Is This Really How We're Legislating Now?  —  Speaker Mike Johnson once again defied skeptics and found a majority in a high-stakes vote, with the House passing the president's big policy bill on Thursday along party lines.  He and John Thune, the Senate leader, ably made whatever deals …

Multiple deaths reported in Hill Country, rescue efforts underway as flash flooding threatens communities  —  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said rescuers are searching for survivors, including 23 girls missing from a Christian camp along the Guadalupe River.  —  Officials said as many as 13 bodies …

Russia Hits Ukraine With Large Air Barrage Hours After Trump-Putin Call  —  It was the latest in a series of almost weekly large-scale missile and drone attacks.  President Trump said he “didn't make any progress” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Judge transfers new case challenging South Sudan deportations  —  An administrative stay issued Friday morning will last until 4:30 p.m. Further action would have to come from Massachusetts.  Read the new claims at Law Dork.  —  After a hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss transferred …

Concentration Camp Labor  —  With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.  —  Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor.  Among many other aims, the Soviets used …

Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump  —  The release of formerly classified documents this week shows how Trump appointees are using their power to try to prop up his allegations about both agencies.  —  The release of formerly classified FBI …

Trump says he didn't know an offensive term he used in a speech is considered antisemitic  —  President Donald Trump says he didn't know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.  Trump told reporters early Friday …

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza  —  Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave  —  Unlock the Editor's Digest for free  —  Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered …

AOC Warns of ICE ‘Explosion’ After ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Passes  —  THE WORST HAS YET TO COME  —  “It is setting up to make what's happening now look like child's play,” said the Democratic representative.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the effects of President Donald Trump's …

The Bulwark's top editor shares how the anti-Trump site tripled its subscriber base in a year — and why it's betting on YouTube  — The Bulwark, a news website that's fiercely critical of President Donald Trump, has grown rapidly.  — Since the 2024 election, The Bulwark has roughly doubled its paid subscriber base.

China sees Trump's new law as ‘one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm’: analyst  —  According to one analyst, only two groups are celebrating H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's massive new budget law — on July 4: Republicans, and the Chinese Communist Party.

Jan. 6 federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi quotes Theodore Roosevelt in passionate farewell letter  —  The email came amid the continued targeting of career Justice Department and FBI officials disfavored by the Trump administration.  —  WASHINGTON — One of three career federal prosecutors fired …

The Fourth Of July, Rethought  —  For years, I have retold the story reprinted below every Fourth of July.  It describes a formative experience in my life and in my identity as an American.  I still feel powerfully many of its sentiments: my fondness and appreciation for the late Judge Lew …

GOA to File “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” Against NFA Registry as “One Big Beautiful Bill” Heads to President's Desk  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington, D.C. -Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), alongside our allies Palmetto State Armory (PSA) …

ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding  —  Much of the new allocation from Congress — larger than detention spending by the Obama, Biden and first Trump administrations combined — will go to private prison contractors tasked with doubling the nation's capacity to lock up migrants.