On July 21, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced that the federal government was deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, citing suspected...
On July 20, 2026, President Trump signed three proclamations imposing 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, targeting automobiles, alcohol, and dairy products. The tariffs are imposed under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, a rarely invoked...
On the evening of July 9, 2026, the White House Presidential Personnel Office sent emails to two federal commissioners firing them. A third commissioner was called and asked to resign. She did. By the end of that night, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the...
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...
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...
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...
