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Madeline Vance
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A divided appeals court says the EPA cannot claw back $20 billion it already handed out
The en banc DC Circuit ruled 6-4 that terminating the EPA's green-bank grants was likely unlawful, reinstating an injunction over $20 billion, then paused itself so the administration can appeal to the Supreme Court.
A Judge Froze the Mail-Ballot Order for the Midterms. The Supreme Court Still Holds the Stay.
Judge Indira Talwani granted a preliminary injunction Aug. 11 barring the Postal Service from implementing Section 3 of Trump's mail-ballot order for the Nov. 3 midterms. Whether the block reaches nationwide or narrower is disputed across outlets and the order text is not yet public, while the Supreme Court's stay application 26A124 has sat unruled since the government's reply landed Aug. 4.
The New Birthright Citizenship Order Is Built From the Exceptions in the Ruling That Struck the Old One
Executive Orders 14418 and 14419, signed Aug. 6 and published in today's Federal Register, bar federal citizenship documents for four categories of births and direct visa denials, entry bars, and removals over birth tourism. Four agencies have until Sept. 5 to say how it will work.
Six Vaccines, a 90-Day Clock, and a DOJ Assignment: What Trump's Childhood-Vaccine Order Actually Does
The order's text moves six vaccines, including hepatitis B and flu, from universal recommendation to parent-doctor discretion, gives an HHS task force 90 days to plan a remake of the remaining shots, and directs the Justice Department to sue over state mandate laws, five months after a federal judge blocked the CDC route.
A Year of the Guard in Washington: $3 Million a Day, No Measured Effect on Violent Crime
Roughly 4,700 troops from more than 20 states, about $3 million a day, an end date pushed to 2029. The two studies that looked found the deployment had no effect on violent crime.
A Boston Judge Leaves the One-Year TPS Work Permit Cap Standing, and Pauses the Asylum Fee
Judge Nathaniel Gorton's five-page Aug. 5 order denied a stay of H.R.1's one-year TPS work permit cap, retroactivity included, for TPS holders from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine, while temporarily blocking the penalties for not paying the law's new Annual Asylum Fee, though not the fee itself.
ICE Promises a Camera on Every Officer. Its Policy Decides Whether You Ever See the Footage.
The agency says every field officer will wear a body camera by the end of August, after two fatal shootings that no camera recorded. The same policy lets ICE leadership withhold that footage indefinitely.
Todd Blanche Confirmed Attorney General, 50-49, in an Overnight Vote
Two Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, joined every voting Democrat against him; Bill Cassidy cast the deciding yes at about 4:17 AM. Confirmation followed Blanche rescinding a $1.8 billion fund GOP senators had objected to.
Three States, One Friday: How the 2028 Map Fight Is Being Waged by Procedure
On Aug. 7, Georgia, Missouri, and Maryland each showed a different lever, a GOP committee rewriting voting hardware, a judge struck from a Missouri referendum suit before a Sept. 8 deadline, and a Maryland Republican lawsuit to block a Democratic redistricting amendment. Both parties are shaping 2028 before a single vote is cast.
The DOJ's Voter-Roll Demand Keeps Losing in Court, and the Latest Loss Cannot Be Refiled
A federal judge in Colorado threw out the government's suit for unredacted voter data with prejudice on August 4, finding no lawful basis for the demand. It is one of 31 suits the Justice Department has filed against 30 states and D.C.
Twenty-four states move to keep welfare families' Social Security numbers out of DHS's reach
A coalition of 24 states and D.C. sued DHS on August 5 to block its access to TANF cash-assistance records, including Social Security numbers, arguing the data was collected to run a benefit and cannot be rerouted to Homeland Security without the process the law requires.
Connecticut Children's agrees to end pediatric gender-affirming care in a $500,000 Justice Department settlement
Connecticut Children's Medical Center will end gender-affirming care for minors and pay $500,000 under an agreement with the Justice Department, which framed the treatments as carrying 'harmful consequences.' The hospital's own statement was neutral.
Judge Lets One-Year Cap on TPS Work Permits Take Effect This Week
A federal judge in Massachusetts refused on August 5 to block a new limit that caps Temporary Protected Status work permits at one year, meaning holders from Ukraine, El Salvador, and Sudan can lose work authorization as soon as this week. The plaintiffs are appealing to the First Circuit.
The immigration crackdown is now deporting the families of active-duty US troops
An AP review reported by PBS counts more than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty service members detained, six deported and at least eight still held, plus 125 veterans detained. A former ICE official says these families used to be kept out of removal proceedings.
