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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Venezuela hours before Wednesday's earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First, which tracks deportation flights. read more


In twin rulings, the justices said President Trump could fire independent regulators for any reason but explicitly affirmed the Fed's independence and said its leaders could not be fired at will. read more


Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Monday that he plans to use an unusual maneuver to merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ... read more


President Donald Trump on Monday remained undecided over whether he'd sign a bipartisan housing bill, saying shortly after the House speaker sent it to the White House that it was "so unimportant" compared with his efforts to secure a controversial overhaul of federal elections. read more


Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Europe on Sunday as storms moved into other areas, with France reporting 1,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave. read more


Comedian Bill Maher on Sunday received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington institution that is entangled in a legal battle over President Donald Trump's effort to overhaul it. read more


Trump v. Slaughter, one of two "unitary executive" cases that the Supreme Court handed down on Monday, is the culmination of a nearly 40-year fight by Republican judges to expand the powers of the presidency. read more


Monday, June 29, 2026

The 6-3 decision ruled police need a warrant to get people's location data, even if it's shared with companies like Google and Apple. read more


The Supreme Court on June 29 said Mississippi can count late-arriving mail-in ballots, handing a defeat to President Donald Trump, who is trying to curtail voting by mail. read more


Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the head of the Health and Human Services he crusaded against chemicals like glyphosate. Now activists who helped him in that fight are feeling betrayed by the Trump administration.

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Data centers are now devouring land, electricity, water, and chips -- and driving up the price of just about everything. read more


Attorneys for President Donald Trump have said that the BBC is trying to turn the president's defamation lawsuit against the corporation into a trial on the events of January 6 ... read more


America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump's presidency is testing how far it's come. read more


The move to remove rank insignias from uniforms of chaplains comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reduced the number of religious affiliation codes from more than 200 to 31. read more


The Guardian reports that The National Design Studio (NDS), an agency that's funding source and oversight are unclear, has installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites. The NDS is staffed by Doge veterans.

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SiriusXM Radio Host Megyn Kelly: "Why is it we only take people from sh*thole countries like Haiti and Somalia? Yes. Good question. Also, why cannot we have some people from Norway and Sweden? ... " read more


 

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