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.

The right enters a post-proof era of election denial  —  The right-wing media's response to former reality TV personality and conservative candidate Spencer Pratt's defeat in last week's nonpartisan primary race for mayor of Los Angeles shows that the right-wing media's election denial machinery is as strong as ever.

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.

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 …

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 …

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) …

Postal Service won't deliver mail ballots for states that don't hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive  —  Donald Trump Federal agencies Election security  —  State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration …

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 …

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

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.

Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports  —  Two water tanks serving thousands of people were damaged, the local authorities said.  The U.S. military declined to comment.  —  Iran's state broadcaster reported that U.S. military strikes hit water facilities …

Donald Trump suggests he may not renew trade deal with Mexico and Canada  —  'We don't need anything that they have,' US president says of 2020 trilateral agreement  —  Donald Trump has suggested he will not renew the trade deal he forged with Canada and Mexico in 2020 …

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 …

FISA Surveillance Law May Expire After Trump Picks Bill Pulte for Intel Post  —  Republicans are struggling to extend a powerful surveillance authority set to lapse this weekend after President Trump alienated lawmakers with his choice of acting spy chief.  —  Hopes were fading on Wednesday …

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.

11 Democratic senators demand answers on Trump's use of national park fees  —  Independent Sen. Angus King joined them in alleging that “much, if not all” of the revenue from online sales of park passes is going toward D.C. “vanity projects.”  —  Summary  —  Eleven senators are demanding answers …

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 …

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 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 …

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.