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us politics 6 just now 4 min read

Fired Miami Prosecutor Sues DOJ, Says Old Anti-Trump Blog Posts Got Him Axed in Three Hours

Will Rosenzweig was two weeks from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a conservative influencer resurfaced his years-old, defunct blog and tagged DOJ officials. He was fired within three hours, and he's now suing, claiming the government can't punish a citizen for political speech made before he ever took the job.

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us politics 6 3m ago 3 min read

Trump Tells U.S. Attorney Pirro to Reverse Course on Dropped Reflecting Pool Case

President Trump publicly demanded U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro reconsider her decision to drop vandalism charges against a man accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro's own office told a court the damage was caused by a bad liner installation, not sabotage, and a judge dismissed the case Thursday. Trump wants a redo anyway. The physical evidence and the prosecutor's own filing say this wasn't vandalism. The president disagrees. Someone's wrong here, and it isn't the guy who got his charges dropped.

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us politics 5 10m ago 3 min read

Shelby County, Tennessee Sees Decade-High Democratic Primary Turnout After Redistricting Fight

A fifth of active registered voters in Shelby County, Tennessee turned out for Democratic House primaries this week, the highest share in ten years, according to the Washington Post. The county includes Memphis and is majority-Black, and the surge comes after Tennessee Republicans redrew the district lines that had elected Democrat Steve Cohen for years.

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us politics 6 52m ago 3 min read

DHS Plans to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down Deported Migrants Overseas

DHS is proposing a $9 million contract to hire private investigators who will locate deported immigrants in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, photograph their homes, and hand-deliver notices for unpaid immigration fines. The agency has already assessed more than $84 billion in civil fines, even as it simultaneously tells migrants that leaving the country voluntarily will wipe those debts clean.

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us politics 6 1h ago 4 min read

Federal Judge Revives Michigan Parents' Religious-Freedom Claim Over School's Transgender Name Policy

A federal judge in Michigan reversed course and reinstated a free exercise claim from parents who sued Rockford Public Schools after staff used a different name and pronouns for their middle-school daughter without telling them. The reversal came after the Supreme Court's March 2026 ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta cast doubt on how lower courts had been analyzing these cases.

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us politics 5 4h ago 4 min read

Project 2025 Co-Author Dennis Kirk Reportedly Placed Inside Interior Department Watchdog Office

Dennis Kirk, who helped write Project 2025 and previously worked inside the intelligence community's inspector general office, has reportedly been installed at the Interior Department's IG office. That office is under pressure from Democrats to investigate alleged corruption at Interior, and critics say putting a Trump-aligned political appointee inside a watchdog shop defeats the purpose of having one. **The setup here matters: inspectors general exist to be independent of the political appointees running the agency they oversee.** If Kirk's role gives him influence over what gets investigated, that independence is the whole ballgame.

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us politics 6 5h ago 4 min read

Cassidy Backs Todd Blanche for Attorney General, Clearing Path to Confirmation Despite Murkowski and Collins Defections

Senator Bill Cassidy announced Friday he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, effectively securing the votes Blanche needs after Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski broke with the GOP to oppose him. Murkowski cited concerns about DOJ politicization, including the Epstein files and Trump family immunity in an IRS settlement; Cassidy said he weighed those concerns but concluded Blanche is better than the alternative.

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us politics 7 6h ago 4 min read

Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of 1934 Gun Control Law After Trump Tax Bill Zeroed Out the Fees

A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that registration requirements for suppressors and short-barreled firearms are unconstitutional now that the 2025 tax bill cut the underlying tax to zero. The ruling is stayed for a week to let the Justice Department appeal, and it only applies to the named plaintiffs for now.

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us politics 5 7h ago 3 min read

Democrats Try to Put Mississippi in Play Against Cindy Hyde-Smith

Democrat Scott Colom is running a longshot campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in deep-red Mississippi, part of a Senate map that's wider than either party expected this cycle. Democrats need at least four net pickups to win the majority, and Republicans think spreading the map thin actually helps them.

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Iran Hit Jordan Nine Times, Then Told Jordanians It Loves Them

After Iranian missiles killed three U.S. troops in Jordan and struck the kingdom eight more times, Iran's Revolutionary Guard pivoted to public messages of affection for the Jordanian people, thanking unnamed locals for tipping off targeting information. It's a transparent play to split Jordan's population from its own government, and it's working better than it should.

