The DOJ Fired Its Career Pardon Attorney After She Refused to Fast-Track Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights. It Then Sent Armed Marshals to Her Home to Stop Her From Testifying to Congress. This Week She Testified Anyway.
In early 2025, officials in the Justice Department's deputy attorney general's office asked Elizabeth Oyer, the department's career pardon attorney, to add actor Mel Gibson to a list of individuals whose gun rights would be restored. Gibson is a vocal supporter of...
The ICE Agent Who Killed a 26-Year-Old Father in Maine Was Rejected by the Army for Mental Health Diagnoses. Recruiters Told Him to Stop Taking His Medication and Reapply. He Did. ICE Hired Him.
On the morning of July 13, 2026, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was in his car in the neighborhood where he lived in Biddeford, Maine, when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed him. He was 26 years old. He had a partner and a 3-year-old...
Trump Gave a Primetime Address Claiming Declassified Documents Prove China Interfered With the 2020 Election. The Documents Said China Chose Not To.
On the evening of July 16, 2026, President Trump delivered a more than 20-minute primetime address from the White House claiming that newly declassified intelligence documents expose what he called "shocking vulnerabilities" in the American election system and prove...
Trump Is Delivering a Primetime Address Tonight Claiming Declassified Intelligence Proves 2020 Election Interference. Here Is What U.S. Intelligence Has Actually Concluded.
On the evening of July 16, 2026, President Trump is scheduled to deliver a rare primetime address from the White House focused on elections. According to reporting by multiple news organizations in the days leading up to the address, Trump plans to present what he...
Since 1966, Companies Have Been Required to Report Who They Hire and Who They Promote by Race and Sex. The EEOC Is Moving to End That.
Since 1966, companies with 100 or more employees have been required by federal law to file an annual report with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disclosing the demographic breakdown of their workforce — how many people they employ by race, sex, ethnicity,...
Hospitals Are Closing Maternity Wards. 3.8 Million People Have Lost Coverage. One Year After the Federal Medicaid Cuts, Here Is What Is Actually Happening.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It cut federal Medicaid funding by more than $900 billion over ten years, the largest reduction in the program's history. At the time, the Congressional Budget Office projected that roughly 11.8...
Juries Convicted Them. Judges Sentenced Them to Up to 22 Years. Then the DOJ Asked a Judge to Erase the Convictions.
On July 11, 2026, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly vacated the federal convictions of four Proud Boys leaders who had been found guilty by a jury of conspiring to use force to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election — along with related charges — for...
17 Federal Watchdogs Were Fired Overnight. A Judge Called It Illegal. 40 Percent of the Positions Are Still Vacant.
On the night of January 24, 2025, the White House Presidential Personnel Office sent a wave of emails to inspectors general across the federal government. The emails were brief. They said that due to changing priorities, the recipient's position was terminated...
A 15 Percent Tariff on Virtually All Imports Expires July 24. Congress Has Not Moved. Here Is What Happens Next.
A 15 percent tariff surcharge currently applied to nearly all goods imported into the United States from nearly every country on earth expires on July 24, 2026, under the terms of the federal law that authorizes it. The law that created the authority — Section 122 of...
The Supreme Court Narrowed the Core of the Voting Rights Act. States Are Already Redrawing Maps Before the Midterms.
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that significantly weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the central legal mechanism used for decades to prevent states from drawing congressional maps that dilute the...
The Supreme Court Ended 91 Years of Independent Agency Protections. Here Is What That Means for Civil Rights, Labor, and Consumer Enforcement.
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter that overturned a 91-year-old precedent and gave the president the authority to fire the heads of independent federal regulatory agencies at will, for any reason or no reason at all. The...
Trump Threatened to Pull U.S. Troops From Europe to Acquire Greenland. The Constitution Says He Needs Congress. Greenland Says It Is Not for Sale.
At a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 7 and 8, 2026, President Trump escalated his push to acquire Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory in the Arctic, telling reporters the United States needs the island "for the protection of the world" and suggesting...
Trump Sent Soldiers to Police Memphis Streets. Three People Have Died in Nine Months. No One Can Confirm the Soldiers Have Body Cameras.
In September 2025, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, as part of a new law enforcement initiative called the Memphis Safe Task Force. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen...
The Federal Government Has Quietly Stopped Enforcing Half a Century of Anti-Discrimination Law. No One Announced It.
For more than 50 years, federal civil rights law has included a principle called disparate impact: the idea that a policy or practice can be unlawful discrimination even without proof of intent, as long as it produces unequal outcomes for protected groups. A company...
