Trump Pulled In About $1.4 Billion From Crypto Ventures, Financial Disclosure Shows  —  The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family's holdings, particularly the president's crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.  — 1.1k

Voters are angry with Washington, and other takeaways from the Colorado primaries  —  A sitting House member and a sitting senator both lost key races in the state.  —  Summary  —  Democrats in Colorado rode a backlash against Washington to victory Tuesday night, as a surge …

Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship  —  The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Trump's attempt to unilaterally deny citizenship to children born in the United States to foreign nationals, a plan that would have sharply altered who can vote in American elections.

Another Major Precedent Crumbles at the Supreme Court.  3 Legal Scholars Assess the Fallout.  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown …

House Dems rocked by another socialist upset: “Wake up call”  —  House Democrats were staggered Wednesday by the loss of yet another one of their longtime colleagues to a democratic socialist challenger. … So why did she become a target of the left?  — “One more case in the growing dynamic …

Tom Kean Jr. kept his depression a secret.  Colleagues are questioning that decision. … “You give up the right to privacy in a certain respect when you run for office and represent that many people,” she said.  “And so I do challenge our colleagues to be more transparent when these things happen.”

Scoop: Harris reaches out to Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in run-up to 2028  —  Kamala Harris privately called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week and has been holding lengthy, closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives — including pro-Palestinian activists.

ICE's arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas  —  The president's deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister's release.  —  Summary  —  SAN ANTONIO — Sister Leticia …

Scoop: Trump backs MAHA in heated, “shocking” Oval Office fight on pesticides  —  Tensions over pesticide use erupted in an Oval Office meeting last week, as a top agriculture lobbyist warned President Trump that an executive order calling for pest-killing alternatives would cost Trump support from farming interests.

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification  —  In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions …

A Verdict on (the) Slaughter  —  Never mind the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship — that was a foregone conclusion given that it is a totally unambiguous provision of the Constitution (although three Republican justices voted against it!).  The important decision was handed down yesterday …

Five Words That Changed America  —  There is a moment for every American when she first encounters the Declaration of Independence.  For most, it comes to her as scripture — the highest and most sacred text in the nation's civic religion, encapsulated by its moving assertion of human equality …

Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll says Trump wants to delay $5 million payment in sex abuse, defamation case  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Lawyers for President Trump asked for writer E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her by a 2023 jury, and signaled they plan to ask …

Trump's court win reignites fight to sink €1.7T data deal with Europe  —  A United States Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump is prompting Europe's most powerful privacy defenders to try to kill a data flow deal underpinning €1.7 trillion in transatlantic trade each year.

Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks  —  The president has told aides that he is fine if negotiations with Tehran blow past an Aug. 18 deadline for a nuclear deal, officials say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has weighed a return to all-out war with Iran …

MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly  —  After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it.  Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which it can't do, and he lamely claimed it was a …

A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago.  We still don't know the full story  —  It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.  Most of the victims were children.  —  In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory.

The US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact  —  Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun.  Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest - and vice versa.  Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle.

Pulte to be acting DNI for ‘a month or two’ and can ‘declassify almost everything,’ Trump says … Trump's comments come after he killed a Senate plan last month to quickly confirm Clayton as the new DNI, paving the way for Pulte to helm the agency on a temporary basis.

White House task force aims to boost Trump's election claims with declassified intelligence documents  —  The team has been quietly reviewing documents for months, sometimes late into the night, sources say.  —  WASHINGTON — A White House task force is gathering thousands of pages of documents …

Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately  —  Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.  —  Is there anything more annoying than leaving the house in shorts and flip flops, only to get caught in an unexpected downpour?

A Tabloid Story Gives Talarico a New Opening to Test Attacks on Paxton  —  After a salacious report about Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, his Democratic rival, James Talarico, seized on the news — but focused on corruption and affordability.

Texas Republicans may regret mandating Bible in classes  —  Debating Christianity in class will likely create more non-believers  —  The decades-long Republican quest to force Christianity on those they see as unwashed heathens reached a new low on June 26, when the GOP-controlled Texas …