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“Nearly eight months after President Trump predicted U.S. companies would ‘rapidly rebuild Venezuela’s dilapidated oil industry’ to boost production, no new petroleum deals have been finalized there with American firms,” Axios reports. “The U.S. Department of Energy is largely to blame.”

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Warning: This episode contains strong language. Over the past decade, the Tate brothers have built a global empire around pornography, hypermasculinity and overt misogyny. At the same time, they have been repeatedly accused of assaulting and trafficking women. A Times invest...

“President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch would change the skyline of Washington to such an extent that it would intrude on views at dozens of historic sites around the capital, according to an assessment by National Park Service staff,” the New York Times reports. “The assessment of the arch’s impact on surrounding historic properties is […]

“The first, second and third questions for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong at her meet-and-greet Thursday night revolved around her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America,” NOTUS reports. “Voters described a ‘real fear’ she can’t win a general election for governor, questioned whether she’d tailor her policy platform to reach swing voters and asked […]

“Democratic strategist James Carville pledged to leave the Democratic Party if far-left streamer Hasan Piker becomes a leading voice in it and argued that an ‘overwhelming majority’ of Democrats agree,” the New York Post reports. Said Carville: “I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker.”

“President Trump headed into the weekend having vowed that U.S. forces would unleash a furious new round of attacks against Iran, saying that the military would be ‘hitting them very hard.’ By Saturday night, Mr. Trump said that the military was still ‘locked and loaded’ to carry out the strikes, but that he had decided […]

“Darializa Avila Chevalier, the democratic socialist who ousted New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a June primary upset, plans to seek membership in both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus once sworn in, her campaign told Semafor,” Semafor reports. “That would make her only the second Afro-Latino lawmaker to sit in both […]

“In carrying out their first joint effort in a generation to boost the yen, the U.S. and Japan are seeking to contain tremors that could be triggered by a cratering Japanese currency,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The yen’s slide to a 40-year low indirectly threatened to bump up U.S. interest rates and risked throwing […]

“Laura Loomer, the controversial but influential pro-Trump blogger, arrived in Kyiv on July 19, with only a few meetings lined up and, in her telling, no agenda other than seeing the war-torn country for herself. Ten days later, she returned to Florida as one of MAGA’s most prominent advocates for Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports. […]

“In Jerusalem’s Old City, a group of Israeli teenagers recently banged on the door of the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and asked if there were Christians inside it. They wanted to spit at them,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The boys said it was a religious duty, or mitzvah, to humiliate Christians, or, […]

“Russia is strong-arming more fighting-age men into military service to boost the flagging ranks of its army as voluntary recruitment stalls and Moscow’s initiative on the front line in Ukraine falters,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “In Russia’s smaller towns and cities, some military recruiters have resorted to detaining men on the street, outside their […]

After the Supreme Court's Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk away from the case entirely. Grande won't let them, however. The Internet provider is holding out for a formal win and the millions in bond costs it says the appeal ran up.

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