Trump News for Monday, June 29, 2026

Trump administration abandons plan for NJ immigration detention center in Roxbury

Giulia Heyward, Ryan Kost, Gothamist

People protest against the planned project of converting a warehouse into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Roxbury, New Jersey. A court filing says DHS no longer plans to convert the warehouse into a detention center and inten…

Democrats Want to Do Their Own Project 2025. First Up: Kicking Kids Offline

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

Establishment Democrats can't seem to focus on the bigger picture as Trump dismantles the country.

Michigan governor threatens to pull troops from D.C. if used for Trump task force

Kat Lonsdorf, NPR

Michigan Gov. Whitmer is one of four Democrats who sent their states' National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. ahead of America 250 celebrations in recent weeks, amid President Trump's ongoing — and controversial — deployment in the city.

What Comcast-NBC Universal Split Faces In D.C.’s Trump-Influenced Regulatory Road

Ted Johnson, Deadline

Comcast’s plan to split from NBCUniversal isn’t expected to draw much in the way of antitrust scrutiny. After all, the companies are essentially de-consolidating. But there are still questions as to what the company will face, perhaps not so much for the spli…

WATCH: Saks exits bankruptcy with $500M financing and luxury-focused pivot

ABC News, Abcnews.com

ABC News' Michelle Franzen and retail analyst Hitha Herzog break down Saks Global's restructuring, including store closures, workforce cuts and a strategic shift toward luxury retail and service.

A Watergate Every Week

David A. Graham, The Atlantic

J. D. Vance contends that the scandal would be “a 12-hour news story” today. He’s probably correct, but the lesson isn’t what he claims.

John Roberts fought for decades to get rid of the 1935 precedent that had limited a president’s firing authority

Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst, CNN

For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US pr...

'It's a yawn': Trump downplays bipartisan landmark housing bill

Nicholas Kerr, Abcnews.com

President Donald Trump downplayed the importance of a bipartisan housing bill in the Oval Office on Monday.

Virginia to allow recreational marijuana to be sold in retail stores beginning in 2027

SARAH RANKIN, Yahoo Entertainment

Five years after becoming the first Southern state to legalize possession of marijuana, Virginia has approved a legal way to sell it to recreational users....

Marco Rubio meets Libyan commander as US pushes to resolve Libya crisis

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

The US top diplomat commends Libyan leaders' efforts to 'overcome divisions' after talks with LNA's Saddam Haftar.

More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing

GISELA SALOMON, Yahoo Entertainment

More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find surviv...

"I Just Heard A Midday Radio Giveaway, And Now The Prizes Are Groceries, A Year Of Gas, Or Rent Paid. It’s A Strange Reminder That Survival Has Become The Prize": 42 Of The Very, Very, Very Best Political Tweets Of The Week

Morgan Sloss, Buzzfeed

"IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to charge a 'convenience fee' for paying a bill online. The convenience is for the company. The fee is for you."View Entire Post ›

The Temporary Protected Status program may effectively be over. Here's what we know.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR

A Supreme Court ruling gives the Trump administration space to strip this status from hundreds of thousands of more people from the few remaining countries with this program.

VC Bros Claimed They Backed Trump To Protect AI. Trump Is Shutting Down AI. It Was Always About Access & Power

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

Back in July of 2024, when two of the biggest big shots in venture capital, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, explained why they had decided to go all in to back Donald Trump’s campaign for re-election, they talked up a good game about how they would support …

New Mexico governor says state could seek billions after DEA let fentanyl hit streets

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN, Yahoo Entertainment

New Mexico's governor said Monday that state officials could pursue billions of dollars in civil damages after revelations that U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminis...

The Trump Administration’s Shameless Snuff-Film Fixation

Nick Turse, The Intercept

Twenty years ago, U.S. military officials condemned terrorist “snuff films.” Now our top officials post them. The post The Trump Administration’s Shameless Snuff-Film Fixation appeared first on The Intercept.

Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink

Analysis by Matthew Chance, CNN Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, CNN

Refineries in flames and long lines at Moscow gas stations show impacts of Ukraine’s drone campaign that Russian authorities would rather hide.