Health Insurance Premiums Just Doubled for Millions of Americans. Three Million People Have Already Dropped Coverage.
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is the federal law that created the insurance marketplaces where roughly 22 million Americans bought their health coverage in 2025. Starting in January 2026, the subsidies that had been making those plans...
Trump Called This Housing Bill ‘a Big Yawn.’ Under the Constitution, It Becomes Law Without His Signature on July 10.
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed the Senate 85 to 5 and the House 358 to 32 with the kind of bipartisan margins lawmakers rarely produce. Trump was scheduled to sign it at the White House. He canceled the ceremony and told Congress he would not put his name...
Trump Once Called This Trade Deal the Best We’ve Ever Made. On July 1, He Refused to Renew It.
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is the trade deal that governs most of what crosses the borders between the three North American economies, covering $1.8 trillion in annual goods and services trade and nearly 30 percent of the world's economic...
The Supreme Court Just Ruled That the 14th Amendment Means What It Says. Trump Is Asking Congress to Change It.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 30, 2026, that children born in the United States to parents who are in the country without legal status, or who are here on temporary visas, are American citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice John...
The Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Almost Any Agency Head He Wants. The Fed Got the One Exception.
The Supreme Court ruled June 29, 2026, that President Trump can fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will, even when Congress passed laws saying those officials could only be removed for specific cause. In doing so, the Court's six conservative justices...
A Federal Judge Just Blocked the Plan to Have the Postal Service Decide Whose Mail Ballot Gets Delivered.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration cannot enforce key parts of an executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service refuse to deliver mail ballots to voters who were not on a federally generated...
The Supreme Court Cleared the Way to End Protections for 350,000 Haitians. A Republican Congressman Says That Will Empty Hospitals.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 25, 2026, in Mullin v. Doe that the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status, a designation that lets people from countries in crisis live and work in the United States legally without facing deportation, for more...
Congress Passed a Housing Bill 85 to 5. Trump Cancelled the Signing an Hour Before It Started.
The Senate passed the 21st Century Road to Housing Act on June 22, 2026, by a vote of 85 to 5. The House passed it the next day, 358 to 32. It is one of the largest housing affordability bills in decades, with support from both parties in numbers rarely seen on any...
DOJ Said the Fund Was Dead. Asked to Put That in Writing, It Said No.
Two federal judges in two separate courts have spent June asking the Justice Department to confirm, formally and in writing, that it has abandoned the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. In both cases, the department has declined. The fund itself traces back to a...
Five Student Loan Changes Hit on the Same Day, July 1. Here Is What Each One Costs You.
On July 1, 2026, five separate changes to the federal student loan system take effect at once. The Biden-era SAVE repayment plan officially ends. New borrowing limits and a new repayment plan created by last year's reconciliation law begin. Interest rates rise for the...
Nebraska Started Enforcing Medicaid Work Rules in May. Economists Say a Million Jobs Are at Stake.
Nebraska Started Enforcing Medicaid Work Rules in May. Economists Say a Million Jobs Are at Stake. On May 1, 2026, Nebraska became the first state to begin enforcing Medicaid work requirements created by the 2025 reconciliation law, ahead of the national deadline....
The Senate Funded ICE With $70 Billion. It Also Protected a $1.8 Billion Fund a Judge Already Blocked.
The Senate passed a $70 billion bill on June 5, 2026 to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through the end of Trump's term. The vote was 52 to 47. Every Democrat voted no. The only Republican who voted no was Lisa Murkowski of Alaska....
Two Courts Ruled His Tariffs Illegal. Households Are Paying $2,512 Anyway.
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that President Trump's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unlawful. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion. The ruling struck down both the Reciprocal Tariffs first imposed in April...
Trump Won’t Renew FISA Without the SAVE Act. Here Is What the SAVE Act Would Actually Do.
FISA Section 702, the surveillance law that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor foreign targets, expired on June 12. On June 14, President Trump posted on Truth Social to explain his conditions for bringing it back. "I'm against FISA if it doesn't come with...
Trump Put a Man With No Security Clearance in Charge of U.S. Intelligence. Democrats Let a Key Spy Law Expire.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lapsed on June 12, 2026, the first time the law has expired since it was passed in 2008. Congress had the votes to extend it. Democrats chose not to provide them. The reason: President Trump had just installed...
Trump Said “I Love the Inflation.” Here Is What 4.2 Percent Actually Looks Like.
In the Oval Office on Tuesday, with a reporter asking about consumer prices, President Trump said something that is going to be difficult to explain to every American household paying 4.2 percent more for everything than they were a year ago. "You know what I really...