Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

June 7, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

US supreme court justices on Thursday took issue with Donald Trump’s attempt to sidestep the constitution to limit birthright citizenship, a case that, while technically about immigration, could reshape presidential power and the role of federal courts. The trio of cases before the court stem from the president’s January executive order that would deny US
Walmart will have to start raising prices later this month due to the high cost of tariffs, executives said on Thursday. US shoppers will start to see prices rise at the end of May and certainly in June, said John David Rainey, Walmart’s chief financial officer, in a CNBC interview. “We will do our best
A federal judge in New Mexico on Thursday dismissed trespassing charges against dozens of immigrants caught in a new military zone on the US-Mexico border, marking a setback for Trump administration efforts to raise penalties for unlawful crossings into the US. Chief US magistrate judge Gregory Wormuth began filing the dismissals late on Wednesday, ruling
Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, said federal prosecutors were seeking to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give fingerprints and have a mugshot taken for a second time on Thursday. The move came after a court appearance on a trespassing charge stemming from his arrest at an immigration detention center where he
CNN  —  A crush of domestic and global confrontations initiated by Donald Trump could be decided by this question: How much power does the president really have? Imagery from Trump’s trip to the Persian Gulf this week built on three months of the White House’s aggressive flexing of often-questionable authority at home. Purple carpets, fighter
A beach photo is a fairly harmless Instagram post in most circumstances. But that’s not how the Trump Administration is viewing a post by former FBI Director James Comey. The Obama appointee who was fired by Donald Trump in 2017 is being investigated by federal law enforcement after posting a photo of seashells on a
The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States, one of several deals around AI made during Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East. But the agreement has also raised concerns, since it would have faced restrictions
The Indianapolis Colts have apologized for a video announcing their schedule for the upcoming NFL season. The Colts’ video was a spoof of the video game Minecraft, and in a section depicting their season-opener against the Dolphins they mocked Miami receiver Tyreek Hill. A dolphin with Hill’s No 10 jersey is seen swimming before being
Motown legend Smokey Robinson is under criminal investigation after four former housekeepers accused him of rape and sexual assault, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The investigation comes just over a week after the housekeepers filed a lawsuit seeking $50m (£37m) in damages in a civil case over the alleged assaults - which the
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