BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.

BREAKING: Trump’s use of the National Guard during immigration protests in Los Angeles is illegal, a judge rules. Follow AP's live updates.

BREAKING: In a blatantly unconstitutional move, Trump announces plans for a new executive order aiming to eliminate mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Constitution grants states, not the president, the primary authority to regulate elections. From: @jimsaksa.com

JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.

#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

The State Department said it would start a pilot program that will require cash deposits to tourist and business visas for people from countries with high overstay rates.

Breaking News: The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to people briefed on the matter.

Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case, employees say.

Breaking News: A federal appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halted agents from arresting and detaining L.A. immigrants without probable cause.

Rev. Carlo Alberto Capella was released from prison and quietly returned to work after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography while serving as a Vatican diplomat, according to reports on Catholic blogs.

A leaked Department of Homeland Security memo reveals advanced plans to expand military involvement within the U.S., which has stunned a number of policy experts, The New Republic reported on Saturday.

Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on Thursday in which he also reflected on his more than five-decade career in politics and beginnings as a young lawyer.

Exclusive: The FBI redacted President Trump's name, as well as the names of other public figures, from the Epstein files under privacy exemptions.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said. Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

NEW: EPA to revoke 2009 finding that climate pollution endangers humans.

Roy Cooper raises $3.4 million in first 24 hours of his Senate candidacy. The former North Carolina governor set a fundraising record with his day-one campaign haul.

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

note that this isn't a denial and ICE is kidnapping and disappearing people

They're not even trying to hide it.

Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Texas GOP Rep. Giovanni Capriglione...the same man who rammed through a six‑week abortion ban...has been exposed: a 17‑year affair and allegedly paid for multiple abortions. These aren't leaders...they're hypocrites in power. If that doesn’t make you furious, you’re not awake.

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting

"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."

Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."

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It’s a cover up.

Secretary of Homeland Security on racial profiling by ICE: “That is not true… Don’t you dare ever say that again.” Who the f*ck does Kristi Noem think she is, addressing a legitimate question like that? It is true. Tom Homan admitted it. Noem is a liar.

Let’s add this shall we #EpsteinList

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal? Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?

Telling women to modify their behavior to avoid being victims of violent crime ignores the actual issue of predators being predatory. Predators like a challenge and still telling victims they are responsible absolves the predator completely.

RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!

If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.

UnitedHealth is routinely threatening legal action against doctors, media outlets and others as part of an aggressive effort to shut down critics. New York Times journalist @davidenrich.bsky.social details his latest investigation.

Trump tries to move on amid Epstein files backlash as speaker calls for their release – US politics live

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President Trump that would claw back $1.1 billion previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Donald Trump says people interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

The House Oversight Committee chair used a digital signature to send out letters and subpoena notices related to the Biden autopen investigation.

ICYMI: The Maine Supreme Court ruled Friday that the language for a high-stakes ballot question — approved by the state’s Democratic Secretary of State — will appear on the November ballot without changes, blocking right-wing efforts to rewrite it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I was on New York’s rent board. Zohran Mamdani’s ideas aren’t pie in the sky | Leah Goodridge

Community health clinics brace for Medicaid cuts The community clinics expect to serve more uninsured patients following federal Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Faced with an unfathomable disaster like the July 4 flooding, Texans often draw on the idea of their own self-reliance during times of adversity. Gov. Greg Abbott has used it to deflect tough questions.

Household energy bills in some Republican-leaning states could rise by more than $600 every year, analysis of the so-called "big, beautiful bill" finds.

Disturbing video footage shows a New Mexico sheriff's deputy smiling as he kills a baby rabbit by throwing it against a patrol truck. Deputy Alejandro Gomez now faces one charge of extreme animal cruelty and four charges of aggravated assault on a police officer.

A Mexican immigrant is being deported even though her attorney said she was the victim in a recent workplace incident.