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A federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to pause the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant facing human smuggling charges — and who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” — writing in their decision that the Department of Justice’s case for keeping Garcia incarcerated “defies logic.”

Garcia was arrested without trial and wrongly deported in March despite not having been charged with a crime. He was returned by President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this month under mounting pressure from federal courts. Upon his return, however, the DOJ announced he had been indicted on charges of human smuggling and conspiracy to unlawfully transport migrants for financial gain.

Experts slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday for detaining an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for the last 47 years and has no criminal record.

Mandonna "Donna" Kashanian, 64, was detained by ICE agents on Sunday morning as she tended to her garden outside of her New Orleans home, NOLA.com reported. Kashanian was then taken to an ICE detention facility outside Basile, Louisiana, which is about 170 miles from New Orleans.

Faith leaders in Texas are pushing back against a new state law that requires a copy of the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom, The Associated Press reported.

The group includes faith leaders from the Christian and the Nation of Islam churches from the Dallas area. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the group argued that Texas's Senate Bill 10, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed Saturday, violates the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

President Donald Trump will reportedly limit intelligence sharing with Congress after a top-secret report leaked, indicating that the U.S. strike on Iran set back the country's nuclear program only months.

Axios reported that the Trump administration would share less intelligence through the CAPNET system after CNN and The New York Times published details of a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment on Iran.

Speaking on the surprising upset that was Zohran Mamdani’s performance in the New York City Democratic primary election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) took a jab at Kamala Harris Wednesday, blaming her presidential election loss last year on what he described as a too-cozy relationship with billionaires and the donor class.

“He ran a brilliant campaign,” Sanders told Politico, speaking on Mamdani’s upset victory in the Democratic primary election for New York City Mayor.

A longtime Republican strategist and focus group expert revealed on Wednesday that those she's speaking with are repeating messages from Democrats on cuts to Medicaid.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Sarah Longwell, also the publisher of The Bulwark, said that the message is sinking in: Republicans are cutting Medicaid to fund a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) spoke out on Wednesday after pleading "not guilty" in a criminal case stemming from a visit to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in her district.

McIver was arrested and charged with assaulting an ICE officer during a visit to a detention facility on May 9. President Donald Trump's administration has said it will arrest individuals who interfere with immigration operations.

President Donald Trump has attacked CNN and The New York Times for two days over a report that claimed Trump didn't "obliterate" the nuclear program in Iran as he claimed. Now the FBI is investigating how the news outlets obtained the information that the White House insists was false.

In a statement on Tuesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the reports false but then said that it was from a leaked classified document.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) isn't happy about the proposal for cuts to Medicaid that would disproportionately affect rural America.

Tillis, who is up for reelection in 2026, told Punchbowl News senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio on Wednesday that he wants more money for states to fund the proposed regulations.

President Donald Trump called on Democrats to make Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) their presidential nominee in 2028.

In a Wednesday rant on Truth Social, Trump pushed for Democrats to run Crockett and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on a ticket together. He suggested Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) should be appointed to the cabinet.

President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July deadline for Congress to pass his "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" hit another roadblock Wednesday after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who remains among a few Republicans who have not yet pledged to support the budget reconciliation package, told Politico the meeting the deadline was “a stretch.”

“I don’t mind the President and Senator Thune saying, okay, we’ve got to get this done by July 4,” Johnson said. “I think that’s a stretch, I think we have a lot of outstanding issues, but setting that deadline is concentrating everybody’s efforts.”