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us politics 8 8h ago 4 min read

ICE Has Spent $525 Million on Surveillance Tech Since Trump Took Office, and Some of It Is Aimed at Online Critics

ICE has spent over $525 million on surveillance technology since President Trump's second term began, including contracts to monitor and unmask people who post criticism of the agency online, according to the Wall Street Journal. DHS says it's targeting credible threats against agents, but at least one case shows the government subpoenaing a Reddit user over posts that read like political speech, not threats of violence.

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us politics 8 9h ago 3 min read

Senate Passes 86-11 Vote on Russia Sanctions Bill Named for Lindsey Graham, Sends It to House

The Senate voted 86-11 Friday to pass the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, giving Trump authority to slap up to 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil and gas, including China and India. The bill now sits in a House that's on recess until September, with some Democrats already balking at handing Trump that much tariff power.

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us politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

ICE Is Arresting Visa Overstayers and Asylum Applicants at Airports, Even With Pending Cases

Immigration lawyers and advocacy groups say ICE is increasingly detaining travelers at airports who have pending asylum applications, expired DACA renewals, or work permits, not just people with final deportation orders. DHS says a pending case or work permit does not equal legal status, and that's legally accurate. The catch is thousands of people are stuck waiting years for the government to process the very applications that would fix their status.

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us politics 8 10h ago 4 min read

White House Sends Lisa Cook New Letter Threatening Her Fed Job Over Mortgage Claims

Trump's deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino sent Fed Governor Lisa Cook a letter this week giving her 21 days to respond to mortgage fraud allegations, restarting a fight the Supreme Court left unresolved in June. Cook's lawyer calls it the same baseless claim dressed up to satisfy the Court's paperwork requirements. Nobody has charged Cook with a crime.

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us politics 6 10h ago 3 min read

Conservative Super PAC Launches $10M Ad Campaign Using AI-Generated Video of Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico

American Principles Project PAC is spending $10 million on ads featuring AI-generated footage depicting Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico as a surgeon performing gender surgery on a child. Talarico's campaign calls it a lie and points to his own on-record statement opposing sex-change surgery for minors. The ad lands in a race where Talarico holds roughly a 1-point edge over Republican Ken Paxton in polling.

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es politics 7 10h ago 4 min read

1,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors Still Stranded in Ceuta After Border Surge, Aid Groups Report Abuse

Roughly a week after a Spanish court ruling triggered a mass crossing into Ceuta, an estimated 1,000 unaccompanied minors remain in the enclave, and aid workers say some have been beaten, assaulted, or sexually abused. Spain has opened emergency shelters and plans to relocate minors to the mainland, but nobody, including Spanish officials, agrees on how many people are actually still there.

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us politics 4 10h ago 3 min read

Jharkhand Exam-Fraud Protest Hits Day 14, Hunger Striker Hospitalized in Ranchi

A student leader on hunger strike over alleged rigging of Jharkhand's civil service and staff selection exams was hospitalized Friday after his condition worsened. The protest, now in its 14th day, demands the exams be scrapped and an outside probe launched, and it's a case study in why voters everywhere stop trusting government tests when the process looks broken.

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us politics 6 12h ago 4 min read

Colombia Swears In Conservative President Under 11,000 Troops in Cali, Not Bogota

Abelardo de la Espriella, a former defense lawyer with zero prior elected office, was inaugurated Friday in Cali instead of Bogota, a deliberate signal he's done with Gustavo Petro's failed 'Total Peace' strategy. He's promising military force against rebel groups, aerial coca spraying, and spending cuts to fix a budget deficit that doubled under Petro. Trump has praised him; the question now is whether hardline force actually beats negotiation where it counts.

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us politics 7 14h ago 4 min read

Appeals Court Blocks Trump's $400 Million White House Ballroom, Says He Needed Congress's OK

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Trump's administration cannot keep building its $400 million White House ballroom without congressional approval. The ruling pauses construction for 14 days while the administration decides whether to take it to the Supreme Court. This isn't about whether the ballroom is a good idea. It's about who owns the White House and who gets to authorize tearing pieces of it down.

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us politics 7 15h ago 3 min read

Colorado's Jared Polis Grants Clemency to Tina Peters, Convicted Election-Equipment Tamperer, After Trump Pressure Campaign

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted in 2024 for granting unauthorized access to voting machines, walked free June 1, 2026, after Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted clemency over objections from prosecutors and his own clemency board. She served about 20 months of a nearly nine-year sentence and is now touring MAGA media pushing the same unproven fraud claims that helped convict her.

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