How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now  —  By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one.  —  In the week after the Justice Department walked back its promise to release …

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges  —  Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida  —  Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs …

Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him  —  A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.  —  Just now

Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein “sound like” Trump?  An investigation.  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  According to the Journal, the materials collected as part …

Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video  —  Where Things Stand  — Epstein fallout: With his administration facing fierce criticism from close supporters over its handling of material from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein …

How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency  —  The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.  —  No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump's extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.

EU to ramp up retaliation plans as US tariff deal prospects dim  —  The European Union is exploring a broader set of possible counter-measures against the United States as prospects for an acceptable trade agreement with Washington fade, according to EU diplomats.

How Trump's game-planning for the 2026 midterms  —  President Trump is already fixated behind the scenes on next year's midterm elections for the House and Senate — unleashing his billion-dollar political operation and personally burrowing into the minutiae of races.

How Trump Killed Cancer Research  —  Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.  —  When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years …

What Trump and the GOP have planned next for NPR and PBS should scare you  —  Defunding the public broadcasters is only the first step.  —  The Republican Congress has voted almost unanimously to strip public broadcasters NPR and PBS of their federal funding.

My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats  —  Constipated.  Leaderless.  Confused.  A cracked-out clown car.  Divided.  These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late.  The truth is they're not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.

X slams French criminal probe over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’  —  Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform  —  Elon Musk's X has attacked a French criminal probe over “the alleged manipulation of its algorithm”, calling it politically motivated and a threat to free speech.

This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop … It's an anime-loving neo-Nazi whose hobbies include furry drawings, posting fan art of a video game character, and hacking universities.  On X, the alleged hacker is followed by New York Times …

Russia's drone swarms pierce Ukraine's defences at record rate  —  Proportion of Shaheds hitting targets tripled in recent months, according to analysis of official data  —  Charles Clover in London and Christopher Miller in Kyiv  —  Russia's “swarm” tactics against Ukraine …

How Trump's Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans  —  What research tells us about how Trump policies are bad for your health  —  When confronted by a constituent claiming that “people are going to die” from the massive Medicaid cuts in Trump's just-passed Big Bad Bill, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst …

Dramatic increase in number of Russian ‘shadow ships’ in Irish-controlled waters  —  The Naval Service and Air Corps have stepped up monitoring of the sanctioned vessels  —  There has been a dramatic increase in the number of sanctioned Russian ships, known as shadow fleet vessels …

Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say  —  Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.  —  Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software …

Republicans fear Washington headed for shutdown after bruising spending fights  —  Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill.

Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros  —  Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned  —  One of the many weird, ugly developments in these weird, ugly times has been the MAGAfication of a number of Silicon Valley billionaires.  In a fully functional democracy the views …

State Dept deputy secretary takes over as new acting GSA leader  —  Michael Rigas, the deputy secretary of State for management and resources, is now serving as GSA's acting administrator.  —  A top State Department official who oversaw recent mass layoffs is now taking over as the acting head …

The Path to Peace in the Middle East (and a Nobel Prize for Trump)  —  The big, beautiful blueprint to a new Middle East.By Sam Ellis and Megan K. Stack  —  I didn't want Donald Trump to be president.  But once he was elected, I wondered if his impulse to smash convention could actually do some good in the Middle East.

Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name  —  U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.

Making America Alone Again  —  History Offers Few Parallels for Washington's Repudiation of Its Own Alliances  —  Henry Kissinger once compared himself to the lone cowboy who rode into town to sort out the bad guys.  But the U.S. secretary of state, who also served as national security adviser …