Pentagon pauses the firing of 3 Stars and Stripes journalists until September 4 after a judge asked for more time to weigh their First Amendment suit.
3 Trump-appointed appeals judges rule Kalshi’s sports bets are gambling Nevada can regulate, splitting with the 3rd Circuit as the CFTC sues states to shield prediction markets.
Newly released 2025 Homeland Security memo lets National Guard troops sent across state lines make immigration arrests as federal officers, none reported so far.
ICE moves to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics robot dogs that can open doors, days after buying 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves.
California sues to void a $120 million federal buyout that paid Golden State Wind to drop its offshore lease and fund Gulf Coast fossil fuel projects.
Federal judge rules unconstitutional the immigration provision Rubio used to deport foreign students for criticizing Israel, in a case won by Stanford’s student newspaper.
Defense Secretary Hegseth blocks 4 more Army officers from one-star rank, some tied to the 2 generals he ousted this year, The Hill reports.
Interior Department weighs trading part of Yosemite National Park to a Nevada developer wanting a private road into the park, a year after Congress refused, the LA Times reports.
Interior cuts over 60 East Potomac Park trees days before Trump’s golf course overhaul, after Judge Ana Reyes asked for notice before removing more than 10.
Trump signs an order creating the US Space Academy, a new military academy to train Space Force, NASA and commercial space workers, naming no location.
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to let it enforce its transgender troop ban on those already serving, calling an appeals court’s animus finding “gravely erroneous.”
ICE detains far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the New Orleans airport for overstaying a 2019 visa, after years of urging mass deportations and ICE checkpoints at supermarkets.
Wyoming’s Republican governor asks the state attorney general to investigate “aggressive” Justice Department election monitors who tried to inspect tabulators and interview voters during the primary.
Virginia removes Stonewall Jackson and 2 other Confederate statues from Capitol Square, leaving Richmond, the Confederacy’s former capital, with none 6 years after the 2020 protests.
River outfitters and Lipan Apache members win a court order halting all Homeland Security border barrier construction in Big Bend National Park until at least September 15.
Justice Department appeals a judge’s 14-day block on Postal Service rules letting it withhold mail ballots, one day after she found compliance “practically impossible” by November.
National Park Service backs Trump’s 250-foot arch at Memorial Circle while finding it will adversely affect 6 national landmarks, including the Capitol and the Pentagon.
FBI drops its automatic hiring ban on applicants who paid for sex, easing standards to rebuild a workforce depleted by firings, resignations and retirements.
Federal judge refuses to move Trump’s hush money convictions to federal court, ruling covering up an affair with Stormy Daniels is not an official presidential act.
Trump says the US struck a deal with unnamed private partners for majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, 8 months after capturing Maduro.
Chicago launches a $450,000 grant program paying food entrepreneurs and farmers market operators up to $10,000 to sell fresh food in neighborhoods that lack it.
Treasury bars Egypt’s second-largest bank’s UAE branches from the US financial system for aiding Iran at the war’s 6-month mark, as Trump hedges on sanctioning Chinese banks.
Labor Department rules a civilian mariner’s alleged rape by her captain aboard a Navy ship, in her locked cabin, was a workplace injury, leaving workers’ comp as her only remedy.
EEOC votes 2-1 to propose ending federal workers’ guaranteed hearing before a judge on discrimination claims and banning class complaints, with comments due in 30 days.
UAE’s national security adviser backs a 49% stake in the Trump family’s new federally chartered crypto bank as the administration eases AI chip sales to his firm, the Journal reports.
Justice Department says it will appeal the dismissal of its antisemitism suit against Harvard 2 weeks after a judge found the claims rested on one school year plus 3 later incidents.
FAA moves to fire 2 LaGuardia controllers who left an hour early before a March crash that killed 2 pilots, after Transportation Secretary Duffy called the airport “well-staffed.”
Trump will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11 at the Pentagon rather than ground zero, in part because the Manhattan memorial bars politicians from speaking, the Times reports.
NTSB finds Marine One couldn’t reach Reagan National’s tower from the Ellipse, its pad during White House construction, before an Aug. 4 close call with a passenger jet.
FDA approves Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine targeting the dominant XFG variant for adults 65 and older and high-risk people ages 5 to 64, shipping immediately.
US Attorney Pirro’s special grand jury questions DC teachers about truancy and graduation rates in a rare federal probe of how the city supervises its youth, the Post reports.
CDC adds Georgia, Tennessee and Texas to the Taylor Farms lettuce outbreak, which accounts for 11,485 of the more than 17,000 cyclospora cases recorded this year.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Karoline Leavitt ends 585 days as White House press secretary and returns to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. to work the midterms, with no successor named.
Rep. Chuck Edwards tells colleagues “poetry is not sexual misconduct” in a 22-page letter fighting censure over gifts of jewelry, guns and vacations to 2 young staffers.
Texas jail frees ICE agent Christian Castro, charged with shooting a Minneapolis man through a closed door and lying about it, as Gov. Abbott keeps blocking his extradition.
Documents show Health Secretary Kennedy wrote Samoa’s leader in 2019 asking to study its MMR vaccines, contradicting his Senate testimony that the trip had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
Judge cuts off DOJ’s claim that the Kennedy Center is “dilapidated” as a “non sequitur” while weighing whether Trump’s board can put his name on the facade and grounds.
Masked, armed CBP agents escort border wall contractors onto Tohono O’odham Nation land to begin drilling, 11 days after a judge refused to halt construction.
ICE signs a no-bid $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves to use on detainees and protesters, hours after 16 senators asked it to cancel.
Federal judge rules the Pentagon violated the First Amendment by barring Anthropic from defense work to “make a public example” of its criticism of military AI plans.
Trump signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” a week after Canada trade talks collapsed, and floats renaming the Atlantic or Pacific next.
ATF investigates a “major” cyber incident after the ransomware group Qilin said it hacked the agency, without disclosing whether any data was stolen.
Connecticut and Waterbury fund 47 affordable apartments for healthcare workers across from Saint Mary’s Hospital, the first project under a 2022 state housing bond.
Trump rejects new Iran talks as the war hits 6 months, while Iran and Oman agree on a Hormuz corridor requiring the US to lift its blockade.
Confirmed cyclospora cases top 17,000 across 48 states in the largest US outbreaks ever recorded, with 11,841 more awaiting lab confirmation.
New Mexico sues the US and border wall contractors over unauthorized wells in protected water basins, demanding double repayment for stolen groundwater.
Kennedy questions whether Pennsylvania’s 2 measles deaths happened a day after his own CDC posted condolences for the measles-associated deaths.
Trump names his own budget office lawyer Mark Paoletta to lead the commission vetting his Triumphal Arch and other capital construction projects.
SBA proposes letting financial firms earning $1 billion qualify as small businesses, raising the cap from $47 million in the largest expansion ever.
