Trump News for Tuesday, June 30, 2026

‘A rally like no other’: Trump announces 2026 Republican midterm convention

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

The Republican Party is hoping to retain control of both chambers of Congress in November's midterm elections.

Tim Cook and EU tech chief hold ‘constructive’ virtual meeting over Siri AI standoff

Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac

Earlier today, Tim Cook reportedly held “constructive” talks with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen as Apple and the bloc sought a way forward in their dispute over the delayed launch of Siri AI in Europe. Here are the details.

Donald Trump reports $1.4bn in cryptocurrency income in government filing

Abby Rogers, Al Jazeera English

Trump has launched a slate of crypto-friendly policies since returning to the White House for a second term.

The Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship—but the Fight May Not Be Over

Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker

The decision that rejected Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite the Constitution was much too close, writes Amy Davidson Sorkin.

Trump made $1 billion from crypto, financial disclosure shows

Nicholas Kerr, Abcnews.com

The president released his personal financial disclosure on Tuesday.

What the Supreme Court Rulings Mean for Trump

Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic

A conversation with Quinta Jurecic about how the recent rulings will affect the president’s power

Trump’s Great American State Fair Is Underway on the National Mall, and the Aerial Shots Show Mostly Empty Grass

January Nelson, Thoughtcatalog.com

Trump has said the Great American State Fair is “packed,” but recent aerial images of the National Mall show the big Ferris wheel and rows of state pavilions surrounded by mostly empty lawn and a handful of small clusters of…

Trump announces midterm convention for Republicans in Dallas in September

Yahoo Entertainment

What is birthright citizenship, and what does the Supreme Court ruling say?

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Nation's highest court strikes down executive order that would have restricted right established in US Constitution.

A judge blocks Trump's plan to limit a major student-loan forgiveness program for public servants

Ayelet Sheffey, Business Insider

A judge blocked Trump's plans to limit eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program one day before it was set to take effect.

Anthropic Wants You to Know Its New AI Model Is Definitely Not Too Dangerous to Release

Webb Wright, Gizmodo.com

Claude Sonnet 5 delivers impressive agentic capabilities at a relatively low cost. It’s also really bad at cybersecurity—probably for the reason you’d expect.

NASA announces Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly to build lunar landers for a future moon base

Adam Kovac, Scientific American

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

Judge Sidelines Pete Hegseth Policy Requiring Press Escorts In Visits To Pentagon

Ted Johnson, Deadline

A federal judge handed another victory to The New York Times in its challenge to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s more restrictive press policies, this time sidelining a rule that any journalist must have an official escort in visits to the Pentagon. In grant…

NASA makes moves to dodge costly delays on its path to build a $30 billion moon base

Jackie Wattles, CNN, CNN

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA’s moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver assets to the lunar...

A Search Through the Rubble of Two Towers in Venezuela

Joshua Partlow, The Atlantic

In the first, crucial days after Venezuela’s earthquake, the people closest to the disaster were on their own.

Trump pushes legislation to end birthright citizenship after SCOTUS decision

Emily Chang, Elise Spenner, Abcnews.com

Trump brushes off Supreme Court loss on birthright citizenship, insisting that he can "easily make it up in Congress through Legislation."

FAA Takes First Step to Scrap the Ban on Supersonic Flights Over the U.S.

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

Sean Duffy says new tech makes it safer for people on the ground who are worried about sonic booms.

Congressional Dems Shift to Overwhelmingly Oppose Involvement in Israel's War on Lebanon

Matt Sledge, The Intercept

Democratic leaders did not formally whip for Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s bill, but they spoke in favor of it on the House floor. The post Congressional Dems Shift to Overwhelmingly Oppose Involvement in Israel’s War on Lebanon appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump’s quest for untrammeled power just got a big boost

Zack Beauchamp, Vox

Just what President Donald Trump needed: more unchecked power.  In the Supreme Court’s new Trump vs. Slaughter opinion, the court ruled that the president’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s Rebecca Slaughter was lawful — even though he did not follow …

SCOTUS birthright citizenship decision: MAGA brands Amy Coney Barrett a “DEI hire” over “betrayal”

Alex Galbraith, Salon

Following losses at the Supreme Court on voting and citizenship, MAGA has turned on Amy Coney Barrett.

