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BREAKING: Federal Judge Refuses to Back Down, Blocks Trump's Attack on Mail Voting Again

Judge Indira Talwani just told Trump no for the second time, and this one is going to sting.

The federal judge rejected the Trump administration's request to pause her ruling that blocks Trump's executive order targeting mail voting. That means the order remains dead in its tracks across 23 states and the District of Columbia heading into the November midterms.

Trump's order would have forced the U.S. Postal Service to refuse delivering mail ballots unless states handed over their voter lists to the Justice Department. Talwani called sections of the order unconstitutional and outside the authority of the executive branch, and she was not shy about pointing out that it does not even accomplish what it claims to.

"The EO's directives are not aligned with its stated purpose of reducing voter fraud and enhancing election integrity," Talwani wrote.

The order also directed Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to build a national voter registration database. Talwani pointed out the obvious: statewide voter registration lists already exist, and the administration's proposed citizenship list would only confirm citizens, not identify noncitizens. In other words, the entire premise falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

The Postal Service even tried arguing it would not have enough time to implement the order before the November 3 election. Talwani turned that argument against them, writing that it only proved how urgent the case is right now.

Trump wanted to use the mail system itself as a weapon against voters. A federal judge just made sure that weapon stays locked away, and millions of Americans will get to cast their ballots by mail because of it.

BREAKING: Erdogan forced to physically steer confused Trump at NATO arrival ceremony

Trump couldn't even find his mark on the tarmac.

Video from Ankara shows Trump, 80, arriving for this week's NATO summit and immediately looking lost. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had to grab him by the arm and physically guide him onto the welcome carpet after the two shook hands beside Air Force One.

It got worse from there. Trump stopped and turned toward a line of soldiers from what appeared to be the wrong spot entirely. Erdogan took his arm a second time, gestured ahead, and walked him over to where he was actually supposed to stand before the troops saluted.

The moment lands amid mounting questions about Trump's health. He has faced growing scrutiny over rambling speeches, apparent dozing at public events, and makeup covering bruises on his hands. Just weeks before his May physical, more than 30 neurologists, psychiatrists, and other specialists sent a letter to Congress warning of his "rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline."

The White House insists everything is fine. Trump declared after his Walter Reed exam that everything "checked out PERFECTLY."

But America's allies aren't buying it. The summit convenes as Washington pulls back refueling planes, warships, drones, and combat jets, and just days after the Wall Street Journal revealed that nearly 30 European leaders held a secret, phones-banned midnight meeting in Brussels to plan a future without relying on Washington. Participants reportedly called it "group therapy."

The man who claims to be the strongest leader in the world needed help finding his spot on a carpet. The whole world was watching.

🚨PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT.🚨

Zohran Mamdani just delivered the largest expansion of half-price subway and bus fares in New York City history.

The Fair Fares program now covers 1.3 million more New Yorkers earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level. That is real money back in the pockets of working people trying to get to their jobs, their kids' schools, and their doctors' appointments.

This is what happens when you elect someone who actually fights for working people instead of landlords and corporations.

No tax hikes. No gimmicks. Just a mayor who said he would make this city more affordable and then went out and did it.

While Republicans are busy pardoning emissions cheaters and posting insults at 2 a.m., Mamdani is busy cutting costs for the people who actually keep this city running.

This is what progressive leadership looks like. This is what happens when working people organize and demand better.

More cities need to be paying attention.

MAJOR BREAKING: Over 1,200 DOJ veterans just told the Senate to reject Trump's Attorney General pick

More than 1,200 former Justice Department employees just delivered a stunning rebuke of Todd Blanche, urging the Senate to reject his nomination as attorney general in a blistering letter released just days before his confirmation hearing.

The former officials, spanning careers across administrations of both parties, accused Blanche of "demonizing career employees" and turning the Justice Department into a weapon for Trump's personal grievances.

The letter lays out a damning record: vindictive prosecutions of Trump's foes, sweetheart deals rewarding lawbreakers with taxpayer dollars, the erasure of accountability for January 6th, the mishandling of the Epstein files, and repeated violations of court orders.

But the signers say the damage inside the building is just as alarming. Blanche has fired or overseen the firing of hundreds of career employees, often without notice and for reasons the letter calls flatly unlawful. Some were terminated for working on cases Trump didn't like. Others for being related to his critics. Others for refusing to lie in court.

