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President Donald Trump terminated the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission on July 9, removing three commissioners from the four-member bipartisan body. Two Democratic appointees were notified by email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one Republican appointee resigned. The commission, which supports election…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston’s Magnolia Park, a historic Hispanic neighborhood also called Little Mexico. The incident has prompted large street protests, family calls for an independent probe, and heightened fear among immigrant residents who say stepped-up enforcement threate…
The U.S. Senate returns for a four-week legislative period expected to take up defense and other national security measures while Republican Senator Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized with undisclosed health problems. McConnell, 84, who chairs the Senate Rules Committee and a defense appropriations panel, has been absent since mid-June. His offic…
The Trump administration's termination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture food security survey removes a long-standing tool used to measure household access to sufficient food. Analysts and former agency officials say the move complicates efforts to determine whether recent reductions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have increas…
Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch pushed back against a White House Domestic Policy Council report that accuses the National Museum of American History of anti-American bias and political activism. In a memo to staff, Bunch called the report an unfair portrayal of the museum’s work, while the Organization of American Historians rejecte…
The U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to all 50 states and the District of Columbia warning that election officials who keep noncitizens on voter registration lists could face criminal charges. The notices, dispatched by Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, underscore federal enforcement risks ahead of November's midterm election…
President Donald Trump announced he will file for a rehearing at the U.S. Supreme Court after the court rejected his bid to curtail birthright citizenship. Trump called the 6-3 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts a "miscarriage of justice" and said he will request the rehearing immediately. The action comes after an executive order issu…
Maine’s Democratic Party said it will not accept a unilateral selection by Graham Platner to replace him on the ballot, pressing the embattled Senate candidate to formally withdraw after allegations of sexual misconduct. The party signaled that it must follow its internal process to name any successor ahead of mid-July deadlines as party leaders an…
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have asked a federal judge in Manhattan to delay authorizing payment of a roughly $5.8 million damage award to writer E. Jean Carroll while Trump pursues renewed review at the U.S. Supreme Court. The request, filed late Tuesday, argues that immediate disbursement could cause irreparable harm if Carroll di…
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has scheduled a confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton to become the U.S. director of national intelligence on July 15. Clayton was nominated last month to oversee the nation's 18 intelligence agencies, an appointment that follows criticism of an interim pick with no national security background and a presi…
Senator Bernie Sanders urged Maine Democratic nominee Graham Platner to leave the Senate race after a woman accused Platner of having forcibly had sex with her nearly five years ago, an allegation Platner has denied. Sanders said he recommended Platner step aside and has spoken with him about the best path for Maine. Democratic leaders and an allie…
A planned shutdown of a rural Iowa clinic and broader concerns about Medicaid reductions and healthcare affordability have energized Democratic campaigns in Iowa and other battleground states. Voters in communities served by clinics reliant on Medicaid payments are questioning long-time partisan loyalties as candidates and outside groups frame the …
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine, on July 6 said he and his team would take time to consider the future of his campaign while denying a Politico report that a woman he had dated accused him of forcing her to have sex nearly five years ago. The report said the woman spoke in three interviews and that documents incl…
On July 6, prosecutors were due to begin a week-long preliminary hearing in Provo, Utah, where they will seek to establish probable cause that Tyler Robinson fired the single shot that killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025. The hearing will include video evidence, DNA results tied to an alleged murder weapon, and witness s…
During the Supreme Court’s most recent nine-month term that ended on Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump achieved significant, sometimes overlapping victories when their institutional priorities converged. The court issued several high-profile rulings that expanded presidential control over regulatory agencies and struck …
A recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down caps on coordinated spending between candidates and national political parties has the potential to neutralize Democratic cash advantages in several competitive Senate races. The decision permits national committees to spend unlimited sums in coordination with campaigns, a change that may disproportion…
The United States received an unexpected boost ahead of its World Cup last-16 match with Belgium after FIFA suspended the implementation of a red-card ban for striker Folarin Balogun. The decision followed a phone call from U.S. President Donald Trump to FIFA President Gianni Infantino and has prompted sharp reactions from Belgium and wider questio…
The U.S. Coast Guard removed a Hudson River Sloop Clearwater vessel from the Sail4th 250 parade in New York Harbor on July 4 after organizers deemed banners on the ship 'politically charged.' The Coast Guard said the vessel was asked to remove the messages or leave the parade route; the ship's operator disputes aspects of that account and framed th…
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow ended her bid for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, reducing a three-way Democratic primary to a head-to-head between U.S. Representative Haley Stevens and public health advocate Abdul El-Sayed. McMorrow urged unity behind the eventual nominee in a three-minute video posted to X, while recent polling showed her trai…
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said federal authorities had no legal basis to stop a July 4 march in Washington by members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front because the demonstration fell under free speech protections. Burgum described the group’s views as ones he could not agree with but said the First Amendment covers such speech,…
During the Supreme Court's most recent nine-month term, a pattern emerged: when the legal priorities of Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump converged, major rulings tended to favor the president; when they did not, Roberts authored decisions that rejected key elements of Trump's agenda. The term produced several landmark outcomes …
President Donald Trump staged a campaign-style rally on a fenced portion of the National Mall to mark the United States' 250th anniversary, concluding a sequence of events that critics have called partisan. While cities across the country held fireworks, parades and other celebrations, the capital's program - led by the Freedom 250 group - drew con…
At Mount Rushmore on July 3, President Donald Trump urged Americans to defend the freedoms of the nation's founders and warned of a revived 'communist' threat he said is being embraced by some progressive Democrats and newcomers to the United States. He tied the threat to immigration and stressed the importance of Republican success in the upcoming…
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has emerged as a central figure in the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, helping drive rulings that have reshaped U.S. law on abortion, affirmative action, firearms, religious liberty and congressional redistricting. At the same time, Barrett has on several high-profile occasions joined the court's liberal justic…
A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found the U.S. Secret Service did not receive 102 local radio transmissions about the individual who carried out the 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally. The agency's failure to set up a shared communications room with local police …
