Full House unanimously holds Apollo co-founder Leon Black in contempt for defying an Epstein subpoena, hours before leaving town for seven weeks.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine says US forces must prepare to fight all the way to the moon, a day after Space Force confirmed weapons in orbit.
Trump warns the European Union that making Canada an associate member could be a “hostile act” and threatens “very heavy tariffs” on Europe in response.
Kennedy Center’s Trump-appointed executive director fences and closes the main building for seven days citing safety, one day after the board voted to close it pending a judge’s ruling.
Federal Reserve under Trump-picked Chair Warsh unanimously raises rates a quarter point, the first hike since 2023, 12 days after Trump demanded cuts.
House Republicans send lawmakers home until November 9, canceling Thursday’s forced vote on Rep. Massie’s bid to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war.
Seattle Mayor Wilson signs a ban on rental junk fees like pet rent and package charges into law, letting the city sue landlords for triple the illegal amount.
Trump tells a North Carolina rally “hopefully we’re toward the end” of the Iran war, a week after saying it ends “immediately after” the midterms.
Trump calls the 2024 Butler shooting a “Democrat Plot” the same day his FBI director testifies the gunman spoke to no one but his parents.
Interior Department plans to post a dozen signs costing $84,000 outside the National Museum of American History warning visitors of Smithsonian leaders’ “anti-white animus,” The Atlantic reports.
Treasury Secretary Bessent tells Congress Trump’s $5,000 checks won’t add to the $40 trillion debt but refuses to say how, calling the plan “in process.”
Senate Democrats block the Clarity Act crypto bill, far short of the 60 votes needed, after Republicans refuse ethics rules covering Trump family crypto profits.
Pentagon asks commanders to screen troops by waist size and “impeccable” grooming for Defense Secretary Hegseth’s September 30 address, a year after his “fat generals” speech.
Trump calls his own Supreme Court appointees “not the people I interviewed” after the mail-ballot loss, but Attorney General Blanche says the administration will comply.
Federal watchdog finds paid administrative leave hit $9.5 billion last year, up 435% since 2023, mostly for 144,000 employees paid not to work before resigning.
Unvaccinated 18-year-old dies of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s fourth death, as Gov. Shapiro accuses HHS Secretary Kennedy of ordering CDC not to report them.
Congressional Budget Office puts the Iran war at $38 billion through August 1, growing up to $3 billion a month, with interceptor stocks depleted for years.
Trump administration readies $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, mostly paid with US aid, the class Biden held back over Gaza civilian deaths.
Federal judge refers Philadelphia District Attorney Krasner for criminal investigation, saying he may have pushed prosecutors to give a false account in a murder case.
House Oversight Committee votes unanimously to hold Apollo co-founder Leon Black in contempt after he sues to block his Epstein deposition and skips it.
FBI Director Patel won’t rule out agents at Election Day polls or say whether 2020 was rigged, yelling at a senator pressing him on interference.
Kennedy Center board votes to close an hour after a judge blocks Trump’s inscription a second time, and Trump says renovation won’t happen without his name.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear erases $250 million in medical debt for more than 130,000 residents by spending $2.5 million in state housing money.
House votes 220-204 to bar further military action against Iran, a third rebuke with seven Republicans joining, as the Senate sits on July’s version.
San Francisco Mayor Lurie unveils $30 million rent-emergency package capping rent-controlled increases at 10% a year and replacing expiring federal vouchers for 650 households.
Ohio Sen. Husted’s political committee took $492,000 from state-regulated Heartland Bank after he joined its board while lieutenant governor, Ohio Capital Journal finds.
Air Force Secretary Meink makes first public confirmation of US “space control weapons” in orbit, declining to say what they are or whether they’ve been tested.
Police in dozens of jurisdictions searched Flock’s license-plate camera network citing “LMAO,” “idk” and keyboard mashing as reasons, an Electronic Frontier Foundation audit-log review finds.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says HUD Secretary Scott Turner “maybe went for a high-five” after video shows him reaching for her backside at GOP convention.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three children, after a mistrial with jurors 11-1 toward an insanity acquittal.
23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
Florida GOP state House nominee Marshall Rawson marched in the 2017 Charlottesville rally carrying a neo-Confederate group’s flag, video surfaced by Talking Points Memo shows.
Federal judge blocks DHS rule capping international students at four years hours before it took effect, saying its national-security rationale “borders on the absurd.”
EPA repeals limits on power-plant climate pollution, arguing greenhouse gases don’t endanger health, a claim that if upheld would bar future presidents from restoring them.
Trump calls AI safety warnings a “HOAX” and “SICK conspiracy” across six posts, saying the only guardrail needed is a “High IQ” president.
Trump loyalist diGenova subpoenas former CIA Director Brennan to a grand jury in Judge Cannon’s Fort Pierce courthouse one day before quitting the “grand conspiracy” probe.
Missouri’s fired election-integrity director sues Secretary of State Hoskins, alleging staff planned a fake whistleblower complaint for a federal voting case and fired him after he testified.
DHS watchdog finds Alligator Alcatraz held 79 detainees in 18-square-foot metal cages, calling it “unprecedented” at ICE sites, then closed every recommendation because the camp shut in June.
DHS whistleblower says leaders ordered agents to enter state voter-record sites under false pretenses and clear five cases an hour hunting noncitizen voters before the midterms.
Trump nominates Kimberly Greenwood, wife of his walk-on singer and Bible business partner Lee Greenwood, as ambassador to Barbados and six Eastern Caribbean nations.
Sen. McConnell, 84, returns to Senate in a wheelchair for first vote since June 11, ending a three-month absence his office disclosed in trickles.
Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, a Putin ally under Ukrainian sanctions, secretly paid hundreds of thousands toward Donald Trump Jr.’s May Bahamas wedding, ProPublica reports.
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump’s mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Pentagon watchdog tallies $33.4 billion Iran war cost through June and finds the $22.3 billion in munitions fired left US stockpiles short, as oil holds above $100.
A 40-year-old woman dies of measles complications in Pennsylvania, the state’s third death this year in the nation’s largest outbreak since 1991.
National Security Agency plans its biggest overhaul in a decade, reorganizing around AI, China, cyber and combat support on a rollout starting next month, the Washington Post reports.
Kennedy Center could close Tuesday over “certain fiscal collapse,” the Washington Post reports, as Trump offers to raise the money if his name goes on the front signage.
Wisconsin GOP governor candidate Rep. Tom Tiffany escapes with 12 stitches after his campaign plane loses power, crash-lands in Lake Wausau and sinks.
House Speaker Johnson says Trump’s $5,000 election-conditioned dividend checks need Congress to act, three days after Trump claimed tariff revenue lets him skip a vote.
Trump promises to lift the tariff on Irish whiskey while at his Doonbeg resort, five days after banning Canadian whisky and most other Canadian alcohol.
