“The U.S. admiral overseeing the war with Iran visited the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday as the aircraft carrier prepares to return home following an extended wartime deployment,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The visit by Centcom commander Adm. Brad Cooper capped a 10-day trip that also included visits to Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi […]

“The Trump administration doesn’t want Apple to buy memory chips from China, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview. Apple may do so anyway,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Insatiable demand for computer memory among companies building artificial-intelligence data centers has led to a shortage of the critical component and skyrocketing prices for what […]

“Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema testified that she repeatedly had sex with her then-married security guard while she was in office representing Arizona,” Fox News reports. “Matthew Ammel’s ex-wife, Heather Ammel, is suing the Democrat-turned-independent, who left office at the beginning of last year, for allegedly breaking up her 14-year marriage.”

“The Democratic National Committee on Saturday adopted a new early state calendar for the party’s 2028 presidential primary in a significant change that will have major implications for how Democrats pick their next White House nominee,” NOTUS reports. “South Carolina will kick off the Democratic primary for only the second time, followed by Nevada and […]

“Democrats on Saturday approved dueling messages on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed, reflecting sharp opposition to President Donald Trump’s crackdown but revealing disagreement in the party ahead of the midterms,” the Associated Press reports. “The Democratic National Committee, gathered for a summer meeting, also signed off on a raft […]

Dan Pfeiffer: “The bigger the wave, the more Democrats elected, the greater the chance of taking the Senate, and the bigger the rebuke of Trump, his broken promises, his idiotic war, and his rampant corruption.” “When people talk about a wave (red or blue), they are really referring to the political environment — how much […]

“These young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls in the White House, they come in. Now I’m not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell. These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they want to be safe and they come say Mr. President, thank you, sir.” — President Trump, at a […]

“It is among the most famous phrases in presidential history: ‘ The buck stops here.’ Except with President Donald Trump, it almost never does,” the Associated Press reports. “Concerns about a weak economy and still-high inflation? His predecessor, Joe Biden, saddled him with that, he says, even though the Democrat has been out of office […]

“Iran on Saturday rejected President Trump’s assertion that he could declare the Strait of Hormuz a ‘territory of the United States,’ saying the opening and closure of the key waterway will remain up to Iran’s control,” The Hill reports.

“Democratic voters are showing up for this year’s primaries in numbers not seen in decades, a pattern emerging across several states that has the party optimistic about its prospects in November when control of Congress will be at stake,” the Associated Press reports.

“President Donald Trump is urging Americans to accept higher gasoline prices while the conflict with Iran continues,” NewsNation reports. “He told a political rally in New York Friday that paying ‘a tiny little bit more for your gasoline’ is worth the cost of ensuring ‘a very evil country’ could not have a nuclear weapon, one […]

“The U.S. Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match President Donald Trump’s preferred aesthetic for the warships,” the Washington Post reports. ”The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to […]

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“Shipping cargo through an Arctic shortcut never made economic sense—until now,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Climate change and war in the Middle East are flipping the math that previously kept ships plying longer routes from Asia to Europe. A Chinese company on Saturday is starting the first regular cargo service to Europe through Arctic […]

New York Times: “Markey is facing a challenge from Representative Seth Moulton, a 47-year-old moderate. Markey has seized on the ideological dimensions of the race, running on his progressive bona fides with a similar playbook to the one that helped him beat former Representative Joe Kennedy III in 2020. He might also be betting that […]

“President Donald Trump has finally given the green light to pour millions of dollars from his personal PAC toward boosting vulnerable Republicans in November, as some top campaign advisers privately acknowledge that Republicans’ chances of keeping control of both the House and Senate are dwindling,” CNN reports. “Trump’s political team is still debating what the […]

“Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ ‘goal No. 1’ in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, as Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran,” NBC News reports. “The comments appeared to be the latest shift in the public rationale for […]

“Democrats trying to unseat Republican senators in deep-red states have pursued a new strategy this year: dropping out,” the Washington Post reports. ”The Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota — all heavily Republican states — withdrew from the ballot after their primaries, clearing the field for independent candidates. Some Democrats hope that […]

“President Donald Trump plans to affix gold-colored presidential seals to the outside of his White House ballroom, breaking with the restrained aesthetic of the executive mansion, according to renderings that the administration shared publicly Friday,” the Washington Post reports. ”The Trump administration included the renderings as part of an emergency request to the Supreme Court, […]

Wall Street Journal: “As the mood of the nation sours on Silicon Valley’s vision for the future, Flock cameras and data centers have become personae non grata in several communities. In many ways, they are physical manifestations of artificial intelligence—an incorporeal technology—that’s fueling both big dreams and new nightmares.” “On Thursday, amid mounting public pressure, […]

“Senior Trump administration officials have doubled down on economic pressure in the fight with Iran, making lower oil prices a top war aim and vowing unprecedented financial sanctions that would force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Iran late Thursday attacked two United Arab Emirates ships in the strait, […]

“A week of stifling heat in Europe this June was unusually deadly, mortality data shows, producing a historic spike in deaths in a continent where major heat waves are becoming more common,” the New York Times reports. “Around 16,000 more people than usual died in Europe during the heat wave, according to an analysis by […]

“The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fund-raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in President Trump’s hush-money trial in New York,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “He is trying to pull off a difficult political comeback — a quick return to the Senate, where he served three terms before losing his seat in 2024, amid shifting partisan preferences in his state and a tsunami of spending by the cryptocurrency industry to oust him.” “This time, he is hoping […]

“Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt,” the Associated Press reports.

Wall Street Journal: “After years of hearing his darkest secrets discussed by others, the president’s 56-year-old son has been on a nonstop media tour across podcasts, news shows and Substack essays with interlocutors as varied as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and record producer Benny Blanco.” “The topics range from the challenges of his sobriety to […]

“Ken Martin struck a defiant pose at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting here this week, blowing past criticism of his tenure as he rallied DNC members still largely supportive of his leadership,” NOTUS reports. “But privately, the DNC chair is signalling he’s open to a more conciliatory approach.” “Martin has suggested in recent weeks […]

“Three more members of Congress have violated an insider trading and transparency law, making them the latest in a litany of lawmakers who’ve blown by a federally mandated deadline for publicly disclosing their personal financial investments,” NOTUS reports. New York Times: Stock trading by lawmakers becomes a campaign attack line.

“Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), the GOP nominee for Wisconsin governor, dodged while on NewsMax on Friday on whether or not he thinks President Donald Trump will campaign with him in the crucial swing state,” Mediaite reports. Said Tiffany: “Well, we’ll see what the president does. I mean, he’s got his hands full, and there’s the […]

“The fragile monthlong ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears set to expire Monday absent a last-minute deal to extend it and potentially end the war between the two nations,” Politico reports.