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Federal agents stage at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025.

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Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm

State Department is firing more than 1,300 staff on Friday

David Gergen, political insider who advised four presidents of both parties, dies at 83

Deputy FBI Director Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid Epstein files fallout, sources say

Trump looks to quash criticism on natural disaster response during Texas visit

The Trump administration’s non-denial denials on Emil Bove

Court rules former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had authority to throw out plea deals for 9/11 alleged conspirators

Analysis

Elon Musk at the White House in May.

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Musk’s ‘America Party’ and the evidence that Trump’s coalition is starting to fracture

What will happen now that Trump has turned on Putin?

Bondi and Hegseth might be messing up — but they’re doing what Trump picked them to do

Meet the new national police force

How a tied shoelace will mark a turning point in US history

Craven natural-disaster blame games obscure the steps needed to keep Americans safe

Trump’s government cuts and the catastrophe in Texas: Here’s what we know

Democrats try to spoil Trump’s victory party by slamming his greatest domestic win

Why Trump’s hold on the GOP Congress may threaten its hold on power

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Nine months after Hurricane Helene: Still mud and mess, but a powerful lesson in small-town resilience

In this political bellwether, voters feel the impacts of Trump’s policies

Facts First

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US President Donald Trump speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 8, 2025.

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Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump’s false claims at Cabinet meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump presents a sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," after he signed it, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis

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Fact check: Trump falsely claims his highly unpopular big bill is the ‘single most popular bill ever signed’

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Paul Ingrassia speaks to members of the press at the DC Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, on January 20.

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The Trump administration said ‘many Jewish groups’ support a controversial nominee — some have never heard of him

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Trump pick to run federal watchdog: A 30-year-old who once shared a 9/11 conspiracy video and has ties to a Holocaust denier

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What Matters

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso and Sen. Mike Crapo, speaks to reporters off the Senate floor after the Senate passes President Donald Trump's so-called "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," Act at the US Capitol Building on July 1, in Washington, DC.

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Here’s how Trump’s megabill will affect you

Fault Lines

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2025/05/29: Participants seen holding a banner at the protest. New Yorkers gathered outside House Representative Nicole Malliotakis office in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to protest her decision to vote in favor to pass the so called Big Beautiful Bill, a bill that contains severe cuts to social services like healthcare, housing and food assistance federally funded programs and big tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Sweeping GOP budget bill illuminates the central fault line in the modern Republican coalition

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Rubio relayed Trump’s ‘disappointment and frustration’ during meeting with Russia’s Lavrov

The Trump team’s Abrego Garcia claims keep looking worse and worse

Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship

Vance plans to kick off admin efforts to tout Trump’s agenda bill with Pennsylvania visit

State Department notifies staff it will begin firing personnel ‘soon’

Wife of Texas AG Ken Paxton files for divorce ‘on biblical grounds’

US imposing sanctions on senior UN official focused on Palestinian human rights

Man accused of attempting to assassinate Trump wants to represent himself in Florida federal case

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says ‘state of our democracy’ keeps her up at night

Foreign leaders turn the Trump sycophancy up to 11

American who was wrongfully detained in Iran urges US citizens not to travel to country

Tracking Trump’s overhaul of the federal workforce

Documents back up DOJ whistleblower’s claim that top official intended to ignore court orders, top Judiciary Democrat says

Andrew Cuomo has spent millions on his legal defense against his #MeToo accusers. New York taxpayers are footing the bill

Pence says isolationists losing sway with Trump as he praises moves on Ukraine, Iran

Trump names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim head of NASA

Student loan servicer pauses payment counts tracking in a move experts say could cause confusion

FEMA’s response to Texas flood slowed by Noem’s cost controls

Secret Service issued suspensions for several agents involved in securing rally where Trump survived assassination attempt

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington D.C, on December 19, 2018. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, takes the stage at the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024.

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