A 41-Year-Old Man Died in ICE Custody at Delaney Hall; His Family and ICE Give Different Accounts
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo's family says he was denied his blood-pressure and diabetes medication at the Newark detention center. ICE says he received proper medical care and did not address the medication claim.
The voter-roll franchise: as the NVRA quiet period opens, the DOJ keeps losing and keeps expanding
A Denver judge dismissed the Colorado suit with prejudice on Aug. 4, the 20th loss; a DOJ lawyer conceded Washington's case is no different; a new FOIA suit targets the SAVE database; and the DOJ's Supreme Court mail-voting brief leans on a disputed New Jersey glitch.
FBI Declines Civil-Rights Probe Into ICE Killing of Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Maine
The Justice Department will not open a civil-rights investigation into the July 13 fatal shooting of a Colombian man by an ICE officer in Biddeford, even after border czar Tom Homan said the officer may not have been properly vetted.
The Supreme Court case that isn't about tariffs: 26A124 and the mail-in voting order
The Supreme Court application 26A124, Trump v. California, targets the March 31 mail-in voting order, not tariffs. 23 states and D.C. filed a 45-page opposition on Aug. 3; a federal judge has frozen the order through Nov. 3.
More than 4 million people have fallen off SNAP since last July, and the provisions that hit hardest have not started yet
Preliminary USDA data puts April participation at 37 million, down from a 42 million monthly average the year before. The three national figures in circulation do not reconcile with each other, and the two changes that move real money at states arrive in October 2026 and October 2027.
The Deadline DHS Set Has Passed. The Window It Needed Closes Wednesday.
California's answer to the 250,000-noncitizen claim was a refusal: Secretary of State Shirley Weber says her office never gave DHS the voter list it claims to have matched. On August 5 the National Voter Registration Act's 90-day quiet period begins, and 90 days from August 5 is November 3, Election Day.
The Lawyers Are Gone: 26,000 Children Face Immigration Court Alone Starting Monday
The federal contract funding legal representation for unaccompanied children expired Friday. NPR counts 26,000 children affected, ABC News says over 20,000, providers say they are owed $65 million, and children without lawyers win their cases less than 1 percent of the time.
ICE Said He Had a Criminal Record. The Public Files Show a $200 Ticket and a Charge Prosecutors Dropped.
He was deported to Guatemala. His wife followed with their three daughters, giving up an asylum claim that had a hearing scheduled this year. Within two weeks both were found shot in a sugarcane field.
Pennsylvania's Republican Election Chief to DHS: You Never Sent the List
DHS told four states it found 250,000 noncitizen registrations. Its own tighter matching cuts that to 118,003. Pennsylvania says the underlying list has never arrived.
DHS Says 250,000 Noncitizens Are Registered to Vote in Four States. Two of Those States Published Their Numbers: 30,479.
A Republican secretary of state and a Democratic one are both asking the same question - how did you count? DHS has not identified a single one of them, or alleged that any voted.
'Mamdani Announces He's Taking Over All Grocery Stores in New York City.' The Plan Is Five Stores. One Per Borough. Run by a Private Company.
New York has thousands of grocers and bodegas. The city intends to open five stores, hand them to a private operator, and have the first one selected in spring 2027.
'Fauci FACING PRISON Over REFUSING To Testify.' He Invoked the Fifth Amendment - Which Is Not Refusing - and the Vote Is on a Contempt Referral, Not a Sentence.
He took the Fifth more than 100 times. Rand Paul has scheduled an August 5 committee vote. Between that vote and a prison cell sit a full committee, a chamber, a US attorney and a jury.
'Ilhan Omar Wrote the Legislation.' The Programs Were Enacted in 1968 - and the Money Was USDA's, Not USAID's.
Feeding Our Future exploited two federal child-nutrition programmes that predate her birth by more than a decade. And the video fuses two different women named Nur, only one of whom was convicted.
The President Ordered Warning Signs Outside a Smithsonian Museum. He Cannot Order Anything Inside It - Which Is Why the Order Stops at the Sidewalk.
Executive Order 14416 directs Interior to install signage on the park-service sidewalks used to reach the National Museum of American History. Under 20 U.S.C. 42 the Smithsonian is run by a Board of Regents, and the President is not on it.
'Media Hides Race Of Shooters AGAIN.' The Suspect Who Isn't Named Is 15 - and One of the Named Dead Is Reported as a Shooter.
