Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’  —  The billionaire has long complained about the xAI model undermining right-wing narratives and recently said it would be “updated” … It also proclaimed that Adolf Hitler would “spot the pattern” of Jews' “anti-white hate” and “handle it decisively.”

GOP Senators Had No Idea They Voted For Controversial Gambling Tax  —  How the sausage is made in Washington: In the dark and behind closed doors.  —  WASHINGTON - The massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last week contains a provision limiting tax deductions …

X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform  —  Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.  —  Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk …

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show  —  Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” …

Biden's physician declines to cooperate in GOP probe of former president's mental fitness  —  Kevin O'Connor, who served as Joe Biden's physician while the former president was in office, is refusing to testify in a closed-door interview as part of the House GOP probe into Biden's mental acuity.

Meet the new national police force  —  A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.  To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.  —  CNN —  The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren't afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers and pluck nonviolent …

As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent  —  When a reporter demanded to know why the summer camps along the Guadalupe River weren't evacuated before its waters reached their deadly peak on July 4, Rob Kelly, the highest-ranking local official, had a simple answer: “No one knew this kind of flood was coming.”

The Supreme Court Says the President Can Fire People  —  The Justices nix a lower-court universal injunction that presumed illegality.  —  Do you hear the Justices now?  That's the question for lower court judges after the Supreme Court on Tuesday nixed a universal injunction that had barred …

FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey: DOJ sources  —  CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred Brennan for criminal investigation to the FBI, sources told Fox News Digital  —  EXCLUSIVE: Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey …

JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others  —  VP tries to redefine citizenship in speech to friendly think tank.  —  The day after President Trump signed a bill that throws unprecedented amounts of money at ICE, extends tax cuts for the wealthy, and slashes health-care …

Trump Delayed Reciprocal Tariffs After Bessent Wanted More Time on Deals  —  President also decided to send out letters as a way to keep the pressure up  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump decided to delay the implementation of his so-called reciprocal tariffs to Aug. 1 after advisers including …

ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets  —  Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport …

Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized pause on weapon shipments to Ukraine, sources say  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter …

Copper now costs way more in the U.S. than elsewhere.  This could hit its economy hard … The cost of copper for U.S. buyers has rocketed after President Donald Trump said he would impose a 50% tariff on imports of the metal.  —  It means that already elevated prices are now even higher …

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Elon  —  No friendship with Donald Trump can last for very long.  We've seen plenty of examples: Michael Cohen, “Sloppy” Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Elon Musk—and now Vladimir Putin.  “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said yesterday.

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats  —  Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—and leading to real-world consequences.  —  On Sunday afternoon …

Ellison's Late-Night Limbo … Jon Stewart opened Monday's episode of “The Daily Show” not mincing words, calling Paramount's settlement with Donald Trump “shameful.” … “Did they?  Son of a bitch!”  Stewart exclaimed, playing along with the bit—yet nodding to a deeper fear …

‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts  —  Warehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan.  —  Few lifesaving tools are as effective as ready-to-use therapeutic foods, known as RUTFs …

Zohran Mamdani leads general election poll for NYC mayor … The multimodal survey of 1,036 registered New York City voters was conducted between July 2-6 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.  —  It comes as Cuomo weighs whether to mount a serious campaign on his independent …

Some of Mamdani's far-left allies want to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC Democrats  —  Democratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next — and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at the top of their list, is daring them to try.

With Taxes and Tariffs in Place, Trump Takes Reins of U.S. Economy … President Trump has forged ahead with the grand and potentially disruptive economic experiment that he previewed during the 2024 campaign.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times  —  His expensive tax cuts have been signed into law.

The ‘Trump Pump’: How Crypto Lobbying Won Over a President … Just over a year ago, while sitting around a table in an ornate meeting room at Mar-a-Lago, David Bailey and a group of top Bitcoin executives made a pitch to Donald J. Trump.  —  They were looking for a savior.

The GOP blew past debt warnings.  The markets have noticed. … The whole episode was a stark display of how short-term rewards and Trump's demands outweighed any anxieties about long-term calamity — even from a constituency as powerful as Wall Street, whose major players are reliable financiers for politicians of both parties.

Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts  —  As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government's vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.  The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left …

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come  —  Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.  —  On July 4, the broken remnants …

DHS subpoenas Harvard over international student information … DHS said the university has repeatedly refused its past requests.  The agency is now seeking to force Harvard to turn over “relevant records, communications and other documents relevant to the enforcement of immigration laws” since Jan. 1, 2020.