Cuba’s foreign minister observes ‘no progress’ in US negotiations

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

A top Cuban official has accused the US of issuing 'constant threats' and attempting to scuttle a UN debate.

Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in 6-3 Decision

John Gruber, TPM

As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship...

The Supreme Court’s New 6–3 Elections Case Was Not Nearly as Bad as Expected

Richard L. Hasen, Slate Magazine

As disastrous Supreme Court election cases go, Tuesday’s decision in NSRC v. FEC doesn’t make the list of complete abominations.

'REGIME CHANGE' sold 300,000 copies...

Bill Barrow, Associated Press

The newest book on Donald Trump is a big hit. Publisher Simon & Schuster says that “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” written by political journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, has sold more than 300,000 copies in its op…

Birthright citizenship ruling: US officials, lawmakers and advocates react

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Trump calls top court's ruling affirming birthright citizenship 'too bad for country' as advocates cheer decision.

An ‘Originalist’ Court Overturns an Originalist Decision

George Thomas, The Atlantic

Humphrey’s Executor deserved better.

Big Tech and Wall Street Team Up on the Stablecoin to End All Other Stablecoins

Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com

Can Open Standard compete with Circle and Tether?

Ukraine’s Plan to Unnerve Putin

Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic

Recent drone attacks in the Moscow area reveal a multifaceted strategy.

The Supreme Court’s trans sports ruling is a cautionary tale for all left-leaning lawyers

Ian Millhiser, Vox

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that states may bar transgender women from competing on women’s sports teams at secondary schools, colleges, and universities. More than two dozen states have laws barring trans athletes from competing on teams that do not a…

Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited

MARTHA BELLISLE and MATTHEW BROWN, Yahoo Entertainment

The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire...

The Internet Can’t Stop Mocking Trump’s Terrible State Fair

Zack Zwiezen, Kotaku

Welcome to the Great American State Fair. No, there's no tables and chairs.

John Roberts Believes In The Unitary Executive, Except For When It Might Crash His Investment Portfolio

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

It is zero surprise that the Supreme Court officially overturned its 91-year-old precedent first created in Humphrey’s Executor. That case held that when Congress designates an agency as independent of the executive branch, the president cannot just fire its …

Iran heads home after World Cup knockout, but fans say players should be proud

GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press, Abcnews.com

The Iranian national team has left North America, departing from its World Cup home in Mexico following a tournament marked by repeated disagreements with U.S. officials, flashes of athletic brilliance and, ultimately, disappointment over barely missin...

Supreme Court strikes down US campaign spending limits in landmark ruling

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

The High Court strikes down campaign spending limits, citing First Amendment protections in a 6-3 decision

This 101-Year-Old Veteran Had A LOT To Say About Donald Trump, And He Did NOT Hold Back

Kelley Greene, Buzzfeed

Maybe it's time we listen to our elders.View Entire Post ›

Supreme Court Will Hear Apple's Appeal in Epic Games App Store Fight

Juli Clover, MacRumors

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple's appeal against the contempt ruling that forced it to change its App Store linking rules, reports Reuters. In a statement to MacRumors, Apple said the court's decision was welcome news. This is a…

US Supreme Court upholds transgender sports ban

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute.

US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews, BBC News

The ruling is a major setback for Donald Trump's immigration agenda, and has been welcomed by civil rights groups.

Trump has new plan to end birthright citizenship after Kavanaugh’s dissent

Tatyana Tandanpolie, Salon

The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment makes any child born in the US is a citizen. Trump isn't giving up

The Supreme Court just came one vote away from a constitutional catastrophe

Ian Millhiser, Vox

There is no question in US law that is clearly or more firmly settled than the question of whether people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The Fourteenth Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and s…

Brendan Carr And The Trump FCC Hid Their Communications With Dodgy DOGE Bros

Karl Bode, Techdirt

DOGE was always designed to provide flimsy pseudo-efficiency cover for wholesale corruption. It was designed to pretend that the government was “cutting waste and fraud” while a bunch of velour tracksuit wearing con men stripped the country for parts and sold…

The path from Gaza to Trump’s return

Al Jazeera English

How the Biden administration’s response to October 7 reshaped US politics and influenced the 2024 presidential election.