Washington seals juvenile records. The adult identities were released, in court documents reported by four outlets. And police said publicly within a day that the shooting could be gang related.
'Mamdani Doxxes Every Property Owner in New York City.' The File Covers Second Homes Over $1 Million, and You Can Get Off It by Living in Yours.
The city published a supplemental property roll so owners could check whether a proposed pied-a-terre tax reaches them. Occupy the place yourself, or let family or a tenant live there, and it does not.
'Biden Audio LEAK.' A Heritage Foundation Project Sued the Justice Department and Won. That Is the Opposite of a Leak.
The tapes are real, they are newsworthy, and they were obtained through litigation the Oversight Project publicised. They are also the ghostwriter recordings, not the Hur interview.
Two Videos, 188,000 Views, One Legal Problem: You Cannot Deport a Citizen
Both targets are naturalized Americans holding elected office. Stripping citizenship requires a federal district court, proof 'clear, unequivocal and convincing,' and a separate removal proceeding afterward. Neither has been initiated.
The Border Waiver That Set Aside 34 Laws Today Justifies Itself With 99 Pounds of Fentanyl Across Five Years
Big Bend accounts for 5.9 percent of the two sectors' apprehensions - about 49 a day across 517 miles. A $1.7 billion contract was already awarded for the segment. That is roughly $19,100 per apprehension.
A Rule Filed Today Lets the Government Refer Asylum Cases to Immigration Court Without an Interview - and Drops the Requirement to Explain Why
DHS estimates up to 444,724 cases, 31 percent of a 1.4 million backlog. It is an interim final rule: effective on publication, comments taken afterward.
Twelve Different Work-Permit Expiry Dates Were Collapsed Onto Tonight by Court Order. More Than 300,000 Haitians Are on the Other Side of It.
USCIS told employers to write 'as per court order' on the I-9 and enter July 27, 2026 - replacing expiry dates that ran from 2017 to February. DHS's offer is $2,600 and a flight. Ohio's Republican governor says Haiti's gangs 'run most of the country.'
A Paperwork Notice Published Today Opens a Health-Records Channel From HHS to DHS for Children Being Deported
Physical treatment-plan information 'must be shared with DHS' when a child is identified for repatriation. Mental-health information is different: ORR 'will request consent from the child.' The same notice deletes the history section from follow-up mental-health visits.
The Supreme Court Mandate Ending Haitian TPS Issues Today. ICE Documents Already Name the Cities.
More than 300,000 people lose deportation protection and work permits. Internal documents reviewed by CBS concentrate operations in cities with large Haitian populations, including Springfield, Ohio. A federal judge found in February that the termination was 'in part' rooted in 'racial animus.'
More Than 330,000 Haitians Can Lose Their Legal Status on Monday Morning
The Supreme Court held in June that Congress stripped the courts of authority to review most challenges to a TPS termination. Thirty-two days of procedure later, the earliest enforcement date is July 27 - tomorrow.
DHS Is Waiving More Than Thirty Federal Laws in Texas Tomorrow - Including the One That Lets You Object.
A determination signed by Secretary Markwayne Mullin sets aside NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, among others, to build barriers across the Big Bend and Del Rio sectors. It takes effect July 27.
Homan Said Every ICE Employee Goes Through Vetting. Shown the Court File on the Maine Shooter, He Said: 'I Don't Think He Should Ever Have Cleared Vetting.'
Two former wives had accused the agent of abuse and a judge had ordered him to forfeit any firearms. Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, 25, had legal authorization to work in the United States. No one at the stop was wearing a body camera.
ICE Says 60% of Its Detainees Have 'Convictions or Pending Charges.' Split the Conjunction: 29% Are Convicted, and 39,000 Have Never Been Charged at All.
ICE's own July 21 dataset and TRAC's count share a denominator - 65,765 people - which makes the arithmetic clean. Convicted: 19,329. Charged but never convicted: 20,247. Neither: 26,189. More people in ICE detention have never been charged with anything than have ever been convicted of anything.
An FBI Affidavit Said the Van 'Likely Contained Methamphetamine.' The County Lab Says It Tested Negative. The Family Says It Was Salt.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 35, a construction worker, was shot dead by an ICE agent in Houston on July 7. The Harris County DA says he is 'more than prepared' to prosecute agents if criminal wrongdoing is found.
DHS Says 'Nearly 70%' of ICE Arrests Are of People 'Charged or Convicted.' ICE's Own Detention Books Say 70.6% Have No Conviction at All.
