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Trump continues effort to fill federal bench with new judicial nominations
As of early July, the Senate has confirmed 45 of Trump’s Article III judicial nominees during his second term, bringing his total number of federal judicial appointments across both administrations to 279.
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In key pre-trail hearing this week, prosecutors lay out case against accused Charlie Kirk killer
Kirk’s parents and his widow, Erica, are expected to attend the five-day hearing in Utah court.
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Heat, humidity, lingering fireworks smoke made DC on Sunday the city with worst air quality in world
The fireworks were not set off until after 11 p.m. on Saturday, July Fourth night, because of thunder-and-lightning storms.
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Trump floats sending $1K or $2K tariff rebate checks to Americans
Trump said tariff revenues are just now starting to kick in and that he would be spending some of that revenue on paying down the federal debt. But he said other parts of the revenue could go to Americans.
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Abe Hamadeh says he was placed on a Biden administration TSA watch list
The DHS' Quiet Skies program was originally intended to identify and track individuals who may pose threats to aviation and relied on behavioral analysis and data collection that was often gathered without passengers’ knowledge.
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Texas megachurch pastor pleads guilty to sexually abusing minor
Former Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris was given a 10-year sentence, but will only serve six months behind bars, and the rest on probation.
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FBI had three informants reporting Biden corruption in Ukraine, but no record of real investigation
More whistleblowers than previously known came forward alleging Biden family corruption in Ukraine. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to get to the bottom of why the FBI failed to fully investigate the allegations.
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Top House Oversight Dem calls for Hatch Act investigation into Trump admin over shutdown messaging
The Trump administration has posted messages on the websites of multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture, that blame the "radical left" for the shutdown.
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Senate leader Thune says weekend votes to reopen government are 'unlikely' if Friday's votes fail
The government has been shutdown since Wednesday, after the Senate failed to pass a House-passed stopgap bill that would have kept the government funded through Nov. 21.
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'I don't have anything to negotiate:' Speaker Johnson holds firm on GOP shutdown strategy
Despite voting for nearly the same bill a total of 13 times during the Biden administration, Senate Democrats have continued to vote down GOP’s clean Continuing Resolution.
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Conor McGregor confirms plans to fight in White House UFC event
The White House previously stated that the UFC would hold a cage match on the White House South Lawn as part of the ongoing America 250 celebrations marking the quarter-millennium anniversary of the nation's founding.
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ICE makes 1.2K arrests in DC since fed takeover in August, compared to 85 in first 7 months of '25
From the start of President Trump's term this year through July, ICE had only made 85 arrests in Washington, D.C.
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Trump admin pauses, nixes roughly $36B in transportation, green energy projects in NYC, blue states
"Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled," Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said