“For four years, Russia has bet on outlasting Ukraine in a war of attrition. Now, as Kyiv’s drones inflict growing damage on both Russia’s army and oil industry, Moscow is finding out that time isn’t necessarily on its side,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion force is making ever-smaller gains at […]

“Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei announced on Saturday that revenge for his father’s assassination ‘will most certainly be carried out,’” Axios reports.

“American political leaders on the left and right are rebelling against the market-first consensus that dominated Washington for four decades,” Axios reports. “The result is one of the biggest shifts in U.S. economic policy since the Reagan revolution, overturning decades of orthodoxy on trade, manufacturing, housing, health care and corporate power.” ”The shared skepticism of […]

“The Israeli settlers had guns and Representative Ro Khanna was scared,” the New York Times reports. “On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Khanna, the congressman from Silicon Valley who is exploring a 2028 presidential run, was visiting the ruins of Khirbet Zanuta, a tiny Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern West Bank that was abandoned after escalating […]

“Crews began draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday as the Trump administration launched another round of repairs,” Fox News reports. NOTUS: Drain the pool (again).

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“FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly cancelled a planned flight Friday to see his girlfriend in Chicago this weekend, after top administration officials frustrated with Patel summoned him to the White House,” MS NOW reports. “The precise reasons that Patel’s political bosses demanded he cancel his trip and report to the West Wing are unclear, but […]

“President Donald Trump threatened to ‘decimate and destroy’ Iran if Tehran acts on threats to assassinate him, as the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned an alleged Iranian financier,” CNBC reports. Said Trump: “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian […]

“The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One,” the New York Times reports. “The subpoenas — which seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in […]

“The $2.2 billion windfall President Trump reaped since his second term has raised questions over potential conflicts of interest and whether he has profited from public office, but Mr. Trump has dismissed any notion of impropriety,” the New York Times reports. “Some of Mr. Trump’s most lucrative ventures seemed to intersect directly with his administration’s […]

Wall Street Journal: “The 76-year-old justice has emerged in the Trump era as the member of the court who is most likely to give voice to the populism and cultural grievances associated with the new right. And though people in his inner circle chafe at the notion that he is aligned with President Trump’s movement, […]

“President Trump was sitting in the Oval Office earlier this year with Secretary of State Marco Rubio when an idea came to him,” the New York Times reports. “Maybe he should dispatch Mr. Rubio permanently to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, where U.S. commandos had carried out the proudest foreign policy achievement of Mr. Trump’s second […]

“President Trump allowed a bipartisan housing bill to become law without his signature on Saturday, hours after he said he would refuse to sign it because Republicans had failed to pass an unrelated voting restriction bill that does not have enough support to clear the Senate,” the New York Times reports. Axios: Trump rebukes Senate […]

Wall Street Journal: “Around 40% of voters in the 2024 election said the economy was their top issue, far outstripping any other matter. And those voters favored Donald Trump by 60% to 38%. Many say they were moved by his pledges to tame inflation, rebuild U.S. infrastructure, cut red tape and trim government waste.” “About […]

“Democrats are growing increasingly bullish they can seize control of the Senate, even as crucial races in Maine and Michigan remain unpredictable,” the Washington Post reports. ”Some even see Maine Democratic nominee Graham Platner’s exit from the race this week as boon to the party’s chances in a must-win contest.”

“As President Donald Trump considers an increasingly limited, and familiar, scope of options for the war with Iran, he’s receiving an influx of advice about how to proceed from members of his national security team, foreign leaders, Republicans in Congress and allies outside his administration,” NBC News reports. NOTUS: Trump and Iran “might get worse […]

“The Trump administration believes that a nuclear deal with Iran is growing increasingly unlikely, senior U.S. officials told reporters Friday, in a rare acknowledgment that one of the president’s core foreign-policy goals of capping Tehran’s nuclear program might not be achievable through peace talks,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The officials said Iran should release […]

“Ken Martin took over the Democratic National Committee promising to rebuild the party from the grassroots up—pulling power out of Washington and into all 50 states,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “More than a year later, Martin’s DNC is struggling. The committee has had difficulty filling its coffers as Republicans amass a 2-to-1 cash advantage. […]

“The Homeland Security Department told employers on Friday that they must let go in coming weeks the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have been allowed to live in the United States through a humanitarian program the Trump administration has sought to dismantle,” the New York Times reports. “The work permits of Haitians with […]

“A township meeting held in New Jersey on July 7 has gone viral for its eccentric public comments, including a song performed by a man dressed as marijuana paraphernalia,” USA Today reports. “Introducing himself as ‘Bong Holeo,’ the costumed man spent several minutes freestyling a song about … being a bong. The man did not […]

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Graham Platner sent a letter officially dropping out of the U.S. Senate race in Maine.

“In a video promoted directly by the White House, a series of drivers pulls up to a red-, white- and blue-colored gas station and thanks President Donald Trump by name for the low prices advertised by a mysterious new business: Freedom Fuel,” NOTUS reports. “Despite the video’s suggestion that Trump had something to do with […]

“The U.S. government is moving ahead with plans to create its own fleet of government-owned aircraft to bolster deportations,” Bloomberg reports. “The Department of Homeland Security is beginning a search for a company to operate planes that would help carry out deportation flights, respond to emergencies and transport senior officials. The department asked aviation companies […]

The Atlantic: “What is the role of a general in a democracy? Many of today’s military leaders have a very particular answer: Focus on tactics, carry out orders, and otherwise shut up.” “This is not what America’s top officers have always done. The country’s most senior generals and admirals are expected to provide unvarnished military […]

“House GOP leaders are planning to put legislation on the floor next week that would make daylight saving time permanent in hopes of softening a revolt led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna,” Politico reports.

“Senate Republicans are anxious to avoid giving Democrats another opening to force a government shutdown weeks before the midterm elections,” Axios reports. “The appropriations process is a slog, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence adds a complication, and election season raises the stakes. Add to that the Senate is haunted by three shutdowns in the past year.” […]

“Trump administration officials are discussing a plan for permanent fencing on the block of Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House and around Lafayette Square, in an effort to bolster security and reduce the recurring costs of erecting and dismantling temporary barriers for special events,” CBS News reports.

“The Trump administration will support a draft bill that would impose heavy financial penalties on purchasers of Russian oil, adding to economic pressure on Moscow, all in an effort to bring Russia’s four-year war on Ukraine to a close,” CBS News reports.

“The end of U.S. work authorizations for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is threatening to leave short-staffed nursing homes, hospitals and home-care agencies with even fewer caregivers,” Bloomberg reports. “Employment permits for more than 350,000 people covered by Temporary Protected Status could begin expiring Friday after last month’s Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration […]