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 …

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 …

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

Trump's Wildly Fascistic Posting Spree Isn't Just a Distraction From Epstein  —  The president spent Sunday night posting content fantasizing about the arrest of Barack Obama and other Democrats  —  President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former …

House won't vote on Epstein matter this week  —  Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

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.

ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC … The alleged shooter entered the country illegally in 2023 during then-President Joe Biden's tenure and had been arrested and released four times in the years since, Noem said.  She blamed the shooting on New York's sanctuary city policies that limit …

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 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 …

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.

Scott Bessent calls for probe into ‘the entire Federal Reserve institution’  —  Treasury secretary is latest top Trump administration official to criticise the central bank  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for an inquiry into the “entire Federal Reserve institution” …

The Politics of Humiliation  —  When I was in middle school I went through a rough patch socially.  I was awkward, had hardly any friends, and was hence a target.  I can recall one instance where, returning to the classroom after leaving to use the toilet, a group of boys my age …

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.

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 …

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 …

VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City  —  The suspect is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic was apprehended at the southern border and released into the country under the Biden Administration

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 …

CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward  —  It's not just bending the knee.  It's also oligarchic solidarity. … 📚 📺 📚  —  Last Friday, CBS announced the The Late Show will be cancelled when host Stephen Cobert's contract expires next May. Colbert …

DOJ receives Gabbard's criminal referral on bombshell claims Obama admin ‘manufactured’ Russian collusion hoax  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley will also declassify the appendix to a 2018 DOJ Inspector General report  —  The Department of Justice confirmed Monday …

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 …

Orange Juice Importer Says Trump's Brazil Tariffs Will Raise US Prices  —  A US orange juice distributor is suing over President Donald Trump's move to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil starting next month.  —  Johanna Foods Inc. is arguing that Trump's reasons for the levy increase …

How Trump's Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans  —  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 flippantly responded that “we are all going to die.”

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

State Dept deputy secretary takes over as new acting GSA leader  —  A top State Department official who oversaw recent mass layoffs is now taking over as the acting head of the General Services Administration, according to an email sent to staff.  —  Michael Rigas, the deputy secretary …

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 …

Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent  —  The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency's leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.  —  A public letter from NASA employees …