The load-bearing word is 'or.' A charge is an accusation; a conviction is a finding of guilt. Merging them lets one number describe a population that, on ICE's own count as of July 11, includes 46,436 people held with no criminal conviction.
An ICE Agent With Two Protective Orders in His Past Killed a Man Who Had Legal Permission to Work Here.
Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero was 25, a Colombian national with work authorization, stopped in Biddeford, Maine on July 13. The agent who shot him had been at ICE about eight months. Court documents show two of his former wives had obtained protective orders alleging abuse.
ICE Plans to Reopen a Prison Closed Since 2021 as a 1,400-Bed Detention Center. North Carolina's Governor: 'ICE and Border Patrol Have Not Earned Our Trust.'
Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton drew Justice Department scrutiny over conditions, contraband and officer violence before it closed. Internal ICE documents show it reopening this year under GEO Group as one of the largest immigration detention centers on the East Coast.
Trump Called Washington 'Almost a Crime-Free City' and Claimed an 88% Drop. His Own Police Department Says Violent Crime Is Up 2%.
MPD publishes the numbers daily. As of the morning of the dinner: violent crime 1,512 against 1,478 a year earlier - an increase. Total crime is down 20 percent, which is real, and is not 88. Homicides are down 37 percent.
ICE Is Arresting People Faster Than at Any Point in Its 23-Year History: About 1,593 a Day.
Under DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, ICE arrests reached a record pace in July - roughly 1,593 a day - with more than 356,000 people deported so far this fiscal year. Of the 65,765 held in detention, federal data show most have no criminal conviction.
ICE Would Not Let Him Board the Flight Home He Paid For. Then It Said His Jailing Was His Own Fault for Not Leaving.
Marlon Andres Torres Gomez did everything a voluntary-departure order asks: he bought a one-way ticket to Colombia and told ICE when he was leaving. The agency kept him locked up past his deadline, then argued the missed flight made his detention mandatory. A federal judge called that 'at odds with common sense' and ordered him released.
At Dover, Trump Said the Four Fallen Soldiers 'All Said We Cannot Let Iran Have a Nuclear Weapon.' No Family Has Confirmed It, and No Record Exists.
The president used the dignified transfer of four dead service members to attribute to them, unanimously, an endorsement of the war's rationale - a statement ABC notes no family has confirmed and no public record supports. Hours later, at a Georgia rally, he called them 'the two American soldiers killed in Iran.' They were four, and they died in Jordan and Iraq.
The White House Says New Jersey 'Refuses to Verify Citizenship.' The 6,600 Were Registered by a Bug After They Answered 'No' to the Citizenship Question.
New Jersey's governor disclosed that a vendor's software registered about 6,600 people to vote even though they answered 'no' when asked if they were citizens - fewer than 400 voted, and the state found it, announced it, and ordered an independent probe. The White House converted that into 'Democrat policies that refuse to verify citizenship,' and Trump said the governor was 'forced to admit' it. The record says the check happened, the software ignored it, and nobody forced anything.
Everyone Labeled the Federal Plaza Attacker 'Leftist Terror' Within Hours. The Charge, When It Came Tuesday, Was Arson - and the Word 'Leftist' Still Appears in No Official Account.
A man poured gasoline on the steps of 26 Federal Plaza, lit it with a firework, and fired airsoft pellets at the building. Within hours, Tim Pool's show branded it 'Leftist TERROR,' DHS labeled the suspect an 'anti-ICE rioter,' and Homan declared himself vindicated. A day later the actual charge arrived: federal arson, with prosecutors describing months of planning and the defense describing a homeless veteran in a mental-health crisis - and still not one official calling him a leftist.
The Tates' Lawyer Calls the Miami Arrest a 'Political Hit' by a 'Low-Level Functionary.' DOJ Disputed That on the Record - and Every American Link in the Chain Is Trump's Own Administration.
Trump's Marshals Service made the arrest. Trump's DOJ Criminal Division approved it - on the record, contradicting the Tates' attorney. The final extradition call belongs to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The UK charges the brothers face now span 59 counts, including rape and trafficking of seven women - and the administration's documented prior involvement with the Tates ran in their favor.
DHS Promised ICE Body Cameras in February. The Mandate Came July 19 - After Two More Men Died on Camera-less Traffic Stops.
Border czar Tom Homan announced Sunday that ICE officers must record vehicle stops with a body camera, calling it protection for agents. The record behind it: the administration tried to cut the body-camera program 75% in 2025, ran a pilot in only five cities, and issued the mandate only after two fatal ICE traffic-stop shootings this month - in Houston and Maine - left no footage.
