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“After President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement they hoped would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and start winding down the war,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Iran’s hard-line leaders huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according […]

“Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be leaving Congress, but dozens of her longtime staffers are sticking around in the House’s top jobs,” Politico reports. ”The aides who worked for the California Democrat throughout her 39-year congressional career are now running leadership offices, directing committees and helming new teams as chiefs of staff.” “Their continued presence […]

“Activists and citizens across the political spectrum are pushing back against license plate readers made by Flock and similar companies, fueled by privacy concerns and suspected police misuse,” Axios reports. “Flock cameras are suddenly emerging as the next big target of populist anti-tech, pro-privacy sentiment, alongside the data centers fueling the AI boom.”

NOTUS: “James Talarico keeps raising too much money.” “The Texas Democrat has already raised more than $70 million in his bid to defeat state Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate — more than any other non-incumbent candidate has raised this cycle nationwide and millions more than his Republican rival has amassed.” “But scores of […]

“America is experiencing its biggest prescription drug price deflation in generations,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: By one important measure, there is a striking reversal underway for one of health care’s most stubbornly expensive necessities amid a major Washington push to lower drug costs.”

“High prices, a persistent war and anxiety about corruption are quickly eroding President Trump’s support among Republicans, a warning sign for the White House with less than 80 days to the midterms,” Axios reports.

“While warning of the rise of socialism on the left, President Donald Trump is simultaneously conducting his own experiments in economic theory, putting his nationalist spin on American capitalism,” CNN reports. “The fear of socialism is built on the idea that government intervention stifles free private enterprise, which capitalists view as the bedrock of American […]

“Mark Kelly is no stranger to launches, and now the former astronaut is all but plotting one for a 2028 presidential bid,” Politico reports. “Kelly is showering the Democratic Party apparatus with money to the tune of $1 million raised or contributed, leveraging his status as an enemy of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary […]

“The arrival of late-summer state fairs, like the one here that features a prizewinning boar weighing 1,246 pounds, signals to the political world that the midterm campaign’s final chapter is just ahead,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “As Iowa’s 11-day extravaganza started late last week, the state’s Republicans found themselves in an unfamiliar position: trailing […]

“Florida does not jump off the electoral map as fertile territory for democratic socialists. President Trump won the state, which has shifted right in recent years, by 13 percentage points in 2024. And in many Latin American communities in South Florida, socialism is a dirty word,” the New York Times reports. “Yet three underdog democratic […]

“After almost six months in hiding, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has offered the clearest window yet into his vision for ruling the country, appointing a string of hard-line, veteran military commanders to top security roles,” the New York Times reports. “The overhaul, which took place this month, signals that he plans to keep […]

“The White House is working to strengthen safeguards against biological attacks after staffing cuts early in the second Trump administration depleted expertise in a field where officials increasingly fear artificial intelligence could make it easier to create deadly pathogens,” the Washington Post reports.

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Cineby, one of the biggest pirate streaming sites on the web, says it will shut its doors on August 26. The site was previously flagged as a notorious piracy operation by Hollywood and has been blocked by court order in several countries. If history is any guide, successors and copycats will line up soon to fill the gap.

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