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FOX 24 US The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy in a fractured 6-3 split decision issued Friday morning. Trump cannot use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to override Congress’s power of the purse by using an emergency declaration to levy widespread global tariffs, the majority held. The decision will now likely require an end to those tariffs, and could trigger the return of tariff revenue collected by Customs and Border Protection and deposited into the U.S. Treasury. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which was joined in part by…

FOX 24 US As President Donald Trump’s actions targeting federal government unions and employees make their way through the courts, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests the president’s show of force against American public servants may have backfired. Since last March, Trump has moved to abruptly end union protections for hundreds of thousands of government workers. At the same time, largely through the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the administration in 2025 fired tens of thousands of federal workers while tens of thousands more retired, quit, or accepted the DOGE “fork in the road buy out.”…

FOX 24 US The White House wanted investigations into those it describes as left-wing activists and the groups that fund them. And now, FBI Director Kash Patel says, the FBI is delivering. The FBI is investigating funding associated with left-wing activism, Patel confirmed to longtime podcaster and brief FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on his recently revived streaming show. “This FBI, thanks to what we stood up over the last year, has made significant headway under the NSPM-7 process in looking at those who funded these streams,” Patel told Bongino, adding that the bureau is “starting to arrest people who…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For months, President Donald Trump has railed against Latin American narcoterrorists flooding the United States with “lethal poison.” He has used the scourge of drug trafficking as a rationale for dozens of military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have left more than 140 people dead. Last month, Trump cheered a military assault by U.S. forces that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to the U.S. to face…

FOX 24 US This article is part of TPM’s ongoing “Creating the Enemy Within” project, tracking the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent. When Amber Lowrey first heard that her sister had been arrested at a protest on July 4, it didn’t alarm her. Her sister, Savanna Batten, was a longtime animal rights activist. She’d been arrested before: nothing violent, once at an “Occupy Dallas” sit-in, once after blocking a highway during a Trump I immigration protest. Both cases were dismissed after Batten met certain conditions and checked in with the court. So when Lowrey heard that Batten…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet Amanda and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The residents of Springfield, Ohio, had prepared for the arrival of immigration agents on February 3, the expiration date set by the Trump administration for Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, who account for nearly a quarter of the city’s population. A federal judge intervened at the last minute, pushing the deadline indefinitely. The agents never arrived.  Still, the city has found itself on edge this month and the threat is as unsettling as…

FOX 24 US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) broke with most of his Republican peers Thursday, using his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security committee to press immigration officials on agents’ violent behavior.  He and ranking member Gary Peters (D-MI) teamed up to ask acting ICE chief Todd Lyons and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott questions about officers’ use of force as they played a frame-by-frame video of Alex Pretti’s killing. It was an unusual bipartisan display, indicative of Paul’s willingness, at least for now, to buck the Trump administration’s insistence on full-throated support for the agents.  “Because you…

FOX 24 US A federal judge ruled in favor of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) Thursday, finding that Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated the senator’s constitutional rights by attempting to downgrade his rank and retirement benefits.  Hegseth targeted Kelly after he participated in a video warning members of the military not to follow illegal orders; he was one of six lawmakers who participated in the video, which came out amid President Trump’s National Guard deployments and Venezuelan boat strikes.  This week, federal prosecutors tried and failed to secure an indictment against Kelly and the other five members of Congress…

FOX 24 US From what began as a routine traffic stop in Georgia, U.S. Army veteran Godfrey Wade was detained, transferred to a facility in Louisiana, and shipped off to a country he hadn’t known in 50 years. Sixty-seven-year-old Roderick Johnson, a Black U.S. citizen, found himself zip-tied and left outside for hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents broke down the door of his apartment and many others in a building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. And while driving in Minnesota, an American couple reportedly from Illinois endured an ICE traffic stop wherein the driver was asked to produce…

FOX 24 US Clay Parikh does not want to talk about who he is working with inside the White House. However, in an extraordinary and extensive conversation with TPM, he had a lot to say about many other things, including his concerns that the “deep state” and a shadowy “cabal” is influencing our elections.  “When they say ‘deep state,’ it’s deep and it’s everywhere,” Parikh said in a phone call late Tuesday evening.  Parikh, who, according to court documents unsealed this week, is currently a special government employee in the executive branch, is also worried about myriad other issues including…