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By a 6-3 vote in Trump v. Slaughter, the court struck down for-cause removal protection at the FTC and overruled the 1935 precedent that shielded independent agency leaders. A separate 5-4 ruling carved out the Federal Reserve.
On July 1, the Biden-era SAVE plan ends, two new repayment plans open, and graduate and parent borrowers face new annual loan caps under the 2025 reconciliation law.
President Trump said on June 27 he will nominate Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and Marine, to direct ICE. If confirmed, he would be the agency's first Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administration.
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.