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Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 30, 2025, struck down President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents present unlawfully or te…
Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls' and women's public school and college sports teams, with Justice Brett Kava…
Tampa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $117.6 billion fiscal 2027 budget Monday at Hillsborough Community College, issuing approximately $810 million in line-item vetoes and rejecting a $750 million transfer. The ena…
Delaware — As the General Assembly met June 30, legislators sought final-session votes on measures including House Bill 444, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which passed the House and awaited Senate committee review, a…
Washington, D.C. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. returned to the U.S. Capitol this week and delivered a floor speech explaining a months-long absence from the House after missing more than 100 votes since March 5; he said doctors trea…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a Republican-backed challenge to invalidate mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, allowing 14 states to keep counting ballots postmarked by Election Day but delivered later. The…
Washington — On June 30, incumbent Colorado Democrats faced progressive primary challenges as voters prepared to decide intra-party nominations. Representative Diana DeGette was challenged by Melat Kiros, and Senator Joh…
United States. The U.S. Supreme Court this week cleared the way for the Department of Homeland Security to move forward with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Haitian and Syrian nationals, a d…
The United States is preparing for its 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, with two separate, politically divided federal celebrations developing on opposite coasts. On the East Coast, the Trump administration’s "Freedom …
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington has ruled that federal courts generally lack authority to review decisions by the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate or terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for foreign…
Edward "Jake" Lang, who was previously pardoned for his role in the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, was involved in a confrontation outside the 2026 BET Awards at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday,…
BOSTON, United States – A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked key parts of a Trump administration executive order that sought to restrict who could vote by mail in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. In a prelim…
Israel – Iranian cyberattacks on Israeli systems have tripled over the past year, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate chief Yossi Karadi said in a June 29, 2026 interview with German newspaper Die Welt. Karadi reported t…
Georgia officials this week reported a 15.2% SNAP error rate and are preparing to cover increased administrative fees and potential benefit repayments under the One Big Beautiful Bill enacted July 4, 2025; the state flag…
A federal appeals court in Washington has rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s bid under the Trump administration to abandon a 2024 rule that tightens limits on fine particulate, or soot, pollution across the U…
Trenton — Lawmakers passed a $60.7 billion fiscal year 2027 budget and approved a supplemental spending bill late Sunday, June 28, and advanced an increase to the child tax credit; the supplemental package reportedly con…
The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing the end of its current term, expected to conclude in early July, with several major rulings pending on presidential authority and election rules. Justices are set to decide challenges to…
The Trump administration supported a major mining agreement granting an American company access to one of the world’s largest undeveloped tungsten deposits in Kazakhstan, a metal critical for missile systems, fighter jet…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, June 28, 2026, that Iran alone is responsible for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring shipping traffic, directly challenging terms of a June 17 U.S.-Iran c…
Washington, United States — President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran "will no longer exist" if the United States is forced to resume full-scale military operations, issuing his most dir…
TIRANA, Albania — Thousands of people have marched nightly for weeks in the capital to oppose a proposed luxury development on the uninhabited island of Sazan and along the nearby Narta Lagoon, a protected wildlife reser…
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Representative Julia Letlow has won the Republican primary runoff for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat, defeating State Treasurer John Fleming on Saturday, June 27, 2026, in a closely watched contest…
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology conglomerate Alibaba of organizing what it calls the largest known artificial intelligence distillation attack against its Claude models, according to a June 10, 2026 letter sent …
Argentina has launched a coordinated campaign to restrict World Cup access for parents who have failed to pay court-ordered child support. Authorities compiled a database of about 13,000 delinquent payers, mostly fathers…
In Washington, D.C. on June 26, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered a keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, outlining a new campaign strategy ahead of the 2026 midterm electio…