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Tuesday, July 28, 2026 · Morning Edition

Federal judges chastised the Trump administration's Justice Department for conduct they described as “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” , ProPublica reports.

Monday, July 27, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump addressed workers at a General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, recycling his threadbare health-care promises while declaring that U.S. strikes on Iran had saved Israel from being “terminated.” The…

Monday, July 27, 2026 · Morning Edition

The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month , driven by mass hearings and removal orders ‘in absentia’ as judges wrap up immigration cases in unprecedented…

Sunday, July 26, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to ramp up operations to arrest Haitian immigrants whose Temporary Protected Status is expected to end soon, Fox News reports citing federal sources.

Sunday, July 26, 2026 · Morning Edition

Romania says an F-16 downed a drone in NATO airspace while German police hunt a suspect in a Berlin Pride van-ramming attack that left one dead and 16 injured .

Saturday, July 25, 2026 · Evening Edition

A vehicle drove into a crowd during Berlin's LGBTQ celebrations Saturday, Berlin police were looking for a suspect .

Saturday, July 25, 2026 · Morning Edition

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned Saturday after student protests over exam paper leaks, marking the biggest concession yet by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to one of the country's…

Friday, July 24, 2026 · Evening Edition

The White House press corps is boycotting its own gala, with one reporter telling Politico "Nobody wants this other than Donald Trump," while hours before the dinner the president endorsed subpoenaing journalists to…

Friday, July 24, 2026 · Morning Edition

The Trump administration is demanding a $1.5 trillion military budget for next year, an increase of nearly $600 billion over fiscal 2025 levels that would cost the average family roughly $4,600.

Thursday, July 23, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration is imposing new tariffs on dozens of countries starting the exact moment a prior round of tariffs is set to expire while the president shills for AI and lies about surging energy prices .

Thursday, July 23, 2026 · Morning Edition

Opposition continues to grow among autoworkers to the death threat issued by a high-ranking United Auto Workers official against Will Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president .

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration launched major combat operations against Iran on February 28, announcing massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes without congressional approval .

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · Morning Edition

Germany’s armed forces have expanded their homeland security division to well over 10,000 soldiers, a buildup the World Socialist Web Site reports serves simultaneous preparation for a comprehensive NATO war against…

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration is restarting its disastrous assault on Iran, White House reporting confirms , while the GOP got some breathing room ahead of the midterms before Trump reignited the conflict and CENTCOM slashes its…

Saturday, July 18, 2026 · Morning Edition

Canadian wildfires burn out of control, driving a climate advocate to demand “Nuremberg trials for big oil” and declare that “climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.

Friday, July 17, 2026 · Evening Edition

An ICE detention center employee shot a woman Thursday night after a protest outside an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to an Aurora Police Department statement .

Friday, July 17, 2026 · Morning Edition

Donald Trump delivered a speech on election security Thursday night that television networks refused to air , recycling debunked 2020 conspiracy theories.

Thursday, July 16, 2026 · Evening Edition

President Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, has placed nearly $100,000 in bets on the prediction market Kalshi tied to the content of Trump's upcoming speeches — accused of insider trading…

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · Evening Edition

FCC cronies ask why the president should have all the fun of extorting money from people with business before the government , while Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) pockets tens of thousands from the pork industry she moves…

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · Morning Edition

ICE agents murdered Joan Sebastián Guerrero , a 26-year-old Colombian husband and father legally working in Biddeford, Maine , as his three-year-old daughter watched — the second fatal shooting of the wrong person in…

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · Evening Edition

ICE agents gunned down Joan Sebastián Guerrero , a 26-year-old Colombian immigrant legally working in Biddeford, Maine, as his three-year-old daughter watched; the killer had been on the job just a few short months .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · Evening Edition

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have converted the presidency into a family hedge fund, sinking money into military startups that have since raked in at least $3.2 billion in direct government business , per a…