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.

Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ after consumer price index hits 3-year high … President Donald Trump on Wednesday said, “I love the inflation” after being asked if he was concerned about new consumer price index data that showed the annual inflation rate at 4.2%, a three-year high.

Trump boils over after Tehran kept him waiting  —  The trigger for President Trump's strikes on Iran was the downing of a U.S. helicopter, but behind the scenes Trump had been growing more and more frustrated over nearly two weeks of waiting for an Iranian response to his latest offer that still has not arrived.

'There's wee girls inside': panic as masked men storm house in Belfast  —  Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night - with some police officers acting as if it wasn't safe to intervene  —  On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast's Shankill Road …

Why I will use my Fifth Amendment rights before Congress today  —  Silence in response to bad-faith action is not retreat — it is a bedrock American right.  —  Regina Wallace-Jones is the president and chief executive of ActBlue.  —  I am not going to Congress looking for a fight.

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 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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation Unveils Initial Design Concept for National Mall Memorial  —  Designed by world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma and shaped by the voices of 20,000 Gold Star families, Service Members, and Americans, the Memorial will honor the Generations that answered the Call after 9/11

Mamdani was to meet with Colombia's leader.  Trump made sure it didn't happen.  —  New York's mayor had planned to meet with leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro while he was in town for U.N. events, but the State Department nixed it.  —  Summary  —  New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani …

Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking  —  NIne months into the Trump administration's deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes.  And a glaring anomaly.  —  The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks …

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 …

Justice Department, FBI Disable 13 Websites Backed by Suspected Chinese Agents That Sought Sensitive U.S. Information from Security Clearance Holders  —  For Immediate Release  —  Thirteen internet domains used to target U.S. persons, including current and former security clearance holders …

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 …

EPA won't set nationwide standards for 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.

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 …

US Refunds $22 Billion in Tariffs, Offseting Customs Revenue  —  The US Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald Trump's trade policy.

Bill Gates Says Epstein Tried to Blackmail Him  —  The tech billionaire told the House Oversight Committee that Epstein leveraged information about Gates' affairs to pressure him into a friendship.  — Copy  —  Tech billionaire Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee …