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Appeals Court Clears Way for About $23 Billion in Student Loan Cancellation Under Sweet Settlement
The Ninth Circuit rejected the Education Department's bid to delay relief, triggering automatic loan discharges for roughly 450,000 borrowers who said their schools misled them.
ICE and TSA Confirm Data-Sharing Deal Behind Immigration Arrests at U.S. Airports
A 16-page May 2025 agreement, released after a FOIA lawsuit, lets ICE use TSA passenger data to find travelers on domestic flights; officials call it lawful inter-agency work, while lawmakers and privacy lawyers say it repurposes an anti-terrorism system.
Louisiana Opens State Criminal Investigation Into Anthony Fauci, Joining Alabama and Florida
Attorney General Liz Murrill said her office will examine whether Fauci committed any state-law offenses, days after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at a Senate hearing and after a senator released 1,141 pages of his COVID-era diaries.
Democrats Push Some Senate Nominees to Quit in Red States, Backing Independents Instead, as Aug. 11 Primaries Near
Democratic nominees have withdrawn in Idaho and stayed out in Nebraska to give independent candidates one-on-one races against Republicans, while nominees in Montana and South Dakota have declined to step aside.
DHS Secretary Mullin Accuses Newsom and Other Democrats of Coaching Immigrants to Resist ICE; Offers Enforcement Trade to Cooperating States
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says "Know Your Rights" campaigns run by Democratic officials teach immigrants to evade federal agents, while offering to pull ICE back from neighborhood arrests in states that hand over jail inmates.
Federal Judge in Arizona Faults USCIS Justification for Withholding DACA Adjudication Records
A district court found the agency's written defense of its FOIA withholdings too generic, ordering it to try again; the ruling did not order the records released outright.
Senate Blocks Discharge Motion on Iran War Powers Resolution, 49-50
A bipartisan group of senators failed by one vote on July 30 to pull S.J.Res.181 out of committee, and Democrats say they will keep forcing votes.
Shooting at Twin Falls, Idaho, In-N-Out Kills Several; Armed Bystander Fired at Gunman, Witness Says
Police say the suspected shooter is dead and the threat is over, but have not confirmed witness accounts that a civilian with a handgun fired at him or whether that gunfire stopped the attack.
Senate Committee Sets Aug. 5 Vote on Holding Fauci in Contempt After He Invokes Fifth Amendment
Anthony Fauci declined to answer questions at a subpoenaed hearing on COVID-19's origins, and Sen. Rand Paul's committee will now vote on a contempt referral.
Four Latino Civic Groups Form Joint Voter Outreach Coalition for 2026 Midterms
UnidosUS, the LULAC Institute, Mi Familia en Acción and the Latino Victory Foundation say they will run one shared voter education and registration strategy, which they describe as nonpartisan; conservative groups are running a competing Latino outreach push and dispute how neutral such efforts are.
Ninth Circuit Rejects Education Department's Bid to Delay Loan Discharges Under Sweet Settlement
A three-judge panel unanimously upheld a lower court order requiring the department to grant automatic relief to borrower-defense applicants whose claims it did not decide by the settlement's deadlines.
Federal Judge Certifies Nationwide Class, Rules Immigrants Detained Inside the U.S. Are Entitled to Bond Hearings
U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes held that a July 2025 Trump administration policy denying bond hearings to immigrants arrested in the interior is unlawful, as federal appeals courts remain split and the Supreme Court prepares to take up the question.