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us politics 7 37m ago 4 min read

June 23 Primaries Deliver a DHS Veteran for New York's Top Swing Seat, a Sanders-Aligned Win in Brooklyn, and a JFK Grandson's Loss in Manhattan

Tuesday's primaries in New York, Maryland, South Carolina, and Utah produced results that will shape November's midterm map. The most-watched outcome: Army veteran and former DHS cybersecurity official Cait Conley won the Democratic nomination in New York's 17th District, setting up what Cook Political Report rates as a true toss-up against two-term Republican Rep. Mike Lawler.

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us politics 7 1h ago 4 min read

Antifa Cell Leader Gets 100 Years for July 4 Ambush at Texas ICE Facility. Seven Co-Defendants Sentenced to 30-70 Years.

Benjamin Hanil Song, a former Marine Corps Reservist who organized and led an armed attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in federal prison. Seven co-defendants received sentences ranging from 30 to 70 years, totaling a combined 450 years across the group. The trial is the first major federal prosecution against defendants charged under the Trump administration's domestic terrorism designation of antifa.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Thomas Concurs in Gun-Marijuana Ruling but Argues the Commerce Clause Cannot Sustain Federal Firearm Bans at All

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani invalidated federal prosecution of marijuana users for gun possession. Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with that outcome but went further, arguing in a concurrence that Section 922(g) exceeds Congress's commerce power entirely. That argument has drawn no majority support across decades of Thomas's service, but the legal logic is harder to dismiss than its isolation on the Court might suggest.

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cn politics 9 4h ago 3 min read

Lithuania's Government Falls, New Coalition Drops Antisemitism-Scandal Party and Eyes China Reset

Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene and her cabinet resigned Tuesday after the Social Democrats cut ties with the scandal-ridden Nemuno Ausra party. The incoming coalition, expected to be led by Social Democratic Party leader Mindaugas Sinkevicius, has signaled a pivot toward more stable relations with Beijing. Lithuania would be on its third prime minister in two years if the Seimas approves.

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us tech 7 Jun 16 1 min read Updated

The Pentagon Is Betting on AI-Native Defense Firms. Here Is What a Neoprime Actually Is.

The Defense Department is moving frontier AI into its most classified networks and pouring nearly $55 billion into autonomous warfare. Legacy contractors built the hardware that won the last century of wars, but the next one will be decided by who can integrate trusted software into constrained, classified environments at speed.

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us politics 7 4h ago 3 min read

Trump Blames 'Vandals' for National Mall Reflecting Pool Failures Ahead of America's 250th Birthday Celebration

With the nation's semiquincentennial celebration on the National Mall weeks away, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an embarrassing symbol of federal project mismanagement. Trump is pointing fingers at vandals. The facts on what actually went wrong remain thin.

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us politics 7 5h ago 3 min read

House Oversight Panel Releases Transcript of Bill Gates Testimony on Epstein Relationship

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the transcript of Bill Gates's June 10 testimony on Tuesday, along with testimony from Epstein's former executive assistant Lesley Groff. Gates said he regrets meeting Epstein and described the contacts as attempts to secure funding for the Gates Foundation. Both witnesses said they never personally witnessed Epstein engage in illegal conduct.

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us politics 7 5h ago 3 min read

Senate Passes War Powers Resolution 50-48, Rebuking Trump on Iran. It Changes Nothing Legally.

The Senate voted 50-48 Tuesday to direct Trump to end U.S. military hostilities with Iran, the 10th such attempt and the first to actually pass. Four Republicans crossed the aisle, two others were absent, and the resolution carries no binding legal force.

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us politics 7 7h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Tax Sale Price, Not Market Value, Is the Constitutional Baseline for Home Seizure Compensation

The Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Pung family's claim that Isabella County, Michigan owed them fair-market-value compensation after seizing and selling their home over a $2,242 tax debt. Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause uses the tax sale price as the constitutional baseline, not a hypothetical market value. The court did vacate and remand the case, leaving open a separate question about whether the county's foreclosure procedure was fair.

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us politics 7 7h ago 3 min read

DOJ Files Appeal After Tennessee Judge Dismissed Human Trafficking Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal Monday, keeping federal human trafficking charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive after a Tennessee district court judge threw out the case last month. Judge Waverly Crenshaw found the prosecution was "vindictive and selective" retaliation for Abrego Garcia's successful deportation challenge. The appeal moves to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and a parallel deportation fight continues in Maryland.

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us politics 7 8h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Kills Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Cisco Over China Surveillance Role

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Falun Gong practitioners cannot sue Cisco Systems under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 for allegedly helping China build surveillance tools used to persecute them. The decision reverses a 2023 Ninth Circuit ruling and further narrows the already-shrinking legal window for holding American corporations liable for human rights abuses overseas. The Trump administration backed Cisco throughout the case.

