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A U.S. citizen claims in an upcoming $1 million lawsuit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents assaulted him and threw him in lockup because he was recording their activities at a Home Depot, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

The suit, backed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) says that Job Garcia, a 37-year-old Ph.D. student and photographer, was at the big box hardware store in Hollywood while doing delivery work for an online business, and took out his phone to record agents.

President Donald Trump issued a stern demand on Wednesday for Congress to pass his mega budget bill as he bragged about plummeting border crossings.

"The Men and Women of Border Patrol, ICE, and CBP are doing an amazing job but, they need more help and, they are counting on Republicans to, GET IT DONE!" Trump posed on his social media network, Truth Social.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump has been sentenced to life in prison after he was later convicted of plotting to assassinate FBI agents and other law enforcement officials.

Federal prosecutors sought a life sentence for Edward Kelley, 36, of Tennessee, last month in a sentencing memo. In November, Kelly was convicted of conspiring to murder agents from the FBI and officers with multiple Tennessee law enforcement agencies after they investigated his role in the Capitol attack.

CNN's Jake Tapper squared off against Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) on Wednesday over the impact of President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill on the federal deficit.

Multiple economic analyses of the bill show the bill will add between $3 trillion and $4 trillion to the debt over the next five years. However, the GOP is claiming that the bill will reduce the deficit using what's known as a "dynamic score," a method that also includes future changes to the economy or public policy.

President Donald Trump appears not to be entirely clear on the scope of the health care cuts in the "big, beautiful bill" he has aggressively lobbied Republicans in Congress to pass, NOTUS reported on Wednesday — and he had to be reminded of it by a handful of Republican lawmakers in a meeting behind closed doors.

The bill, passed by the Senate in a narrowly divided vote on Tuesday morning, is currently awaiting final passage in the House, as GOP leaders attempt to smooth over factional disagreements to proceed to the final roll call. It cuts over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food assistance, and green energy credits, while extending tax breaks for the wealthy, massively boosting immigration enforcement funding, and adding over $2 trillion to the federal deficit.

Former President Joe Biden has fielded a lot of calls since he left the White House, and at least some of them are coming from NATO allies in Europe.

“I’m getting calls. I’m not going to go into it, I can’t, from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged," Biden said on Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Maryland father wrongly deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison due to a "clerical error" has filed an amended complaint detailing the "torture" he endured in the prison.

Lawfare's Anna Bower posted screen captures of the filing Kilmar Ábrego García's lawyers submitted on Wednesday, where he alleged "torture and mistreatment" at CECOT prison.

Payrolls processing firm ADP reported private sector hiring contracted unexpectedly in June, with private payrolls losing 33,000 jobs.

The news came as a surprise because economists polled by Dow Jones in the weeks ahead of the ADP report had forecast an increase of 100,000 jobs for the month, despite growth in May being revised to just 29,000 jobs rather than 37,000.

A former Jan. 6 attacker was on trial for two felony counts and four misdemeanors when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump upon entering office. Now, that man, Jared L. Wise, is being named an adviser or counselor to Justice Department official Ed Martin.

Wise, who pleaded not guilty to his charges around Jan. 6, will be advising the so-called "weaponization working group," a program under Trump's Justice Department to target prosecutors and investigators who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

President Donald Trump's head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency wants to see Congress investigate Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, claiming he "lied" in his comments about upgrades to the central bank's headquarters.

Bill Pulte alleged that when Powell testified to Congress last week, he said that the 100-year-old headquarters of the central bank needed "serious renovation," Politico reported Wednesday. Pulte called it "deceptive Senate testimony, which is enough to be removed 'for cause,'" in a statement posted on X.

Former State Department spokesperson Ned Price and Fox News host Will Cain faced off on "The Will Cain Show" on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three nuclear facilities in Iran.

Cain began the segment by recounting some of Trump's foreign policy initiatives, such as his attempts to create a ceasefire between Iran and Israel and prevent Pakistan and India from starting a war. Cain then asked Price if he thought Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) pledged to slight House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday for what she called “broken commitments,” vowing to vote against a procedural step on President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

“I’ll vote for the bill, since we need to make it happen for our economy & there are some good provisions in it,” Spartz said in a social media post on X, vowing to ultimately vote in support of the $4.2 budget reconciliation package stuffed with tax cuts and cuts on social safety net programs.

The deal that CBS/Paramount struck with President Donald Trump is a message to the GOP leader that he now owns them, said MSNBC political analyst, New York Times editorial board member and columnist Mara Gay.

Speaking on "Deadline: White House" on Wednesday, Gay warned that with Trump, it's never just one thing that he demands.