Protesters clashed with federal immigration agents during raids on Southern California cannabis farms Thursday afternoon, deploying tear gas. Dozens of farmworkers were detained at two sites owned by Glass House Farms, a large, state-licensed cannabis greenhouse with locations in the California cities of Carpinteria and Camarillo.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is currently trailing in polls ahead of the November mayoral race — polling in fourth place behind Democrat Zohran Mamdani, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa — but he says the race has only just started.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, gave several antisemitic responses to X users on Tuesday, prompting condemnation and backlash after a revamped version of the chatbot was released over the weekend

Murder rates are down in many major U.S. cities halfway through 2025. New York City experienced the lowest number of shootings and murders in recorded history from January through May 2025. Baltimore has recorded just 68 homicides as of July 1st — the lowest number in more than 50 years.

After nearly two decades, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is already dropping one of its most hated airport rules: removing your shoes at security.

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, announced this weekend that he is launching a new political party, the “America Party,” following a public fallout with President Trump.

The death toll from the July Fourth weekend flooding in central and southern Texas has risen to at least 95 as of Monday afternoon, while ten campers and one counselor from a summer camp in Kerr County remain unaccounted for. The catastrophic event is raising urgent questions about whether cuts to the National Weather Service impacted its ability to warn the public in time. Though, officials are pushing back on that assertion.

The death toll from the July Fourth weekend flooding in central and southern Texas has risen to at least 95 as of Monday afternoon, while ten campers and one counselor from a summer camp in Kerr County remain unaccounted for. The catastrophic event is raising urgent questions about whether cuts to the National Weather Service impacted its ability to warn the public in time. Though, officials are pushing back on that assertion.

The House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly passed a sweeping multi-trillion dollar bill known as President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ to extend and add tax cuts and slash social safety net programs. Republicans overcame divisions within their party to deliver on President Trump’s central domestic agenda.

Split Verdict: A federal jury found Sean “Diddy” Combs not guilty Wednesday of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, three of the most serious charges the music mogul faced which would have meant life in prison.

As we head into the 4th of July holiday, a new Gallup poll finds American patriotism has declined to a new low. National pride has fallen especially among Democrats, independents, and younger generations..

The Senate narrowly passed President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ 51-50 Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022, agreed Monday to plead guilty which allows him to avoid facing the death penalty. Some of the victims’ families are upset, criticizing the prosecution for not going to trial, which was scheduled for August.

Senate Republicans are racing to pass President Trump’s sweeping tax cut and domestic spending bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” before the self-imposed July 4 deadline. A vote to pass the bill is expected to reach the Senate floor tonight or early tomorrow morning.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), one of two Senate Republicans who voted against advancing the “Big, Beautiful Bill” this weekend, announced he will not seek reelection in 2026. His decision came shortly after President Trump vowed to support a primary challenger against the two-term senator in retaliation for his vote.

Friday marked the final day of rulings for this Supreme Court term, and the justices tend to save their most divided decisions for last. Notably, all of today’s rulings came down with a 6-3 split (the six conservative Justices on one side, and the three liberals on the other). Here’s a roundup of the most consequential decisions handed down today:

The court on Friday sided with a group of Maryland parents who opposed their school district’s mandatory teaching of books that feature gay and transgender characters.

The Supreme Court also ruled 6–3 on Friday that a Texas law requiring age verification to access porn sites is constitutional and does not infringe on adults’ First Amendment rights.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with the Pentagon press corps on Thursday during a briefing on the U.S. attacks in Iran. Hegseth expressed his discontent with media coverage of last week's strikes on Iranian nuclear sites following the leak of one Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) preliminary report that said the strikes may have only set the Iranian nuclear program back months.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with the Pentagon press corps on Thursday during a briefing on the U.S. attacks in Iran. Hegseth expressed his discontent with media coverage of last week's strikes on Iranian nuclear sites following the leak of one Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) preliminary report that said the strikes may have only set the Iranian nuclear program back months.