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Delegates at the United Church of Christ’s 35th General Synod overwhelmingly passed an emergency resolution this week, condemning the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids as “domestic terrorism” and accusing President Donald Trump's administration of “weaponizing the Constitution.”

Religious News Service reported Tuesday that the resolution targets immigration enforcement operations “carried out by ICE agents working without uniforms, wearing masks or refusing to identify themselves,” condemning these tactics as threatening and abusive.

Reps. Mark Pocan (D‑Wis.) and Derrick Van Orden (R‑Wis.) got into a verbal clash on Capitol Hill, exchanging insults and expletives during a tense moment. The exchange started when Van Orden revved his motorcycle while Pocan was being interviewed by Spectrum News about proposed cuts to public broadcasting.

Pocan accused Van Orden of sharing a "drunken tweet," while Van Orden retorted by suggesting that Pocan should seek "mental health counseling."

A dozen immigrants and their legal advocates on Wednesday launched a class action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's campaign of courthouse arrests "designed to strip noncitizens of their rights" and expedite deportations.

"We are witnessing an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. immigration court system by the Trump administration," said Keren Zwick, director of litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), one of the groups behind the new suit. "People who attend their hearings to seek permission to remain in this country and comply with U.S. immigration law are being rounded up and abruptly ripped from their families, homes, and livelihoods."

President Donald Trump plans to honor some controversial figures from American history, according to a new report.

Part of Trump's big spending bill includes a $40 million allotment to build a sculpture garden at the White House with life-sized statues of 250 "mostly famous" Americans, according to The Washington Post. Some of the statues will depict heroes like George Washington, Rosa Parks, and Muhammad Ali. However, the newspaper reports that there are also several seemingly "intentionally controversial" and "obscure" figures included in the list as well.

A federal judge warned Florida officials that they could be committing "false imprisonment" if they don't stop arresting suspected unlawful migrants under a state law that has already been blocked under a court order, but they have continued to do so, at greater numbers than previously known.

According to a Huffington Post public records request, the Florida Highway Patrol "provided report numbers for 27 arrests between April 4 and May 26. That number does not represent the total number of SB-4C arrests in the state during that time, as the Florida Highway Patrol is just one of hundreds of law enforcement agencies that were authorized to make arrests under the immigration law. At least nine of the people arrested landed in immigration detention, the Tampa Bay Times previously reported."

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) is calling on President Donald Trump to support her bipartisan bill that would grant temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants, allowing them to remain in the United States. On immigration, Congresswoman Salazar says Trump could be just like Reagan was for communism or Lincoln was for slavery.

“There’s no way we can grow as a country and continue being the number one economy in the world if we don’t have hands,” Salazar said, referring to immigrant workers. “So let’s be intelligent. Let’s just bring them out of the shadows, make them pay—something that they’re not paying right now. Make them pay a fine, no federal programs, and they can go home for business, and they can buy a home.”

A Democratic senator was hospitalized after falling ill Wednesday, dealing a potential blow to Democrats hoping to stymie GOP efforts to claw back $9.4 billion$9.4 billion in funding previously approved for spending, including large cuts to foreign aid and funding for PBS and NPR.

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) will remain hospitalized until Thursday for observation, her office said in a statement.

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday evening to brag about his freshly passed "big, beautiful bill," including a $50 billion bailout for rural hospitals — which was only necessary because the bill cuts around $1 trillion from Medicaid.

"Americans know we need a better Healthcare System to properly serve our Great Communities that were abandoned by the Radical Left Democrats," wrote Trump. "That is why Republicans included $50 Billion Dollars in the 'ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' — to strengthen our most vulnerable Hospitals, including those in Rural areas. BUT, EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST THIS FUNDING!"

A prominent prosecutor in the Justice Department who investigated both Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs for sex trafficking was fired on Wednesday, Politico reported.

The reason why Maurene Comey was fired was not immediately clear, but it comes as President Donald Trump seeks to distance himself from the Epstein files scandal that has rocked his administration for the last week. Both Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have faced bipartisan criticism for their handling of the case.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) tore into Republican colleagues on MSNBC for projecting concern about rural hospital closures, immediately after passing a bill for hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts that put their funding at risk in the first place.

This comes as Markey introduces legislation to further universal health care, messaging legislation which is considered unlikely to pass in a Republican-controlled Congress.

A Justice Department prosecutor who played an outsized role in the Jeffrey Epstein case was ousted Wednesday, according to a report.

Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey — himself a perceived foe of President Donald Trump — was fired from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, two people familiar with the matter told Politico. The reasoning behind her termination wasn't immediately known.

President Donald Trump appears to be losing support from his MAGA base, and one analyst thinks the Jeffrey Epstein case exposed the real reason why.

Dan Pfeiffer, the former senior advisor on communications and strategy to Barack Obama, said on a recent episode of "Pod Save America" that it appears Trump no longer understands his base. During his first term, the president appeared to be intimately familiar with the kinds of stories that MAGA responds to, whether they were conspiracy theories or pure fiction.