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.

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.

A Baseball Coach Says He Fended Off ICE Agents Questioning Kids on the Upper West Side  —  After coaching baseball on the west side of Manhattan for more than 20 years, Youman Wilder says he had a first-of-a-kind experience at the end of last month.  —  Wilder was leading a group …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio's plan to downsize a “bloated” department had been on hold after a court ruling.  —  The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that it was about to begin layoffs as part of a consolidation plan …

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 Ketanji Brown Jackson Dissents Reveal an Important Truth About the Supreme Court  —  Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing …

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’  —  DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.  —  The Department of Homeland Security …

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.

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 …

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn't Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)  —  Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws.  The crime?

Trump to use presidential authority to send weapons to Ukraine, sources say  —  President Donald Trump for the first time since returning to office will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power frequently used by his predecessor, two sources familiar with the decision said on Thursday …

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 …

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.

Trump Held Talks on Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell: Biographer  —  WHITE HOUSE JITTERS  —  The president agonized over what Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice would reveal upon her arrest, author Michael Wolff said.  —  President Donald Trump weighed pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell for fear …

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 …

Firings without explanation create culture of fear at Justice Dept., FBI  —  Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say.  —  Summary364  —  The Trump administration is firing and pushing …

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

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Dean Phillips says there isn't room for ‘socialists’ like Mamdani in Democratic Party  —  Former Democratic congressman for Minnesota Dean Phillips warned the Democratic Party against embracing nominees like New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying a victory in the general election would be a …

U.S. Department of Education Opens Title VI Investigation into George Mason University  —  A Complaint Filed with OCR Alleges that the University Has Widespread Policies in Hiring and Promotion That Discriminate on the Basis of Race  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights …

Trump readies blanket tariffs as he brushes off inflation worries  —  In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, Trump talked about tariffs, sending Patriot missiles to NATO for Ukraine and how he'll sell his recently passed “big, beautiful bill.”  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday …

Florida lawmakers who were denied access to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sue Gov. DeSantis  —  Five state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center built by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration in the Florida Everglades have sued the governor, arguing that he overstepped …

Fired Justice Department official warns we are “driving straight into an abyss”  —  A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency.  —  Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices …