A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump's policy seeking to implement a $100,000 fee on visas for highly skilled foreign workers. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin said Trump's order imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa recipients is "unlawful."

The Trump administration’s Department of War is expressing concern that Israel is spying on the U.S. — including on its negotiations to end the Iran war, according to multiple reports. The Pentagon is ramping up in its responses to alleged Israeli espionage, including recently raising the country’s counterintelligence threat level to “critical,” NBC News reported Friday, citing three anonymous current and former U.S. officials. U.S. intelligence reports also indicate Israel had made efforts to listen in on conversations involving senior U.S. officials such as Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, one of the lead negotiators in the peace talks with Iran, The New York Times reported Saturday afternoon.

Five people were stabbed Sunday night inside New York City's Penn Station, which is adjacent to the Madison Square Garden arena where President Donald Trump is slated to attend the NBA championship game on Monday, police said. Police said one person was taken into custody, and it was believed to be a random attack.

The Trump administration on Monday announced plans to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens who are accused of immigration fraud.  The Justice Department said the revocations will be the largest denaturalization effort by the federal government, which previous administrations have rarely invoked, CBS News reported. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about widespread taxpayer fraud in the state's welfare programs as early as spring 2019, but took no action and instead the state retaliated against workers who tried to expose the abuses, a bombshell congressional report released Monday concluded. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee referred its findings from a months-long probe into $9 billion-plus in fraud schemes in Minnesota to Vice President JD Vance, raising serious concerns Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to the taxpayer losses because they feared "political retribution from the politically active Somali community."

President Donald Trump early Monday demanded that Iran and Israel stop firing missiles at each other after a weekend of violence between the two threatened a fragile Mideast ceasefire. "Israel and Iran must immediately stop 'shooting,'" the president wrote on his Truth Social account. 

The Metropolitan Clerk of Nashville told The Tennessee Star on Friday that his office currently has no records related to the proposed $718,000 grant for Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON), the second nonprofit that provides services to illegal aliens that would receive funding in the budget submitted to the Metro Council by Mayor Freddie O'Connell, despite Tennessee law requiring a report containing their statement of proposed use, program serving residents, and annual audit  be made available for public inspection. Asked whether his office has records related to the proposed $718,000 grant for TNJFON, Metro Clerk Austin Kyle told The Star, "No, we don’t have any records for that proposal at this time."

With President Donald Trump’s approval rating underwater by over seventeen points and the GOP facing criticism over inflation and the Iran war in a critical midterm election, we would expect swing voters to be flocking to Democrats. Despite inflation and the Iran war creating strong headwinds for Republicans leading into November, Latino voters are fleeing from the Democratic Party, showing a twenty-point collapse since 2022 and a thirty-point collapse since 2018.

Since the FBI’s founding at the turn of the century, the intelligence community has grown from a domestic law enforcement operation to a sprawling $115 billion surveillance apparatus spanning 18 separate agencies.

As Democrat operatives have been rooted out in the Justice Department and FBI since January 2025, some very inconvenient facts have been discovered, leading to grand jury and congressional investigations into long-buried corrupt criminal activities of prominent Democrats.