Has the Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in history?

BBC News

A landmark decision overturns legal precedent to expand Trump’s presidential power

Please Don’t Ask Me About My European “Vacation”

Jeremy Stahl, Slate Magazine

What is normal toddler jet lag, and what are the early signs of heat exhaustion?

Don’t Be Afraid of Self-Improving AI, Says a16z-Backed Startup Mirendil

Webb Wright, Gizmodo.com

Some call it a dangerous path to runaway AI, others call it vibe research.

The Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in generations

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Trump v. Slaughter, one of two “unitary executive” cases that the Supreme Court handed down on Monday, is the culmination of a nearly 40-year fight by Republican judges to expand the powers of the presidency. It transforms President Donald Trump into the most…

The Insurrection Payout Fund Is Dead. Long Live The Federal Tort Claims Act!

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

It just wasn’t enough to pardon hundreds of people who raided the Capitol building to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss — people who assaulted police officers, smashed windows to gain entrance, shut down election proceedings for several hours, stole stuff f…

Newsom, Anthropic ink deal to expand government use

Insider Inc., Business Insider

The agreement would make Claude the first artificial intelligence tool available to all state agencies and local governments.

US government wants to have a useful quantum computer by 2028

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, New Scientist

The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner

“Injustice”: Trump fumes after SCOTUS allows E. Jean Carroll verdict to stand

Alex Galbraith, Salon

The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal of the civil ruling against him.

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s bid to fire US Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Supreme Court blocks Trump's attempt to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook over unproven mortgage fraud allegations

Supreme Court backs Trump firing of FTC member, rolling back 90 years of precedent

Devin Dwyer, Abcnews.com

The Supreme Court allows President Trump to remove a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission for policy reasons, rolling back 90 years of precedent.

Actual Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito, Because It’s Just His Own Worldview

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on whose votes count: Black people’s votes shouldn’t count. The pattern was simple. If a ruling would help Black votes count, the Court — led by Justice S…

Australia Ups the Ante in Under-16 Social Media Ban as Kids Find Workarounds

Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com

Social media companies can face double the fines if they fail to comply.

A fringe attack on voting rights just got four votes on the Supreme Court

Ian Millhiser, Vox

The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that three 19th-century federal laws require thousands of lawfully cast ballots to be tossed in the trash — and somehow no one noticed this fact for the better part of…

Czech president, prime minister clash over leadership as both pack for NATO summit

By Jan Lopatka, Yahoo Entertainment

By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE, June 29 (Reuters) - The Czech government agreed under court pressure on Monday to let President Petr Pavel attend a NATO summit in Tur...

US petrol prices ease despite ongoing uncertainties with Iran

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

US–Iran peace talks ease market volatility, but uncertainty keeps oil prices hovering, complicating recovery efforts.

US Supreme Court rebuffs Trump’s appeal in E Jean Carroll case

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

The US Supreme Court has rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's findings of sexual assault.

The US-Iran MoU looks at managing the pain rather than ending the war

Mohammad Mansour, Al Jazeera English

The US-Iran MoU acts as a state-to-state framework managing mutual pain, not a definitive end to regional conflict.

SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Request to Slither His Way Out of Paying E. Jean Carroll $5 Mil.

Danielle Han, Jezebel

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not review the 2023 verdict, in which a jury found he sexually abused the writer in a department store in the 1990s.

WATCH: Nashville prepares for America’s 250th anniversary

ABC News, Abcnews.com

WKRN-TV's Danielle Breezy reports live from Nashville with all the details as Music City gets ready for a Fourth of July celebration.

Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence

Lauren Feiner, Emma Roth, The Verge

The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Slaughter v. Trump with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissio…

JD Vance’s 2028 strategy is starting to take shape

Josh Paul, Al Jazeera English

The vice president’s decision to criticise Israel and distance himself from rival Rubio means he is reading the base.

