Los Angeles and several surrounding cities are canceling — or postponing — Fourth of July celebrations in response to increased activity by federal immigration officials in the area.The County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation postponed a summer movie and concert series, while canceling this year’s East Los Angeles Rock’n 4th of July celebration “out of caution and in response to recent ICE enforcement activity.

A federal judge shot down the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protection status (TPS) for over 520,000 Haitian immigrants currently living in the U.S.The TPS designations for Haitians were expected to expire on Aug. 3 with termination to become effective on Sept. 2.U.S.

An ICE Homeland Security Investigations probe in Maryland led to the sentencing of a man who “used his position of authority” to sexually abuse a 2-year-old and who produced and distributed child sex abuse material online.U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander sentenced Maryland man Mark Rice, 38, to 30 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. The sentence was part of a plea deal.

The Pentagon has frozen some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missile interceptors and 155 mm artillery shells, at a pivotal moment in Kyiv’s war with Russia, Fox News has confirmed.According to U.S. military officials tracking the shipments, the weapons were already staged in Poland before the order came down. The halt was driven by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby after a review of U.S.

A deal that had been reached between Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, over how states can regulate artificial intelligence has been pulled from President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill.

As the Senate continued to inch closer to finalizing President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the president took to social media early Tuesday to warn that a failure to come to an agreement would end in the largest tax increase in history.The message came after lawmakers had been in a marathon “vote-a-rama,” for several hours, submitting amendments to the megabill from either side of the aisle.

Elon Musk has not given up his criticism over what he sees as a lack of spending cuts in the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” insisting on his platform X on Monday “that we live in a one-party country” and threatening that if the bill passes a new “America Party” would be formed.

U.S. Capitol Police arrested dozens of demonstrators inside the Capitol rotunda and outside Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as members of the Senate continued to debate President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”The Associated Press said demonstrators were protesting the Republican tax and spending cut bill at two different sites.One of the sites was the Capitol Rotunda, and the other was at an intersection near the U.S. Capitol Building.U.S.

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate and self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism over remarks made at a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, where he urged attendees not to compromise on goals like “seizing the means of production.