The Supreme Court preserved nationwide mail and telehealth access to mifepristone; U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks resigned; Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned Trump of “clashes and even conflicts” if the U.S. “improperly” handles Taiwan; the EPA proposed relaxing wastewater … | Continue reading
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to stop Trump’s war with Iran for the seventh time; the Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair; U.S. producer prices rose 1.4% in April and 6% from a year earlier; the Trump administration will withhold $1.3 billion in federa … | Continue reading
Trump said he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation” as a motivation for negotiations with Iran; U.S. inflation rose to 3.8% in April, the highest level in nearly three years; the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system … | Continue reading
Trump said the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is on “massive life support” after rejecting Tehran’s latest counterproposal as a “piece of garbage” and “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE”; Trump endorsed suspending the federal 18.4-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax after his war with Iran pushed the averag … | Continue reading
Chief Justice John Roberts claimed that Supreme Court justices aren’t “political actors” and that the court isn’t a political institution; Tennessee Republicans enacted a new congressional map that breaks up majority-Black Memphis, likely eliminating the state’s only Democratic H … | Continue reading
The FBI searched the office of a Virginia Democratic state lawmaker who helped lead the state’s redistricting plan earlier this year; Trump helped defeat at least five incumbents in Indiana’s Republican primaries that had blocked his mid-decade redistricting plan; Tennessee Repub … | Continue reading
Trump paused Project Freedom after one day, citing “Great Progress” toward a “Complete and Final Agreement” with Iran while keeping the U.S. blockade “in full force and effect”; Marco Rubio urged Iran to negotiate, saying “the time’s come for Iran to make a sensible choice,” but … | Continue reading
U.S. forces shot down Iranian missiles and drones and destroyed six Iranian small boats after Trump began moving commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz as part of “Project Freedom”; the Supreme Court temporarily restored mail and telehealth access to mifepristone; Florida … | Continue reading
Trump signed legislation funding most of the Department of Homeland Security; Louisiana suspended its U.S. House primaries after the Supreme Court struck down its congressional map, giving the Republican-controlled Legislature time to redraw districts before November; Trump withd … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, striking down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district and limiting the law’s main tool against racial vote dilution; Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional map, w … | Continue reading
U.S. gas prices rose to their highest level in nearly four years; the Government Accountability Office will investigate the Justice Department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein files; the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey over a 2025 Instagram photo of seash … | Continue reading
The Justice Department charged Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate Trump; the National Trust for Historic Preservation refused to drop its lawsuit challenging Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, rejecting a Justice Department demand following the shooting at th … | Continue reading
An armed California man was taken into custody after charging a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner; Trump said “I guess” and “I’m honored” when asked whether he was the target at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner; and … | Continue reading
Trump ordered the Navy to “shoot and kill” any boat laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz; Senate Republicans voted 50-48 to advance a budget plan for about $70 billion in ICE and Border Patrol funding for the rest of Trump’s term; a Virginia judge blocked state officials from cer … | Continue reading
Virginia voters approved a temporary plan to redraw the state’s congressional map, which could give Democrats as many as four more House seats this; the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut despite Trump extending the ceasefire, with Iran firing on three commercial ships and … | Continue reading
Trump abruptly extended the U.S.-Iran ceasefire hours before it was due to expire; Trump said he’d “remember” the companies that don’t seek refunds for tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal; Trump’s nominee to replace Jerome Powell told senators he’d run the central bank as a “ … | Continue reading
“Coming soon.” | Continue reading
The Republican-controlled House rejected a Democratic war powers resolution ordering Trump to end the war with Iran; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited a fake prayer from a fictional movie during a Pentagon prayer service; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended Trump’s proposed 12% c … | Continue reading
For the fourth time, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic resolution to force Trump to end U.S. military action in Iran without congressional approval; Trump said the war with Iran was “very close to over” and claimed Iranian leaders wanted “to make a deal very badly”; House D … | Continue reading
Trump said new U.S.-Iran talks could resume in Pakistan “over the next two days”; a woman publicly accused Eric Swalwell of raping her in a West Hollywood hotel room in 2018, saying she was “already incapacitated” when she arrived and that, as “he was choking me,” she “lost consc … | Continue reading
The U.S. began a naval blockade of ships entering or leaving Iranian ports after JD Vance failed to secure a peace deal in talks with Iran in Islamabad; Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV as “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy” after the pope condemned the U.S.-Israeli war … | Continue reading
House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to force an immediate vote limiting Trump’s war powers over Iran; the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite the U.S.-Iran ceasefire; Trump – again – threatened to leave NATO and then used a closed-door meeting with NATO … | Continue reading
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared a “historic and overwhelming victory” over Iran; Iran said the two-week ceasefire with the U.S. was already being violated and warned that further talks were “unreasonable” after Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest attacks yet; Iran will … | Continue reading
Trump threatened that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his 8 p.m. Eastern deadline; more than 50 House Democrats and at least two Democratic senators called for Trump’s removal through impeachme … | Continue reading
