Trump promises every adult a $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans keep Congress, a $1.35 trillion pledge with no funding source, at the GOP’s first midterm convention.
Nearly 2 dozen states sue to void 3 Trump rules weakening the Endangered Species Act, including one that stops counting habitat destruction as harm.
Pima County, Arizona, adds $8.7 million to its affordable housing fund after the first $24.5 million added 618 units and kept 910 households housed.
Trump says the Iran war will end “immediately after the election” and rules out talks before then, as Iranian strikes damage about 9 US warplanes in Jordan.
CDC gives employees with disabilities 20 days to resubmit medical paperwork it already received or lose interim accommodations, with 3,000 requests backlogged after HR layoffs.
4 federal unions sue to halt the Agriculture Department’s relocation of 2,600 Washington-area employees as a disguised layoff after 1 in 3 reassigned workers decline.
Border Patrol “predictive” units mine Americans’ financial records and have local police pull over drivers suspected of no specific crime, 404 Media reveals.
Iceland summons US Ambassador Billy Long over Trump’s flag-covered map, 8 months after he apologized for joking Iceland would be the “52nd state” with him as governor.
Indiana prosecutor won’t charge a woman whose false abuse report took former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg’s 4-year-old twins from home for 24 hours, citing her mental illness.
Federal judge permanently bars West Point from making professors seek approval to publish or speak, a rule adopted a month after Trump’s “un-American” ideas order.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the second time in 3 days to unblock a Social Security-linked voter database a judge ruled “trampled” citizens’ privacy.
Justice Department subpoenas witnesses before a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district, escalating its year-long effort to prove the intelligence community conspired against Trump.
Texas education board approves high school social studies curriculum labeling early Islamic campaigns “brutal” and blaming 9/11 on “Radical Islam” rather than specific terrorist groups.
Georgia National Guardsman in Trump’s 3,100-troop D.C. garrison faces felony charges for pointing a loaded pistol at a fellow guard member during a hairstyle argument.
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, 73, the institution’s first Black leader, announces he will retire at year’s end, saying Trump’s “improper ideology” attacks played no role.
Trump gives $45,000 cash “holiday gifts” to 3 women aides aged 26 to 35, nearly a third of their $150,000 White House salaries.
Trump bans Canadian dairy, most alcohol and motorcycles and bars Canadian goods from long-term federal contracts, hours after Canada’s $20 billion counter-tariffs take effect.
Atlanta City Council passes a “Parking Bill of Rights” requiring operators to post rates before drivers park and warn when license plate readers collect data.
US destroys 5 more Iranian oil tankers over missile attacks on a warship, and Iran answers with 20 missiles at US targets in Jordan.
New York Mayor Mamdani creates an Office of Worker Power and orders city agencies to hunt labor violations without waiting for complaints, citing weakened federal enforcement.
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion in US goods take effect, matching Trump’s 50% tariff, a day after he vowed “No more selling Bombardier” in the US.
Kennedy Center chair fired by Trump buys the Blue sculpture the center tore down last week and will lend it to the National Gallery of Art, The New York Times reports.
Washington, D.C., adds 20 more locked food-waste “smart bins” for apartment dwellers this fall after residents dropped 1 million pounds into the first 31 since 2024.
Federal safety investigators say an Amazon cargo jet ran 1,300 feet past a Miami runway Sunday and crashed into 2 vehicles, killing 5 people on the ground.
Iran plans to stop ships beyond the Strait of Hormuz as Houthi rebels hit Saudi oil facilities and push toward the Red Sea route Saudi exports rely on.
Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner make their first Kyiv visit, arriving under a 3-day ceasefire Putin declared for their safety, and leave both capitals without a breakthrough.
Delaware Gov. Meyer signs 3 bills barring civil immigration arrests at state courthouses and blocking state and local police from helping ICE at schools, churches and hospitals.
Man with 2 holstered handguns and brass knuckles rushes Democrat Amy Acton, running for Ohio governor, mid-speech at a county fair, injuring 2 volunteers.
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Danville, Virginia, opens forgivable $5,000 down payment loans and $500 rental deposit grants for residents earning 81% to 95% of area median income, acting on its 2022 housing study and resident input.
Energy Secretary Wright says the US is “strangling” Iran’s economy for a policy change “or a new regime” and a nuclear deal “may await a next administration.”
Judge Tanya Chutkan orders 48 hours notice before any work beyond artifact surveys at the site of Trump’s 250-foot arch, a day after Interior Secretary Burgum said excavation starts within 2 weeks.
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
US forces sink 3 Ecuadorian boats they call fuel stations for drug speedboats, as relatives of the detained crew say the men were fishing and no drugs were found.
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.
US casts the only vote against a 164-1 UN resolution urging replacement of the Mercator map, which shows Greenland about the size of Africa, a continent 14 times larger.
Trump’s business partner Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner meet Putin in Moscow for the 8th time, as Russia says it remains “confident” of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
Kennedy Center closes its Grand Foyer after a chunk of ceiling falls during storms, and management calls the “limited” damage proof of the 2-year shutdown a judge blocked in May
US Ambassador to Israel Huckabee tells Palestinian Americans in the West Bank that Israeli settler attacks are “an act of terror,” a label US envoys normally reserve for Palestinians.
Tulsa City Council spends $441,084 in opioid settlement money on a mobile mental health team that treats people where they are instead of jailing or hospitalizing them.
US destroys 1 Iranian oil tanker and disables 2 more after Revolutionary Guard fires ballistic missiles at an aircraft carrier, one day after Trump called the war “small potatoes.”
Arlington, Virginia, police open an investigation of ICE agents accused of a beating that left a man with a brain hemorrhage, as Homeland Security calls it “necessary force.”
Senate nominee Ken Paxton reports no rental income from 6 homes listed for rent and omits $1.3 million in golf resort mortgages, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune find.
Trump orders agencies to start removing gray wolves from the endangered species list and tells Interior Secretary Burgum to push states to let ranchers shoot them.
Prosecutors admit in court they have no evidence Olympian Davey Hearn damaged the Reflecting Pool yet fight a permanent dismissal, as Trump keeps claiming vandalism.
Justice Department antitrust official orders a “Pause on Canada” in cooperation during the tariff fight, then calls it a mistake after The Wall Street Journal reports it.
Fake website for Republicans’ first midterm convention redirects visitors to the Justice Department’s Epstein files 5 days before the Dallas event.
North Carolina’s Republican-led elections board votes party-line to toss more mail ballots over errors it previously let slide, the same morning counties begin mailing ballots.
Trump threatens to stop trading with countries running trade surpluses unless the Federal Reserve cuts rates, hours after a stronger-than-expected 162,000-job August report.
Justice Department sends Nevada 7 FBI subpoenas for voter data after judges tossed its lawsuit demanding the same files, one of 23 rejected.
