The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving …

Trump Backs Off 20% Strait of Hormuz Fee  —  The decision comes just a day after the president floated the idea of charging other countries shipping cargo through waterway that Iran has sought to control  —  President Trump's Iran strategy abruptly reversed course Tuesday when he announced …

Man killed by truck as he fled immigration agents in St. Augustine  —  A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions  —  For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers …

E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump's $5 million — plus interest  —  Writer E. Jean Carroll finally has the $5 million — plus interest — that a jury ordered President Donald Trump to pay her in damages in one of her two cases against him, after Trump fought the payout for years.

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation  —  The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.  —  The lead investor in a South Korean aluminum company …

New York to impose the country's first statewide moratorium on data centers  —  New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.

Authorities investigate Taco Bell and lettuce as cyclosporiasis outbreak surges  —  CDC identifies link among four Midwestern states, the first public indication of a common source in multiple outbreaks that have sickened more than 4,000.  —  Summary  —  Federal and state health officials …

McConnell took a photo with that day's newspaper.  The internet has questions.  —  The Post reviewed metadata that appears to show the photo was taken Sunday, but online speculation about McConnell's health continued.  —  Summary  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a photo Sunday night …

New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Director Rejects ‘Politically Correct’ Casting … Andy Serkis said his upcoming “Lord of the Rings” film will not embrace “politically correct” casting, saying he won't prioritize diversity for its own sake.  —  Speaking to the BBC, Serkis, who is directing …

Hakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aid  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told fellow Democrats Tuesday he will oppose an amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, wading directly into a contentious issue that is dividing the party.

Alligator Alcatraz is no more.  Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site  —  The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed.  The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents …

Little Gitmos everywhere  —  The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.  —  Last week, I got a message from journalist Charles Davis.  He asked me to comment for an article about a call for contractors he'd noticed on Sam.gov. The U.S. government, it seemed …

How MAGA cynically created a moral panic about Zohran Mamdani and Italian Americans  —  MAGA trolls and their allies in right-wing media joined forces last week to gin up an exceptionally dumb, cynically engineered culture war “outrage.”  Apparently, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “hates” …

How Low Would Sam Alito Go?  —  Brace yourself for LEGAL judicial election interference, and another heist.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Catching up with post-vacation news over the weekend, I happened upon this somewhat mortifying story about NPR's veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg …

Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says  —  Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.  —  The Wisconsin Elections Commission …

Bipartisan group of senators introducing legislation to avert looming Social Security shortfall  —  With Social Security's looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is announcing plans to introduce a proposal to grapple with one of the most consequential …

Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show  —  The cooperation of Todd Blanche in President Trump's retribution against enemies will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday.  —  Todd Blanche, then the Justice Department's No. 2 official …

ICE reverses, admits it may have trove of documents on agents at polling places  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats' demand for the Trump administration's possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall.

The See-No-Evil Supreme Court … The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship intact—and that by only one vote.  Across multiple cases dealing …

Jim Jordan explores immigration deal with hard-liners amid floor impasse  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said Tuesday he is negotiating with a key GOP holdout in hopes of drafting an immigration bill that can help unlock the ongoing floor impasse.  Jordan (R-Ohio) said he is speaking …

Democrats lead by 26 points among “double haters” in the 2026 House midterms vote  —  One in five Americans rates both parties unfavorably.  These voters lean Democratic and say Trump has hurt the economy  —  ∙ Paid  —  Americans have never liked their political parties less.

Marco Rubio's Disappearing Signal Chat  —  The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn't use disappearing messages.  By this spring, it had dropped that claim.  —  Secretary of state marco rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job.

'I'm Joe Lombardo': Nevada governor not ticketed after being pulled over in a traffic stop  —  Nevada's governor was pulled over by a Las Vegas police officer in May for allegedly failing to stop at a red light before making a right turn in his pickup truck.  He wasn't ticketed after identifying himself.

US state department offers $3mn grants to Maga-aligned groups in Europe  —  Agency seeks to repurpose foreign aid funds to help organisations that support Trump administration policies  —  The US state department is offering grants of up to $3mn for Maga-aligned European groups that combat …

Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in U.S. institutions remains historically low, as reflected in their average view of 14 institutions measured each year since 1993.  Currently, 27% of Americans express “a great deal” or …

French soccer team arrives in Dallas on an ICE deportation jet  —  The French national team arrived in Dallas on Sunday aboard an Airbus A320 jet.  The day before, the same jet had been used for an ICE deportation flight to Nicaragua.  The French team has traveled on GlobalX charter flights …

Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate  —  Elon Musk's X transformed his campaign into a political mirage. … It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular …

Kagan, Coney Barrett break on whether high court needs independent ethics code panel  —  Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett shared differing views on Tuesday regarding a potential independent enforcement mechanism to ensure they and their colleagues are upholding the court's ethics code.

‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds  —  Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’  —  It's been a brutal tactic deployed …

Judges grow skeptical about DOJ's use of grand juries  —  An “arbitrary fishing expedition.”  “An unconstitutional effort to coerce.”  “A convenient pretext for launching a criminal investigation.”  —  Federal judges are increasingly peering under the hood at the Trump-led Justice Department's use …

House passes Trump's plan to make daylight saving time permanent  —  The bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act would end the practice of switching clocks twice per year.  —  Summary  —  The House voted Tuesday to end Americans' practice of switching their clocks twice per year …

Stumped on ICE killing, Mike Johnson keeps struggling with the basics of current events  —  By any fair measure, one of the biggest stories in the United States yesterday unfolded in Maine, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero …