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il politics 7 9m ago 4 min read

Ro Khanna Says Armed Settlers Detained Him in the West Bank; IDF Denies Blocking the Road

Rep. Ro Khanna says masked settlers carrying American-made M4 rifles held his congressional delegation for more than an hour near Khirbet Zanuta on July 8, and that Israeli soldiers who arrived sided with the settlers. The IDF says its troops dispersed the civilians and did not block the road, and the identity of the armed individual is still under review.

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us politics 6 42m ago 3 min read

Minnesota Pulls National Guard Troops From D.C. Early as Michigan Faces Pressure to Do the Same

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz withdrew his state's National Guard troops from Washington, D.C. today, ahead of their planned July 23 return, after activists documented them patrolling neighborhoods far from the National Mall. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is under similar pressure over her state's roughly 160 troops, still scheduled to stay through August 31. The fight is over whether Democratic governors got played into joining a deployment they say they never agreed to.

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us politics 6 1h ago 4 min read

Kansas Voters to Decide August 4 Whether Supreme Court Justices Should Be Elected, Not Appointed

Kansas will vote August 4 on a constitutional amendment to scrap its decades-old merit selection system and let voters directly elect state Supreme Court justices. The measure is officially about how judges get picked, but the money and messaging on both sides trace straight back to a 2019 abortion rights ruling nobody wants to say out loud is the real fight.

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us politics 8 2h ago 4 min read

DOJ Subpoenas Four New York Times Reporters Over Air Force One Security Reporting

Federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas to four New York Times reporters' homes after they published stories on security gaps in Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. Leaking classified info is a real crime, and DOJ says reporters aren't the target, but forcing journalists to testify or burn sources under subpoena is a serious First Amendment fight, not a routine leak probe.

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us defense 7 Jun 22 1 min read

Passing CMMC Is a Snapshot. Staying Compliant Is the Hard Part.

The Pentagon's CMMC program went live November 10, 2025, and Phase 2 mandatory third-party certifications begin November 10, 2026. Thousands of defense contractors who cleared their initial assessment are now exposed to a quieter risk: the gap between passing once and proving continuous compliance every day after. That gap has legal teeth.

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us politics 6 3h ago 4 min read

Judge Dismisses Remaining Proud Boys Convictions After Trump Commutations, Calls Jan. 6 a "Perilous Event"

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly formally dismissed the seditious conspiracy convictions of four Proud Boys leaders on Friday, July 10, closing out the last piece of a case Trump had already gutted with commutations and a mass clemency order. Kelly, a Trump appointee, said he had no legal basis to keep the case alive but made clear he wasn't endorsing the Justice Department's decision to abandon it.

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us politics 7 9h ago 4 min read

House Democrats Demand Evidence Preservation as ICE Shooting Witnesses Face Self-Deportation Pressure

Since the July 7 fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent in Houston, a congressional letter, a Friday news conference, and a formal legal statement from detained eyewitnesses have all converged on the same point: the three men who were in the van say no officer was ever in front of the vehicle, and DHS has released no physical evidence supporting its self-defense account. The witnesses are currently in immigration detention, and their attorneys say ICE has pressured them to sign self-deportation paperwork before any investigation can take their testimony.

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us politics 8 11h ago 3 min read

TPS Work Permits for Haitians Expire July 24, Six Other Nations Lose Authorization July 17

The Trump administration has set hard deadlines for hundreds of thousands of Temporary Protected Status workers to lose their employment authorization, with permits for Haitians expiring July 24 and those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen expiring July 17. A Supreme Court ruling on June 25 cleared the way by allowing the administration to proceed while lower-court legal challenges continue. Some employers didn't wait for the deadlines and have already begun cutting workers.

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us politics 4 11h ago 4 min read

Liberland, the Crypto-Funded Micronation Where Votes Are Purchased With Tokens, Gets a Closer Look

Liberland, a libertarian micronation on a disputed Danube floodplain, runs on a system where purchasable crypto tokens determine political influence. Its backers include major figures in the cryptocurrency world, and its interior minister has stated openly that only the wealthy are truly welcome. The project raises real questions about whether 'liberty' with a price tag is liberty at all.

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us politics 6 11h ago 3 min read

DACA-Lapsed Guyanese Immigrant Charged with Seven Firebombing Attacks on New York Churches and Businesses

Yogesh Sayrange, 36, is facing federal hate crime charges after allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at at least seven religious and commercial targets across Brooklyn and Queens in late June 2026. He had been in the U.S. illegally after aging out of DACA protections, and had two prior arrests in June for separate weapons threats before his firebombing arrest. No injuries were reported in the arson attacks, but investigators are still working to establish a clear motive.

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us politics 7 13h ago 5 min read

Three Eyewitnesses Say ICE Agents Shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo From the Side. DHS Has Released No Evidence Supporting Its Self-Defense Claim.

Since the Harris County Medical Examiner ruled Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's death a homicide on July 10, the gap between DHS's official account and the three detained eyewitnesses has widened. All three men, held at an ICE facility in Conroe, Texas, say no agent was ever positioned in front of the van. DHS has released no body camera footage, no photos, and no physical evidence to support its self-defense justification.

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us politics 8 15h ago 4 min read

DOJ Subpoenas New York Times Reporters Over Air Force One Security Story. Trump Calls the Coverage Treasonous.

The Department of Justice has issued grand jury subpoenas to several New York Times journalists who reported that Qatar's donated presidential aircraft lacks advanced anti-missile systems present on the old Air Force One. President Trump separately called Times coverage of the Iran conflict 'treasonous' and vowed to add recent reporting to his existing $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the paper. Two distinct legal fronts are now open against the same newsroom.

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us politics 8 17h ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Clears Way to End TPS for 1.3 Million Immigrants, Caregiving Sector Warns of Staffing Hit

The Supreme Court's late-June ruling affirmed the Trump administration's authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status for nationals of 17 countries, including Haiti and Syria. Roughly 1.3 million people face potential loss of work authorization, and long-term care employers say the timing collides with an already critical caregiver shortage. Congress has the authority to act but hasn't.

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us politics 5 20h ago 4 min read

NYC's Top International Affairs Official Scheduled a Meeting with Iran's UN Ambassador. The State Department Stopped It.

Commissioner Ana María Archila, head of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Office for International Affairs, had a July 7 sitdown with Iran's UN representative on the calendar before the State Department stepped in and it was canceled. Mamdani says he knew nothing until a journalist called. The episode is raising harder questions about whether his international affairs office has been quietly freelancing in foreign policy territory it has no authority over.

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us politics 8 22h ago 4 min read

Mexico Demands Criminal Charges Over 17 Deaths in U.S. Custody. Houston Neighbors Describe Two Weeks of Escalating ICE Presence Before the Salgado Araujo Shooting.

Since ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday and DHS confirmed two days later he was not the intended target, Mexico has escalated to demanding criminal charges against U.S. officials, and Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood is describing a visible surge in federal immigration activity in the weeks leading up to his death. DHS still has released no body camera footage because agents were not wearing cameras. The diplomatic and legal fallout is now moving on two separate tracks.

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us politics 7 23h ago 4 min read

Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature After He Withholds It in Protest Over Voter ID Stalemate

The 21st Century Road to Housing Act became law automatically at 11:59 p.m. ET on July 10, 2026, after Trump refused to sign it in protest over the Senate's failure to pass his voter ID legislation. The bill passed both chambers with veto-proof margins, so Trump's standoff produced no legislative effect — only political friction with his own party four months before midterms.

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us politics 8 1d ago 5 min read

ICE Agents Shot and Killed the Wrong Man in Houston. DHS Confirmed It Two Days Later.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican construction worker, was shot and killed by ICE agents in Houston on July 7. DHS confirmed Thursday he was not the intended target. The agents had no body cameras, and their account of the shooting has not been corroborated by any video evidence.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act, the Latest in a Series of Sanctuary Jurisdiction Lawsuits Since February 2025

The Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Maryland on Thursday, July 10, 2026, targeting the state's Community Trust Act, which restricts when local jails and police can cooperate with ICE. The DOJ argues the law violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Maryland's governor let the bill become law without his signature and says the state still cooperates with federal authorities when public safety warrants it.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Two Federal Judges Have Issued Directly Contradictory Orders on the DHS Voter Citizenship Database. DHS Is Caught in the Middle.

A Washington, D.C. district court and a Florida district court have issued flatly opposing orders on whether DHS's SAVE system can be used to check voter rolls for noncitizens. The D.C. judge refused to back down on July 8, calling the Florida ruling fundamentally flawed. The conflict now heads to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with DHS unable to fully comply with both orders at the same time.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

ICE Shot and Killed a Houston Man Who Was Not the Target. No Body Cameras. No Name Released.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder with no criminal record, was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Houston on July 7 while driving his crew to a construction site. DHS confirmed he was not who agents were looking for, no body camera footage exists, and the officer's name has not been released. The agency's self-defense account is disputed by three surviving witnesses.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Fires Democratic Election Commission Members Four Months Before Midterms

President Trump removed the two remaining Democratic members of the Election Assistance Commission on July 9, 2026, leaving the bipartisan federal elections agency without any commissioners. The move is the latest in a months-long campaign to reshape federal election administration, and it lands while courts are actively blocking key pieces of that same effort.

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