Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules  —  A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.  —  Trump has made tariffs a pillar …

Kennedy Must Resign  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future.  He must resign.  —  Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again.

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military  —  ON JULY 1, 1971, I STOOD ON THE PLAIN at the United States Military Academy and raised my right hand for the first time.  Along with hundreds of other new cadets, I swore an oath every service member takes: “to support and defend the Constitution …

Social Security data chief resigns after whistleblower complaint over DOGE data access … In his whistleblower complaint, Borges said DOGE employees built a copy of the Social Security database in a cloud-based system that “circumvents oversight,” and disregarded an agency security assessment that their action posed a high risk.

Judge blocks Trump's broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants  —  The ruling says the administration's policy violated due process rights as it sought to speed up the president's mass deportation agenda.  —  Just now  —  A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration …

With newly approved maps in Texas, GOP puts its gains with Latinos to the test  —  SEGUIN, Texas - Under a broiling sun, there's a popular, frozen drinks stop here in the seat of Guadalupe County known as Milly's where locals cool off in the summer.  —  But business owner Tomas Hernandez Jr …

Angry constituents confront Congress on immigration, Medicaid cuts and Gaza  —  The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump's agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back.  —  With political tensions running high …

Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim  —  Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA  —  The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m …

Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects  —  The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.

The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled  —  President Trump's repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.  And that was only the beginning.  —  Eric Lee/The New York Times

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Revokes Kamala Harris's Secret Service Protection  —  Where Things Stand  — Secret Service: President Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris, effective Monday, according to a letter obtained by The Times.

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode  —  Trump's dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it.  But now it's time to call it what it is  —  If this were happening somewhere else - in Latin America, say - how might it be reported?

U.S. revokes visas of Palestinian president, other officials ahead of UN General Assembly  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month's annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly …

Colleges face financial struggles as Trump policies send international enrollment plummeting  —  One international student after another told the University of Central Missouri this summer that they couldn't get a visa, and many struggled to even land an interview for one.

Comer set to meet privately with Epstein victims  —  It was unclear which of Epstein's victims is expected to attend the meeting after a federal probe into the convicted sex trafficker ended in August 2019 with the financier's death.  —  House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) …

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints  —  from the congress-shall-make-no-law dept  —  Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions.  Zero.  None.  This is First Amendment 101.

Trump Take LEGO  —  Add LEGO to the list of hobbies that Trump has made more expensive and worse with his tariff policy.  Thanks to America's ever shifting trade policies, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada.