SUMMARY: During a Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump expressed pride in personally redecorating the White House’s Cabinet Room, focusing on selecting portraits and frames of past presidents. He revealed a particular fondness for frames, sometimes more than the pictures themselves, and shared opinions on several predecessors. Trump praised Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, and Dwight D. Eisenhower for their toughness and achievements, and acknowledged Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legacy despite party differences. He recounted choosing a portrait of James K. Polk partly due to the frame size. Trump also noted historical details, sometimes inaccurately, and emphasized the symbolic importance of the portraits in the room.

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SUMMARY: The Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th-century artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in the U.K. for the first time in nearly 1,000 years. Loaned from France, it will be exhibited at the British Museum from September 2026 to July 2027. The 70-meter cloth, believed commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, has been housed mostly in Normandy. This cultural exchange, announced during French President Emmanuel Macron’s U.K. visit, includes the British Museum loaning Sutton Hoo artifacts and the Lewis Chessmen to French museums, symbolizing a deep, shared history between the two nations.

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by Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
July 8, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking an appellate court to let Florida enforce its illegal entry and re-entry law.

At issue is an anti-illegal immigration law Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in February, which prompted the arrest of a U.S. citizen from Georgia and led to a federal judge finding the state’s chief legal officer in civil contempt of court.

The federal government intervened on Monday, filing a brief stating that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams erred in her temporary block on the enforcement of SB 4C, the law that makes it a first-degree misdemeanor for a person to enter the state as an “unauthorized alien.”

Federal judge holds AG James Uthmeier in contempt of court

“Florida’s law is in harmony, not conflict, with federal law,” the brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit states.

Florida lawmakers passed the law during a special session earlier this year to align the state with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Uthmeier already tried to get the appellate court to rescind the bar on the law, but it refused. The Florida Immigrant Coalition, the Farmworker Association of Florida, and two women lacking permanent legal status brought suit against the state in April.

Both Williams in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit ruled that federal law likely preempts the state law.

Four months into his appointment by DeSantis as attorney general, Uthmeier faced Williams’ contempt ruling for his disobedience of her order to call off enforcement of SB 4C. Florida Highway Patrol and local police arrested dozens after the court order on April 4, including a 20-year-old U.S. citizen in Leon County.

Two arrests

The first biweekly report of arrests that Williams ordered Uthmeier to submit in her contempt ruling shows that St. Johns County arrested two men on counts of illegal entry on May 29.

Uthmeier, DeSantis’ former chief of staff, has also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in, submitting an application to Justice Clarence Thomas on June 17 to remove the bar on SB 4C’s enforcement.

Attorneys representing the plaintiffs wrote to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the state hadn’t proved that the block on the law caused it irreparable harm.

“Florida of course has a wide range of nonimmigration criminal laws to address violent crime and drug trafficking, as well as myriad other crimes, and nothing in the injunction remotely limits the enforcement of those laws,” the response states. “Indeed, enforcing Florida’s preempted state immigration regime will harm public safety by eroding community trust in law enforcement.”

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Note: The following A.I. based commentary is not part of the original article, reproduced above, but is offered in the hopes that it will promote greater media literacy and critical thinking, by making any potential bias more visible to the reader –Staff Editor.

Political Bias Rating: Center-Right

The article presents a factual account of legal and political conflicts surrounding Florida’s anti-illegal immigration law, SB 4C, emphasizing the positions of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, and federal courts. It highlights enforcement efforts aligned with a conservative immigration crackdown, framed within the context of legal challenges and federal-state disputes. The language is mostly neutral but leans toward a center-right perspective by focusing on the state’s efforts to enforce stricter immigration laws and the alignment with former President Trump’s policies, without strong editorializing or critique.