Internal DOJ messages bolster claim that Trump judicial nominee spoke of defying court orders … Bove has said that he never advised anyone to violate court orders.  DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order despite Supreme Court ruling  —  A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability …

Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton  —  In a statement, Angela Paxton said she moved to end her 38-year marriage “on biblical grounds,” citing “recent discoveries.”  —  State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Trump Loves ICE.  Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement.  He praises the bravery and fortitude …

FEMA leader is a no-show after deadly Texas flooding … As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader.  —  David Richardson, the agency's acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the nation's deadliest floods …

ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court … A grandmother planning to document ICE arrests at the San Diego courthouse instead became the story Tuesday after video of her own arrest began circulating.  —  An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her.

Trump nominates ‘alpha male’ MAGA firebrand to serve as ambassador to Malaysia … Adams, born in Australia, served in local government before being formally condemned by his colleagues and threatened with suspension from the Liberal Party for conduct “likely to embarrass or cause damage to the reputation” of the party.

They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check!  —  Ex-CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, seems to have left the company on good terms.  That is to say, Elon Musk has not disparaged her yet, and we know that he is not known to mince words about his adversaries.  But now, we have the teeniest …

DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas … As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash floods and some 170 remain missing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has both denied that DOGE cuts …

A Religious Rebellion Against Mass Deportation  —  Donald Trump posted a new “tariff letter” yesterday, and this one was notable because it didn't follow the template of the others.  Yes, it included the standard complaints about “Brazil's Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers” …

Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration  —  On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child's birth in New York.

The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty  —  Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.  —  Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests …

Billy Bush Says He Warned of ‘Animal’ Trump Comments Years Before Scandal  —  BUS BEAST  —  The host phoned a producer in 2005 after the president bragged about seducing co-anchor Nancy O'Dell.  —  Former Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush says he warned NBC that President Donald Trump …

How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party  —  During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win elections.  It's destroying them now. … July 10, 2025  —  5:40 AM  —  A few months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a press conference with an almond farmer …

Some of Iran's Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says  —  The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.  —  Israel has concluded that some of Iran's underground stockpile …

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Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge  —  The dismantling of Harvard's diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.

Donald Trump is not a clown.  I should know. … Tim Cunningham is the board president of Clowns Without Borders, a nonprofit that performs clown shows for communities facing hardship.  —  Allegations that President Donald Trump is a clownish figure are not hard to come by.

Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says  —  Grok AI will be available in Tesla (TSLA.O) vehicles next week “at the latest”, the EV maker's CEO, Elon Musk, said in a post on X on Thursday.  —  Musk's AI startup xAI launched Grok 4, its latest flagship AI model, on Wednesday.

Joni Ernst is the next GOP senator on retirement watch … Many will be watching closely for clues next week when Ernst files new campaign fundraising totals.  She raised just over $1 million in the first quarter of 2025, a solid but not overwhelming number for an in-cycle senator.

Democracy  —  If you want to know where Republican politics is heading, look at the memes.  Since the start of its second term, the Trump administration and its G.O.P. surrogates have been crashing out online.  —  Like an unhinged Zoomer, they've relentlessly posted sadistic memes …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Education Dept Ends Free Tuition For Illegals  —  The Department of Education (DE) on Thursday revoked a Clinton-era rule that allowed illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.  —  The Clinton administration's rule allowed illegal aliens …

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This  —  The White House has seen its share of shady deals.  Ulysses S. Grant's brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market.  Warren Harding's secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons …

Greg Abbott accused of trying to ‘fix’ midterms for Republicans by redrawing congressional maps  —  Texas governor unveiled plan to redraw state's districts in a move opponents are calling ‘an egregious gerrymander’  —  The fight for democracy is supported by

Cops Probed Trump Terror Chief, 22, Over Teen Love Triangle  —  EYEBROW-RAISING  —  Police were called in after a threatening message was sent to a child by the ex-gardener chosen by the president to lead a key homeland security post, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  EXCLUSIVE

Trump loses appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse, defamation verdict … A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday upheld a civil jury verdict that found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, and which ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA  —  Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis … After Donald Trump pulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the post, the president announced Duffy would be the interim NASA administrator.

Trump's New Go-To Response: 'I Don't Know'  —  The president has taken to passing the buck when asked about the chaos his administration is unleashing on America and the world … When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become …

Ex-UFC Star, Green Beret Tim Kennedy Admits to ‘Unintentionally’ Falsifying Military Record  —  Former UFC middleweight star and U.S. Army Green Beret Tim Kennedy has admitted to a “serious mistake” in implying “directly or indirectly” that he had been awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor during his military service.

New York's Financial Crowd Rushes to Build Anti-Mamdani War Chest  —  A new group plans to raise $20 million to stop the democratic socialist in the mayoral race  —  Some of New York's wealthiest financiers are scrambling to build out a network of outside groups that plan to go to war …

The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’  —  I've been listening to Robert Evans' podcast series on Adolf Eichmann and one of the things Evans mentions is that throughout the Holocaust, many Nazis had in their lives a “Good Jew.”  Some Jewish person who they liked and wished to save.

This Land Is Not Your Land  —  In the spring of 2012, I went to Harrison, Arkansas to report on a Ku Klux Klan meeting.  When I arrived at the group's compound the first day, after navigating down tiny dirt roads and over intermittently running streams, I was greeted not by a burning cross, but by a lawyer wielding a release form.