A Judge Ruled the Trump Administration Unconstitutionally Fired FEMA's Finance Chief Over the 'Luxury Hotels for Migrants' Smear
Mary Comans, FEMA's career chief financial officer, was fired in early 2025 and publicly accused of funding 'luxury NYC hotels for migrants.' A federal judge has now ruled the firing 'deprived her of both property and liberty without due process' - and rejected the administration's claim of an unlimited power to remove civil servants.
Trump's Prime-Time 'Election Security' Speech Made Seven Sweeping Fraud Claims. The Government's Own Intelligence - and His Own Agency - Contradict Every One.
In a July 16 national address, President Trump said US voting systems can be 'rigged and stolen,' that China obtained '220 million voter files,' that DHS found '278,000 noncitizens registered to vote,' and that mail ballots are 'inherently corrupt.' A point-by-point review finds each claim collapsing against the government's own intelligence products - and against the President's own cybersecurity agency, which called the 2020 election the most secure in American history.
A Fatal ICE Shooting in Maine Was Not About 'Sanctuary Policies.' The Officer Had a Documented History of Violence, and the Man He Killed Was Not the Target.
Bobby Charles, Maine's Republican nominee for governor, says the state's limits on cooperating with ICE forced agents into the field operation that killed a Colombian father in Biddeford - and that restoring cooperation would prevent such deaths. The record points elsewhere: the agent who fired had a documented history of domestic violence when ICE hired him in late 2025, the man he killed was not the person ICE was seeking, and no agent wore a body camera.
The Company Blocking a TB Investigation at Its ICE Jail Just Got $529 Million to Nearly Double Colorado's Detention Beds.
GEO Group is refusing to let Colorado health investigators reach a tuberculosis patient at its Aurora ICE facility - denying access, withholding records - despite a public-health order. The same operator was just awarded a five-year, $529 million federal contract to open a second Colorado facility, pushing the state's ICE capacity toward 2,720 beds.
DHS Says a New Green-Card Rule Will Save $110 Billion. The Fine Print: Only If Immigrant Families Give Up Benefits They Legally Qualify For.
The rule revives the 'public charge' test, letting officers weigh Medicaid, food, and housing aid against green-card applicants. DHS projects more than $110 billion in savings over a decade - but by its own logic, that money is saved when eligible immigrant families, including those with US-citizen children, stop using benefits they qualify for. The last such expansion did exactly that.
DHS Just Ended the 47-Year Rule Letting International Students Stay for Their Whole Program. It Cites ~2,100 'Forever Students.' It Applies to Over a Million.
The July-16 final rule replaces 'duration of status' - in place since 1979 - with a hard 4-year cap, after which 1M+ students must win a discretionary, non-appealable USCIS extension from an agency with an 11.65M-case backlog. Four years is shorter than most PhDs. DHS's stated justification names roughly 0.2% of those it burdens.
The Amendment to Cut Israel's Military Aid Failed 104-314. The Story Is the 103 Democrats Who Voted for It.
On July 15 the House rejected Rep. Thomas Massie's bid to strip $3.3B in aid to Israel. Massie was the lone Republican yes - but the Democratic caucus split almost evenly, 103 to 98, with 10 present. Leadership fractured: Jeffries no, Pelosi and Whip Clark yes. 74% of Democratic voters now oppose more aid to Israel.
Trump Says China Pulled Off 'the Largest Election-Data Heist in History.' Voter Files Are Mostly Public - and the Record Says No Vote Was Altered.
The primetime address framed China's acquisition of 220 million US voter files as an attack on the election itself. But voter files are largely public records, possessing them cannot change a vote, and the one assessment that examined 2020 - the ODNI's - found no foreign actor altered any part of the voting process. He offered no evidence a single vote changed.
During the 'Ceasefire,' Israel Is Killing Gaza's Police at Their Stations - 35 Officers in 12 Attacks This Year - and Labeling Them 'Hamas' Without Evidence.
A July 14 strike on a Jabalia police station killed eight, including its director. The UN human rights office counts 12 attacks on Gaza police since January, 35 officers killed - many hit directing traffic or overseeing markets. Israel calls the dead 'Hamas fighters' but, per Al Jazeera, has shown no evidence for the individual targeting.
DHS Calls Them 'the Worst of the Worst.' ICE's Own Data Shows 73% of Detainees Have No Criminal Conviction - and 5% a Violent One.