Missing GOP Congressman Says 117-Day Absence Was Due to Depression

Nikkimccannramirez, Rolling Stone

Americans finally got an explanation. If only Republicans would stop trying to kill access to mental health care for everyone else

Nursing and dozens of other programs are officially added to Trump's higher student-loan limits — for now

Ayelet Sheffey, Business Insider

After a court ruling, the Education Department issued a new rule that includes dozens more programs in the higher student-loan borrowing caps.

FLASHBACK: Trump calls for termination of the Constitution...

Kristen Holmes, CNN

FLASHBACK: Trump calls for termination of the Constitution... (Second column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:6-3: Supreme Court upholds laws banning trans athletes from women's sports... 6-3: Loosens campaign finance laws, opening up …

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

Emanuel Maiberg, 404media.co

Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

NPR Retracts Report That Justice Samuel Alito Is Retiring

Ted Johnson, Deadline

Shortly after the final opinion of the Supreme Court’s term was announced on Tuesday, NPR published a bombshell that sent the high court’s press room scrambling: An official announcement that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Yet, minutes later, the story wa…

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately

Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com

Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.

Trump loses Supreme Court battle to end birthright citizenship

BBC, BBC News

In a 6-3 decision, justices voted in favour of birthright citizenship, rejecting an executive order by the president issued at the start of his second term.

Supreme Court rejects Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship

Devin Dwyer, Peter Charalambous, Abcnews.com

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. by executive order.

Justice Alito does one last favor for the Republican Party

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Justice Samuel Alito announced on Tuesday that he will retire, thus all but guaranteeing that his seat on the Supreme Court will be held by a Republican for years to come.  This development will not surprise anyone who has followed Alito’s career. During near…

The Supreme Court stops Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship

Gaby Del Valle, The Verge

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 against President Donald Trump's effort to end the longstanding constitutional right via executive order. Birthright citizenship dates back to Reconstruction. Under the 14th Amendment, which was rati…

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds

Nina Totenberg, NPR

The decision firmly rejected the executive order that Trump issued on the first day of his second term.

O'Donoghue: Court ruling is major blow to president

BBC News

The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue explains what the court's landmark ruling means for the US president.

SCOTUS Concludes Pride Month by Allowing States to Ban Trans Students From Girls’ Sports Teams

Danielle Han, Jezebel

In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS sided with GOP states and ruled that their blanket bans on trans student athletes do not violate the Equal Protection Clause.

The rising price of Trump’s anti-science agenda

Troy Farah, Salon

From measles to screwworm, Americans keep paying the price for the admin's war on science.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Political Party Spending

Grady Martin, NPR

At issue in the case was a post-Watergate law that Congress passed to limit the amount of money individuals can give to political parties.

US Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender women in female school and college sports

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews, BBC News

It rules that states can ban transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sports.

Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is...

Jason Kottke, kottke.org

Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is in this current moment, newly relevant because he interviewed fascist activist Christopher Rufo on his NYT podcast (JFC!) “If you don’t know what

Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports

Nina Totenberg, NPR

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.

How Donald Trump hijacked America’s birthday

Heather Digby Parton, Salon

This Fourth of July celebration is pointedly different from those marking previous milestones

Oil set for steepest quarterly loss since 2020 as traders focus on US-Iran talks

By Anushree Mukherjee, Yahoo Entertainment

By Anushree Mukherjee June 30 (Reuters) - Oil prices were heading on Tuesday for their biggest quarterly loss since the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, with...

UK’s Starmer announces 300-billion-pound defence investment plan

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Plan includes more than 5 billion pounds for drones and autonomous systems over four years, Ministry of Defence says.

There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America....

Jason Kottke, kottke.org

There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America. “Our research shows that even relatively well-off families are struggling with high prices… President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-ter

Broken Promises in Cuban Miami

Ada Ferrer, Miriam Pensack, The New York Review of Books

Donald Trump has reversed the government’s longstanding benevolence toward Cuban asylum seekers, even as his administration exacerbates the crisis they fled.

Are US and Iranian negotiators meeting in Doha? What we know about talks

Urooba Jamal, Al Jazeera English

Trump says Iran wants to meet in Qatar after attacks, but Tehran says it is sending a delegation only over frozen funds.

Great! Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Doesn’t Understand How Medicare and Medicaid Works

Danielle Han, Jezebel

In an interview with Fox News, Oz attempted to explain how rife fraud is among Obamacare recipients when he launched into a diatribe over how “40% of the people ostensibly signed up never use it.”