Supreme Court Declines Alan Dershowitz’s Appeal Of Defamation Case Against CNN

Ted Johnson, Deadline

The Supreme Court declined to take lawyer Alan Dershowitz’s appeal of his defamation lawsuit against CNN. A judge had tossed out Dershowitz’s $300 million lawsuit against the network, over its coverage of remarks he made during President Donald Trump’s first …

US says it has agreed to 'stand down' after exchange of strikes with Iran

Yolande Knell - Middle East correspondent; Tabby Wilson, BBC News

A series of strikes over the weekend saw the US and Iran accuse each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.

Supreme Court says Fed's Lisa Cook can stay in her job for now

Nina Totenberg, NPR

The court's decision means Cook can stay in her position as her challenge to her dismissal plays out in the lower courts.

Why the Arab League could not stop Israel’s genocide

Rami G Khouri, Al Jazeera English

Arab governments are constrained by dependency, regime survival and fear of empowering Iran-aligned rivals.

Supreme Court rules Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook

Yahoo Entertainment

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Kernel Flaws, AI Malware Tricks, Turla Backdoor, Infostealers and More

info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News), Internet

This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not all noise, either. Forums are talking, researchers are finding easy cracks, and d…

Supreme Court blocks Trump, for now, from firing Fed Board member Lisa Cook

Peter Charalambous, Abcnews.com

The Supreme Court has blocked for now President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Lisa Cook.

Supreme Court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now, but it upholds other Trump firings

MARK SHERMAN, Yahoo Entertainment

The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies...

Trump announces meeting with Iran in Qatar despite military skirmishes

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

US president says talks will take place on Tuesday, but Tehran has not confirmed the negotiations in Doha.

Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge

MARK SHERMAN, Yahoo Entertainment

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The decision...

Supreme Court rejects Trump's appeal of 2022 E. Jean Carroll defamation case

Devin Dwyer, Aaron Katersky, Abcnews.com

The Supreme Court has denied President Trump's appeal of the $5 million jury finding in the 2022 defamation case brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.

The U.S. House Battlegrounds in 2026: 55 Races to Watch in the Midterms

Josh Jackson, Jezebel

We break down all the competitive House races and ones likely to flip from redistricting.

US Supreme Court won't revive lawyer Alan Dershowitz's case against CNN

By David Thomas, Yahoo Entertainment

By David Thomas WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S.

Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5m after Supreme Court denies sex abuse verdict appeal

Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, USA Today

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

When will Apple prices drop again? Maybe years, maybe never …

Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

Some of the recent Apple price hikes exceeded 50%, while the cost of upgrading memory and storage has literally doubled in some cases. The company has said that it’s “working tirelessly to find solutions” to the problem, but when might we expect prices to rev…

Current price of oil as of June 29, 2026

Joseph Hostetler, Yahoo Entertainment

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

Trump Killed Climate.gov Last Summer. Scientists Just Brought It Back

Matthew Phelan, Gizmodo.com

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s public-facing hub for climate science, climate.gov, has been reborn as climate.us.

U.S. and Iran exchange fire despite ceasefire. And, Trump nominates a new head of ICE

Brittney Melton, NPR

The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes over the weekend, putting their latest ceasefire in jeopardy. And, Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state trooper to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

House Republicans are looking to get their agenda on track after a chaotic week

KEVIN FREKING, Yahoo Entertainment

With a social media assist from President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson is looking this week to ease the divisions in his Republican ranks and mak...

U.S.-Iran peace talks in question after weekend attacks in the Gulf

Aya Batrawy, NPR

Iran and the U.S. traded attacks over the weekend, throwing into question technical talks that were set to take place this week to advance the interim deal agreed earlier this month.

The White House Said Bill Maher Would “NOT” Get the Mark Twain Prize. He Got It Last Night Anyway, with John Fetterman as the Only Senator in Attendance

Chris Lavergne, Thoughtcatalog.com

Maher accepted the 27th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night, the same honor the White House had publicly insisted he would never receive. Back in March, press secretary Karoline Lea…

Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones

Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

We learned yesterday that Apple is trying to persuade the Trump administration to allow it to buy memory chips from two Chinese companies blacklisted by the Pentagon, CXMT and YMTC. Apple previously sought permission from the Biden administration to do the sa…

Vance Vs Rubio: Is Team Trump divided on Iran and Lebanon?