Over the July 4 weekend, DHS headlined arrests 'WORST OF THE WORST: ICE Arrests Murderers, Pedophiles, Rapists,' and said nearly 70% were 'charged or convicted.' A November 2025 snapshot of ICE's own detention data, obtained by the Cato Institute, shows 73% of those held had no conviction at all - and 5% a conviction for a violent crime.
Nine Months Into the Gaza Ceasefire, the Line Is Still Moving Outward - to 58% of the Territory - and 1,108 Have Died Since the Truce Began.
A ceasefire is supposed to be the moment a map stops changing. Al Jazeera reports the Israeli 'Yellow Line' now covers roughly 58% of Gaza and is being expanded past its original boundaries; NPR puts effective control near 70%. Gaza's health ministry counts 1,108 killed since the truce - about four a day.
DHS Said Two Men ICE Killed Had 'Weaponized' Their Vehicles or Were the Targets. Its Own Leaders Told Congress Neither Was True.
In Houston (July 7) and Maine (~July 13), ICE killed two men - a Mexican homebuilder and a Colombian father driving to work. DHS's first accounts said one 'weaponized his vehicle' and cast both as targets. Acting ICE Director David Venturella and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin corrected the record to members of Congress; on July 14 the administration suspended most ICE vehicle stops.
He Posted a Poll Showing 56% Back Deportation. The Protest Signs in His Own Graphic Are Dated 2024 - and Today's Polling Runs the Other Way.
Monday's uncaptioned Truth Social graphic cites a Harvard/Harris poll - '56% support' - fielded 'May 29-31' with 1,725 respondents: the May 2024 survey, its imagery dated 2024. The most recent polling, Marist in January 2026, has 65% saying ICE has 'gone too far,' up from 54% the previous summer.
Case by Case, the ICE Deaths Blur. Mexico Just Counted 17 of Its Own - and Is Taking Them to US Prosecutors.
Fourteen Mexican nationals dead in ICE custody, three more killed in operations, during this term. On July 9 Mexico said it will go past diplomacy - filing criminal complaints with US state and federal prosecutors, suing the private detention companies, and referring the cases to the Inter-American Commission and the UN. President Sheinbaum called them, as her government sees it, homicides.
He Says Iran Is 'Already Denuclearized' and 'We've Got the Nuclear Material.' The IAEA Says It Can't Even Find the Stockpile - and the US Bombed Iran Again Sunday.
'We denuclearize Iran. And that's happened,' the president said, adding that the US has 'already got the nuclear material.' The UN's nuclear watchdog has been locked out of Iran's sites since the 2025 war and cannot verify where the uranium is; about 440 kilograms of near-weapons-grade material is believed still inside Iran - and Sunday the US launched its third round of strikes this week.
'1000 Missiles Are Locked and Loaded' Over an Assassination Plot. Asked About the Intel the Same Day, He Said Israel 'Came Up With Nothing.'
The 11:18 PM post promises a standing, year-long order to 'completely decimate and destroy all areas' of a country of 90 million if Iran acts on an alleged plot. The record beside the threat: the president's own same-day dismissal of the intelligence behind it, US officials calling the material general chatter rather than a specific plan - and talks in Muscat this morning that the threat now hangs over.
The Bodycam Money Arrived in April. The Excuse Arrived After the Shooting: 'Democrat Shutdowns.'
An ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo - a man the agency now admits was not its target - and there is no footage, because the officers wore no cameras. DHS blames shutdowns. Congress wrote a 20 million dollar bodycam check in April, Kristi Noem promised deployment in February, and the agency's own court-filed timeline ran out before the shots.
Explosions Hit Southern Iran Thursday Night. The US Denies It, Israel Shrugs, and Iran Has Told Three Incompatible Stories.
Blasts in Bushehr, Choghadak, and Konarak - nearly ten nationwide by one Iranian agency's count - and no one claims them. CENTCOM says no US strikes in those hours. Iranian state TV says nothing happened; IRNA says air defenses fired; the Bushehr deputy governor says a projectile hit a military headquarters. In the province hosting Iran's nuclear power plant, the gap between those stories is the fuse.
The Federal Election Referee Now Has Zero Commissioners. The Same Week, DOJ Told All 50 States Their Clerks Could Be Prosecuted.
Thursday, the two Democratic commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission were fired by email - after declining to rubber-stamp a proof-of-citizenship order - leaving the agency that certifies America's voting equipment with no quorum four months before the midterms. Tuesday, letters from DOJ's civil rights division gave every state five days to answer for a crime every audit finds vanishingly rare.