America turns 250. Not everyone is celebrating

Chauncey DeVega, Salon

On this July Fourth, Americans ask: What does it mean to love a country that won't love you back?

“You belong here”: Unions rally for migrants hit by SCOTUS ruling

Bob Hennelly, Salon

Union leaders were joined by Gov. Hochul, Mayor Mamdani and others to defend migrant rights

Trump’s 11 PM July 4th Fireworks Proves He Thinks Everyone Lives on Truth Social Time

Wren Woodson, Jezebel

The administration is here to terrorize DC dogs and torture parents everywhere.

US Supreme Court hands Trump 3-1 defeat in key rulings: What we know

Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera English

The justices deliver consequential rulings on mail-in ballots, the E Jean Carroll case and the firing of Lisa Cook.

Trump's 'Freedom Trucks' celebrate US 250th anniversary with 'gift from God' message

By Richard Cowan, Yahoo Entertainment

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - Inside President Donald Trump's six "Freedom Trucks" that will drive across the country to celebrate America...

Advocacy groups file complaint against Ghana over Trump deportations

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

The deportees were sent to Ghana, then to their home countries, despite earlier rulings by US judges that it was unsafe.

A 29-year-old democratic socialist takes on Colorado’s most senior member of Congress

Grace Panetta, Salon

Rep. Diana DeGette, a 15-term incumbent, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet.

After Trump's re-election, these U.S. scientists found jobs in the U.K.

Jon Hamilton, NPR

More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities in the U.K.

Uncertainty clouds next step in US-Iran negotiations

Shannon K. Kingston, Abcnews.com

The United States and Iran are sharing conflicting messages about the prospects of a meeting between key negotiators in Qatar this week.

Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor

Antaresindustries.com

Factory-produced, deployable fission microreactors to provide strategic energy for mission-critical systems across Earth, space, and underseas.

Inside the coordinated strategy to radically reshape U.S. immigration

Ximena Bustillo, NPR

As the Supreme Court today weighs the Trump administration's effort to revoke birthright citizenship, NPR looks at what else the White House has done to curb illegal and legal migration.

Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR

146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas on June 24. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.

Socialists Are Surging. In Colorado, a 29-Year Incumbent Is Sweating.

Akela Lacy, The Intercept

Rep. Diana DeGette didn’t take a socialist challenger seriously. Now she’s scrambling to convince voters she’s still the progressive pick. The post Socialists Are Surging. In Colorado, a 29-Year Incumbent Is Sweating. appeared first on The Intercept.

What is Iran looking for in any upcoming talks with the US?

Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera English

Strait of Hormuz, frozen funds, Lebanon at forefront of the minds of Iran's negotiators ahead of potential talks.

US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers

Noyb.eu

The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore - with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.

Trump tells US petrol retailers to reduce prices ‘immediately’

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

US president warns of 'big problems' if retailers do not cut prices at the pumps, condemns illegal gouging.

NFP Restores All The Content From Climate.gov That Trump Attempted To Disappear

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has been waging an Orwellian war on knowledge and information for most of his second term thus far. While purging history of American racism, slavery, and anything else that makes us look less than perfect has been the primary…

Trump: US envoys enroute to Doha for ‘perhaps important’ Iran meeting

Al Jazeera English

President Donald Trump said US negotiators are heading to Qatar for what he called a ‘perhaps important’ meeting.

Are moderate Democrats washed?

Andrew Prokop, Vox

A year ago, the hottest idea in Democratic circles was “abundance” — a growth-friendly agenda with centrist appeal that would help the party prove it was capable of shoving aside special interests and governing again.  Fast-forward a year. Today, in primary a…

Hegseth, Rubio, and Caine Had an Auto-Deleting Signal Chat

Michael Scherer, Missy Ryan, Nancy A. Youssef, Shane Harris, The Atlantic

New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop.

Rep. Luna blocks House floor over SAVE Act as Scalise pushes to move agenda

Joe Khalil, Newsnationnow.com

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told NewsNation leadership is working to resolve the impasse.

Iran war live: Tehran denies Trump’s claims of meeting in Doha

Daniel Khalili-Tari, Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera English

Trump says meeting with Iran will take place in Doha today, but Tehran says there are no plans for talks in coming days.