As the Trump administration continues its crackdown on immigration through enforcement raids, arrests and deportations, that effort has included some teenagers being taken into custody by immigration officials. Laura Barrón-López spoke with Ximena Arias-Cristobal, a 19-year-old

Mary Miller says she’s ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post ow.ly/4clH106bboj

This is what Vance wrote in 2017 about the ACA repeal bills

NEW: Trump admin seeks to defund US network of labs that monitor CO2 levels in the atmosphere, including Mauna Loa, home to the famous "Keeling Curve." cnn.com/2025/07/01/cli…

Excited to share that I'm heading over to MSNBC! Can't wait to team up with Vaughn Hillyard on the White House beat hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Impact of GOP tax package per Yale's Budget Lab, NYT writes: "On average, that translates to about $560 in losses for someone who reports little to no income by 2034, and more than $118,000 in gains for someone making over $3 million"

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30. cnn.com/2025/07/02/pol…

Statement on the Paramount settlement from Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: “Trump’s presidential library will be a permanent monument to Paramount’s surrender.”

Stunning numbers from the southern border. In December 2023, Border Patrol made nearly 250,000 arrests. This past month in June that figure dropped to just over 6,000, per Homan.

A federal judge on Trump's NIH: "The Public Officials in their haste to appease the Executive, simply moved too fast and broke things, including the law." ICYMI allrisenews.com/p/trump-invasi…

They did not get any changes in this bill after it came back to the House. Zero. The bill that they criticized as horrible is the bill that they will be voting on -- and many of them voting for -- this afternoon.

Five days ago, Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., threatened to vote NO on this bill due to the steeper Medicaid cuts than an earlier version. He just voted YES.

With very little explanation, the Education Department abruptly blocked the release of nearly $7 billion set to be distributed on July 1. The money, which Congress already approved, helps support six grant programs, including after-school and summer learning, English-language

'In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior official, said the county did not have a warning system bc such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Kelly said.' nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/…

JUST IN: Trump admin now again calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation "a one off mistake...an administrative error." Didn't they fire a lawyer and suspend another for saying this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NEW: U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread. An enormous public health reversal of a vaccine-preventable disease as anti-vax movement gains strength. My story. And a thread. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07…

SCOOP: An impostor has been impersonating Marco Rubio, sending AI-generated voice and text messages to 3 foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a U.S. member of Congress, per a cable obtained by WaPo. W/ Hannah Natanson

This opens a huge loophole for even more money in politics- and gives donors tax breaks for supporting political candidates: I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/… via @NYTimes

Amid all the noise, it can be hard to figure out the facts of the Epstein-Trump relationship. Here is a year-by-year timeline thread summarizing their connections (with sourcing and documentation) from 1990 until present. 🧵 1/17

(Congress can't compel presidents -- current or former -- to testify)