The FBI is using government resources to attack Democratic politicians, including a candidate running for Senate. This further undermines the FBI’s political independence and sets a dangerous precedent for using federal law enforcement to influence elections.

Trump pressured the FBI to investigate anti-ICE protesters in S. CA despite concerns that their activities were constitutionally protected. One investigation reportedly began after Trump watched a TikTok video showing protesters warning residents about ICE raids and explaining their legal rights.

Trump officials refused to invite observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the midterms, breaking with more than two decades of U.S. practice. Meanwhile, Trump’s Justice Department is preparing to deploy more than 1,000 federal election monitors.

Pete Hegseth appointed Elon Musk and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey to help lead a Pentagon study on AI, drones, & autonomous weapons that will influence future military spending. SpaceX has received more than $8B in defense contracts this year, while Anduril also holds major Pentagon contracts.

Two of Trump’s top midterm advisers were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for Putin’s allies in Bosnia. Trump has already lifted sanctions on Dodik and his associates. What else was happening behind the scenes between Trump, his cronies, and Russia?

The NAACP is organizing lawyers to investigate voter intimidation/suppression & seek emergency court orders during the midterms. The group is also challenging plans to deploy armed federal personnel near polling places as the DoJ prepares to send more than 1,000 election monitors.

Trump’s energy policies are projected to cost the average American household an additional $6,500 through 2040. Trump promised to lower energy costs, but his policies are projected to do the opposite, leaving Americans paying thousands more for electricity and fuel.

Trump officials removed 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans over suspected fraudulent enrollments and are reviewing another 400,000. Health experts warn that legitimate, healthy enrollees are also at risk of losing coverage.

In a major ruling Friday, a federal judge struck down Trump’s nationwide voter roll campaign, delivering a damaging blow to the DoJ’s effort to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, to remove voters it deems ineligible. The ruling also reaches voter rolls that states voluntarily turned over.

A new pact that calls for Russia to boost the U.S. supply of diesel over the next few months is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.

“Live-streaming an execution is a barbaric spectacle.” “It is absolutely shameful and damaging to America’s interests and core values.” “That’s disgusting. Is he mimicking ISIS [ISIL] executions? I understand that, in this country, we have the death penalty, but public executions [are] medieval.”

Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, has killed 2 people and left 800K customers without power across the SE US. The storm made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening as it moved inland through Alabama overnight.

The agreement with Russia also opens Trump up to criticism from European allies and pro-Ukraine politicians in the US that the American president is now helping to fund Moscow's war machine.

“And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision.” Trump says he should have received 8 Nobel Peace Prizes because he claimed to have ended 8 ongoing conflicts. He didn't mention the wars in Ukraine or Iran.

“It appears that the US has concluded it is better to justify its policy of coercion and force to the world under the beautiful neon lights of ‘philosophy of history’, instead of naked bullying that uses the language of cowboys." —Iran PM spokesperson

It's the Gulf of MEXICO. It's Lake ONTARIO. It's the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And it's ARTIFICIAL Intelligence. As a progressive, I've been called: "The enemy within" "Traitor" "Human garbage" "Vermin" I'm confident knowing what side of history I'm on.

Trump is putting unaccompanied children directly into ICE detention instead of shelters designed to care for them, exposing already vulnerable children to further trauma and psychological harm.

Court filings allege that DHS agents photographed people observing ICE in Maine, collected license plates, & entered records on at least 8 people into a Palantir-backed database. Labeled “Threat to Law Enforcement, Professional Protestor,” and agents reportedly conducted facial recognition searches.

The EEO sued Harvard to obtain faculty hiring records dating back to 2018 as an investigation into alleged discrimination against white, Asian, male, & straight applicants. Harvard denies discriminatory hiring and says the investigation is part of a broader campaign of government retaliation.

A Trump donor accused Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece and Trump family ally, of engaging in a “quid pro quo” by asking him to pay off her $100,000 debt in exchange for access to administration officials.