and their family members after a judge threatens sanctions, though it vows to keep hunting their sources.
Education Department bars civil rights investigators from citing racial disparities in school discipline, advanced classes, or admissions as evidence of discrimination, skipping public comment.
Transportation Secretary Duffy asks Congress to direct Amtrak to rename Penn Station, months after officials dangled $16 billion in tunnel funds for naming it after Trump.
California rejected nearly 150,000 primary mail ballots, most for lateness voting experts link to Postal Service processing changes that shift where and when postmarks apply.
Alaska deactivates up to 3,500 voters as possible noncitizens off old DMV data, sweeping in naturalized citizens, a 700% jump from last year’s flagged total.
25 states sue DHS for withholding 20% of terrorism-preparedness grants until states adopt Trump’s preferred election rules, calling the $148 million condition unconstitutional.
House votes 214-208 to end the Iran war, its second rebuke since June, hours before the Senate blocks a companion resolution and strikes continue.
Vance Boelter receives two consecutive life terms plus 40 years for assassinating former Minnesota House Speaker Hortman and her husband and shooting Sen. Hoffman’s family.
Hundreds march through Madison after a police officer shoots and kills Corey Ruiz, whose family retains civil rights attorney Ben Crump as the independent monitor subpoenas records.
Federal judges let Tennessee’s map splitting majority-Black Memphis into three districts stand for August, ruling partisan motive explains the dilution without proof of racial intent.
Trump makes the Saudi nuclear deal contingent on normalizing relations with Israel, declaring no enrichment a day after officials said the pact might allow it.
Trump imposes 10% to 12.5% tariffs on 60 economies under a forced labor rationale, his third scheme since the Supreme Court struck his tariffs in February.
Rhode Island Gov. McKee declares an energy affordability emergency, directing $28 million in climate auction funds to offset a 15% winter rate hike for 450,000 households.
U.S. bombs Iran for a 13th straight night as Houthi attacks on Saudi tankers spread the war to the Red Sea and push oil past $100.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
ICE arrests hit a record 43,000 in June and 1,593 daily in July, though 40% of detainees face only civil immigration violations.
GAO finds the Space Force cannot justify how many people it needs as leaders seek $71 billion and a doubling of the young service.
House Judiciary Chairman Jordan asks the Justice Department to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith for perjury his lawyers say Republicans never asked about.
Senate Republican blocks a bill barring taxpayer money to retrofit Trump’s Qatari jet after he flew home from Turkey on the old Air Force One.
GAO finds Amazon workers on food stamps and Medicaid nearly tripled since 2020, with gig drivers now the top employer group using SNAP.
ICE officials privately warned of “insane” crowding as 86 detainees filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays, a Washington Post visual investigation shows.
Trump administration weighs strikes on an al-Qaeda-linked group in Mali, which would make it the eighth country attacked this term, the Washington Post reports.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Special prosecutor drops all 16 charges against Louisiana Attorney General Murrill after the New Orleans officials she allegedly threatened ask to end the case.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
House passes a ban on lawmakers buying stocks that lets them keep existing shares, the second bill today carrying Trump’s voter ID demand.
House votes to officially rename the Defense Department the Department of War, a change the Congressional Budget Office says could cost $125 million.
House passes a $1.15 trillion defense bill over Democratic objections to the Iran war, tying it to Trump’s stalled voter ID legislation.
Santa Monica opens applications for a $6 million renter’s aid program paying one-time grants to keep low-income tenants from losing housing.
U.S. bombs Iran for a 12th straight night as Trump threatens to destroy a bridge or power plant for every Iranian attack on shipping.
The Merit Systems Protection Board stops calling itself independent, scrubbing the word from its website after the Supreme Court expanded presidential firing power.
Cornyn threatens to sink Kari Lake and Mastriano ambassador nominations unless the administration releases $1.3 billion in appropriated AIDS relief funding.
Judge orders Trump to open financial records of 400-plus family trust companies to the BBC in his own defamation suit over Jan. 6 editing.
