News for June 22, 2026

A federal judge ruled that a Trump administration project to combine personal data for voter-eligibility checks was unlawful and said the resulting data tool cannot be used.

Florida is shutting down its “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention site, ending Ron DeSantis’s high-profile but costly experiment after months of criticism and funding problems.

A Tesla on autopilot crashed through a Texas home, killing one person and injuring the driver.

The Supreme Court will hear a case from Kekai Watanabe that could limit how federal prison inmates sue over denied medical care.

An Associated Press investigation, based in part on whistleblower David Howell’s complaint, found that the DEA let large amounts of fentanyl go unseized in New Mexico to help build bigger cases.