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Dr. David Morens, a longtime senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty to a federal felony for routing NIH communications through a private Gmail to evade FOIA and for accepting a gift tied to an official act.
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A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel ruled Sigal Chattah served unlawfully as Nevada's acting U.S. attorney, holding the attorney general cannot bypass Senate confirmation with a first-assistant designation.
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CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott voluntarily paused border-barrier construction inside Big Bend National Park after two weeks of bipartisan public backlash. No court ordered it, and the pause has no end date.
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The Supreme Court denied Trump’s rehearing petition in the E. Jean Carroll case, its second refusal, leaving the 2023 jury verdict and $5 million judgment permanently in place.
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About 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have gone more than 200 days without a port call while the mission's stated purpose changed three times. Trump says the deployment is 'not nearly long enough.'
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The Supreme Court denied Trump's rehearing petition in the E. Jean Carroll case, ending his appeals over the $5 million verdict he already paid in July.
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Immigration courts began scheduling 100-plus people before a single judge in May 2026. In June, TRAC recorded 78,882 removal orders, more than 53,000 of them issued in absentia.
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Since September 2025, California's AB 49 has required a judicial warrant before school staff may admit an immigration officer to nonpublic campus areas, and bars releasing student records without written parental consent.
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Former Olympian Davey Hearn's felony charge over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was dismissed after prosecutors blamed a botched contractor installation. His lawyers now want the dismissal made permanent.
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FBI data shows homicides fell 18.1% in 2025 and the murder rate hit 4.1 per 100,000, tied with the mid-1950s. Director Kash Patel credited President Trump, but criminologists note the decline began in 2022.
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Judge Richard J. Leon denied the Tohono O'odham Nation's request for a preliminary injunction against 62 miles of border wall on its Arizona reservation. The lawsuit is still pending and appealable.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea more than 250 days. Senators Blumenthal and Gallego are demanding Navy accountability over reported shortages, water contamination, and a sailor who went overboard.
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