Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files … On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o'clock in the evening, President Trump's top officials filed into the White House Situation Room — the secure bunker where classified and high-stakes national security matters are discussed and decided.

Live Updates: Inflation Jumps as Iran War Intensifies Price Squeeze  —  Consumer prices rose at a faster rate for a third-straight month in May, to 4.2 percent annually, as the energy shock put more pressure on the U.S. economy.  —  What to know about the report.

Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack  —  The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions.  —  The tech billionaire continued overnight …

Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks  —  Washington says its jets targeted air defence and radar sites after Iranian forces downed American helicopter  —  Iran said US air strikes had left 20,000 residents in its southern Hormozgan province without water …

Why Callais Doesn't Justify Court-Packing  —  To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering.  —  Meet The Authors  —  The Supreme Court's recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais—barring nearly all use of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) …

Trump officials lay out aggressive timeline to build triumphal arch  —  Documents say a 320-foot crane may be used to build the arch, which sits on a flight path to Reagan National Airport.  —  Summary  —  Federal officials are laying more groundwork to begin construction …

MAGA's kayfabe meltdown over California primary  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🤯 Subscribe to PN 🤯  —  Reality show influencer Spencer Pratt won't be getting clobbered in November by Karen Bass, and MAGA is psyched.

Nancy Mace's thrashing in South Carolina governor's race caps a rough downfall  —  The congresswoman finished fifth in the state's GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district.  —  June 10, 2026

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People  —  There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.  —  For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer …

California's Excuses Are Damaging Faith in Government  —  On Friday, three days after California's primaries, the state had still failed to publicly report results for about 40 percent of ballots cast.  By Tuesday afternoon, almost a week after polls closed, nearly 15 percent of ballots remained unreported …

ActBlue C.E.O. Invokes Fifth Amendment Repeatedly in Testimony to Congress  —  The head of the Democratic fund-raising behemoth declined to answer questions from House Republicans about reports that she may have misled Congress over how her group vetted foreign donations.

Capital agenda: Cue shutdown watch after Republicans go it alone on ICE funding  —  Republicans solved an immediate crisis Tuesday, clearing for President Donald Trump's signature a party-line bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies into 2029.  But that hardly improves the chances …

The Supreme Court Doesn't Own the Constitution  —  It is the job of the judiciary, as Chief Justice John Marshall famously wrote, to say what the law is.  —  Often, this is taken to mean a duty to interpret the Constitution and fix its meaning in place.  But to say what the law …

Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking  —  If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?  —  NINE MONTHS INTO the Trump administration's deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes.

Jeanine Pirro's Prosecutors Probe Big Banks for Alleged ‘Debanking’  —  The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America and others as part of a probe into alleged debanking  —  The Justice Department has sent far-ranging subpoenas to several of America's largest banks …

Trump invokes ‘The West Wing’ in apparent justification of latest Iran strikes  —  Trump shared a clip from an episode in which the fictional president, played by actor Martin Sheen, dismisses the idea of a “proportional response” following the downing of a U.S. aircraft.

Top DOJ official planned to make a claim with Trump's ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ … His plan to make a claim from the fund stems from his time as a congressional staffer.  He had his phone and email records subpoenaed when he was investigating “Russiagate,” the yearslong probe into Russia's efforts …

EPA chief says he won't regulate data centers … Just 37 percent of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year.  There are myriad reasons cited by opponents, but water usage and air pollution are common complaints.

Pete Hegseth's Mormon diss explodes a MAGA myth  —  Christian nationalism isn't just immoral — it's incoherent  —  Pete Hegseth is not a coherent thinker.  This was demonstrated yet again on the D-Day anniversary event in France, where the defense secretary gave a speech that was supposed …

Guthrie doubles down on data center energy legislation  —  House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie said Wednesday he is interested in moving forward with legislation to address the impact of data centers.  Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been divided on whether a new federal law is needed on the issue.

Trump says “I love the inflation” because U.S. is “taking out” Iranian oil  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — President Trump on Wednesday applauded the latest inflation spike, saying the numbers are “great” and “I love the inflation” because the U.S. “taking out” what he called …