He Put Up Screens So the Tent Camps Could Watch the World Cup. An Israeli Strike Killed Him the Night Before Egypt Played.
Mohammed al-Wahidi, 57, made displacement briefly livable - a screen, a signal, ninety minutes of somewhere else. A strike on his taxi in Gaza City killed him July 8, with two children and a 30-year-old man. He is one of 1,092 killed in the nine months of a ceasefire that averages four deaths a day, and the second aid worker on this week's list alone.
Trump Says 25 Million People Crossed the Border Under Biden. The Government's Own Count Is Not Half That.
The charge, delivered at the NATO press conference: 25 million crossings, maybe more. The evidence: Customs and Border Protection recorded under 11 million encounters through December 2024, about 13 million even counting estimated gotaways - and encounters count events, not people. The number carrying the emergency is more than doubled.
Three Courts, 24 Hours, One Answer: Pay Her. E. Jean Carroll Gets Her $5.8 Million After Three Years of Stalling.
Tuesday: the Supreme Court declined to hear it, without a noted dissent. Wednesday: Judge Kaplan ordered the escrow released - time to 'do equity' for a defendant who 'has been stalling this case for years.' Wednesday night: the Second Circuit needed one page to deny the emergency stay. The escrow earned interest for every year he stalled.
A 'Pilot Humanitarian Zone' Was Pitched for Gaza on Wednesday. On Wednesday, a 10-Year-Old Was Killed in a Tent Inside the Existing One.
The proposal, per Reuters: a US-backed zone to host tens of thousands safely. The record, per Gaza's health officials: nine killed the same day, including a child in a displacement tent in al-Mawasi - the area already designated safe - and 1,084 killed since the October ceasefire. The concept on offer has a test site, and the test site has a count.
23 Ballistic Missiles Targeted Kyiv. Zero Were Intercepted. The Reason Is the Fact the Summit Week Buried.
Russia's eve-of-summit assault killed at least 20 people, four days after a strike that killed about 30. The record under the toll: by the UN's account, none of the 23 ballistic missiles aimed at the capital were shot down, because Ukraine has run short of interceptors - the exact shortage Zelensky named before the summit convened.
Trump Says Greenland Is 'Surrounded by China's Ships and Russian Ships.' Denmark's Own Arctic Commander Says There Are None.
Pressing to acquire Greenland at the NATO summit, Trump described a naval siege by China and Russia. Denmark's Joint Arctic Command chief says he has not seen a single Russian or Chinese combat ship near Greenland in two and a half years, and the expert CNN consulted called the claim completely invented.
'No Mail-In Ballots' Was Promised From the Mall - Five Days After Two Courts Said the President Has No Such Power
The July 4 pledge: mail voting ends and 'you won't have cheating anymore.' The court record: voter eligibility belongs to the states alone, no law gives USPS control of mail voting, and the fraud the pledge presumes is vanishingly rare.
The Oldest Republic on Earth Is About 1,700 Years Old. It Is Not Us.
When the easy birthday facts get inflated from the country's biggest stage, the hard claims deserve receipts too. The true superlative - the oldest written constitution still in force - was better than the borrowed one.
The Speaker Says Voter ID Ends 'All the Fraud' in 'Blue States.' The Fraud Is About 30 Votes Out of 23 Million.
Mike Johnson pledged Sunday to move the SAVE America Act through reconciliation, saying proof of citizenship ends the fraud 'particularly in these blue states.' The audits he is describing found noncitizen voting at 0.0001 percent - and not concentrated anywhere.
The Wire Was Real. The Headline Is Not. What the Court Record Actually Says About Newsom and the FBI.
A sitting governor stood accused of crimes to hundreds of thousands of viewers - in a headline. The tape underneath reads the accurate story aloud. This is how the outrage machine works, and how to spot it every time.
'Roberts and the Liberals' Erases Two Justices. Barrett Signed the Opinion. Kavanaugh Agreed With the Result.
The birthright ruling's lineup is printed in the syllabus: a Trump appointee joined the opinion in full, and a second agreed the order was unlawful. Half the Republican appointees voted against the executive order.
Miller Says Nobody Could Read the Mail-Ballot Ruling and Disagree With Alito. Five Justices Did - Including Two Republican Appointees.
Alito wrote the dissent. The majority - authored by Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett, joined by Chief Justice Roberts - held the federal election-day statutes set no ballot-receipt deadline. The 'impossible ballots' story Miller told alongside it was called false a month ago by his own administration's US Attorney.
