U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against all 15 federal judges in Maryland over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals.
To many Washington insiders, President Trump's early August Beltway crime crackdown seemed like an opportunistic and hamhanded pivot after getting walloped for weeks over the Jeffrey Epstein affair. But if it wasn't clear then, it is now: The White House's public safety play is a deliberate ploy to refocus the narrative on an issue that favors Republicans ahead of the midterms -- one that's already backing Democrats into a corner.
On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican. They're overwhelmingly white and tend to have a certain kind of look. Close cropped haircuts. Windowpane suits. Golf shorts. They're not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word "queer." And they aren't the least bit offended that the leader of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people. They're gay. But they're still Republicans.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is now selling merchandise a la Donald Trump " including $100 "Bibles" that are already "sold out" " in his latest move to troll the president. After days of imitating the president's signature all-caps social media posting style, Newsom capped off a week of trolling Trump with the opening of what he's calling the "Patriot Shop." "THE PATRIOT SHOP IS NOW OPEN!!!!" the Democratic governor announced Sunday in a social media post. "MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS IS THE GREATEST MERCHANDISE EVER MADE. PLEASE ENJOY, AMERICA!"
In a direct jab at the president, the website lists a "Holy Bible" signed by "America's Favorite Governor!" for $100.
A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens: salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told NBC News. Before July, the program had been tracking infections caused by six additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. Some of them can lead to severe or life-threatening illnesses, particularly for newborns and people who are pregnant or have weakened immune systems.
Voters at a town hall meeting in Missouri demanded that their Republican congressman denounce President Donald Trump's "lies""and told him to get his head "out of Trump's a--." Rep. Mark Alford was the latest GOP lawmaker to host a contentious live event during the August recess despite party leaders advising their caucus to avoid in-person meetings with constituents. Other Republicans have been savaged with boos, jeers, and profanity. The crowd at Alford's Monday town hall"which was held at Southwest Baptist University campus in Bolivar"was largely civil, but the voters were no less scathing than those who drowned out his colleagues in other states with chants of "Lie! Lie!" "You are not helping me. Believe me, you are not helping me," said one older man who identified himself as Fred Higginbotham. "You need to take your head out of Trump's a-- and start doing your representation of us,"
Late Monday, Trump posted a letter on his Truth Social platform saying Cook was "removed effective immediately" due to alleged mortgage fraud. The accusation came from Trump ally Bill Pulte, who claims Cook listed two primary residences in 2021 to get better loan terms " an accusation that hasn't been investigated or proven. Cook didn't flinch. "President Trump purported to fire me for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so," she said in a statement. "I will not resign."
An Islamic court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing.
A grand jury declined for a third time to indict a D.C. woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an inmate swap with ICE " a rare loss for federal prosecutors that could foreshadow further trouble if the case goes to trial. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office said in a filing Monday it would move ahead with charging Sidney Lori Reid with a misdemeanor for the alleged assault outside the D.C. Jail in July. A magistrate judge had given prosecutors until Monday afternoon to secure an indictment against Reid or see the felony version of the assault charge dismissed.
Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there. But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.
Even before the Ivy League upheavals of the past two years, Jewish students had been slowly drifting away from the elite campuses of the Northeast. Now, as some seek respite from the protest movement that erupted after the Israeli response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, the drift has become more like"sorry"an exodus. And selective colleges outside the Northeast, sensing an intensifying disdain for Ivy League schools among Jewish teens and their parents, are tripping over one another to recruit these students. Read more
As morale among US ICE personnel sinks to new lows, the Trumpf junta is wasting more than $120,000 on a pair of high-performance Mustang GT Fastbacks to enhance the embattled deportation agency's efforts to attract new recruits. Obtaining the vehicles was "an immediate request by the White House, on Thursday, 7 August 2025," according to a federal procurement document. The Mustangs are expected to "enhance" the Trumpf junta's push to add some 14,000 new ICE agents "by serving as a bold, high-performance symbol of innovation, strength and modern federal service," and that the Mustang's "eye-catching design increases public engagement at outreach events and helps attract top talent by conveying a culture of excellence and forward momentum." Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf idiotically mobilized the DC National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation's capital, despite DC's crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 DC National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091, as Republican governors send hundreds more. Trumpf hasn't just complained about alleged crime in the District; he's placed a target on homeless and poor people. Bleating that we're "getting rid of the slums," Trumpf has called on troops and police to forcibly remove unhoused people from the city. National Guard deployments cost the American taxpayer $530 per Guard member, per day. So the price tag of deploying 2,091 troops to DC is well over $1 million per day, and the number of troops will likely continue to grow. Read more
President Donald Trump on Monday night escalated his conflict with Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook by removing her from the Fed's board. The move comes after Trump urged the governor to resign her post last week over allegations that she may have committed mortgage fraud before she took her place on the Federal Reserve Board. Cook declined Trump's call to resign. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte notified Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month that Cook allegedly "falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud."
President Donald Trump on Monday said he has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to a letter addressed to her posted on his social media " the first instance of a president firing a central bank governor in the central bank's 111-year history. The unprecedented move represents a significant escalation of the president's battle against the Fed, which he has blamed for taking too long to lower interest rates.
President Donald Trump on Monday foreshadowed that his administration, in coming days, will likely change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
