Month: July 2025

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) signed an executive order Friday affirming the city’s support for immigrants amid an enforcement crackdown by the Trump administration. “Under my new Executive Order, I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act about when and where enforcement activities have taken place in LA, the identities of…
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Three House Democrats sent a letter to President Trump and two officials involved in weather infrastructure Friday expressing concerns about the government’s preparedness for future flood disasters and extreme weather events. “This tragedy echoes a troubling national pattern of accelerating flash flood disasters that have claimed lives: 46 lives in the greater New York City…
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Thursday knocked Democrats for pushing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies instead of “real world” solutions. “I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots,” Dimon said at a foreign-ministry event in Ireland, according to Bloomberg.  “I always say they have big hearts and little brains.…
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Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is at the center of internal fighting in the Trump administration about the handling of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, leading to questions about Bongino’s future in his role. A source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that Bongino is furious over the handling of the…
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Podcaster Andrew Schulz slammed President Trump’s second administration Thursday for reneging on campaign promises. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for,” Schulz said during a “Flagrant” podcast episode.  “I want him to stop the wars. He’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget. He’s increasing it. It’s like…
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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to Texas Hill Country Friday morning to survey the damage from flooding that has killed at least 120 people in recent days. While in the Lone Star State, the president will participate in a roundtable with first responders and local officials in Kerr County. The visit comes…
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The July 9 deadline has come and gone with few tangible results to resolve disputes with America’s trade partners in place. The only deals that had been completed a week before the deadline were with the United Kingdom and Vietnam, and the U.S. had negotiated a tentative truce with China in May.   As of July 9, no new…
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The White House mocked Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) in a social media post Friday, after the lawmaker criticized a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California. The official White House account on social platform X posted a digitally altered photograph of Gomez crying and labeled him “cryin’ Jimmy.” “ICE: Raids marijuana…
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All the talk about the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities during last month’s bombing and shelling by the Israelis and the Americans has to be speculative. No one on the ground in Iran is telling us whether the deepest complex at Fordow was destroyed or badly damaged; we’re not likely to know for months…
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(NewsNation) — As search and recovery efforts continue across central Texas, residents are still digging through the catastrophic wreckage left behind by deadly flash floods over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Lorena Guillen, owner of Blue Oak RV Park, told “NewsNation Live” on Friday that she’s overwhelmed by the outpouring of community support, but…
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The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved a $500 million defense assistance package for Ukraine amid escalating tensions with Russia.  On July 9, the SASC voted for the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a yearly bill to fund the Department of Defense. In a 26-1 vote, they extended the Ukraine Security Assistance…
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President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan asserted Friday morning on Fox News that federal immigration agents do not need probable cause to detain people for a short period of time. “People need to understand, ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them,…
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“I voted for none of this,” Andrew Schulz said months after voting for President Donald Trump.

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) slammed FBI Director Kash Patel on CNN Friday over reports that the bureau has stepped up the use of polygraph tests to screen employees for loyalty. “This is a really dangerous precedent, right? I understand if you’re talking about a political appointee, but these are just public servants who put their…
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“We’re going to lose 40 seats in 2026,” warned former Trump aide Steve Bannon after Trump’s Justice Department shut down Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories.

The recent Supreme Court decision leaving open the possibility that President Trump’s denial of birthright citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil to undocumented parents will be upheld, is sending shockwaves through legal, political, and immigrant communities. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent captured the alarm: “No right is safe.”  But beyond the continental United States, this decision reverberates in a unique…
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As Russia intensifies its assault on Ukraine, NATO and European countries need to increase production of long-range weapons, said Maj. Gen. John Rafferty to Reuters. “The Russian army is bigger today than it was when they started the war in Ukraine,” said Rafferty, who was interviewed in Germany. Long-range missiles can reach deep inside enemy territory. Russia has very effectively used these…
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A top Justice Department (DOJ) official pushed back Friday on speculation that there was a gap between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI leadership over the handling of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a topic that has caused uproar among some in President Trump’s MAGA movement. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on…
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There was a knock on the door. I knew who it was.   Some friends had warned me they might be coming. I had been trying not to think too much about it. I figured I was not high enough on their list. They had already arrested the most outspoken, public-facing government critics — human…
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President Trump is trying to make Jerome Powell’s “life as miserable as possible” as he ramps up pressure on the Federal Reserve chair to lower interest rates or leave the central bank, a reporter who has closely followed Trump asserted this week. “I’m skeptical, he will fire Powell — he might; obviously, anything is possible,”…
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Former President Obama will be making his first fundraising appearance since the Democratic Party suffered losses across the board during the 2024 elections.  Obama will attend a high-dollar fundraiser Friday evening hosted by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and his wife, Tammy Murphy, in Red Bank, N.J., according to a copy of the invitation…
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) is urging President Trump to restore federal funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which provides funding for before- and after-school programs, including those in his district.  The administration is withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for after-school and summer programs that was included in the government funding bill signed…
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A day after President Trump announced a new 35 percent tariff on Canadian goods beginning next month, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada had made “vital progress” toward stopping fentanyl. “Canada has made vital progress to stop the scourge of fentanyl in North America. We are committed to continuing to work with the United States…
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A large majority of U.S. adults in a survey say they believe immigration is good for the country while the number of those wanting to bar it has dropped 20 points in the last year. Results from the latest Gallup survey, released Friday, found that 79 percent of respondents said they think immigration is good…
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While most headlines fixate on border walls and migrant surges, the Trump administration has quietly redrawn the front lines of America’s war on fentanyl.  This time, there are no boots, no barbed wire, and no rallies in El Paso. The fight has moved into spreadsheets and settlement systems. It now begins with bank wires.  On…
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