Trump demanded that Iran “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” in the next 48 hours or it would be “living in Hell” when he was done “blowing up the entire country”; Iran rejected a U.S.-backed 45-day ceasefire; Iranian forces downed a U.S. F-15E over Iran and hit a separate A-10 during the … | Continue reading
Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general; in a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks after starting it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but als … | Continue reading
Trump threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO, saying leaving the alliance was “beyond reconsideration”; Trump said the U.S. would consider a ceasefire with Iran only when the Strait of Hormuz is open, a day after saying the war could end in “two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe thr … | Continue reading
Trump told U.S. allies to “go get your own oil,” “go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT”; U.S. gas prices rose above $4 a gallon for the first since the summer of 2022; the Supreme Court ruled against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors; a federal judge ordered the Trump … | Continue reading
Trump said his “preference” would be to “take the oil in Iran” and floated seizing Kharg Island; hackers linked to Iran accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account; House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill … | Continue reading
Trump, bypassing Congress, ordered Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin “to immediately pay our TSA Agents”; Trump, denying he was “desperate” to make a deal with Iran, said Tehran had “better get serious soon, before it is too late”; the Iran war and higher energy prices … | Continue reading
Trump’s daily Iran war briefing includes a roughly two-minute military video montage showing the “biggest, most successful strikes” on Iranian targets; Iran rejected Trump’s ceasefire offer, saying the Americans were “negotiating with yourselves”; former special counsel Jack Smit … | Continue reading
The Trump administration ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy roughly 2,000 to 3,000 troops to the Middle East; the U.S. sent Iran a 15-point proposal to end the war as Trump claimed “this war has been won”; Senate Republicans proposed a plan to fund and reopen most of th … | Continue reading
Trump delayed his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants for five days, claiming the U.S. and Iran had held “very good and productive” talks on a “complete and total” resolution of the war; Tehran, however, denied that there were any direct or indirect negotiations, calling i … | Continue reading
The Pentagon asked for more than $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war; Iran attacked Gulf energy sites after an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field; Israel said it would stop attacking Iran’s South Pars gas field after Trump said he told Prime Minister Be … | Continue reading
Tulsi Gabbard refused to say whether U.S. intelligence assessed that Iran posed an “imminent” threat; oil prices jumped after an Israel airstrike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Iran later attacked Qatar’s Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas facility; Trump waived the Jones Act f … | Continue reading
Trump said NATO “is making a very foolish mistake” by refusing to join the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran; Trump – twice – said that a former president told him he wished he’d been the one to attack Iran, but all four living former presidents denied talking to Trump about Iran; th … | Continue reading
Trump demanded that other countries help reopen the Strait of Hormuz; U.S. allies largely rejected Trump’s demand that they help reopen the Strait of Hormuz; “We don’t need anybody,” Trump said after allies rejected his demand for help opening the Strait of Hormuz; FCC Chair Bren … | Continue reading
Trump dismissed rising oil prices caused by the Iran war, saying “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” as Brent crude settled above $100 a barrel and the major U.S. indexes fell about 1.5% or more; the White House is considering a 30-day waiver of a 1920 statute requir … | Continue reading
Sen. John Cornyn said he’d back “whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary” to pass the SAVE America Act; Trump suggested that the war with Iran would end soon because there was “practically nothing left to target”; the Trump administration believes it has three t … | Continue reading
Seven U.S. service members have been killed and 140 troops have been wounded in the first 10 days of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran; Energy Secretary Chris Wright posted – and then deleted – that the U.S. Navy had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Horm … | Continue reading
Trump claimed that fighting in Iran was “very complete, pretty much” and would end “very soon,” but then threatened to strike Iran “at a much, much harder level” if Tehran disrupted oil supplies; Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” even as a classified U.S. intelligen … | Continue reading
Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and replaced her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin; Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security for a third time; the House rejected a bipartisan effort to force Trump to seek congressional … | Continue reading
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for a closed-door deposition about the Justice Department’s handling of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein; Senate Republicans rejected a war powers resolution to block Trump from ordering more … | Continue reading
Trump warned that “I guess the worst case” from U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran would be “somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person”; Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed the U.S. attacked Iran first because “we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action … | Continue reading
Trump declined to rule out sending U.S. ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary,” saying “whatever it takes” and adding, “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground”; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected the idea of an “endless” war in Iran; the Pentagon … | Continue reading
The U.S. and Israel launched “massive and ongoing” “major combat operations” in Iran; and Democrats said they’ll try to force votes on War Powers resolutions to limit Trump’s authority to continue U.S. military action against Iran. | Continue reading
Pro-Trump activists circulated a 17-page draft executive order urging Trump to declare an election emergency and use it to impose federal voting rules, including limits on mail ballots and voting machines; the Trump administration believes “the politics are a lot better if the Is … | Continue reading
Trump used his first State of the Union of his second term to insist that “our nation is back,” calling it “a turnaround for the ages,” and that “the roaring economy is roaring like never before,” even as 39% of Americans say they approve of Trump’s handling of the economy; Trump … | Continue reading