For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle … A new president with a bold agenda, determined to exert control over government agencies to carry it out.  An agency head who refused to quit, rejecting the president's demand that he resign and insisting Congress …

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows  —  The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.  —  More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested …

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings  —  Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States.  —  Wrote Lonsdale on X yesterday:

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration … In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.  —  Mr. Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely …

Judge blocks prosecutors' access to James Comey's lawyer's emails and data … Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee based in Washington, issued the restraining order before getting a formal response from prosecutors to a petition Richman filed last week seeking return of his data.

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court  —  More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that he backs a September 2 decision to launch a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.  —  “I fully support that strike,” Hegseth …

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals  —  Are you on Trump's naughty list? … Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets  —  Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump's campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.

Trump's latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s  —  The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks.  —  Just now … Somalis are “garbage,” and “we don't want them in our country.”  Migration from “all Third World countries” should be halted.

Inside Trump's transformation of the Kennedy Center  —  Donald Trump  —  President Donald Trump doesn't have his name on the Kennedy Center yet, but he's already shaped it to his tastes.  —  Just days after participating in the FIFA World Cup draw onstage — and accepting …

Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest  —  In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son's godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.  —  Just now

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump's immigration crackdown  —  Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”  —  Just now … WAUKEGAN, Ill. — If you rolled past Bedrosian Park after the final bell rang at Waukegan High School …

Trump Weighs Moving on From Noem  —  The DHS secretary has overseen the president's most controversial domestic initiative.  But her future is increasingly in doubt.  —  ∙ Paid  —  HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM has been at the center of the Trump administration's marquee domestic policy …

Trump's Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads  —  A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump's long-held contempt for Europe's leaders.  It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.  —  The Trump administration has not exactly kept its low regard for Europe secret.

Have Trump's Tariffs Gone as High as They Can Go?  Businesses Hope So … Before President Trump's tariffs took effect this year, the Chicken of the Sea factory in Lyons, Ga., was running its production lines full speed, canning enough imported tuna to build up four to six months of inventory in warehouses around the United States.

A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine  —  Reporters Dana Hedgpeth and Erin Patrick O'Connor were invited to observe the Sunrise Dance.  They spent four days camping in heavy rain and flood waters to document a ceremony that is rarely seen by people who are not members of the Apache tribes.