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us politics 7 8h ago 3 min read

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That ExxonMobil Can Sue Cuba Over $1 Billion in Seized Assets

The Supreme Court held that a 1996 federal law authorizing lawsuits over property confiscated by Cuba's communist government overrides foreign sovereign immunity. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in the 6-3 ruling, splitting along ideological lines. ExxonMobil's case, filed in 2019, now moves forward after a lower court dismissed it on sovereign immunity grounds.

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us politics 7 9h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Prisoners Cannot Sue Individual Guards for Religious Rights Violations Under RLUIPA

The Supreme Court upheld dismissal of Damon Landor's lawsuit against Louisiana prison guards who shaved his 20-year-old dreadlocks against his Rastafarian faith. Six conservative justices ruled the federal religious freedom law for prisoners does not allow money-damages suits against individual officials. Every justice condemned what happened. The question now is whether prisoners have any practical remedy when guards ignore federal law.

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us politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

Marjorie Taylor Greene Follows Tucker Carlson Out of the Republican Party, Citing Iran War and Epstein Files

Since Tucker Carlson announced his break with the GOP on a recent episode of Can't Be Censored, former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has publicly echoed the split, calling the current Republican Party 'America Last.' Both say they are not switching to the Democrats. The fracture reflects a growing isolationist revolt inside what was once the most loyal corner of Trump's coalition.

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us politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Green Card Holders Facing Criminal Charges Can Be Treated as Admission Applicants at the Border

The Supreme Court reversed a Second Circuit ruling and gave federal border officers broader authority to scrutinize returning lawful permanent residents who face criminal allegations. The decision requires no 'clear and convincing evidence' standard before reclassifying a green card holder at a port of entry. The case centers on a Chinese national charged with trademark counterfeiting in New Jersey who left the country before his trial concluded.

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us politics 7 10h ago 3 min read

Rubio Sanctions Five More Cuban Entities and a Castro Family Member Under Trump's May Executive Order

Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated five Cuban entities and the wife of previously sanctioned Alejandro Castro Espín on Tuesday, June 23, continuing what the Trump administration describes as the most significant U.S. sanctions campaign against the Cuban regime in decades. The targets include GAESA-linked financial institutions, a logistics company, and two firms tied to Cuba's mineral extraction sector. Their U.S.-accessible assets are now frozen and Americans are barred from transacting with them.

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us politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

White House App Forced onto Federal Work Phones Raises Cybersecurity Concerns, Workers Say They Cannot Remove It

The Trump administration has been pushing its public-facing White House app onto government-issued phones across multiple federal agencies since May, and employees at the USDA, State Department, and Labor say they cannot delete it. Cybersecurity experts have flagged real network-security risks. The White House says it is no different from any other pre-installed government app.

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us politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Gun Charge for Marijuana Users, Thomas Goes Further with Commerce Clause Theory

The Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Hemani that prosecuting a marijuana user for gun possession violates the Second Amendment, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for an effectively unanimous Court. Justice Clarence Thomas joined the majority but filed a separate concurrence arguing Congress lacked the underlying power to criminalize intrastate gun possession at all. The ruling adds to a growing body of Second Amendment case law and reopens a decades-old debate about how far federal power actually extends.

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us politics 7 13h ago 3 min read

Trump Endorses Earlier, Backs Incumbents More, and Wins at Higher Rates. Here Is What the Data Shows.

An NPR analysis of over 1,000 Trump endorsements since 2017 shows he has fundamentally shifted his strategy: backing candidates far earlier and concentrating endorsements on safe incumbents. That approach is clearing primary fields before challengers can organize, which has real consequences for how competitive the Republican Party actually is from the inside.

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us politics 7 13h ago 4 min read

Civil Rights Groups and Watchdog Organizations Formally Oppose Todd Blanche's Attorney General Nomination

With Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation still unscheduled as of June 23, 2026, a coalition of civil rights organizations and watchdog groups has formally lined up against his nomination. The opposition centers on one core argument: no one has ever moved directly from defending a president in criminal proceedings to running the department that prosecuted those cases. Whether Republican senators will hold the line or fold is the open question.

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us politics 7 15h ago 4 min read

Johnson and Thune Announce Two-Track Plan to End DHS Partial Shutdown, With ICE and Border Patrol Funding Split Off

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a two-part strategy to end a record partial government shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. Most of DHS would be funded through a bipartisan deal, while ICE and Border Patrol funding would move separately through party-line legislation. Neither outcome is guaranteed, and the timeline depends on whether enough lawmakers can be recalled from their two-week recess.

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