The numbers tell the story. Roughly 16,000 of the department's more than 100,000 employees have left since Trump took office, most of them the apolitical career professionals the alumni call the backbone of American justice.

Blanche was installed after Trump fired Pam Bondi, and his confirmation hearing is set for next week. Letters like this are common for nominees, but former officials say the sheer number of signatures on this one is anything but.

The former employees closed with a warning drawn from John Adams himself: the attorney general must serve a government of laws, not of men. Over 1,200 people who dedicated their careers to that principle just told the Senate exactly what is at stake.

The Trump Curse Strikes Again as USA Crashes Out of the World Cup Hours After He Meddled with FIFA

The Trump curse just claimed its biggest victim yet: the entire US Men’s National Team.

The USA’s World Cup dream ended Monday night with a humiliating 4-1 loss to Belgium in the Round of 16, and it came just hours after Trump personally inserted himself into the tournament. Trump said he asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino to review star striker Folarin Balogun’s red card, sparking accusations that the US president was interfering in the tournament. FIFA caved, Balogun played, and the Americans got blown off the pitch anyway.

Belgium’s coach Rudi Garcia positioned his team as defending the sport itself against Trump and Infantino, and his players delivered. Much of the world took open joy in the US humiliation after the Balogun controversy, turning what should have been a home-soil celebration into a global punchline.

Sports fans are calling it the Trump curse, and the receipts keep piling up. He attended the Super Bowl and predicted a Chiefs win, and the Eagles blew them out. He showed up when the Commanders hosted the Lions, and they lost at home. He watched from a suite as Miami fell in the College Football National Championship. He sat in the owner’s suite the night the Knicks snapped their playoff streak in NBA Finals Game 3. He attended the Ryder Cup, and Europe topped the US team.

Every time Trump shows up or sticks his fingers into a sporting event, America loses. This time he did not just attend. He picked up the phone, strong-armed FIFA, and put his stamp all over the team. The result was the worst US World Cup exit in memory, on home soil, in front of the entire world.

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen Says Standing Up to Trump Is What Real Patriotism Looks Like

Bruce Springsteen just gave America a masterclass in what it actually means to love your country.

In his new PBS special, "Finding America in Song," The Boss laid out his definition of patriotism, and it's the exact opposite of the flag-hugging theatrics coming out of the White House. "I believe in critical patriotism," Springsteen said. "You love your country so much that you are willing to look at it clearly, recognize its faults, encourage it to be a better place, and believe that you carry in your heart the country that is waiting."

Springsteen has been one of the loudest voices refusing to bow to Trump. On his recent "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour, he called out Pam Bondi for prosecuting Trump's perceived enemies while protecting his powerful friends, and reminded the crowd, "You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can't handle the truth."

Trump's response was exactly what you'd expect. He took to Truth Social to demand a MAGA boycott of Springsteen's music, calling him a "total loser" with "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and mocking his appearance.

But Springsteen isn't backing down, because he understands something Trump never will. Loving America means fighting to make it better, not demanding blind loyalty. It means telling the truth even when the most powerful man in the country tries to silence you.

At 76 years old, Bruce Springsteen is still singing for the America that's waiting. And no boycott is going to stop him.

BREAKING: Judge Rejects Trump's Latest Stall Tactic, Orders Him to Pay E Jean Carroll Now

Trump just ran out of excuses, and a federal judge made sure he knows it.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a single-sentence order on July 4th denying Trump's request for more time to pay the $5.8 million judgment he owes E Jean Carroll, the writer a New York jury concluded he s*xually abused in 1996 and then defamed when she came forward.

The rejection came just days after the Supreme Court refused to even review the jury's verdict, turning Trump down without explanation. With the highest court in the country slamming the door, Trump's lawyers tried a new angle, claiming his new lead attorney needed extra time to get familiar with the case after his old one was rewarded with a federal judgeship.

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, saw right through it, telling the court the request "appears to be little more than yet another play for time." She pointed out that Trump nominated his former lawyer to the bench more than five months ago and had plenty of time to prepare.

The judge agreed. No hearing, no delay, no sympathy. Trump now has until Tuesday to release the money sitting in an escrow account to Carroll or explain to the court why he won't.

This is separate from the $83.3 million defamation judgment Carroll also won against Trump, which he is still fighting. Her lawyers warn he may try to tangle the two cases together to stall both payments, a move they say is designed to "buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis" to avoid paying.

