Category: US

Treasury Declares “Economic D-Day” on Iran — And Some Republicans Are Nervous About the Bill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast” on Monday, a sweeping new sanctions campaign targeting Iran’s oil, shipping, aviation, gold and digital-asset sectors, along with military procurement networks and a cyber group the administration says was responsible for intrusions…

ICE Sweeps Three Connecticut Cities, Arresting Day Laborers, a Dialysis Patient, and a Father Dropping Off His Kid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested at least 20 people across Danbury, Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut on Monday, with community advocates saying the true total is likely higher and reports of continued activity stretching into Tuesday. Early…

Louisiana National Guard Pulls Out of New Orleans After Eight Months on Bourbon Street The Louisiana National Guard is ending its eight-month deployment in New Orleans, with the 120 remaining troops completing their final French Quarter patrol on Monday ahead of a full withdrawal by August 31. The deployment began in late December with 350…

Supreme Court Hands Trump a Voting Rules Win — But Nobody Knows What Happens Next The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday to lift part of a lower-court injunction that had blocked pieces of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms, in an unsigned emergency order over the dissent of…

DHS Touted 250,000 “Noncitizen Voters.” The Real Number Was Less Than Half That. The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged to state election officials that the noncitizen voter-roll numbers it publicly touted this summer were inflated, after the White House and DHS had claimed in July to have identified roughly 250,000 potential noncitizens registered to…

DOJ Moves to Appeal Order Forcing It to Unredact Epstein Files Tied to Trump The Justice Department filed a protective notice of appeal Monday against a federal judge’s order requiring it to remove redactions from a batch of Epstein-related documents, signaling it will fight the ruling rather than comply on the current timeline. The underlying…

Treasury Declares “Economic D-Day” on Iran With Sweeping New Sanctions Push Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday a broad new sanctions campaign against Iran, dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast,” describing it as an “economic D-Day” meant to sever the country’s remaining financial lifelines roughly six months into a war that has settled into a “no war,…

Report: Trump Personally Ordered DOJ to Settle Antitrust Case Against Ticketmaster’s Parent Company A Wall Street Journal report published Monday detailed how President Trump personally directed a senior Justice Department official to settle the government’s antitrust case against Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, just days before the case was set to go to trial.…

Supreme Court Lets Trump Rewrite Mail-In Voting Rules Ten Weeks Before the Midterms The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court injunction that had blocked key parts of an executive order President Trump signed in March restricting mail-in voting nationwide, handing the administration a preliminary win. The unsigned 6-3 order split the conservative majority…

ICE Arrests 1,328 People in Two-Week D.C.-Suburbs Sweep — and Two-Thirds Had No Criminal Record The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,328 people during a two-week operation, dubbed “Operation Safe Community – Washington, D.C.,” conducted across Virginia and Maryland between August 1 and August 14. DHS said…