The DOJ Says Virginians Face 'Criminal Sanction' for Possessing Their Guns. Its Own Complaint Says the Law Bans Purchases - and Owners Keep Everything.
The press release announcing the suit against Virginia describes a threat to possession that the statute does not contain: the law bans sales and transfers, current owners are grandfathered, and the department's own filing calls it a purchase ban. The 'settled' right it invokes is a question the Supreme Court agreed to decide one day earlier.
A National Outlet Says a Judge Defied the Supreme Court. Its Own Article Admits He Didn't.
The Daily Signal's headline says the Supreme Court 'already said no' to what Judge Pitts did to ICE detention policy. The Court said the opposite - it preserved the exact remedy he used - and the article concedes as much, lower on the page.
It Was Not a 'Fake Case.' Juries Found Trump Liable for Abuse and Defamation - and His Answer Was to Defame Her Again.
The Supreme Court let the verdict stand on June 29. The story is not a photo or whether they met. Juries found he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and lied about her, a separate jury ordered $83 million for defamation, and his response to the Court was to call it a 'fake case.'
The Supreme Court Said Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution. He Says a Law Can Repeal It. It Cannot.
The Court ruled 6-3 that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born here. Within hours, the President told Congress to end it 'through Legislation,' with 'No ... Constitutional Amendment ... necessary.' That is not how the Constitution works.
Trump Says the Court 'Completely and Unequivocally' Expanded His Power. The Same Day, It Refused to Let Him Fire the Fed.
The Supreme Court did hand the President a real win on June 29, overruling a 90-year-old precedent so he can fire FTC commissioners. Hours later he claimed a total victory the Court specifically withheld.
The Court Said Counting Late-Arriving Ballots Is Legal. The President Called It 'Cheating.'
Ballots postmarked by Election Day that finish their trip in the mail a few days later have been counted in 14 states plus D.C. for years. The Supreme Court just confirmed it is lawful, in an opinion written by the president's own appointee.
'Elections Can Never Be Honest With Mail-In Ballots.' Oregon Has Sent 100 Million. Fraud: About a Dozen.
The president says mail voting guarantees a rigged result. The state that has voted by mail for a quarter-century has sent more than 100 million ballots and turned up proven fraud in about a dozen of them.
He Built a Commission to Find the Millions of Illegal Voters. It Found None, and Closed.
Trump said millions voted illegally in 2016. Then his own administration spent eight months looking, with a national spotlight and the weight of the federal government, and shut the search down without producing a single proven case.
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Someone Lied to CPS to Take a Man's Kids. That's the Whole Plan.
No child was ever in danger. That was never the point. An anonymous lie, a 24-hour separation, and a system turned into a weapon.
The Supreme Court Hollowed Out the Voting Rights Act. Here Is Exactly How.
In Louisiana v. Callais, six justices made it far harder to challenge a map that dilutes Black votes. Read the ruling the way I read a filing: the charge, the holding, the cost.
Overdose Deaths Finally Fell. So They Defunded the Reason.
Overdose deaths dropped three years running. The administration looked at what was working - and ordered everyone to stop doing it.
The Tariff Was an Illegal Tax - and They're Fighting Your Refund
The Supreme Court struck down the biggest tax hike in a generation 6-3. They just never called it a tax. Three hosts, one ruling.
Madeline vs. Marcus: Burn It Down, or Win It Now?
Same side. Same enemy. A real fight about the plan.
A Judge Just Told the President He Doesn't Run Elections
He tried to make you prove you're a citizen to vote - by decree. A judge made the 'no' permanent.
Madeline and Anna Take the Enemies List
Madeline brings in her paralegal. Anna reads it. Then she realizes what it is.
The 2020 Election Was the Most Litigated in History. The Charge of Fraud Lost Every Time.
Treat it like a case, because it was treated like one dozens of times. The government's own security agency, courts staffed by both parties, the Attorney General who served the plaintiff, and hand recounts all returned the same finding.
My Paralegal Read the White House Enemies List
Anna read the file. Then she realized what it actually was.
The Iran 'Peace Deal' Right-Wing Media Can't Agree On
The same network selling you peace is promising you the peace will fail. Watch the hands.
They Sold You a War AND a Peace in the Same Week
The same network promising you peace is also promising you the peace will fail. Watch the hands.
The White House Put Journalists on an Official Enemies List
They signed an order ending censorship, then built a censorship list. Watch the hands.