Category: US

Epstein Survivors Call Todd Blanche ‘Condescending’ After DOJ Meeting Forced by GOP Senator Jeffrey Epstein survivors met with acting Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche at the Justice Department on Thursday, July 16, 2026, a sit-down demanded by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who had refused to commit to a favorable Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Blanche’s…

Trump’s Election Warning Draws Fire From Democrats — and Doubts From His Own Base President Trump delivered a primetime address on July 16, 2026, citing newly declassified documents that he said showed the American election system is “so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it.” He alleged China had illegally obtained…

House GOP Unveils Stopgap Funding Bill — and Immediately Splits Its Own Party House Republican leaders released the text of a “clean” continuing resolution on Friday, July 17, 2026, that would fund federal agencies at current levels through Dec. 4, 2026, and avert a government shutdown when funding lapses later this year. Speaker Mike Johnson…

US Strikes Expand to Iran’s Bridges and Railways as War Drags Into Sixth Night The United States carried out a sixth consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran on July 17, 2026, expanding its target list beyond military sites to include six highway and railway bridges in Hormozgan province, a railway junction station in Bandar Abbas,…

ICE Agent Who Killed Colombian Father Had History of Violence, Ex-Wives Say Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national, was fatally shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer David Michael Brouillette during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026. Brouillette, 37, joined ICE in late 2025 after previous work as…

The White House Wants a Permanent Fence Around the Park Where America Protests It The U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with the Executive Office of the President and the Department of the Interior, presented a federal panel Thursday with a plan to erect a permanent 8-to-9-foot steel fence around Lafayette Park and the closed sections…

Acting AG’s Confirmation Hangs on a Meeting With Epstein Survivors That Left Everyone Angrier Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday afternoon with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein at the Justice Department, a session demanded by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., as a condition of his vote to advance Blanche’s nomination through the Senate Judiciary Committee. The…

ICE Kept Promising Body Cameras. Two More Men Died Before Any Showed Up. Federal immigration agents fatally shot two men in the span of less than a week this month — Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, in Houston on July 7, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 26, in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13. Neither man was…

Trump’s Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on What Trump Would Say — Now the Whole Crypto Bill Is on Fire NPR reported Thursday that Gabriel Perez, who has operated President Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, placed bets through the prediction market platform Kalshi on the content of more than a dozen presidential speeches this year, profiting…

Trump’s Primetime “China Stole Your Vote” Speech Convinces No One and Reassures No One President Trump delivered an unusual primetime address from the White House on Thursday evening, announcing the declassification of documents he said prove China carried out “the largest compromise of election data in history,” acquiring 220 million U.S. voter files — including…