“The contest to succeed Lindsey Graham, complete with a crowded field of Republicans, offers a rare dynamic for a red-state primary in the age of President Donald Trump: There’s no clear Trump-aligned candidate,” the Washington Post reports. ”Trump is trying to rally his supporters behind Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham, a candidate who many conservative […]

“The final stretch of primary season has scrambled the battle for Congress, as scandals, insurgent victories and voters’ rejection of party leaders’ preferred candidates reshape a small but critical set of races,” the Washington Post reports.

“Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires,” the New York Times reports. “The latest heat wave will be Europe’s fifth since May, as a broad area of high […]

“In late March, several thousand angry demonstrators gathered at a park in Milwaukee for a ‘No Kings’ protest to denounce President Trump’s administration. For the crowded field of Democrats running for governor of Wisconsin, the event was the perfect chance to engage fired-up primary voters,” the New York Times reports. “Only one campaign appeared to […]

“President Donald Trump has held his fire since senators skipped town for five weeks without advancing his elections security bill. Some Republicans don’t expect that to last,” Politico reports. “Senators punted until at least September any vote on a framework for a third party-line spending bill that includes parts of the SAVE America Act, rather […]

“The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars to cities across the U.S. to create more Memphis-style enforcement surges – on the condition that they abandon progressive ideologies on policing,” The Guardian reports.

“Iran is replacing its top national security adviser with a longtime military commander whose appointment could represent a further consolidation of power by the country’s old-guard security establishment,” the New York Times reports. “Mohsen Rezaei, who led Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, will be the new secretary of […]

Wall Street Journal: “The best characterization of the economy in Trump’s second term, based on the main measures, might be ‘so-so.’ Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.9% annual rate over the six quarters ended in June, which compares with 2.4% during former President Joe Biden’s final year in office. The unemployment rate has barely […]

“A liberal group working to elect scientists to public office has a 2028 message for Arizona Sen. — and former astronaut — Mark Kelly: Run, Kelly, run,” Axios reports.

White House lawyer-turned-fierce Trump critic Ty Cobb said the United States is “screwed” now that Todd Blanche is attorney general, Mediaite reports. Said Cobb: “Idi Amin, you know, Putin, those people… The reality is, they’re pikers compared to what Trump is doing. He’s always been a malignant narcissist, but that narcissism now has no frontal […]

“Will Scharf will become the new White House counsel in September, President Trump said, taking the position ahead of the midterm elections and potential congressional investigations,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Scharf will replace David Warrington, a personal attorney for the president who also worked for the Trump campaign before becoming White House counsel after […]

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it expects every officer and agent in the field to be equipped with a body camera by the end of August, a rapid expansion that could provide an unprecedented visual record of the federal government’s immigration enforcement operations,” the Associated Press reports. “But whether the public will get to […]

“North American Aerospace ​Defense Command on Sunday intercepted ‌two general aviation aircraft that violated temporary flight restrictions as President Donald Trump attended ​a tournament at his golf ​club in Bedminster, New Jersey,” Reuters reports.

“President Trump on Saturday posted photos of alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool amid a push for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, to revisit a recent decision to drop charges related to the pool,” NewsNation reports.

Politico: “Alberta’s separatists were once dismissed as a fringe movement. Today, they are at the center of one of Canada’s most consequential political debates, one that threatens to fracture the country.”

“President Donald Trump has a new bogeyman — and as the president might say, he’s right out of central casting,” Politico reports. “Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s divisive Democratic Senate primary last week enables Trump and Republicans to juice the base – he supports policies embraced by self-described socialists such as Medicare for All, opposes […]

“I had some hot takes, some bad takes on Twitter, but when you’re a business owner running a restaurant during Covid, trying to pay bills as a student, you’re putting feelings out there into the world. But I’ve evolved, I’ve learned. I think it’s more dishonest not to learn.” — Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong […]

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made a public video announcement over the weekend about a private matter: The congresswoman is freezing her eggs,” the Washington Post reports. “The congresswoman said she was going public with her decision against the backdrop of steps by the Trump administration to curtail abortion access and some forms of reproductive care […]

“Two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin blessed an effort to turn Wildberries, a company founded by a young mother on maternity leave, into a global online retail behemoth designed to compete with the likes of Amazon.com,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Now, Wildberries is under assault from Ukrainian drones, as Kyiv seeks to use […]

Charles Franklin: “My new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds inflation and the cost of living is rated the most important issue by 35% of the public. This has been the top issue for the public in each Marquette poll this year.” “The national economy is the next highest rated, with 15% saying it […]

“In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign ran a terrifying 60-second advertisement. It opens with a three-year-old girl in a field, pulling petals off a daisy while counting to ten. Then, a man’s voice begins a countdown, and a nuclear explosion fills the screen,” Mother Jones reports. “The advertisement only aired once, but roughly 100 million […]

“Donald Trump is following an autocrat’s playbook in his second term, weakening checks on his power and leaving the U.S. less safe, former senior intelligence officials have warned, as they step up public criticism of the president’s authoritarian style of governing,” the Financial Times reports. “Trump returned to office pledging war against the so-called deep […]

Wall Street Journal: “Trump’s decision to endorse Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, looms large as a field of 10 Republicans sprint toward Tuesday’s GOP primary. The race is likely to pivot over whether GOP voters view Graham, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to serve the final six months […]

“President Donald Trump signalled on Sunday he is prepared to let economic pressure mount against Iran, apparently backing away from ordering more military strikes even as Tehran issues tough demands,” AFP reports. Said Trump: “We are low-keying it.”

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday a ‘generational tidal wave’ of millennial voters is reshaping the electorate in the wake of recent primary elections,” ABC News reports. Said Ocasio-Cortez: “Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls, and there […]

“Dr. Abdul El-Sayed spoke by phone with former President Barack Obama on Friday, days after winning the Democratic primary race for Senate in Michigan, according to their representatives,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Obama and Dr. El-Sayed, who narrowly prevailed in a divisive primary after campaigning on a progressive and anti-establishment platform, discussed unifying […]

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected President Trump’s plan for disarming Hamas, a key plank of the Gaza peace process that also requires Israel to withdraw from the enclave,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Israeli leader issued a statement in a government meeting Sunday spelling out his rejection of the plan, in an unusual […]

“Rep. Max Miller, the embattled Ohio Republican who faces accusations of domestic violence from his ex-wife, appears almost certain to remain on the ballot in November after a key deadline in the process to replace him passed Saturday,” the Washington Post reports. Axios: Max Miller stays in as GOP replacement window closes.

“Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling on leaders of the Democratic party to end super PAC participation in primaries, saying… that the fundraising organizations lead to a ‘corrupt system.'” CBS News reports.

“During the Los Angeles mayoral primary, Spencer Pratt put out a video saying he was living in a trailer on the burned-out lot where his Pacific Palisades home once stood — a claim that was soon debunked by TMZ, which reported that he was actually staying at the Hotel Bel-Air,” the Los Angeles Times reports. […]