The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin  —  Washington, D.C. — For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum  —  The Smithsonian said it restored the display to an earlier version, which notes that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal.”  —  The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History …

Alan Dershowitz Takes on His Greatest Challenge Yet: A Farmers' Market  —  It was an unusually warm day on Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday, and Alan Dershowitz just wanted to enjoy some hot dumplings.  —  As he tells it, Dershowitz, the 86-year-old attorney for some of America's …

Trump's tariffs get frosty reception at federal appeals court … Judge Timothy Dyk, a Clinton appointee, said “it was hard for me to see” that Congress intended to give the president the authority to essentially rewrite the entire U.S. code when it passed the legislation.

A New Cycle of Texas Gerrymandering: Your Questions Answered  —  A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas' congressional map, and its effects on communities of color and political representation.  —  The Texas legislature began meeting …

Axelrod: Harris ‘setting herself up’ for 2028 presidential run  —  Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Wednesday said former Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be preparing for another White House bid after last year's November loss, following her announcement that she will not run for California governor.

Virginia Giuffre's Family Was Shocked That Trump Described Her as ‘Stolen’  —  The siblings of one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers wonder what the president knows.  —  When Donald Trump told reporters yesterday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” a young woman named Virginia Roberts Giuffre …

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants  —  Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions at the notorious prison.  —  One detainee was beaten unconscious.

Trump plans to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is probably reading this … Kavanaugh also made clear he closely follows press coverage, podcasts and social media posts about the Supreme Court, what he described as “an ocean of criticism and critiques out there.”  —  “I'm aware of it.  I definitely pay attention to it.

Trump's war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ‘pro bono’ work for underdogs  —  Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.  —  When the Texas Civil Rights Project needed lawyers to help dozens …

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Unnoticed Whistle-Blower Document Alarms Justice Department Veterans  —  A complaint concerning a top Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, went unnoticed for more than two months, raising worries that an internal watchdog has gone dormant.  —  The Justice Department's internal watchdog lost …

Blue-state Democrats want immigration agents to show their faces … “People wearing ski masks are grabbing people, throwing them into unmarked cars and sending them to Alligator Alcatraz or El Salvador or Libya,” said California state Sen. Scott Wiener, who authored a bill to ban certain kinds of face coverings for law enforcement.

Newly Declassified Appendix To Durham Report Sheds Additional Light On Clinton Campaign Plan To Falsely Tie Trump To Russia And FBI's Failure To Investigate  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix …

Senators Could Vote Imminently to Remove Their Homes, Travel Info From Internet  —  Watchdogs argue the legislation would block reporters from doing their jobs and limit efforts to hold lawmakers accountable  —  Senators could vote on a bill as soon as Thursday to allow members of Congress …

Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)  (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act …

The Columbia deal with Trump is a blueprint.  All of higher ed should fear what comes next.  —  One by one, elite universities are signing away some of their autonomy to the Trump administration after it has accused them of civil rights violations and withheld federal funding.

The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims.  Falsehoods are now winning.  —  Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.  —  Just now  —  When 400 fact-checkers from around the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro in June for an annual conference, the mood was tense.

The shockingly shrunken footprint of a former president … Now, he's on the other side of the mountain.  And his life has entered a new phase that is quieter and smaller.  —  He's staffed by only one or two aides and a small Secret Service detail.  He holes up for hours at a time in Delaware working …

Republicans Put Conspiracy Theorist With Far-Right Ties In Top Counterterrorism Job  —  Joe Kent has pushed white nationalist views and fanned conspiracies about the 2020 election being “stolen” and the FBI planning the Jan. 6 insurrection.  —  WASHINGTON ― You can't make it up, folks.

Scoop: Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for 2024 win  —  Former President Biden's top political aide Mike Donilon told congressional investigators Thursday that he was paid $4 million for his work on Biden's 2024 re-election campaign and would have made an additional $4 million if Biden had won …

Fox News since Monday: 85 minutes talking about Sydney Sweeney, 3 minutes talking about Epstein  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TYLER MONROE & SAGE HODIL … Fox's focus on Sweeney over Epstein is a notable departure from the stories that other cable news networks have found to be newsworthy this week …

How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump's Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl  —  USERS AND ABUSERS  —  “Jane” revealed how the pair used Trump's name and a meeting with him as part of their twisted plan.  —  The first victim to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking trial told the jury …

Washington Post talent exodus fuels speculation about its future  —  Dozens of journalists are taking buyouts and calling it quits at the Washington Post, fueling speculation about how the storied paper can survive while bleeding so much talent. … - CEO Will Lewis earlier this month encouraged staffers …

Trump regulatory czar Jeffrey Clark should be disbarred for role in 2020 election plot, disciplinary board rules … “The fight continues,” Clark said in a series of posts on X, shortly after the decision.  —  The D.C. Bar's Board of Professional Responsibility said its ruling was based …

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers.  Now she's carrying on his legacy. … NEW YORK  —  Many years ago, in a gray wooden house in Maine, there was a little girl who loved to curl up on the living room couch and watch “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.”  When each episode wound down …

The Only MAGA That Counts Is Trump's  —  Earlier this week, we were nonplussed and repulsed at Donald Trump's bizarre description of how Jeffrey Epstein had abused girls he first met in the spa at Mar-a-Lago: Epstein “stole people that worked for me,” Trump said.

Trump extends Mexico's 25% tariffs for 90 days as talks continue … President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would not raise U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods beyond their current levels for 90 days, in order to give the neighboring countries time to strike a trade deal.

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination  —  Meanwhile, about three in 10 people said DEI increased discrimination against white people.  —  Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” …

Jess Glynne calls White House deportation video with Jet2 song ‘sick’  — Jess Glynne criticises White House for using a meme featuring her song in a post about deportation  — Parodies of Jet2 adverts including Glynne's 2015 hit Hold My Hand have gone viral on TikTok

Legal Watchdog Files Bar Complaints Against Justice Dept. Lawyers  —  The move represented a rare attempt to seek accountability for rank-and-file lawyers who have represented the Trump administration in court.  —  A legal watchdog group accused three career Justice Department lawyers …