For years, Trump has treated the courts like a delay machine, appealing, extending, and stalling at every turn. This week, a judge needed exactly one sentence to shut it all down.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rejects Todd Blanche's Latest Attempt to Bury the Epstein Files

Todd Blanche just lost in court again, and the walls around Trump's Epstein cover-up keep crumbling.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday rejected the Acting Attorney General's bid to shut down a lawsuit over the Epstein files, keeping the case alive and keeping Blanche squarely on the hook. Journalist Katie Phang, who sued Blanche for withholding documents the law requires him to release, must file her reply by July 13, and Blanche has until July 20 to respond.

This is the same judge who already ruled last month that Blanche violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law Trump himself signed in November 2025 requiring the Justice Department to release its files on the late s*x trafficker.

Sullivan ordered Blanche to unredact a series of emails in which the names of senders and recipients were blacked out. One survivor's attorney described the pattern in devastating terms, noting the department seemed to have made no errors when it came to shielding the names of potential associates and potential abusers. Victims were exposed. The powerful were protected.

The judge also ordered Blanche to produce FBI interview notes from a woman who accused Trump of s*xually assaulting her as a minor after Epstein allegedly introduced them. A National Public Radio investigation found the Justice Department had withheld dozens of pages from those interviews. Trump has denied the allegations.

Blanche told Fox News in April that the department had released everything and was not sitting on a single piece of paper. The court record now says otherwise. Sullivan ruled that Blanche had effectively admitted he was violating the law, because his team never contested the merits of the case. They only argued the court had no authority to hear it at all.

The Justice Department is now reduced to attacking the judge, with a spokesperson dismissing the ruling as a perverse interpretation designed to generate misleading headlines. But the deadlines are set, the orders are in place, and the cover-up is running out of road.

BREAKING: Trump Admits He Pressured FIFA to Overturn a Red Card, and the World Is Furious

Trump just admitted he personally leaned on FIFA to bend the rules of the World Cup, and America's opponents are calling it exactly what it looks like: corruption.

In an Oval Office speech Monday, Trump confirmed he asked FIFA to review the red card given to U.S. striker Folarin Balogun in the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. FIFA then suspended Balogun's one-match ban, clearing him to play in the last 16 clash against Belgium.

Trump didn't just admit to the intervention. He bragged about it. He declared the play "wasn't even an infraction," called the referee "very suspect," and gushed that the FIFA official he spoke with has seen his "level of respect" go up "tenfold" since pushing soccer in America.

The reaction from the rest of the football world was immediate and blistering. The Belgian football federation and manager Rudi Garcia accused FIFA of crossing a line, and UEFA joined them in warning that the decision hands the United States preferential treatment that calls the integrity of the entire tournament into question.

The pattern is one the world has seen before. A referee makes a call Trump doesn't like, so the referee becomes "suspect." A rule gets in his way, so the rule gets suspended. The only difference this time is that the whole planet is watching it happen on the biggest stage in sports.

Belgium has formally appealed FIFA's decision, meaning the fight over one red card has now become a fight over whether any institution can withstand pressure from Trump when he wants a different outcome.

Elon Musk humiliated as DOGE officially dies and agencies rehire the workers he fired

Elon Musk's biggest political project just ended in total humiliation.

DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency that Musk once waved a chainsaw over on stage, officially blinked out of existence on July 4. And the federal government isn't mourning it. It's actively erasing everything Musk did.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is calling the workers Musk fired and inviting them to come back. The IRS, which lost a quarter of its workforce under DOGE, just got fast-track authority to hire 8,000 people. The State Department is rebuilding its diplomatic corps after Musk gutted it.

In the first five months of this year, the government posted more than 104,000 new job listings, nearly 40,000 more than the final five months of 2025. The workforce Musk bragged about destroying is being rebuilt right in front of him.

And what did his rampage actually accomplish? An estimated $11 billion hole in the federal budget from paying workers full salaries to do nothing for nine months, a gutted USAID that shuttered life-saving programs, and hundreds of thousands of experienced public servants pushed out the door.

Even Trump's own Office of Personnel Management director has abandoned Musk's crusade, saying the goal now is simply filling the gaps DOGE left behind.

Musk sat in on cabinet meetings, called himself a revolutionary, and promised to transform Washington. Instead he blew billions, crippled agencies, fell out with Trump, and slinked away while the government quietly undid his work.

The chainsaw is in the trash. The workers are coming back. And Musk's legacy is a warning label.