Day: July 15, 2025

Just One Republican on House Rules Panel Votes to Release Epstein Files

Daily Caller News Foundation
Ralph Norman

House Republicans blocked a Democratic-backed effort late Monday evening to require the Department of Justice to release all records related to the convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Rules Committee voted 5 to 7 to reject an amendment that would force Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish any “records or evidence” regarding the federal government’s prosecution and incarceration of Epstein. Just one House Republican, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, voted in favor of the amendment.

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Union Representing Immigration Judges Donates Mostly to Democrats, Including Congressman Steve Cohen

Tom Pappert
Judge bangs the gavel

The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), a nationwide union and part of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), made more than 80 percent of its 2024 political donations to Democrats, including to U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09).

Members of the union were recently cited by National Public Radio when it reported that multiple immigration judges were fired, or were told their contracts would not be removed, by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR).

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Americans Face Higher Prices as Inflation Returns

The Center Square
grocery shopping

Consumer prices increased more than expected in June as Americans face higher prices on a wide range of imported goods as President Donald Trump’s tariffs show up in federal economic reports for the first time.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or CPI-U, showed a 0.3% increase last month – triple May’s 0.1% pace and the most significant monthly gain since January, when Trump returned to the White House for his second term.

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Russiagate Docs Patel Found After Comey FBI ‘Locked the Key’ May Aid ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Inquiry

Just the News
James Comey

The FBI’s decision to open a probe that treats the last decade of political weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence agencies as an ongoing criminal conspiracy is being cheered by lawmakers and could be aided by Director Kash Patel’s recent discovery of a room where the bureau had “hidden” evidence from public and congressional view.

Patel’s discovery of the evidence “vault” or “lockbox” as he called it on a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan and the opening of the “overarching conspiracy” probe occurred around the same time this spring, officials told Just the News.

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ICE Declares Illegal Migrants Ineligible for Bond Hearings

Daily Caller News Foundation
illegal immigrant

The Trump administration is aiming to make illegal migrants ineligible for bond hearings as they contest their deportation cases in court.

All foreign nationals who unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border must remain in detention for the duration of their deportation proceedings, according to interim guidance ordered by acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Todd Lyons, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Tuesday. The directive, which was dated earlier in July, is expected to apply to millions of illegal migrants currently living in the country.

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Trump Accuses Adam Schiff of Mortgage Fraud, Calls for Prosecution

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Adam Schiff

President Donald Trump on Monday called for California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff to be prosecuted for alleged mortgage fraud.

Trump said the mortgage giant Fannie Mae’s financial crimes division concluded Schiff “engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud” in a Monday morning post on the social media platform Truth Social. The president called on the California Democrat to face prosecution for alleged mortgage fraud for claiming a Maryland home as his primary residence for more than a decade.

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Government Begins Transition Prioritizing English Language Across Agencies

The Center Square
Trump meeting

The federal government has begun to implement President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S. with initial guidance issued by the Department of Justice Monday.

Federal agencies have been directed to review and rescind earlier guidance based on an executive order from former President Bill Clinton in 2000, which directed them to enhance access to federal programs for less proficient English speakers. Agencies are to consider English-only services and embrace translation-assistance technologies where possible to save on the cost of translation services.

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Teamsters’ Trash Workers Strike Spreads Across U.S., Trash Piles Up from Boston to California

Just the News
Republic service worker

The Teamsters union’s trash-workers strike has spread from Boston to California as Republic Services employees on the West Coast stand in solidarity with their colleagues on the East Coast amid trash pileups.

A total of about 450 Republic Services workers represented by the union in the Boston area have been on strike since July 1. But the work stoppage has spread to Southern California and now includes several thousand workers, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sanitation workers have stopped working in cities in the Bay Area and the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego.

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Federal Funding Plans for 2026 Include Billions for FBI, Israel, Fossil Fuels

The Center Square
Congress Spending

After numerous delays, lawmakers have released five more annual appropriations bills ready for markup in Appropriations subcommittees over the next few days.

The most recent rash of bills, released Monday and Tuesday, determine fiscal year 2026 funding levels for multiple departments and agencies, touching everything from the State department’s foreign aid programs to the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical cleanup programs.

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University of Virginia College Professors Pass No-Confidence Resolution Against School

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UVA campus

The University of Virginia’s (UVA) faculty senate passed a no-confidence resolution Friday, blaming the school’s Board of Visitors for failing to protect the school from the Trump administration’s demands.

The faculty expressed disappointment that the board allowed external pressure to influence the university’s actions, which the board is supposed to prevent, according to the resolution. The resolution comes after the resignation of UVA’s president Jim Ryan, who the Trump administration allegedly pushed out due to his support of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

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Commentary: Trump Poised to Try to Remove Noncitizens from Census

RealClearWire

Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.

President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month. 

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