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An ideologically divided Supreme Court on June 27 said lower courts exceeded their authority when they put nationwide holds on restrictions to birthright citizenship, an at least temporary victory for President Donald Trump that will also make it harder to block other new policies.

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Instead, the Justice Department pursued a more technical – and easier to win – argument that district judges don’t have the power to entirely block presidential actions while they’re being challenged in court.

At that meeting, the whistleblower complaint said, Bove "stressed to all in attendance that the planes need to take off no matter what." Bove then said that the group may need to consider telling judges "f*** you" and ignore possible court orders blocking immigrants from being removed from the U.S., according to the document.

Reuveni ultimately decided to blow the whistle to lawmakers and watchdogs at the Justice Department and the Office of Special Counsel, detailing what he called defiance and noncompliance in three separate immigration cases this year. His accusations add to broader concern about the Trump administration's repeated clashes with the judiciary over immigration and other policies.

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At that meeting, the whistleblower complaint said, Bove "stressed to all in attendance that the planes need to take off no matter what." Bove then said that the group may need to consider telling judges "f*** you" and ignore possible court orders blocking immigrants from being removed from the U.S., according to the document.

The nuisance became a crisis in the early-morning hours of April 15, 1912, when the Titanic sank after its fateful collision with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland. The ship's radio operator was able to issue a distress call quickly, highlighting the value of the new technology in emergencies. But efforts to rescue the passengers were hindered by an ensuing barrage of amateur radio messages. The chatter clogged the airwaves, making it hard for official transmissions to get through. Worse, some of the amateurs sent out what we would today call fake news, including a widely circulated rumor that the ocean liner remained seaworthy and was being towed to the nearby port of Halifax for repairs. The false reports sowed confusion among would-be rescuers. Fifteen hundred people died.

The chaos in the airwaves during the Titanic rescue was an unintended by-product of the American government's laissez-faire atti-rude toward radio traffic. Although European countries had begun restricting wireless transmissions as early as 1903, radio had been left unregulated in the United States. There were few controls over who could broadcast, which frequencies they could use, or what information they could transmit. Politicians and journalists, dazzled by the magical new technology, feared that bureaucratic meddling would stifle progress. Government intervention "would hamper the development of a great modern enterprise," the New York Times opined in an editorial published three weeks before the Titanic's sinking. "The pathways of the ether should not be involved in red tape.”

The 2025 South Africa floods occurred in June 2025 and were caused by torrential rain, heavy winds, and snow that swept through Cape Town, South Africa, causing dozens of deaths and displacing thousands.[1] A powerful cold front had swept through Cape Town and neighboring provinces beginning 10 June 2025.[2] The storm caused rivers to burst their banks producing floodwaters of up to 3-4 meters (10–13 ft) deep around Mthatha, leading to homes, vehicles, buses, and individuals caught off guard to be swept away.[2]

To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes. The company’s swift compliance with Trump’s order has stoked fears that the Trump administration might leverage U.S. tech dominance to punish adversaries, even in allied nations such as the Netherlands.