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More than 1,200 former Justice Department employees have signed a letter urging senators to reject Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general, a roster of names so long it fills 59 pages.

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Today, I'm announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate.

A U.S. Senator faced accusations Sunday that he'd lost his grip on reality after he repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Democrats were responsible for a white supremacist march in Washington D.C. on Independence Day.

A report has criticized the United States for leading global carbon dioxide emissions growth in 2025, saying the country accounted for around 30% of the global increase in emissions.

Iran's top officials and brothers of the country's new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling a new confidence in their safety as calls grew for the killing of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was involved in a hit and run Friday in California’s wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities, who said the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges.

⚡️Ukraine reportedly strikes Crimea substations, leaving occupied peninsula without power. Ukraine struck several substations in Crimea overnight on July 5, plunging the Russian-occupied territory into a blackout, social media channels reported.

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America has to mean something more than wrapping ourselves up in the flag, says @esglaude.bsky.social Confronting our history isn't unpatriotic, it's how a nation evolves. The alternative? "We get stuck in adolescence. And so, we elect an adolescent." #ConnectwithJacob

A set of remains, previously known only as 9B, has been identified as John Pumphrey, a young man from Maryland who enlisted in the Continental Army's 7th Maryland Regiment as young as 13.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In his FIRST INTERVIEW since resigning from the DOJ, former special counsel Jack Smith tells  @nicollewallace.bsky.social on @deadlinewh.bsky.social that the rule of law is under UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK. WATCH the FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQG...

There’s a gaping hole where half of the building once stood. The South Lawn and the Ellipse, a 52-acre park between the White House and the Washington Monument, are completely torn up. The once-green grass where an arena held a UFC fight last month turned brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Marine Corps this week announced a $20 million contract with Seattle-based Overland AI to develop autonomous ground vehicles that could be used for transport, logistics and communications, as well as platforms for other systems. From Stars and Stripes' Gary Warner:

Assemblymember Alex Lee announced on Wednesday that $20 million in the 2026-27 fiscal budget has been allocated to restart the CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program after the program paused at the end of June due to a lack of funding.

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The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire service and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly.

BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, a major blow to the president's agenda

Social Security ensures people can live out their lives with dignity. Millionaires and billionaires need to pay their fair share into the most significant insurance program the nation has ever had. It’s time to scrap the cap! @johnlarsonct.bsky.social

The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive a $300 million defamation lawsuit filed against CNN over its coverage of a prominent attorney’s remarks made while defending President Donald Trump during his 2020 impeachment.

A foreign oil giant was under fire from the Trump White House for buying Russian oil. Then it poured nine figures into a troubled refinery startup tied to Donald Trump Jr. Not long after, the pressure from the Trump Administration vanished. Welcome to Episode 19 of the Corruption Chronicles.

The White House Religious Liberty Commission issued a series of recommendations to bolster religion in the workplace, schools and other institutions. The effort also combats efforts to stymie expressions of faith, according to the commission.

Around the time the United States was founded, Americans' diets included Parmesan ice cream and terrapin. But what you ate depended on your social status.

While the Paramount-Warner Bros merger has been approved by the DOJ, California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov may be gearing up to fight it. "We are investigating....there are red flags in the air everywhere," says Bonta. #ConnectwithJacob

Virginia's drought persists as metro Richmond eyes a July 1 water advisory, 29 systems enact mandatory conservation, and farmers seek solutions.

Trump stoked baseless fears after progressive New York Democrats Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier won their primaries. Read more: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Early voting in the primary election has started in Minnesota. You can find your polling place and a sample ballot here: myballotmn.sos.mn.gov

A renewed ​push by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for US help to return home following devastating earthquakes in the South American country is frustrating senior ⁠officials in Washington, a White House official said on Saturday.

Iran launched a drone assault targeting Bahrain while a ship in the Strait of Hormuz separately came under attack Saturday, in Tehran’s likely response to overnight airstrikes by the United States.

A maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said a route through the Strait of Hormuz near Oman's shores is expanding to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has rejected a US-brokered security agreement between ‌Lebanon and Israel a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to ‌Israel.

Rep. Jayapal: Dems Talking About Expanding Supreme Court

Collins: "You're likening Brad Lander to a Nazi guard." Blakeman: "He's a collaborator." When political debate reaches the point where Holocaust analogies replace evidence,it stops being persuasion and becomes provocation. Such comparisons demand extraordinary justification—not rhetorical escalation

⚡️Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military plant in Volgograd. A Ukrainian missile strike reportedly targeted a Russian military facility in the city of Volgograd overnight on June 27, according to Russian independent outlet Astra.

Growing numbers of homeowners are installing batteries that store electricity when it is cheap, which helps balance the grid and cuts emissions, and cheaper plug-in batteries will soon let more people do the same

A liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with a sharp knife or razor this month, causing damage to the foam sealant installed as part of a $16 million rehabilitation project, a top official at the National Park Service says.

Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump on Wednesday over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote to try to appease him, voting down a war powers resolution a day after a similar measure passed.

During a Senate hearing Wednesday, Postmaster General David Steiner said the U.S.P.S will refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states that do not provide detailed voter registration lists to the federal government, prompting immediate accusations of voter suppression and federal overreach.

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Ukraine is raising the cost of war for Russia — and testing Putin's resolve

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was constructed in the early 1920s on a site that had been a marshy, tidal mudflat for much of the 19th century. Before the memorial’s construction, the area was part of the Potomac River flats, a half-river, half-mosquito country that flooded twice daily...

gift article In the latest chapter of a long battle between California and President Trump over environmental rules, California on Monday sued the Trump administration to preserve the state’s strict emissions standards that require more electric cars and trucks,...

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's makeover was supposed to inspire patriotism, but chunks of material peeling off the pool's surface have instead garnered more puzzlement and speculation.

More than a dozen officials surrounded a young women after she was allegedly spotted by the Reflecting Pool with her hand in the water.

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BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the DHS from using its citizenship database to purge voters from registration rolls. “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” the judge wrote.

BREAKING: A federal judge halts grand jury subpoenas aimed at MN Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in connection to their refusal to assist the Trump admin with its immigration enforcement agenda. MS NOW Legal Analyst @weissmann.substack.com breaks down the latest.