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

The White House denied a split between the two officials who have historically held diverging foreign policy positions.

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

Bethany Brookshire, The Verge

A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there's still time to fight it. On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The langu…

“Nuclear Family Month” shows that MAGA is still coming for same-sex marriage

Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Red state anti-Pride proclamations demonize most straight people along LGBTQ folks

Delaney Hall is reshaping how ICE runs its detention centers

Russell Payne, Salon

Detainees ended a hunger and labor strike shortly after ICE updated its detention standards

This isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own

David Mislin, Salon

The insistence that the U.S. is “one nation under God” stems from existential fear.

Donald Trump Has Officially Lost the Plot

John Cassidy, The New Yorker

The President’s refusal to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill demonstrates his obliviousness to the economic concerns of voters, John Cassidy writes.

Russia-Ukraine war: Why has Putin rejected limits on long-range strikes?

Priyanka Shankar, Al Jazeera English

Russian president claims Ukraine, which has ramped up attacks on Russia's energy sector, proposed the limits.

‘Erased from history’: A century on from Canada’s anti-Greek riots

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Al Jazeera English

Historians and Greek community members say 1918 riots in Toronto reminiscent of anti-immigrant rhetoric, xenophobia now.

Americans' pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find

LINLEY SANDERS, SIMRAN PARWANI and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX, Yahoo Entertainment

Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’...

Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line

Geoff Brumfiel, NPR

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.

Why do some U.S. airports have private security, but others use TSA?

Bill Chappell, NPR

About 20 U.S. airports rely on private security companies rather than the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that passengers and cargo comply with federal aviation safety standards.

Will Andy Burnham mark a shift in the UK’s Gaza policy?

Federica Marsi, Al Jazeera English

The Labour Party has the chance to review its policy on Israel, but observers say it will opt for continuity.

UK’s likely next leader Andy Burnham to unveil economic, devolution plans

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Frontrunner to be next PM expected to announce a 10-year mission to raise living standards.

Iran's president says $6B in frozen assets in Qatar to be released as US talks challenged

JON GAMBRELL, Yahoo Entertainment

Iran's president said Monday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar as negotiations with the United States were challenged by at...

Thousands of immigrants got scammed by an attorney exploiting humanitarian visas, lawsuits say

JACK BROOK, Yahoo Entertainment

An attorney in Washington state promised “miracles” to tens of thousands of immigrants seeking legal status in the United States. Instead, Alexandra Lozano...

Delcy Rodríguez’s Venezuela is in such dire straits she can’t afford to reject aid from either friends or foes

Analysis by Alfredo Meza, CNN, CNN

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has little room to turn away any government willing to lend a hand in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes.

Oil prices rise as US, Iranian strikes threaten Strait of Hormuz reopening

John Power, Al Jazeera English

Brent crude edges up as tit-for-tat strikes imperial return to normality in key waterway.

Conservative presidential power expert set to assist investigation into Trump foes

Katelyn Polantz, CNN, CNN

John Yoo — a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer — will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theo...

What Bill Maher Said About Trump And The Left As He Received Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize: “You Want To Not Get Mocked? Stop Being Funny”

Ted Johnson, Deadline

Bill Maher celebrated his ability to anger the right and the left as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize, with a message to those who complain about being mocked: Stop being ridiculous. He cited the center’s chairman, Donald Trump, who was not p…

Bill Maher, At Kennedy Center To Receive Mark Twain Prize, Talks About Donald Trump’s Tarp: “Only He Could Think Of That”

Ted Johnson, Deadline

Comedians including Louis C.K. and Jay Leno and political figures like Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) turned out for Bill Maher on Sunday as he receives the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize. Guests were greeted, though, b…

Trump says work will begin on DC golf course despite judge's warning

Isabella Murray, Abcnews.com

President Donald Trump said work will begin Sept. 1 on the public East Potomac Golf Course despite a federal judge's warning.