Category: US

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…

Trump’s Spy Chief Pick Dodges Questions on Journalist Subpoenas and the 2020 Election Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday, July 15, in a hearing that was rescheduled weeks after Trump abruptly scuttled an earlier date [1, 3]. If confirmed, Clayton would…

Trump Teases “Really Big” Election Announcement as Advisers Fight Over What to Reveal President Trump is set to deliver a primetime address to the nation at 9 p.m. Thursday, July 16, expected to focus on voting machine security and alleged foreign efforts to influence U.S. elections [1, 3]. The White House has been weighing whether…

Nearly Half of House Democrats Vote to Cut Off Israel Aid — And the Amendment Still Failed The House voted 314-104 on Wednesday, July 15, to reject an amendment from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act that would have stripped $3.3 billion in security assistance…

Todd Blanche Grilled for Five Hours Over Epstein Files and IRS Deal in AG Confirmation Fight Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified for roughly five hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, July 15, in a confirmation hearing that tested Republican unity as much as Democratic opposition [1, 3]. Blanche faced sustained questioning over…

Trump Reverses ICE Traffic Stop Pause One Day After Deadly Shootings The Department of Homeland Security temporarily paused most ICE vehicle stops nationwide on Tuesday, July 14, following two fatal shootings by immigration agents within the past two weeks — the deaths of 26-year-old Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, and 52-year-old…