Power, policy, and the people affected.
The Great American State Fair, the White House-backed centerpiece of the federal 250th-anniversary celebration, is running on the National Mall through July 10. Nine states have declined to send official delegations, the kickoff crowd is in dispute, and a rival coalition held its own event on Saturday.
Rep. Julia Letlow defeated state Treasurer John Fleming in Louisiana's Republican Senate runoff on June 27, locking in the party's replacement for Sen. Bill Cassidy, who lost renomination after voting to convict President Trump.
Delegates at the South Dakota GOP convention rejected a resolution that would have censured the Senate majority leader until the SAVE America Act becomes law.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressed two Iowa Libertarian congressional candidates to quit competitive 2026 House races, the candidates say, and one released a recording of his call.
U.S. Central Command said U.S. aircraft hit Iranian missile, drone, and radar sites on June 26 after an Iranian drone struck a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. It is the first reported U.S. strike on Iran since the two sides agreed to extend a ceasefire earlier in June.
The advisory commission's draft report asks the federal government to treat church and state as mutually supporting rather than separate. It is now open for a 15-day public comment period.
John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to willfully retaining national defense information, resolving all 18 counts against him. The agreement caps the prison time prosecutors will seek at five years and requires a $2.25 million fine.
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 Thursday to hold rents flat on the city's roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments for two years, the first two-year freeze in the board's history and a campaign promise kept by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani barred the Trump administration from enforcing the two central provisions of its March elections order against the 24 jurisdictions that sued, covering this November's election.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Justice Department to release unredacted Epstein records by July 2 or show cause, ruling that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that Florida has closed the Everglades immigration detention camp known as Alligator Alcatraz. He said no detainees remain and that he put deportations through the site at 21,000.
Vice President JD Vance said Watergate would be a brief news story if it happened today and compared the scandal that ended Nixon's presidency to the investigations of Donald Trump.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration can apply expedited removal to immigrants anywhere in the country who cannot show two years of continuous presence, lifting a block in place since August 2025.