“The Secret Service is planning to provide additional security to a new residence for Vice President JD Vance and his family in Middleburg, Virginia,” NBC News reports. “Middleburg, a tony town known for rolling hills and exclusive horse farms with multimillion-dollar homes, is about 45 miles outside Washington.”

Stephen Collinson: “President Donald Trump’s Iran entanglement is beginning to resemble a visual illusion known as the Penrose stairs, which endlessly climb and descend but always end up in the same place.” “The predicament is of Trump’s own making after he launched a war that never promised a definitive exit and crafted a memorandum of […]

“President Vladimir Putin is rejecting calls to negotiate peace with Kyiv, three sources close to the Kremlin told Reuters, with Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Russia’s oil refineries and ports strengthening his resolve to keep fighting for now,” Reuters reports. “Two of ​the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Putin was instead likely […]

Politico: “Mary Peltola raked in $7 million in Q2 as she challenges GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska… Peltola’s hauls are keeping Democrats hopeful about her chances of flipping one of the most hotly contested seats on the map.”

“On the morning after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on a Utah college campus, Tyler Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner said the man paced around their St. George townhouse, seemingly trying to keep himself busy and distracted,” Salt Lake Tribune reports. “Lance Twiggs said in a video interview played in court Thursday that he asked […]

“President Trump told a reporter aboard Air Force One that she would also be killed if Iran struck the jet, as tensions rise once again between the U.S. and Tehran,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “I’m number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go. So, perhaps — perhaps some of you […]

“Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said Thursday he doesn’t know whether Sen. Mitch McConnell is still alive, criticizing the lack of updates about the Kentucky senator’s condition after nearly a month in the hospital,” NewsNation reports. Said Stutzman: “I have not heard from him, and I think it’s a question that Republicans should be asking because […]

“ActBlue raised $586 million for Democratic candidates and causes in the second quarter, a record amount that will enhance the party’s fortunes as it prepares to confront Republicans in midterm elections that are projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history,” Bloomberg reports. “The total is the biggest for any quarter in a midterm […]

“While Congress is out of session this week, a House Republican encountered a hostile crowd at a heated town hall meeting in Bellevue, Nebraska, Tuesday night – a sour reception that may preview the tenor other lawmakers could face heading into the midterm elections,” ABC News reports. “Rep. Mike Flood faced repeated boos and shouts […]

“Progressive lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders led the first wave of opposition to data centers. Now Republican candidates around the U.S. are seizing on the fervor even as President Donald Trump actively courts tech titans and promotes the rapid, streamlined expansion of the energy-hungry facilities,” Bloomberg reports. “The divide within the GOP months before […]

“Palm Beach International Airport in Florida was formally rechristened President Donald J. Trump International Airport Thursday morning — with the commander in chief’s own Boeing 757 making the first landing,” the New York Post reports.

“The $400 million Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar to the United States is not simply another presidential aircraft. At more than 76 meters (250 feet) long and weighing up to 442 tonnes at maximum takeoff, it is the largest airliner Boeing has ever built,” Luxury Launches reports. ”Its sheer size is so extraordinary that before […]

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited senior ministers from more than 60 countries to a meeting next week about what the Trump administration views as a major peril: the ‘resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism,'” the Washington Post reports. “The meeting has prompted consternation among career and political U.S. officials, some European allies and independent […]

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CNBC: “As of the end of June, the two biggest artificial intelligence political action committees have dropped at least $44 million into 40 House and Senate candidates.” “That’s an early taste of how the groups will spend the more than $200 million they’ve raised on the rest of primary season and into the general election, […]

“Iran said the U.S. had targeted railway bridges on the route to the holy city of Mashhad, where the late supreme leader was due to be buried, in the first attacks on Iranian infrastructure in months as tensions escalated between the foes,” the Financial Times reports. “The overnight strikes came as large crowds were gathering […]

“America’s state governments now run on two very different tax engines: income in many coastal and professional-class states, and consumption in much of the Sun Belt and low-tax-growth belt,” Axios reports. “States are not just competing over tax rates. They’ve built systems around which parts of the economy to tax — and which residents feel […]

“For decades, the planning commission reviewing construction projects in Washington has stood by the principle that the federal law limiting the height of buildings in the capital applies to federal projects,” the New York Times reports. “But now that President Trump has proposed building a giant Triumphal Arch, the commission, which is led by Trump […]

“Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) criticized President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers over Obamacare on Wednesday, suggesting that it could now be referred to as ‘Trumpcare,'” Fox News reports. Said Massie: “Might as well call it Trumpcare now. Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control […]

Nigel Farage’s effort to turn a by-election into a populist showdown has instead become a British political farce: the major parties are sitting it out, leaving him potentially facing only Count Binface, a satirical candidate who campaigns with a trash can on his head, Metro reports. Farage triggered the vote after resigning amid scrutiny over […]

“An ex-girlfriend of Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) sued him, claiming the Republican’s recent public comments about her during a dispute with his ex-wife violate a confidential settlement they reached in a past defamation lawsuit,” Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. “The new lawsuit from Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House press secretary and dated Miller during […]

“Graham Platner went down swinging — even as some of his political confidants urged him not to,” Politico reports. “Several of the embattled Maine Democrat’s closest advisers pleaded with him Wednesday to strike a ‘conciliatory’ tone in the announcement terminating his Senate campaign.” “But the progressive bucked their advice and made it a condition of […]

“Three more people have been criminally charged with destruction of property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” CNN reports.

“President Donald Trump took credit for ending an ongoing conflict that he claimed had seen the beheadings of 15 million people,” Mediaite reports. Said Trump: “Think of the wars I settled. Eight. Wars that were going on for 30 years. Even if you look in the Congo. The Congo vs. Rwanda. I settled it after […]

Punchbowl News: “The problem for Hill Republicans is that they’ve been hearing Trump say this same line for months already, with no permanent peace deal reached so far. They didn’t love Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran last month — signed by the president to great fanfare in Versailles — but it ended a growing […]