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.

In a stunning upset, 33-year-old Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won Tuesday’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary in a dominant way. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran a weak campaign as he believed he would coast to victory, had to concede just an hour and a half after polls closed.

The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding — at least for now. After the deal was announced Monday, it appeared to be on the verge of collapse with Israel launching a heavy bombardment of Tehran and Iran responded by firing missiles at Israel, killing several civilians.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani continues to gain ground on former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race as Democratic primary voters head Tuesday to the polls amid sweltering heat 🥵.

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in Dobbs v Jackson's Women's Health Organization. The ruling overturned Roe v. Wade: the landmark 1973 ruling enshrining abortion as a constitutional right.

Iran responded to the US attack on its nuclear sites by firing 14 missiles at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar — the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East. President Trump confirmed that Tehran actually gave the U.S. advance notice of the strike, crediting it with preventing any casualties and causing “hardly any damage.”

Iran has a maximum of two weeks before the U.S. decides whether to join Israel’s campaign to destroy the country’s nuclear facilities, President Trump said Friday after meeting with his national security team.

A federal appeals court unanimously ruled late Thursday that President Trump can, for now, retain control of 4,000 California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles amid anti-ICE protests in the city earlier this month. Trump hailed the decision as a “BIG WIN” and suggested it could set the stage for similar deployments across the country.

Hundreds of millions of Americans will experience dangerous, record-breaking heat through next week, as a heat dome builds over the central and eastern U.S. this weekend.

President Trump said Wednesday afternoon that he has not yet made a decision on whether to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. “I have ideas as to what to do,” Trump said. Earlier in the day, he told reporters, “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I am going to do.”

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a 6–3 decision split along ideological lines.